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March 31, 2009

Higher Authority

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Given that Obama’s GM/auto industry intervention was as drastic as it was (while also eliciting unfavorable comparison with the treatment of the banks), I’m wondering what it says about the Administration’s mindset to conclude the WH blog post on the announcement with the rather saintly photo above?   

(image: Lawrence Jackson/White House. March 30, 2009)

  • Apple

    The first thing I noticed was not the saintly halo but, rather, the reddish brown ears popping out of the top of Obama’s head!

  • ids

    what it says about the Administration’s mindset
    living in a fantasy land of icons (& martyrs?) best to fool the people with false hope

  • Gasho

    I hope this doesn’t brand me as [whatever], but does anyone else see a presidential seal afro?

  • Reece

    I did immediately think of a large golden afro.
    But I have a large black afro, so I’m biased.

  • http://profile.typepad.com/6p00e54ee0fb218834 thebewilderness

    My first thought was, Oh, another “halo shot”, then I thought, kewel, an afro. After that I was all about the red bunny ears.

  • yg

    photogs have a history of haloizing people in government. don’t they get tired of it? it’s old and lame.
    and obama doesn’t spend his hours deciding which pics go up on the whitehouse page.

  • http://profile.typepad.com/6p00e54ee0fb218834 thebewilderness

    Let me get this straight.
    President Obama cannot be responsible for which pictures are put on the White House web site, but Krugman is responsible for the picture, caption, and cherry picked text, Newsweek selects to print?
    I get it!

  • yg

    lame.

  • http://profile.typepad.com/6p00e54ee0fb218834 thebewilderness

    No, it’s called hypocrisy, and yes, I am disabled.
    I think you are a troll.
    I have nothing more to say to such as you.

  • yg

    obama, unlike krugman, has called media to task when they’ve misrepresented other people’s quotes or situations. he has corrected context.
    i called your argument lame, not you.
    calling me names, like troll, indicates you’ve lost the argument.