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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Yeah but Punin actually pulls off looking like someone you don’t want to mess with.
Obama looks like someone, you don’t want to be around.
Four years of this? UGH.
Oops.
Punin = Putin.
That picture must be photo shopped, his ears are too small!
His body language screams out self-centerdness and fake non-chalance. He’s an actor, but a bad one.
phoney baloney plastic banana good time rock and roller socialist man!
LOL (literally)!!
Putin is ex-KGB. He looks like someone who could give the new “James Bond” a workout.
Yeah, between smokes. How is it Øbama is percieved as the height of fitness?
*And* misrepresented.
Those baggy little man-boobs do *not* qualify as “pecs”.
[Cooper’s Droop, *maybe*]
“Staged AND Photoshopped.”
There are amateur Photoshop whizzes that can verify that.
Please, any takers? You could be the next Buckhead.
Obama = Stalin
Raging egomaniac (even among egomaniacs).
He will not permit dissent. Watch out!
Well he did need to throw Barney and the boys a bone after that whole Rick Warren thingie. ;)
Keep the faith.
In 2012 when Governor Palin is elected POTUS, this thread will be (greatly) improved... :)
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Is it 2012 yet?
You have to ask...”are those pec’s real or are they staged?”....
the answer would be...
“yes they are real, and..they are fantastic!!”
(tip to Seinfeld ep.)
When I read your post, why did I immediately think of Richard Dreyfuss?...;-D
The most blatant case of ‘accidental’ photo ops with Bill was when he made a cross out of stone at Omaha beach. Painfully phony and in some ways insulting
Can you say that on the Internet?
you can look at the code in photoshop and it should tell the tale of any mods I believe each mod is delineated with a unique header
But I have never used photoshop
Someone a bit less concerned with copyrights than this poster, should post a three-photo of our scrawny so-gay looking President elect, Putin ... and Sarah Palin with one of those bagged mooses of hers.
Just for perspective.
I mean, what Presidential photo thread wouldn’t be improved by some Governor Palin photos? :)
Can we make that a new rule?
Any Obama “fitness” photos, must be accompanied by a Sarah Palin photo for balance.
Anyone second the motion?...
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