Our Friend Maliki

Rahm looks like he’s viewing easy prey. Where’s the love?

No comment on the photo – words are my thing. It’s painful and demeaning to see our president referred to as “44.” Wasn’t that sort of thing a Bush affectation? If anything in that sentence deserves to be in quotes, it is “Camp Victory.”

Man that look Rahm has on his face… very Chicago.

Very striking photo. One of those compositions that looks like an emblematic painting.

Man, Rahm E. looks so pissed.

was there supposed to be an article linked to backpedaling?

Rahm sure isn’t hiding his feelings, about what he thinks of Iraqis. I wonder what he thinks of the Palestinians? He did serve in the Israel war machine fixing truck tires or something like that.

Emanuel’s watching his kid, Obama, to see whether he behaves properly. There’s something very parental in Emanuel’s face, as though, after the event, he will review with the kid whether the performance went as rehearsed.
If anything, the image reveals just how much Obama depends on both his own personal gracefulness and Emanuel’s razor-sharp smarts to comport himself in the wider world of which he had small experience when he won the election.
Obama’s plastic face is very significant in just about every image – note the absence of the tooth-flashing smile here.

I have to disagree with your assessment of Maliki. He certainly has his flaws, but Operation Charge of the Knights was a stroke of political genius.