Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Caption photo: Obama high school basketball photo
NYT ^

Posted on 02/22/2010 5:21:21 AM PST by boughtwithaprice


(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: basketball; captionobama; captionphoto; choomgang; obama; photoshop
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 221-222 next last
To: Niteranger68

The one who looks like Frank Marshall Davis.


41 posted on 02/22/2010 5:46:53 AM PST by PA-RIVER
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: boughtwithaprice

so he used to be a tall, husky, black kid?
how did he end up so short, scrawny, and pale?


42 posted on 02/22/2010 5:47:05 AM PST by fnord (497 and a half feet of rope? ... I just carry it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: silverleaf
Gee the prez has a big head. Big head bigger than the other players in that photo.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Right shoulder too is disproportional to the other members.

43 posted on 02/22/2010 5:48:13 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: All

For those of you who think this picture is ‘shopped, I’d like to know what you think the purpose (i.e., benefit to Obama) is.


44 posted on 02/22/2010 5:48:20 AM PST by Sloth (Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Niteranger68
Which one is he?

LOL. Best line ever.

45 posted on 02/22/2010 5:48:48 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Solitar

Maybe the childhood was worse than we know and so they faked it? It would take A LOT of $ and influence to create a totally fake jacket.


46 posted on 02/22/2010 5:50:32 AM PST by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Fresh Wind

Hey, now that the NY Times has published it and claimed it to be authentic, maybe someone could go to town, do some photography forensics, and challenge them on it. (Though I don’t know that it’s not legit—I could believe that a 6’ Obama was only capable of playing basketball with prepubescent 5-footers when he was in high school.)


47 posted on 02/22/2010 5:51:03 AM PST by 9YearLurker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: 9YearLurker

Bout that time of his life he was in Indonesia. These don´t look like Indonesians boys to me.


48 posted on 02/22/2010 5:53:07 AM PST by rovenstinez (All)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: boughtwithaprice

What a joke.


49 posted on 02/22/2010 5:54:08 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: silverleaf

How often do you see a posed photo like that where not only the kid front and center, but the dude in the middle up in the bleachers, too, is holding a ball?

And the latter is not holding it out for the photo either.


50 posted on 02/22/2010 5:54:43 AM PST by 9YearLurker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: 9YearLurker

The NYT says it’s from the 1977 yearbook of the Punahou school.

There’s gotta be a copy somewhere, like the school library.


51 posted on 02/22/2010 5:55:12 AM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: boughtwithaprice

This is clearly a fake. Look closely. That’s John Lovitz in the last row on the left.


52 posted on 02/22/2010 5:55:14 AM PST by johniegrad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: boughtwithaprice

Do any of the other team members remember him? What about his high school yearbooks are there other pictures of him? If I had gone to school with someone who later became POTUS I would certainly have looked him up in my yearbook and be very public about at least having gone to school with him. Obama is like the man who never was as no one from his grade and high school days seems to remember him. This photo IMHO looks like a fake unless someone else in the photo can attest to its veracity.


53 posted on 02/22/2010 5:55:53 AM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: barker

Former girlfriends? Ha ha ha!


54 posted on 02/22/2010 5:57:36 AM PST by 9YearLurker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: All

Did anybody watch the video? It was great! His brother in law is explaining how obammy if a lefty—says he’s lefty all the way, the lefty of the lefty’s—LOL!


55 posted on 02/22/2010 5:57:43 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: hennie pennie
Do you believe that the photograph is a fake? What explanation do you give for BHO appearing to be so much bigger than everyone else in the same photo?

Because he's going to be important someday!

56 posted on 02/22/2010 5:57:50 AM PST by IncPen (THE S.E.C. MUST PROSECUTE AL GORE FOR TRADE FRAUD - GIVE BACK THE OSCAR! - GIVE BACK THE NOBEL!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Fresh Wind

If this was from the yearbook in the school library, the fix is or was in a long time ago- maybe if someone from Punahou class of 1977 has an untampered yearbook, we’ll see

ditto with “real” yearbooks from Columbia and Harvard

big question is WHY?


57 posted on 02/22/2010 5:58:17 AM PST by silverleaf (My Proposed Federal Budget is $29.99)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: boughtwithaprice

OMG, has to be photoshop. Wonder whose body his big old head is on? LOL


58 posted on 02/22/2010 5:58:42 AM PST by dforest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: indylindy

I think he’s sitting on Johnny Weir’s lap


59 posted on 02/22/2010 6:00:02 AM PST by silverleaf (My Proposed Federal Budget is $29.99)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: 9YearLurker

If I remember correctly he wasn’t even a starter, lol.


60 posted on 02/22/2010 6:00:26 AM PST by jennyjenny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 221-222 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson