[lbo-talk] exposeobama.com

[B.]

It's a play on their concept -- "expose Obama" --
since here he is "exposed" in nothing but swimming
trunks, and also some have remarked he just plain
looks goofy 
in that picture, which was featured heavily on
supermarket checkout lane newsstand magazine overs
some months back. That's my guess. Some thought it was
kind of a goofy picture, not on the level of Ted
Kennedy in speedos on a yacht, but still kinda goofy.

Of course, people who *already* dislike Obama think he
looks goofy and "un-Presidential" in the picture and
it just panders to their biases, whereas people
predisposed to supporting him think it's a nice,
innocent, aw shucks, he's having fun like a normal
person"-type picture. It just plays to biases some
people already have about him and to them it looks
foolish. The right would like pictures like this to
get the same traction that pictures of John Kerry
snowboarding or in heavy hunting gear received in '04.
I think the picture is funny in its own way, but not
vote-changingly funny. It's not as bad as bare
chested, brawny Putin striding down a creek in camo
pants.

It's like a liberal site showing Bush in cowboy gear.
To us it looks absurd and laughable. But to a ot of
people it's a touching, "he's a man's man, average
Joe" kind of picture. That's how Obama frolicking in
the waves seems to resonate among the GOP base.

-B.

shag wrote:

"ok. help me out here. at the web site,
exposeobama.com, i see a masthead image which appears
to contain a picture of obama splashing in the ocean.
i 
get that they're trying to associate him with evil
liberals and "bad negroes" like sharpton, but what on
earth is wrong with swimming trunks and ocean waves?
http://www.exposeobama.com/obamamast9.gif"