Palin’s Resignation: Proud To Be Trash
This photo was circulated by Getty after Palin was tabbed for Veep by McCain and appeared, at least, in a cheeseball LAT election slideshow on Palin's fashion sense. If you haven't seen it before, however, it's because the image, like Palin herself, is radioactive.
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Palin: At the End of the Roll
At the end, Palin had/felt so little "teflon" left that, as an accountable and now thoroughly scrutinized elected official, there was just no place left to hide.
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Your Turn: Infrastructure
by guest blogger Cara Finnegan This is the new Interstate 35 bridge in Minneapolis. Built to replace the one that collapsed in the summer of 2007, the new "smart" bridge has state-of-the-art design features like sensors that can detect when the bridge needs de-icing. The photograph by Jonathan Bruce...
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What He's Up To
by guest blogger Cara Finnegan It has begun. President Obama went to Green Bay, WI yesterday for a town hall meeting on health care (his remarks here). The visit marks the more or less official public launch of the administration's rhetorical and political efforts, which will include a speech...
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Voting With Her Feet
by guest blogger Cara Finnegan The BAG has never been afraid to explore the visual politics of feet , so let's check out what are most certainly the political toes of the week. They belong, of course, to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Despite fracturing her ankle at...
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Not To Be Upstaged
Laying low for 100 days or so, it looks like Palin is starting to circulate and cause trouble again based on her awkward appearance at the big GOP hoo-hah, the NRSC/NRCC fundraising dinner. After playing coy with the organizing committee over the keynote role (ultimately handed to Newt), Team...
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Republicans And The New Yorker Cover: It’s Much Worse Than (How) It Looks
What's fundamentally off about the latest New Yorker cover (showing an elephant considering plastic surgery) is the notion that the GOP's problems are largely cosmetic.
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I Also Play The Terror War Architect On TV
The image, by WAPO's fine Washington photographer, Melina Mara, is one of the more insightful photographed yesterday of the supposed-debate between Obama and the former shadow-President.
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Obama Vs. Cheney: Media’s Blasphemous Equivalency
Take a look at what CNN, and other media orgs are doing today -- especially visually. They are taking Obama's major speech on terrorism and Dick Cheney's speech at the American Enterprise Institute and putting both men a on level playing field.
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The True Dick
Right off the bat, how unusual is it to see Cheney without either the smirk or that smug little smile?
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G O P
I found this a clever visual commentary by Brooks Kraft, illustrating the Republican Party reduced to midgets.
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A Singular Politician
I'm not buying the romanticized image of Specter as the individualist.
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Your Turn: July 23, 1990
Then US President George Bush (R) announcing his nomination of New Hampshire appellate judge David Souter (L), for the Supreme Court.
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Peace Train (Revisited)
In light of the news this morning Arlen Specter was ending his ride with the GOP, we're republishing this post which originally appeared here back on March 24th.
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Your Turn: Seeing Stars?
Given the profound vacuum otherwise known as the GOP, is Cheney emerging as the voice of right?
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White House Behind The Scenes: Euro Edition
The White House has just posted this 28 pic "behind the scenes" photo gallery of Obama's trip to Europe. This last shot was taken on the way to Iraq and features a nice cross-section of the senior brain trust.
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Your Turn: Michelle – Carla
Well, I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't pay my respects to the much anticipated Michelle Obama - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy photo op.
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HRC G20 09
Clinton took the "China assignment" after Holbrooke and Mitchell were assigned the sexier Afghan and Middle East portfolios, and this week at the G-20, she made it pay.
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