[lbo-talk] exposeobama.com

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At 05:45 AM 6/21/2008, B. wrote:
>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.

thanks B. That totally makes sense!