Obamapol
BARACK OBAMA
Gwendolyn Stewart
RIFFS ON A THEME
by
A Citizen of Obamapolis
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ROCK STAR, ROCK STAR: WHO WANTS A ROCK STAR AS PRESIDENT?
What is going on? Is this a new-fangled way of saying X has "charisma"?
And by the way, was Pope John Paul II the first non-rock star of whom it was said that he was greeted/treated like a rock star?
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BECAUSE WE CAN? OBAMA AND THE NSA
STATUE OF THE BOY BARACK OBAMA ("BARRY SUTORO"), JAKARTA, INDONESIA
November 1, 2013: The statue of Barack (Barry) Obama as a boy at one of his elementary schools in Jakarta, Indonesia, has a butterfly perched on his left hand and a surveillance camera above his head. (To be continued)
THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR?
Or, whoever has the best teleprompter system wins?
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ON THE JOB?
Off on another trip again.
Will the person who used to keep track of how many
days of his presidency
George W. Bush spent away from the White House
on vacation
now keep a count of how many days Barack Obama spends
away from the White House?
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YOUTHINESS CAN BE OVERRATED. (For more on this point, see PICTURE POLITICS, March 5, 2009.)
Russian President DMITRY
MEDVEDEV
has
BARACK OBAMA beat in the
"young leader" stakes by more than four years.
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*FEBRUARY 19, 2009:
Barack
Obama makes his first international trip as president to Canada today
(unlike George W. Bush, who made a big point about going to Mexico first).
His host will be Prime Minister Stephen
Harper.
The president, however, while giving pride of place to the U.S.'s biggest
trading partner, will reportedly not be staying to supper. *FEBRUARY 12, 2009: Barack Obama and that Lincoln thing: When does someone who is at
least a semi-grownup give up dressing up in the trappings of some heroic
figure? Even if that heroic figure be Abraham Lincoln. Or
perhaps, especially if it be Abraham Lincoln. *JANUARY 20, 2009: Why such
a strident tone to the Inaugural Address? To the new President's reading of it? *JANUARY 18, 2009: "Slip Slidin' Away"?
*JANUARY 17, 2009:
"Hello, I
must be going." *JUNE 27 2008: KISS &
MAKE UP? 
What it seems GEORGE W. BUSH may be
doing under the Obama administration. With a little help from his
friend? Or at least, his new buddy in the Presidents' Club?
BARACK OBAMA and HILLARY CLINTON
GWENDOLYN STEWART: MORE PHOTOGRAPHS & MORE ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
JAMES A. BAKER LEONARD BERNSTEIN THE BIG DIG BILL BRADLEY GEORGE W. BUSH
BILL CLINTON GAO XINGJIAN MIKHAIL GORBACHEV HU JINTAO JIANG ZEMIN
JANIS JOPLIN TIP O'NEILL RICHARD PERLE THE PHOENIX THE POWER HUG
VLADIMIR PUTIN RONALD REAGAN THE RUSSIA HAND SAKHALIN FREDERICK SALVUCCI
ANNE SEXTON JOHN UPDIKE DAN WAKEFIELD BORIS YELTSIN YELTSIN'S MIDNIGHT DIARIES
