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March 10, 2010

White House Optics: Ronnie’s Got My Back

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In the midst of Obama’s insurance company-bashing road show, this shot from the most recent batch of White House Flickr stream photos offers Obama a.) further inoculating himself from the “liberal” tag and b.) demonstrating how he doesn’t re-ally hate corporations …given the heavy-handed Reagan cameo and Barack chumming it up with a couple of CEOs.

(photo: Pete Souza/White House. caption: President Barack Obama talks with Michael G. Morris, right, of American Electric Power Company, and David Cote, of Honeywell International Inc., in the Cross Hall of the White House, before a dinner with CEOs, Feb. 24, 2010.)

  • http://profile.typepad.com/serr8d Serr8d

    No. There is absolute no ‘collusion’ between Reagan and Obama. It’s obvious that BHO has turned his back on Reagan.
    Obviously, the photographer has seen this video.

  • Paul_D

    Damn you President Obama, be more like Reagan! Fund a proxy war with illegal missile sales to sworn enemies, cut and run from Iraq just like in Beirut or dump billions into ineffective weapons programs, just so you can spawn generations of nincompoops to worship you!

  • http://motherrr.blogspot.com mcmama

    Neither of these is an insurance company. I don’t know about American Electric Power, but Honeywell divested itself of all but its core businesses (building controls, thermostats, stuff like that) when other corporations were snapping up competitors and spreading their nasty greedy tendrils into all sorts of new business areas. So maybe there are the rapacious conglomerates we must fear, and ordinary, faceless-giants-not-waiting-to-devour-you corporations.
    Just sayin’.

  • http://profile.typepad.com/serr8d Serr8d

    ‘…spawn generations of nincompoops to worship you’.
    Doesn’t that just give an ironic tingle up your leg?