Obama + Souza + Football + NATO + Soldier Field + 2012
It's such a brilliant photo. We're on NATO's team but we're quarterbacking.
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Beyond Reverend Wright: Deconstructing the Ricketts ("Smiley Obama") Storyboard
Reading the pictures and the copy, the larger focus of the attack is on character and Obama's disposition ... and then racism.
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Photo Ops and Campaign Slog: Notably, Val and Paul Still on the Fence
Obama working the kitchen table -- and the fence sitters.
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Return of "The One"?: Our Take on the Newsweek Obama "Gay Messiah" Cover
As Obama closed in on the presidency in 2008, the McCain campaign launched a “messiah” attack. Here we go again?
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Having Done it to Do it: Obama’s Gay Marriage Endorsement
I really appreciate Digby’s post on what could have been a historic day yesterday. Her point-of-focus was Lyndon Johnson and how he threw himself, body and soul, not just behind civil rights but behind the Civil Rights Act. If there is anything we know about Obama from the past...
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On Surprise Visit to Kabul to Wind Down War, Obama Has Better Toppings
On a day where Obama "won the internet" with smashing "victory" photos from Afghanistan, Romney gets "called out" for trying to leverage 9/11.
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Deconstructing Obama Campaign Launch Video. See a Pattern?
If Obama actually is up by 20 per cent in the polls with women, he's certainly not taken anything for granted.
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The Problem with Obama's bin Laden/Romney Attack Video – In Pictures
The problem with the Obama OBL Romney attack video is that it manages to confuse us with two different images of Obama, one the high-minded statesman and the other, a (yes, more Clinton-like) Machiavellian operator whose motivation in eliminating bin Laden was all too political.
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Obama '12: Head Scarves in the Rear View Mirror
This extended digression into the slime of Campaign '08 is inspired by the sight of President Obama warmly shaking the hands of a Muslim woman at the University of Colorado.
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Obama: Channeling Rosa Parks
At the end of the day, what Obama achieves from this brilliant White House rendition is not just a reference to Rosa and history books but a reference -- even more recently and historically -- to himself.
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O-Ba-Ma: White House 2012 Rocks Boca
Shades of Denver and Berlin, the "Buffet rule" blitz in the bizarro-land of Florida will serve, in so many single scenes, as a preview of coming attraction to be played and replayed from now until the last lever handle is pulled in November.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: The Body Men
Contrasting Barack and Reggie with Mitt and Garrett is one more way to see how the contest in November pits two men from drastically different cultural universes.
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Campaign '12: Obama Engages in the War on Women
The message of the photo is that Obama is not only standing up for women, but is pushing the point.
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DMZ 2012
It's not like the photos of Obama at the Koren DMZ are particularly unique -- and that's exactly what accounts for their significance.
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Businessweek Obama Cover: Cocky Or Inscrutable?
I don't know if it's a race thing, a Democrat thing or just a shallow media thing where the focus remains so firmly focused on personality politics.
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The Obama Flag
For all the symbolic weight still invested in the Stars and Stripes, it’s easy to see how swapping out the fifty states with "The One" plays right into alarmist narratives about the European-style socialist Obama taking over.
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The Audacity of Hoop
Obama and Cameron chomping down foot longs at the NCAA's? Call it one more smooth layup in the Campaign '12 optics battle.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: The Terror. We're On It.
The visuals of the tragedy in Afghanistan and how the Obama Administration is dealing with it.
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