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Topic: Face of change: President
Obama sports smile & miles
in new portrait |
Face of change: President
Obama sports smile & miles
in new portrait
New York Daily News, by Joel Siegel
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/20/2013 8:34:55 AM
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| Are happy days here again? It sure looks that way from the new official portrait of President Obama released by the White House on Friday. The new color photo shows the President standing tall, flashing a big smile, his arms folded, flanked by flags and standing in front of his desk in the Oval Office. It’s a markedly different image of Obama than the official portrait taken four years ago, after he won his first historic election. In the 2008 photo the President looked somewhat somber. The setting was bland and unrecognizable, with flags over his right shoulder.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
grayjay, 1/20/2013 8:43:43 AM (No. 9127671)
That big grin comes from him thinking about all the ways that he is going to "transform" America. I´m afraid he will!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
beveyscool1, 1/20/2013 9:02:31 AM (No. 9127706)
Where are the crown,cape and scepter?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mrduc, 1/20/2013 9:06:51 AM (No. 9127718)
Do you smell sulfur when you look at it?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dittohead, 1/20/2013 9:06:59 AM (No. 9127719)
The economy is back?? Where??? This makes me sick!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/20/2013 9:30:34 AM (No. 9127774)
Hitler and Mussolini both understood the power of a good pose.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 1/20/2013 9:56:53 AM (No. 9127840)
What a lot of baloney! This writer is just listing Obama talking points. If I wasn´t so disgusted by this regime, I´d almost feel sorry for Mr. Siegel that his article was published.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/20/2013 10:05:28 AM (No. 9127866)
"I WON!"
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/20/2013 10:06:22 AM (No. 9127868)
And we all know that folded arms mean the mind has snapped shut. Standing one´s ground.
Here is our Dorian Gray.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 1/20/2013 10:11:35 AM (No. 9127877)
It is always instructive to consider the source. From an announcement that Siegel was becoming political editor of the Daily News:
"Joel will be known to some of you. He spent 15 years at the paper, including five years as City Hall Bureau Chief and seven years as the Senior Political Correspondent. For the past nine years Joel has been at ABC News as a writer, Senior Editor, Producer and Head Writer on World News and weekend World News, working initially for Peter Jennings and most recently for Diane Sawyer and David Muir," Myler wrote in the memo, obtained by POLITICO.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/09/nydn-names-joel-siegel-managing-ed-135749.html
A real heavyweight. But you could tell that. /s
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ret.TxLeo, 1/20/2013 10:12:41 AM (No. 9127880)
Ah the Manchurian President..flanked by a flag he doesn´t respect, smiling because of the treason he commits by taking his oath to uphold the Constitution. Isn´t it wonderful the be the King of Sheeple´s and the spender of all.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kanphil, 1/20/2013 11:18:59 AM (No. 9128014)
Puts me in mind of that old crudity about teeth in a pig´s a-- Well, I´d better not finish it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
italianlooks, 1/20/2013 1:42:40 PM (No. 9128319)
Afred E Newman...who knew?
and I thought he was Charlie MaCarthy mouthing some one elses works (teleprompter is Bergen)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Penney, 1/20/2013 2:41:28 PM (No. 9128429)
The comparison between the 2 photos certainly does, ´say it all,´ eh? ...This time it´s ALL about him, with no longer any hint of an attempt to conceal his conceit.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/20/2013 3:54:23 PM (No. 9128531)
Gloating is an ugly trait for a POTUS.
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