This approach boils down to three easy steps: Demagogue the hell out of Mitt Romney, rinse, and repeat. Chicago admits they’ll employ this strategy to avoid an economy-focused election. (Gosh, I wonder why). The crux of this slash-and-burn campaign will be attacking Romney’s record at Bain Capital. Similar criticisms from fellow Republicans during the primary seemed to catch the Romney Camp off guard, but I’m told by a very senior Romney source that they’ll be much better equipped to play defense and counterattack on this front in the general. That’s an encouraging thought, but I’ll hold my applause until we see the new strategy. But here’s the thing: Romney is just emerging from an at-times divisive and ugly primary fight. He’s at a huge cash-on-hand disadvantage, and the president has been running around to swing states on, ahem, “official business” for months. http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/05/08/team_obama_yeah_weve_totally_got_this_election_in_the_bag
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Strange Anomalies in the Famous Situation Room Photo
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/strange_anomalies_in_the_famous_situation_room_photo.html
Recently, the MSM were shocked by the news that a girlfriend in Obama’s Dreams book was a composite. For many, such news comes as no surprise. The concept of a composite presidency certainly comes as no shock as someone who participated as a contributor and authored evidence presented at Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s press conference on Obama’s long-form birth certificate report. On the heels of these events — and taking advantage of an anniversary of the bin Laden raid — are recent campaign tactics to politicize the killing of Osama bin Laden. With the re-emergence of another round of gutsy call faux heroism regarding Obama’s decision, it may also be a good time to revisit the famous “Situation Room” photo released by the White House. Is it Photoshopped? Like everything else Obama does to make a political point, is the photo a composite as well?
Beyond the obvious blurred photo in front of Hillary Clinton, are there other hints of manipulation? A Swedish paper makes the observation that Obama looks like a midget in the chair despite his six-foot-plus stature. When comparing the size of the surrounding people in the photo to Obama, the photo certainly gives the impression that Obama’s head (or possibly the entire body) was placed into the photo and resized a tad too small. And as a side-note observation: why is everyone in the room dressed in work attire — as if they went to work that day — except for Obama?
Compare the size of surrounding heads in the “Situation Room” photo to the size of Obama’s head. Even if you use a perspective argument — in which objects appear smaller at a greater distance — then why are the faces behind Obama still larger? Marshall Webb’s head is larger as well, and keep in mind that Marshall is sitting next to Obama (on the same plane).
Referring back to the “Situation Room” photo again, look at the difference in head size between 
Obama and Biden (in the “Situation Room” photo), and then contrast with differences in size from other photos found of Obama and Biden. The height and head shapes are comparatively similar in size for the vast number of photos seen of the president and VP.
Another observation focuses (no pun intended) on the eyes of everyone in the room. A large and overexposed sharpened image of the “Situation Room” can be viewed here that offers a clear glimpse into the various pairs of eyes. Follow the direction of the center of focus for all the surrounding faces in the room. When zoomed in closely, the eyes are clear and detailed for many of these faces. However, not only do Obama’s eyes lack detail in this overexposed photo, but the direction of his glance appears to be 
pinpointing a higher plane than that of 
everyone else in the room. It was reported here that the famous picture was taken not in the situation room, but rather from a smaller conference room next to the situation room. A search for images of this conference room suggests that monitors are mounted on the wall just slightly above eye level when sitting — which is consistent with the gaze level of the surrounding members in the photo.
Try this test: instead of zooming in close, try zooming out to a low level of the image, and notice a
consistency in lighting and softness to the skin tones for the majority of faces in the room — except for Obama, and two players standing behind Bill Daley. Let me offer a few additional and possibly problematic observations on these two individuals standing in the back. Their names are Anthony Blinken, national security advisor to Vice President Biden, and Audrey Tomason of the National Counterterrorism Center. The Daily Beast speculates on the reasons for Tomason’s presence in the photo as diversity balance so Hillary Clinton would not be the only woman in the room.
A similar observation could be made for the directional glance of the eyes for Blinken and Tomason, who appear to be glancing on a different vector path than the surrounding faces. The lighting for these two individuals appears off when taking into account how the light falls on many of the other characters in this iconic photo.
Judging by the light at the top of Bill Daley’s head (who is standing in front of Blinken), it is possible that a light from overhead is glaring directly on top of Blinken. Having said that, Blinken and Tomason seem to have a different set of rules regarding how the light falls on their faces compared to their co-workers.
