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.

[paulycy]

[Married with Children]

Looks like they should have called him Michael...Mr. Jackson if you’re nasty

[Moonman62]

Barry was a real babe magnet.

[puroresu]

Erkel trying to appear cool by smoking a cigarette.

[fiodora]

Exactly my point!!!

[angcat]

LOL LOL

[linn37]

Poor Michelle that photo is awful.

[fiodora]

“You call this a hunk????”

In Kennya’s land...

[angcat]

B. Hussein was someone I would laugh at in High School! Someone I would beat up!

[TankerKC]

Texas Air National Guard fighter pilot, no?

Sure. With Air Force training, flying Air Force fighters...

[Tijeras_Slim]

why do folks keep reporting these photo’s as if they were new?

We keep blanking them out of our memory, it's a survival mechanism.

[yankeedame]

I see a man wrote this so it makes more sense. I’m a female who is attracted to real men, not “smooth” men who like to pose for pictures. It has the exact opposite effect on me.

Right on, sister, right on!

[exit82]

In the hat photos, is that a ring on Obama’s left hand?

A hunk? Hardly. More like an effeminate future community organizer, if you ask me.

[fleagle]

This is so gay (meant in that middle school insult way, not to be mistaken with any form of homophobia, gay-bashing, hate-crime inspiring way).  ;>)

[AliVeritas]

Bingo.

Shhh, someone will connect the three Trinity murders of gay, male church members.

As well as some ball buddies and former aides.

[pgkdan]

smoke from an unfiltered cigarette swirling around his face, morph into the hippest looking dude this side of James Dean.

LOL! Hip looking?? Unfiltered cigarette? He looks like a dope smoking pimp to me.

[TankerKC]

I thought it was suspicious that she just happened to have all this artwork of obama when he was a nobody.

Every "somebody" was a "nobody" at one point. And, people take pictures of nobody all the time.

[One_American]

Now that we have all these pictures of his Occidental College days, how about his admission records and transcripts? I wouldn't be because he applied as a foreign student would it?

[DocH]

Yeah, Hussein is REAL "cool".

How about someone posting some of the pictures of this GEEK riding a bike with jeans, white socks, and Grandpa's walking shoes "sneakers", or the ones with the asshole shooting the bird to photographers and others.

He's a "hunk" in the same way that a steaming pile of crap is a "hunk".

[yankeedame]

Excellent observation!

Why did this chick kept, carefully stored away, a bunch of black&white photos taken 25+ years ago of (like you said) a nobody. Ye cats and little kittens, even my husband isn't that much of a pack rat!