Friday Afternoon Your Turn: I’ve Looked At Clouds From Both Sides Now

McCain looks almost like an evil angel mocking Obama from on high (as his presidential chances are dead, laughing at how he is leading the charge for Opposing the stimulus. Obama lokks back at McCain with a look like he is going to whup McCains tail here soon if he doesn’t stop with the obstructionist nonsense. McCain’s Microphone position makes him seem more like a DJ or stand up, getting to poke at Obama from a distance without the pressure of being President. The great seal makes Obama look like he has a Halo…don’t know what that implies.

I thought McCain looked a little devilish as well. Also thought the phallic microphone placed across from Obama placed in a circle was interesting.

Another thing sort of interested me about this photo combination, although I suspect I’m a little clumsy in my expression:

Sort of interesting that McCain’s gaze dissects the other two major lines of motion in the grouping: the line of Obama’s vision over McCain’s head and the reinforcing parallel line from McCain’s mouth through the microphone beyond and down to Obama. McCain’s “evil eye” is aimed directly at Obama, while Obama is looking beyond and over McCain. Obviously, it’s Huff Po’s doing, but interesting in its dynamic.
My theory is that McCain is not pleased by Obama’s attempts to co-opt him with the stiff and posed meeting in Chicago as well as the honorary dinner before the inauguration. I think in McCain’s eyes, it only serves to cement the humiliation of McCain’s loss. It’s a surrender on a USS Destroyer. I expect McCain will be exacting his revenge throughout Obama’s term.

I love Obama’s halo and McCains Jokeresque evil glare. John’s eyebrows and teeth will haunt my dreams

I picked up on the halo effect in the Obama photo also. McCain looks manaical and I believe he truly has “lost his bearings”. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/02/how-cynical-is.html

Jack O’Lantern and Saint

Obama just looks impatient with an out-of-touch old fart who insists on putting forth worn out Republican notions that have proven ineffectual.

mccain looks like a tourette’s roller coaster who starts to spew at the mouth and scream tax cuts any time some one asks for leadership…

Hmmm…I don’t know…who could it be…Saaaatan??
(nod to Dana Carvey)

I share your theory that McCain wasn’t swayed at all by Obama’s overtures. He’s been leading a determined band of Republicans in objecting to this Recovery bill. Although I muted his “closing” argument last night, I saw that he was sticking to his arguments against concrete investments. Admitting that his side used the same floor tactics when they were in the majority was part of his speech; at the close, Majority Leader Reid paid McCain compliments on his leadership for the minority during the debate. His cohort, Jon Kyl, is going to be a fountain of words to watch, and I’ve already sent him an e-mail asking him to correct a statement.

Canonization may be purely a procedural matter now…

…but let’s vote on it in a few years.
Four will probably be enough.

mccain: heeeeeeere’s johnny.

why take such personal offense? should we lobby for a law that demands no one is no longer allowed to render his image? would you feel better if we burned him in effigy? if people want to feel inspired by him, isn’t that their business? why should you care? what is so terrible about someone who inspires creativity? would you rather we have a leader that inspires abortion clinic bombings?

sour grapes is such an attractive quality.

No personal offense taken, YG, it’s just political propaganda as usual. Anyone should be free to view, render, analyze, and criticize any political images they want, like this Imperial one:

The BAGMan re-posted stereotypical grinning devil and haloed angel photos and posed the amusing contrast between them. Can’t we all join in the fun?
I may be wrong, but I’ll bet that McCain is no demon and Obama is no saint: they’re all too human. Such a false visual dichotomy never represents the whole truth (if any truth at all) about either man, but it does make for interesting visuals and enthusiastic discussions, which is why we’re here at BnN.
During Obama’s marketing campaign — or McCain’s, or any other politician’s for that matter — he had to look as attractive as possible, and the younger, better-looking candidate was frequently wrapped in iconic symbolism. Caricatures like the stained glass window image merely pick up the same meme and keep running with it (too far?), but compare the following pro-Obama poster. It’s more creative, respectful, and striking, but it’s no less religious:

Obama may an icon of hope to many people, but faith has to be balanced by reality. While Americans are swinging back from eight years of what appear to be very bad judgment, we shouldn’t push another plain ol’ human being on the pendulum to Presidential sainthood. At least not until their proposed changes — many of them not very different from their predecessors’ — have enough time to generate more positive than negative outcomes.

OOh, like the new comments section.

come on, there is a huge difference between professional media image making and grassroots expressions. if people want to make obama homemade soap and candles, what’s the big effing deal? critics demonize such acts of creativity as signs of mental imbalance and point to the handiwork to somehow taint obama as a kook. you point to images of bush as examples propoganda, well, attacking obama supporters and expressions of their support is also propogandaistic.

least not until their proposed changes — many of them not very different from their predecessors’ —
have you not been following the stimulus debate? you can’t tell me there is no or little difference between R & D.

Johnny boy was a bit of a hellraiser in his youth.