Photos of a young Obama reveal a campus hunk (the adulation of the media messiah continues...)

The Belleville News / The Associated Press ^ | May. 29, 2009 | John Rogers

[2ndDivisionVet]

He was tall and stunningly good looking, a guy who could appear pensive and serious one moment and then, with smoke from an unfiltered cigarette swirling around his face, morph into the hippest looking dude this side of James Dean.

Which is why budding photographer Lisa Jack knew the moment she saw Barack Obama walk into the campus snack shop at Los Angeles' Occidental College in 1980 that she had to get the freshman in front of a camera.

"I was doing portraits of fellow students, the cool people on campus," Jack, a slender, 49-year-old bundle of energy, recalled this week as she stood in a West Hollywood photo gallery surrounded by framed black-and-white photos of the president as a young man.

[John Leland 1789]

So they can come up with all these photos, but can’t come up with a birth certificate. Huh???

[gargoyle]

...You forgot fan and hero worship, have no use for any of it. The only thing these fevered egos get from me is contempt..

[Never on my watch]

To me, the pictures say drug dealing pimp.

[Piquaboy]

He was a hunk all right. A hunk of chit!.

[Bitsy]

cult of personality and idol worshiping.

Close to the same mentality of those who put Hitler in power - mindless, self absorbed idiots.

[BenLurkin]

Nothing will make the media creeps change except fear — and until now, no “reporter” in this country has had any reason to feel fear.

If ever these enablers come to fear personal consequences of their complicity — then their tune will change.

[wbill]

with smoke from an unfiltered cigarette

In the pictures that I've seen, he hasn't been smoking an "unfiltered cigarette".

Well, I suppose something handrolled would be unfiltered....

[ltc8k6]

“To Jack’s surprise, the future president, dressed in jeans and a shirt with sleeves rolled up, arrived with his own props, including a leather bomber jacket, a wide-brimmed Panama hat and a package of cigarettes.”

He had his own props?

That fits...

[jackv]

And this is a real hunk...not a cissy boy...

[massgopguy]

You will never see photos of Obama getting his hands dirty.

[La Lydia]

Gacking kitty says it all.

[angcat]

[jackv]

You call this a hunk????

[metmom]

These are good pictures. We needed the antidote to those of obama.

[dennisw]

Yeah these photos were so great she didn’t release them before the election..... Otherwise his worshipers would have seen this moron sucking hard on a cigarette and trying to look cool with it which is pretty lame these days. And hasn’t been cool since Humpry Bogart who died of lung cancer anyway. The older geneartion could smoke a lot. They were tougher. My father smoked for many years and did not die from any lung ailment

[webschooner]

Gag me with a spoon. Did she offer to polish his knob too?

The medjia are all groupies.

[angcat]

He looks smelly and stoned.

[Terabitten]

who else could have the press fawning all over some goofy snapshots of a college freshman?

Those aren't snapshots - those are carefully composed. As photographic art goes, they're actually pretty good.

Now, ask yourself: why would anyone take such carefully composed, really good shots of a guy NOBODY remembers on campus?

I'm more tempted to think the shots are photoshopped.

[AppyPappy]

Oh my...... I’m surprised they didn’t include a kissing poster of Obama

[La Lydia]

The most amazing thing is that this was written by a guy, not Robin Givhan, or some other drooling female groupie. Don't they ever read what they have written before it is published?