In addition, when zooming in close to examine the shirt area of Blinken, there appears to be some indistinct areas for a shirt so
well-lit and strongly contrasted at the upper area of the torso. It is hard to determine if this could be due to image-editing or normal shadowing and light falloff.
However, a few more questions to ponder in regard to Tomason: if Tomason is standing behind Blinken, why do her hands rest in front of Blinken’s shirt? And is there a watch on both wrists?
A close-up from the overexposed photo is also provided in which it is clearly visible that Tomason’s hands are in front of Blinken’s shirt and even appear to come out in front of Daley’s jacket. While the lack of detail could be natural due to Tomason’s position in the photo, both arms seem to mutate into odd or unrecognizable hand shapes.
What do you think? Photoshopped, or is my imagination simply on overload from too many composite stories emanating from the White House?
Mara Zebest is a graphic artist and co-author for a number of Adobe product books, including the Inside Photoshop series, which typically exceeded 1,000 pages and has been published in at least ten different languages around the world. She is also tech editor for numerous books for both Adobe and Microsoft products and has worked closely with the Cold Case Posse (CCP) for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) in providing evidence on Obama’s forged birth certificate.
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Defense is another example of what an Obama second term will look like. After strangling bin Laden with his bare hands, and singlehandedly ending terror worldwide, and with the tide of war ebbing, he has come to the conclusion the nation doesn’t need a defense. Besides, no matter how much he spends, or how powerful our armed forces remain or become, he will never get credit, because the heroes of America’s military are the men and woman who volunteer to stand on that wall, ever-vigilant, so that demagogues like Barack Obama can be successful, while despising them and the sacrifice they make for their country.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/obama_the_tragedy.html#ixzz1uQEsWsBD
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ELIZABETH WARREN DANCES WITH LIES
Elizabeth Warren, who also goes by her Indian name, “Lies on Race Box,” is in big heap-um trouble. The earnest, reform-minded liberal running for Senate against Scott Brown, R-Mass., lied about being part-Cherokee to get a job at Harvard.
Harvard took full advantage of Warren’s lie, bragging to The Harvard Crimson about her minority status during one of the near-constant student protests over insufficient “diversity” in the faculty. Warren also listed herself as an Indian in law school faculty directories and, just last month, said, “I am very proud of my Native American heritage.”
Except, oops, she has no more evidence that she’s an Indian than that buffoon out of Colorado, Ward Churchill.
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King of the Liars and Flip Floppers
Many are reporting that this is the first time Obama has admitted his support for gay marriage. That is incorrect. During his 1996 run for Illinois state Senate, Obama admitted his support for gay marriage in a written response to a questionnaire from Chicago’s gay newspaper Outlines:
“I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.”
Since then, and until today’s admission Obama has been, well, nuanced. In true John Kerry fashion:
- President Obama was for gay marriage [1996].
- Before he was undecided [1998].
- Before he was “not a supporter of gay marriage” [2004].
- Before he was reminded to “remain” open to the possibility that his “unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided” [2006].
- Before he decided that marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman [April 2008].
- Before he was not in favor of gay marriage [November 2008].
- Before he was for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act [2009].
- Before he admitted to an evolving attitude toward same-sex marriage [2010].
- Before, at least for now, he was again for it.
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That One was never in that room. The picture doesn’t have the look and feel of one that is as candid as it was made out to be. It is set up and Oblahblah was added to complete the myth.
I looked at his “smallness” in that picture when it was published and that seemed so odd at the time. What I saw was a like one of those childrens pictures of “which one doesn’t belong?”. What if BO wasn’t in the room because it is a photoshop?? There are more than a dozen people in that room…you think they would let the tinfoil speak? Where was he? I have heard of teflon presidents and many other “salutations” of affection, but never a photoshopped POTUS. His whole life is one big photoshoped image. The other odd thing about the photo is the the fact that a miltary person is sitting the POTUS chair. Another odd thing is the SitRoom is a mil-spec fully loaded audio-video facility. None of those laptops where required to bring in the feed. What is that about? Why is BO not “in the chair”?
Thanks, Katmoon for porch.
It’s all fantasy Teak. It isn’t real.
I think that is a photoshopped picture, the guys in the back on the right, looks like a bad copy and paste.
I think you’re right Kat.
