Pic of the Day: White House's Crass (Visual) Response to Media's Photo Access Protest
If the White House intended even a half-respectful gesture, they would have provided access to the president yesterday in a spot that was personal, doing something personal.
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Obamelot: The Kennedy Mojo as Early Visual Juice for Obama's
With the Kennedy aura now under the microscope, it's interesting to appreciate its contribution to the Obama "HOPE train" during America's financial death spiral, including how the two auras visually fed each other.
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Remember When Obama Was the Guy Who Best Knew How to Get There?
What the photo reveals, then, perhaps more clearly than any other so far, is the strength of Obama's leadership -- especially, in-house -- in the face of multiple tremendous challenges.
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Son of Shutdown: Those Obama Rose Garden/Affordable Care Roll Out Photos
Conventional media wisdom and some misplaced notion of balance and liberal panic has apparently dictated that the Affordable Care Act's stumble out of the gate equates to the GOP's near-lethal, self-inflicted wound.
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Shabby Road: Obama on the Cover of the Shutdown Album
Perhaps the president just getting outdoors and foraging for a sandwich is as much coming together as we can expect.
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New Esquire Obama Cover: What's in a Background?
I'm not prepared to say the background has anything to do with the Philippines, or the President's race, somehow, but the Esquire cover might suggest, at least, that the President doesn't let his true nature come through enough.
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Impressive Level of Artificial Sweetener: Obama-Putin St. Petersburg Body Language
It's such a supreme example of pretending, it's the mutual recognition of the exercise that ultimately makes the contact authentic, even intimate.
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White House-Syria Crisis: Obama/McCain
Maybe this really was a case of getting the photographer in and out that quickly, and Souza grabbed -- and the communications people published -- the best of what he got.
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Former Newsweek Editor and that "Blurry" Obama
Did the intent of the image, when it was originally made, have more to do with Obama's political style? Or was it motivated more by the fact the man was such an unknown?
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Beyond Lunch: Hillary and Obama Then and Now
It's interesting to compare yesterday's shot with this early WH portrait focusing on the relationship.
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Prom Night, 1979
TIME unearths these photos of Obama with his (white) high school friends and prom date. But what relevance do they have?
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More Radiance from AP’s Charles Dharapak: It’s Not Easy Being Obama
The talented Dharapak uses the weather to frame a President battling D.C.'s political elements.
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Obama as Daniel Day Lewis
With Obama, I think that there’s a very high degree of genuineness, and I think that there’s also a very high degree of manipulation and staging and self-consciousness.
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The White House Laughs at Things
It's not exactly "Kim Jong Il Looks at Things" but I'm smiling at the comparison.
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B-Leaguered Kim Jong Un-Rodman Match Up: Where are the Out-of-Bounds Lines of Political Celebrity?
Though the trend is nothing new, I think it might be time to take pause and consider the pitfalls of politicians continue to ingratiate, humanize or just de-stigmatize themselves with the public by associating with pop culture icons.
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Our Political Pics of the Week: Frogs Legs, Defensive Posture, Whole Lotta Sequestration Going On
What is it with being able to speak a foreign language?
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White House: Control Freaks?
Posting a photo like this to the White House website as well as it's Flickr page, you have to wonder how much the Administration is highlighting immigration as a priority or demonstrating how much the operating model at 1600 is top down.
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State of the Union '13 in Screen Shots: Emotion (and Mastery) of "They Deserve a Vote"
What was masterful last night was the way the President was operating on two tracks, delivering an appeal to conscience (and Congressional action) while, at the same time, politically shaming the Republicans.
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