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Official Obama Portrait Released
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| 15 Jan 09
Posted on 01/16/2009 11:37:47 AM PST by PurpleMan
The Office of the President-Elect today released the new official portrait for Barack Obama, who will take the oath of office on Tuesday. New White House photographer Pete Souza captured the image on a digital camera, a first for an official presidential portrait.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoinauguration; bhoportrait; ohcomeletusadorehim; portrait
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To: Puppage
"Well, they certainly caught his likeness" 
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:50:27 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself)
To: PurpleMan
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:50:46 AM PST
by
library user
(Rod Blagojevich should have been TIME MAGAZINE'S "Person of the Year.")
To: Yaelle
It seems it was shot with a digital camera.
Obama's official pic first to be shot on digicam
The photograph was shot by Pete Souza -- the newly-announced official White House photographer -- using a digital camera. This is the first time a digital camera has been used to take an official presidential portrait.
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:51:07 AM PST
by
Girlene
To: SunStar
Is he leaning away from the flag?
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:51:27 AM PST
by
sunny48
To: icwhatudo
“whats the deal with that circle around his mouth?” Both my gal, who studies Chinese medicine very seriously, and my Chinese herbal Doc say that that circle around the mouth is indicative of major heart problems. I thought that observation was somewhat interesting!
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:52:21 AM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
("Don't touch that thing! I'm a doctor, and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Allegra
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:52:31 AM PST
by
library user
(Rod Blagojevich should have been TIME MAGAZINE'S "Person of the Year.")
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To: SunStar
I see he found a flag pin.
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:53:25 AM PST
by
weegee
(Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
To: library user
Good job! This photo cries out for Photoshopping!
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:53:48 AM PST
by
livius
To: PurpleMan
He’s tight lipped....and there’s something behind those eyes that’s a little disarming.
To: library user
Frankly, I think it would look better on black velvet.
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:55:33 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.)
To: SunStar
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:58:13 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: ex91B10
I agree but I'm still really frightened... Pull yourself together, man! ;)
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:58:49 AM PST
by
SunStar
(Democrats piss me off!)
To: SunStar
They need to retouch the blue lips. Not fitting for a messiah.
Who took the horns out of the photo?
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:59:09 AM PST
by
dforest
(Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
To: icwhatudo
I've noticed that circle in other pictures.
What's that other image behind the American flag??
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posted on
01/16/2009 11:59:34 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
To: livius
Somebody already has Photoshopped the ears...
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posted on
01/16/2009 12:00:07 PM PST
by
Hoffer Rand
(There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
To: SunStar
For some reason, as I read your post I had a mental pic of R Lee Ermey pointing a finger at me...!!!
Laughed my butt off!
Thanks.
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posted on
01/16/2009 12:01:38 PM PST
by
ex91B10
(So many opinions, so little time...)
To: PurpleMan
“.and he faces in such a way that he looks...well...like ET”
He always does.
Say, you don’t think....
Maybe THAT is why he doesn’t produce a birth certificate.
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posted on
01/16/2009 12:02:15 PM PST
by
ZULU
( God, guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
To: library user
What is the other flag, behind him?
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posted on
01/16/2009 12:03:10 PM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(Our black President is quite blackmailable.)
To: SunStar
Some thoughts of my own, mostly ;^) not political.
1. It is not close-up enough. A portrait should not have this much background.
2. The flags are cluttered. I don't feel the Presidential Seal flag should be there. I think this is part of the Office of the Presedent-Elect syndrome. The US flag should be more open.
3. He appears to be leaning away. He should be leaning in.
Caveat: I am not a photographer, but my ex-wife's father is...
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