There is not one iota of honesty in this administration. So, this being a photo-shopped picture is not so far fetched…
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
http://www.saywhatyouwill.proboards.com
And WTF was he sitting on a milking stool?
ROFLMAO,, oh I got a visual on that, ORFL….
Yeah, appropriate since he’s milking that crap for all its worth.
Cuz’n Amy and I were discussing that “situation room” photo on a previous post. It wouldn’t surprised me to learn that it’s photoshopped.
And as far as Eliz. Warren goes—-honestly! The people of Mass. have NEVER elected a woman Senator, and this is the best they can do? She is a liar, pure and simple. And did y’all see her on the news today, giving her reasoning behind this Cherokee charade? She said she did it because she wanted to “meet people”. And she looked and acted very bizarre as she was saying that. I really believe she has some deep emotional problems. Somethin’s just not right about her….I thinks she’s a very sad case.
Thanks, Kat, for the interesting, highly informative post!
RIP, Vidal Sassoon! I loved that man….He made my life so happy my first year in college, bless him!….I cut my hair like Barbra Streisand’s ” Sassoon bob” (I had been to Paris that summer before I came to college my Freshman year, and saw it there)
All of the girls in my small little dorm wanted a Sassoon bob too, so I cut everybody’s hair for free…..We all looked like Sassoon’s sassy army, even though most of us were poor and broke, couldn’t afford clothes too much, but god, was our hair fabulous! LOL. Our dorm was actually an old army barrack….All of the other girls at the college lived in two very nice and fancy “air-conditioned” dorms across the street.
Well, those other girls may have had air-conditoning, and other amenities like dining halls (we had to cook our own food in our poor girl dorm), but honey, we had the Sassoon bob!!! LOL
God, were they jealous! (sort of)
I would be surprised if that ####er even casts a shadow
Oh that’s right, vampires don’t cast a shadow, no wait, they can’t see their reflection in a mirror..Ialways get that confused
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1630694188001/revoking-elizabeth-warrens-victim-status
In case y’all missed this today
She is pitiful cindie, I saw that and I find her to be an “odd duck”, as my grandmother used to say.
The whole situation photo has always felt off somehow. It just seems too staged. I have trouble believing that they wore cameras into the Bin laden raid and had a successful live feed the whole time. How are they uploading it? Who is editing it? If it was actual footage of the event, then nobody would understand what was going on without a narrator or something. There would be smoke and chaos and cameras showing the floor and ceiling as people moved. You’d have to watch video like that over and over again just to make out what happened. You can’t film real life with people running with cameras and get a clear story. Also, it would be dark, you need good lighting for cameras to get a good picture.
Another obvious shop in that photo is the laptops, every single one of them is on, but they have blacked out screens. And the three men on the right look like they were placed there, they are much to large to have actually been in that room, I mean unless they really are mongoloids or something. Now, to me, it appears to be a “cover up” of the people who were actually standing in that room, you can see the shirt of a man in the back but not his face, and then you can see the top of someone else’s head, You can clearly see that the top of that head doesn’t belong to the man with the tan shirt, AND I know it doesn’t belong to the balding gentlemen to looks very concerned unless he has a black streak or thick hair on his head. Also those three men and standing in a very odd way, almost as if they were stacked directly on top of one another in a line, like a movie poster.
Those are my observations of the photo, I also don’t think they actually got Bin Laden, I mean, one, Why would they shoot to kill? Think of all the info they could have got out of him, but instead they just kill him outright, huh? They didn’t to that with Sadam! and two, why would they dump his body overboard on the way back, And why wouldn’t they release some proof? I’m sure it’s graphic, but, we all saw Sadam hang, why didn’t get see Bin Laden hang, he was the one we all wanted to see hang. AND, I find it awfully suspicious that about 3 months later 22 members of SEAL Team 6 was wiped out in a helo accident, I mean they say no one who was involved with the raid was killed, but we will never really know that for sure. Anyway, that’s borderline conspiracy theory right there.
I always thought there was something off about that picture, but I didn’t spend too much time worrying about it. Thanks for posting this analysis.
I don’t think any conspiracies are that far off track. YOU CANNOT TRUST THIS ADMINISTRATION!!
You will be assimilated by the Oborg!
Resistance is futile! haha! Oborg, that’s a good one!
I agree, but you can’t really trust any administration. but especially one that says they will have a “transparent government”. You know that’s a bold face lie!