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Bag’s Take-Away:
They Think the Obama, Harvard, Derrick Bell Video Makes the President Look Bad? Look Again.
What you’ll see is a young Obama sounding a lot like the current president: consistent, durable and non-dangerous. And what you’ll notice is Obama’s ability, even then, to elevate at the key moment and not just engage, but captivate people’s attention.
Not quite the bombshell Breitbart was hoping for.
(photo credit: Video Still Buzzfeed)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
It’s impressive how the White House handled Netanyahu this week, especially optically (versus all these other times). Rather than encourage blowback with the public finger-wagging of a year ago May, Obama treated the war drum-pounding PM with straight-faced respect in a White House video. In Monday’s White House “Photo of the Day,” however, the day Bibi was on premises, Obama and Sec. of State Clinton are confidently featured but the visit is ignored.
via: White House “Photo of the Day” - March 2012
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Benjamin Netanyahu is captured at a relatively uncovered AIPAC speech flogging the Auschwitz comparison again. Apparently, he’s holding a 1944 letter from the World Jewish Congress to the U.S. War Department in which the WJC asked the U.S. to bomb Auschwitz. The U.S. refused. See what happened?
Iran would be just like that. Sigh.
(photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images caption: WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 05: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds copies of 1944 correspondence asking the U.S. War Department to bomb the Auschwitz concentration camp while addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference at the Washington Convention Center March 5, 2012 in Washington, DC. Netanyahu met earlier in the day with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House where they discussed Iran. With more than 100,000 members, AIPAC is perhaps the most prominent organizations lobbying the United States government on behalf of Israel.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
A respectful photo of Obama’s transsexual nanny living in a slum in Indonesia (and an equally dignified and exemplary caption).
via: SacBee photos
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Respect and attention on our side will be automatic. Of course, the guys with the paper and digital tablets are probably just taking notes. (Israeli government hand-out.)
(photo credit: GPO/Getty Images North America caption: In this handout photo from the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli President Shimon Peres (4L) meets with U.S. President Barack Obama March 4, 2012 in Washington, DC. On the heels of his AIPAC address, Obama will meet with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House Monday to discuss Iran and other issues.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Uploaded a few days before the latest GOP debate, this photo of Obama, looking large/strong, talking to the Egyptian Field Marshal with an aide in the foreground on her knees, makes for an interesting contrast with the picture being constructed by the GOP candidates of a timid, feckless President.
(photo: Pete Souza/White House caption: Members of President Barack Obama’s national security team listen as he talks on the phone with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi of Egypt in the Oval Office, Jan. 20, 2012. Pictured, from left, are; Larry Pfeiffer, Deputy Director, White House Situation Room; Caroline Atkinson, Senior Director for International Economics; Steve Simon, Senior Director for Middle East and North Africa; Brooke Anderson, NSS Chief of Staff and Counselor; and National Security Advisor Tom Donilon. )
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Bag’s Take-Away:
After Brewer brouhaha, Walker takes a lesson. GOP finally playing ball?
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Is there some trepidation on Obama’s part in his manner and placement below the group of burley white guy public sector workers or does it just strike me that way because of the odd entitlement to be disrespectful to the President floating around?
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Re: David Axelrod’s canine TwitPic Romney slapdown. Once again, White House, itching for battle, squeezing every ounce of juice out of otherwise pretty bland Flickr upload — and reframing Obama in a bubble.
White House Flickr photo via @davidaxelrod
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Some thoughts on the latest White House Flickr upload (and an itchy Obama ‘12 team working the edges of the GOP campaign):
This photo was taken before Rand Paul’s airport TSA tantrum, but the key is in when Souza decided to post this otherwise unusable shot of “No drama, Obama” going through his own security.
The new meaning: “Now, was that so hard?’
via: WH Flickr
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