Your Turn: Getting Above It

Obama looks like a cool dude. But there’s no way that he would look today as Black as he does in this picture. The right wingers would be so aghast they’d be doing back flips.

There is no “Getting above it”
The deal is !it is your responsibility, Obama!
War criminal with a war criminal chief.
Looks like a mean couple: enabler and enabled…
Well, what is the tally sheet?
How many civilian casualties, how about destruction of the countries, Iraq and Afghanistan? Illegal drone strikes? Occupation without the end in sight…
How about the measurement of happiness from all of this?

Awesomely cool, both then and now. Michael, I kind of recall you comparing this to a Bush photo with GWB looking remote, and Barack looking involved and learning as much in that helicopter trip as he could.

Man, so much has happened since then. If people had protested Bush then, than they wouldn’t have shit to complain about now.

Not difficult to see a movie still here, perhaps with Denzel Washington and Kevin Kostner in place of President and General. What would be the plot?

Despite the physical proximity of the men, the prominent, outsized headsets isolate and mediate their communications, and allude to the mix of high-tech weaponry and primitive ground struggle, and the cultural and linguistic divides, that characterize this war. Obama, is even more difficult to read than usual, obscured as he is by shades, shadow and distance, but he seems intent on his companion, who seems focused on more distant things.