Posted on 12/27/2008 12:43:33 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Even then, he was cool.
A series of photos newly discovered by Time magazine were taken three decades ago and capture 20-year-old college student Barack "Barry" Obama suavely striking a pose in a leather jacket and dragging on a cigarette.
Taken during a 1980 photo shoot by Occidental College pal Lisa Jack, the snapshots show that the freshman was already showing off the quiet confidence of a future president.
"He was very charismatic even then," Jack recalled of the brief encounter at her off-campus Los Angeles apartment.
"He was really cute. What else does a 20-year-old girl remember?" she told Time, which published the rare shots in its year-end issue that names the president-elect 2008's Person of the Year. "He was a little nervous," she said. "You can see he's just posing, initially, and as the shoot goes on, he starts to come out."
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he looks like a 70’s pimp. where’s his caddy?
Maybe at Occidental this is called quiet confidence, but here in the rest of the country it looks like he's trying to be a pimp.
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I hate to admit this, but those are the only pictures I have seen of him where I thought he looked somewhat handsome. Otherwise, he looks too much like the Joker.
Do you think that posting all those pics of the O makes you look inteligent? It looks cheap, sophomoric and something like what the DU’ers would have done to Sarah Palin and Mccain. Can anyone imagine what any of us looked like when we were in HS or college? This place is turning into a playground for kids instead of a political forum!
Oh, this crap sucks.
Let's just go ahead and deify the SOB, okay?
Sheesh!
Obama ain't nothing but a long-legged Mack Daddy!
Reverend Manning tells it like it is!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hfZqMkdpYi0
He looks like a pimp.
I beg to differ with you. The DU’ers photo-shop their pics. These weren’t, and the reason I posted them is because he is STILL unrepentant of his past ties with corruption. That alone is reason to show the younger side of him as he still is today.
Yes: and they say W Smirked.
BTW: That wasn’t him in the purple pimp suit. But check out the Rev Manning video if you can. It’s pretty funny.
I DID talk about his ties with corruption which he STILL has. Is that political enough? Read again.
Then post those articles, ream him for that, you only flatter him when you post the pics you did, you understand? The reason that man got elected had alot to do with the other side and how those pics appeal to them. If you can not understand that then I don’t know what else to say.
So? The MSM has his shirtless pic plastered everywhere. And I don’t think many of his “followers” read FR. We can entertain ourselves by making fun of him.
Like I said, quite sophomoric!
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