Posted on 12/23/2008 9:05:13 PM PST by malkee
Remember those staged photos of Bill and Hillary Clinton dancing on the beach once upon a time? You have to wonder. The Obama 'pec' photos were taken on a public beach. Some accounts said the photographer had approval to take those shots. All of a sudden, the bad buzz about links between Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Barack Obama was gone for a while, replaced by good buzz about presidential pecs," noted Tim Graham of the Media Research Center.
"There's some bathing-suit bias, too. When beauty queen photos of [Alaska Republican Gov.] Sarah Palin surfaced during the presidential campaign, the press coverage was negative. And you can be sure if positive images of President Bush in a bathing suit had appeared sometime in 2000, the press would have cast suspicions on them as a staged photo-op," Mr. Graham said.
Mr. Obama's public pin-up shot is not his first. A photo of him emerging from the surf - a little chunkier but still agreeable - made global headlines shortly before he announced his White House run in 2007. Such accidentally-on-purpose moments could be the hallmark of a very deft public official.
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Actually, they didn't, but the rest of your premise makes sense.
The media aren’t “being played” by 0bama,
they’re willingly complicit.
Is that second picture the one that they are actually showing?
There is something strange about the color in that,
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHH!!!
Ya think? I guess deftness is in the eye of the beholder. That these "moments" are planned, crafted and arranged is transparent and elementary. And we have had them for as long as we have had photography.
Adding significant muscle mass by exercise alone is pretty tough at 47 years of age. That's when testosterone typically has begun to diminish.
Thanks for posting that. I’ve added it to my Bush file. I knew he was very physically active but I didn’t have any idea that he actually ran marathons and loved running so much.
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He's also the first president to run a marathon. And his 3:44 time in 1993 beat Oprah's in 1994 (4:29) and Al Gore's in 1997 (4:58).
It’s only the start of exposing how classless and phoney THIS POTUS really is under the surface.
The chubbier photos of Barrack are from a couple years ago. Apparently, he's taken up working out with a vengeance since then -- and it's paid off.
Look, the guy can really be buff and still be a lying idiot. Give credit where it's due.
And these photos of him relaxing in Hawaii are taking everyone's mind off associating him with the Blagojevich mess, so it's pretty politically savvy.
It's sure better than imagining Bill Clinton in some kind of sick blue dress scenario!
“baggy little man-boobs”
I call them moobs:)
Something creepy about all these 0 torso shots:
Where is the man’s chest hair?
His torso is all smooth, like a bodybuilder or an underwear model.
Does he use depilatory?
Hmmmmm.....a guy who likes to hang out at the gym all the time...a guy who has a smooth hairless body?
This is all really, really gay.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that....
I agree, although I don’t have the technical skills to make this happen. But if we are to stick to beefcake, maybe someone can dredge up that picture of JFK emerging from the surf in his swim suit, or maybe one of Ronald Reagan, both of whom were hunks. Yes, Obama does look so “gay”.
Didn’t Bill Clinton come across a nice little pile of stones on a bare, sandy Normandy beach and kneel down and make some sort of symbolic (cross shaped) arrangement years ago...
The cameras were already set up to capture this touching moment in his presidency???
Every cotton pickin’ minute of a liberals political career is a photo op...Why should a shirtless Obama be any diferent???
The P and L keys are pretty close together...
I was actually ok with the “padies” term...
Seemed almost like Brit-speak there...;-)
I had just washed my hands and couldn’t do a thing with them ;-)
Obama secret pic here!
Thank God he’s not wearing a Speedo!
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