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Obama Savours His Own White House Camelot In Photo Homage To Kennedy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6819237.ece ^
| September 03, 2009
Posted on 09/02/2009 3:01:36 PM PDT by Steelfish
September 3, 2009
Obama savours his own White House Camelot in photo homage to Kennedy
Tim Reid in Washington [Pic in URL]
It is a clear homage to perhaps the most iconic White House photograph.
Almost 46 years after the world first saw two-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr playing under the Oval Office desk as his father worked, the White House has released a picture of Sasha Obama, 8, hiding behind a sofa as President Obama reads briefing papers at the same desk.
According to the White House, Sasha is sneaking up on her father as he nears the end of a working day behind the Resolute desk, which was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879.
The original photograph, taken in October 1963, a month before President Kennedy was assassinated, shows John Jr peering out from under the desk as his father, like Mr Obama, reviews briefing papers. It was a photograph that helped to promote the image of Kennedy’s Camelot — the youthful President running the country with a young family playing at his side in the White House.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; camelot; jfk; photoimage; sourcetitlenoturl
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posted on
09/02/2009 3:01:36 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
I am Proud to say that today, I have turned my most liberal of friends into an anti Obama person.
Truth be known, he did it pretty much by himself in regards to the health care issue.....I just gave him a little push.
I am a happy person today!!!!
I am posting this on every thread I read today.....bear with me....it's a success!!!
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posted on
09/02/2009 3:02:29 PM PDT
by
Focault's Pendulum
(Jim Thompson doesn't need a teleprompter.)
To: Steelfish
He’s also savoring the Lewinsky that the media gives him daily.
To: Steelfish
Spewing chunks!
4
posted on
09/02/2009 3:03:16 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Steelfish
Where’s the bust of Churchill, you doofus?
5
posted on
09/02/2009 3:03:19 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Steelfish
Looks like when she grow up she gonna have junk in the trunk like Momma.
(sorry for taking a shot at a little kid, I just couldn’t resist)
To: Question Liberal Authority
This pic had to be staged!
7
posted on
09/02/2009 3:03:52 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Focault's Pendulum
I am Proud to say that today, I have turned my most liberal of friends into an anti Obama person. Truth be known, he did it pretty much by himself in regards to the health care issue.....I just gave him a little push. I am a happy person today!!!!
Congratulations! Can you work on my birth family now?
8
posted on
09/02/2009 3:04:12 PM PDT
by
mlizzy
(Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapels Everywhere spells P.E.A.C.E.)
To: Steelfish
Underage girls hiding under the White House furniture is not exclusively a Kennedy thing.
To: Steelfish
10
posted on
09/02/2009 3:06:02 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Ted Nugent for Attorney General '12. You Know You Want It.)
To: Focault's Pendulum
Congratulations! I crossed over to the right side during Desert Storm. I finally had enough of hating this country, I decided we're the good guys.
11
posted on
09/02/2009 3:06:16 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Steelfish
Staged.
Now when Billy Jeff was in the Oral Office, there were girls under every piece of furniture...
To: Steelfish
No doubt the original was also.
To: Steelfish
Seeing that fascist sitting at the Resolute desk makes me physical ill.
An impostor and fraud American.
14
posted on
09/02/2009 3:07:33 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Obama "may" be a US citizen, but he's not an American)
To: Steelfish
This is an odd photo. It is not worth 1,000 words.
15
posted on
09/02/2009 3:11:43 PM PDT
by
mlizzy
(Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapels Everywhere spells P.E.A.C.E.)
To: Question Liberal Authority
0’s entire presidency is staged. Thanks for the pic it proves the point. It makes it look as if 0 doesn’t know this girl is in his office and that he is so so absorbed in the work of government. Gimme A Break!
To: Steelfish
Will we have a lewdinsky picture soon?
Or does he HATE the Clintons?
17
posted on
09/02/2009 3:16:31 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Steelfish
What the heck is this garbage. It can’t be real, there are no empty Cheetos bags on the floor.
18
posted on
09/02/2009 3:17:13 PM PDT
by
mancini
To: mlizzy
Eight is alittle old for that ... .
Then again, neigher parent is what I’d call a bright bulb.
19
posted on
09/02/2009 3:17:32 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Steelfish
It’s interesting that they remembered to showcase Ubama’s suit jacket by hanging it on the chair in a clean line of sight for the photo. See? Ubama’s as respectful of the Oval Office as Bush was? See??
To: nmh
So . . . she acts like a two-year-old?
21
posted on
09/02/2009 3:27:23 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Health Care Reform has met the DEATH Panel.)
To: Steelfish
Note the lack of jacket...
Hanging on a chair no less.
Have some D*** respect for that office!
22
posted on
09/02/2009 3:29:15 PM PDT
by
BlueNgold
(Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
To: Huskrrrr
Are we supposed to believe this was spontaneous? There’s a photographer in the room.
23
posted on
09/02/2009 3:29:31 PM PDT
by
Pinetop
To: Steelfish
I think I am coming down with the Obama swine flu.
24
posted on
09/02/2009 3:30:16 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: nmh
” neigher parent”
Uhhhh,,, just how do you pronounce that?
