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A picture is worth 1,000 words: Obama's photo-op of silence
The Blaze ^ | 4/23/13 | Meredith Jessup

Posted on 04/23/2013 11:41:21 AM PDT by Nachum

On Monday, the Obama White House reportedly held a moment of silence for the victims of last week’s Boston terror attack. For whatever reason, however, the press was barred and the White House released this photo of the president looking at his shoes paying his respects:

Over at White House Dossier, Keith Koffler notes that this is another in a series of carefully crafted images released from the White House designed to craft Obama’s image in the wake of the terrorist attack:

Presidents rarely engage in this type of private symbolism, which has regal sense to it – the leader presuming that citizens will want to know he has paternal concern for them and possesses a deep sense of empathy. Obama could easily have taken the more traditional route for the leader of a republic and led the nation together in a moment of silence.

Or he could have privately observed the moment without mentioning it to anyone.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2phony4words; bbphotoop; obama; obamaphotos; photoop; picture; silence
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To: Keli Kilohana
Was he facing Mecca during the moment of silence?

Believe it or not, he was at least very close to doing just that! The Oval Office faces south and he is looking out the SE window - Mecca is ESE of Washington ...

41 posted on 04/23/2013 12:02:19 PM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: laplata

Lets just move the Government out of Washington...clean slate it....start over completely...(In my dreams)


42 posted on 04/23/2013 12:02:42 PM PDT by caww
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To: Nachum

He sees a big scary bug and is waiting for SS agents to kill it.


43 posted on 04/23/2013 12:03:57 PM PDT by albie (s)
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To: laplata

If I were the next president, I would refuse to move into the white house until it was completely fumigated and renovated from top to bottom.

The thought of sleeping anywhere this guy and his brood did gives me the willies. Probably infested with bedbugs by now.


44 posted on 04/23/2013 12:04:57 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Every time I see that portrait of George Washington in the East Room looking down on the scum, I shudder.

And we don’t want to imagine him and Reggie Love in the White House.


45 posted on 04/23/2013 12:08:33 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The thought of sleeping anywhere this guy and his brood did gives me the willies. Probably infested with bedbugs by now.


You got that right. The creeps, too.


46 posted on 04/23/2013 12:14:32 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: Nachum
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47 posted on 04/23/2013 12:17:23 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: TexasCajun

Looks to me like he's prepping to take a leak on Old Glory there... you know, like he figuratively does every day.

48 posted on 04/23/2013 12:18:13 PM PDT by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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To: Nachum

What isn’t a staged photo op for this President?


49 posted on 04/23/2013 12:19:11 PM PDT by caww
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To: Nachum; All
They can pose him any fake way they want, but we know WHO he prays to. In 2009, when he spoke at Georgetown, he had the cross [directly behind him] covered over to hide it.


50 posted on 04/23/2013 12:25:41 PM PDT by potlatch (~be content with small victories and simple pleasures~)
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To: Nachum

Reminds me of the phony Bubba photo op where he “mysteriously” found the perfect sized rocks on a sandy Normandy beach to make a cross when he was walking alone there.

Or the time when Bubba ....well... I could go on and on in that regard.


51 posted on 04/23/2013 12:40:18 PM PDT by llevrok (2013: America is in a cold civil war.)
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To: Nachum

I’m just relieved he’s actually wearing a suit, jacket & looks like a tie. I’ve seen to many pictures of him in “relaxed” outfits it’s a disgrace to the office of the presidency.


52 posted on 04/23/2013 12:41:03 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (G.K. Chesterton, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It’s been found hard and lef)
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To: TexasCajun

Who the hell has their picture taken holding a moment of silence by themselves.

What a dork, What an idiot, What fools his followers are to be taken in by horse dung like this.

he should be ashamed of himself.


53 posted on 04/23/2013 12:50:49 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: TexasCajun
It looks like he's taking a leak!
54 posted on 04/23/2013 12:54:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Nachum

“Moment of silence” amongst the click and whir of a shameless photo op.


55 posted on 04/23/2013 12:56:16 PM PDT by kevao (.)
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To: JoeProBono

Need your photoshop skills to show Hussein’s urine strem


56 posted on 04/23/2013 12:56:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Nachum
Dear Allah, Please don't let the press get on the Osama's son in Boston story.
57 posted on 04/23/2013 12:58:09 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: BenLurkin
It looks like he's taking a leak!

I don't think he's peeing. At least I don't see the U.S. Constitution there on the floor in front of him.

58 posted on 04/23/2013 12:58:11 PM PDT by kevao (.)
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To: TexasCajun

If he was outside, I’d assume he was peeing.


59 posted on 04/23/2013 1:04:20 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: BenLurkin

60 posted on 04/23/2013 1:21:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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