Obama has been photographed repeatedly
 

The White House’s Pete Souza Has Shot Nearly 2M Photos of Obama, Here are 55 of His Favorites



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There are serious, heartfelt and just plain candid pictures of Obama, very few of which I would expect to see of the Trumpasaurus Rex in the future.


I would have posted a few here, but my tablet seems to have taken a violent dislike to Photobucket.:roll:

JEEEZUS!


That got me real good.
Can we get this man nominated for Clickbait Award 2017?

:har:

I just thought it could do with a snappy headline.

However, I will gladly accept any nominations!

Number 7 brings back memories of the Churchill bust story.

Absolutely! That heartless incredulous shell of a man. :doh: Certainly the media with the ever present camera clicking away automatically will capture the worst of the worst for Trump. But you know, the media did the same with Obama, Hillary and a host of others. It is what the media does. I think Trump said something about that. :hmmm:

These 55 pictures kind of drives that point home, does it not?

The man is sympathetic, and is a charismatic speaker, I always gave him that. Plus he showed a good sense of humour on more than just one opportunity.

But the political heritage of his presidency is partly non-existent, partly a disaster, especially foreign politics sees him leaving an alley of ruins leaving behind. Very poor record there.

The pics are great.

His wife also set standards in her role as first lady.

Charm, humour, easiness, and style - irresistable combo. Liking them I do - I just have problems with his policy.

I wonder how different his policy would have been if it had had no obstructions against it? :hmmm: No doubt many people would say that it would have been 'Full Communism'™ but I do wonder. :hmmm:

Still, it's full orange now, maximum GOP. Should be entertaining at least.

Then I precise myself and must disgaree with his mere intentions already, on many issues. Especially foreign politics. He welcomed in the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, and messed up relations with Israel. He endlessly babbled of red lines in syria, and then did nothing. He balked about Ukraine and Russia, but had no horse in this race either. He did his share to add to the confusion and mess the aftermath of the so-called Arab Spring was. The strategic interest of the US in the ME has been even more damaged by him after the damage already done by Bush, its due to his indifference as well that the region now is more instabile. He brokered the Iranians a deal that gives them what they want: time to complete their task.

The internal American policies are not so much my interest. The Americans have to sort them out themselves. And it seems Trump already has distributed sledge hammers for that task. Not much will remain from the Obama era.

So Obama hardly has left a lasting, not to mention a positive footprint in history, I think. The echo already is fading. He was sympathetic - but unimportant at best.

That's fair, I agree with most of that. You and I see differently on the importance of some of these actions and the intentions of the nations involved in them so I won't go any further than that, but you're right, he hasn't left a big footprint in history, but equally it wasn't a wholeheartedly negative footprint, and sandwiched in-between Bush Jr and Trump as he was...I feel that future historians may look back on him with a more sympathetic light than he currently do.

Got me too. I doubt anyone can beat this one so we could do-nobel-committee and award the prize right away! :haha:

Who's changed the title and spoilt my fun?:wah:

I had it changed. You know better than that.

Oh come on, Neal! It was a good joke! :har:

Hmmm...well, I left it up for a few hours, but fake news about a black (half black) President being assassinated.... Not really.

Dammit, never thought about that angle, just as a play on words.:oops:

As a non-American, Obama is one of the most likeable (is that a word?) presidents.. ever. He's so relatable somehow.

I agree, he just seems to be relaxed, down to earth and had a genuinely decent family.

Similar impression in Germany, but in the USA they all seem to hate him. Well not all.. but on Facebook and some US forums the sheer hate expressed is unbelievable, and hard to understand and swallow.

Seems he is a red rag for the "right", because he dared to try to initiate better relations with the Middle East and arabian countries, when he began his presidency. Then getting Bin Laden was a success, though an international tribunal would maybe have been better.
I have no ball in the matter anyway, negative points for me are that Guantanamo is not being closed, and the use of drones to kill insurgents together with what is so lightly called "collateral damage" without court decision.. but then he did not put american soldiers to a direct threat that way. The question is whether a president can even decide about the use of drones himself and alone.

Of course a lot of projects did not succeed, some because of congress, some because he was too idealistic, or not cyncial enough. Or expecting that certain nationalist states would have any kind of logic, or common sense. Well after the arabian answer to an outstretched hand, the US/We/the West will not try this again.
Whatever, he tried to make a lot of things better.