To: Steelfish
This personal picture was not picked by a particularly perspicacious personal picture picking person.
26
posted on
09/02/2009 3:34:16 PM PDT
by
paulycy
(Screw the RACErs.)
To: Steelfish
Nothing says "Camelot" like junk in the trunk.
To: Pinetop
Yes, we are always presumed to be stupid by this administration.
28
posted on
09/02/2009 3:42:13 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Steelfish
Well THAT picture of “Mack Daddy the Zebra” with his daughter hiding behind the sofa while he was working (?) surely was not another photo-op.
29
posted on
09/02/2009 3:42:28 PM PDT
by
chiefqc
To: twister881
30
posted on
09/02/2009 3:43:20 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Steelfish; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
Gadzooks! Please don't post a photo of Barack making it...
with Marilyn Monroe!
She's been dead... 
for 47 years!
31
posted on
09/02/2009 3:43:47 PM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: Steelfish
I don’t care how cute the Obama kids are, it has nothing to do with any vital issue!
32
posted on
09/02/2009 3:45:12 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: Steelfish
The Obamas put the “Camel” in Camelot!
33
posted on
09/02/2009 3:46:25 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Health Care Reform has met the DEATH Panel.)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Well, pardon me!
I should have known ... you must be the human FR spell checker!
Wow, YOU are so impressive!
“Eight is alittle old for that ... .
Then again, neigher parent is what I’d call a bright bulb.”
Yes, YOU caught me with “flying fingers”!
It should be neighbor.
Does that make you feel better?
I hope so ... being bothered about a typo like that tells me allot about YOU! There you have the attention you are seeking ... .
34
posted on
09/02/2009 3:54:19 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Jeff Chandler
“So . . . she acts like a two-year-old?”
An eight year old acting like two year old John-John doesn’t impress me. Why are liberals so unoriginal?
35
posted on
09/02/2009 4:02:40 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: nascarnation
That was unkind. Please don’t.
36
posted on
09/02/2009 4:15:38 PM PDT
by
ottbmare
(Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama!)
To: Steelfish
The torch has been passed from Camelot to Obamalot.....from Oh, Brother to the Fourth Brother.
Everything is coming up barfs. Is this MY country?
Leni
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posted on
09/02/2009 4:19:31 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(We Just Segued from Camelot to Bamalot in One Swell Foop!)
To: nmh
“the White House has released a picture of Sasha Obama, 8, hiding behind a sofa as President Obama reads briefing papers at the same desk.”
- -
Wow. That is uncanny. What coincidental timing.
And Teddy Kennedy’s funeral was this past weekend. Wow.
38
posted on
09/02/2009 4:20:58 PM PDT
by
Sparko
(Obama & Czars: neutering the American Voter, perverting the Constitution, all on our dime.)
To: ottbmare
wasn’t it just last week the ‘O’ told us not to subject his family to the press ?
To: MinuteGal
No- It’s changed. Thanks to union thugs, 18-29 year olds who voted 66% for 0 and single, divorced, unmarried, separated and widowed white women, who according to Gallup, voted “overhwelmingly” for 0! There you have it.
To: maine yankee
It’s only okay if it’s positive press. The press are not allowed to say anything negative about Democrats. In the unlikely event that they did, they might not get invited to the right parties anymore.
41
posted on
09/02/2009 4:31:39 PM PDT
by
ottbmare
(Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama!)
To: nmh
42
posted on
09/02/2009 4:40:49 PM PDT
by
RetSignman
(Townhalls ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
To: Jeff Chandler
The Obamas put the “Camel” in Camelot!Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!!!
To: Steelfish
"Hey Dad, can I come out now? The photographer is done and they need me for another photo-op"
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posted on
09/02/2009 4:47:46 PM PDT
by
RetSignman
(Townhalls ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
To: RetSignman
She’s really big for 8 years old. I thought she was the older daughter.
To: Bender2; monkapotamus; All
OH MONK are you sick enough do that what Bender proposing GO FOR IT DUDE if you are LOL!
46
posted on
09/02/2009 6:00:49 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: Steelfish
JFK is smiling. He knows the cameraman is taking the photo, whereas Obama is playing stupid. Obama's photos is staged.
47
posted on
09/02/2009 6:05:39 PM PDT
by
elizabethgrace
(WORLD CHAMPIONS - Park View Little League - Chula Vista, CA !!!!!!)
To: elizabethgrace
Kennedy’s desk also looks like a working man’s desk. Actually it looks a lot like my desk. LOL
48
posted on
09/02/2009 6:30:56 PM PDT
by
WVNan
( (Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.: Sun Tzu))
To: Steelfish
49
posted on
09/02/2009 6:38:04 PM PDT
by
BILL_C
(Those who don't understand the lessons of history will repeat, repeat and repeat.)
To: WVNan
Does it? Then that makes you a hard working gal!
50
posted on
09/02/2009 6:43:04 PM PDT
by
elizabethgrace
(WORLD CHAMPIONS - Park View Little League - Chula Vista, CA !!!!!!)
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