Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The Magic of Cropping

Here's Obama in North Carolina yesterday:


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill. speaks about the economy, Monday, June 9, 2008, at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


And here's the same photo provocatively cropped by CNN:



A suggestion to Team Obama: you may want to rethink your background strategy, unless you want to see this decidedly mixed message over and over and over.

I'm just saying!

6 comments:

Fran said...

Screw overly high priced political strategists, often with heads pushed far up posteriors...

Hire PSP for merely high priced insights.

You are one very bright Princess, but then you did not need to hear me to know that.

Jess Wundrun said...

"HAIG"?

I dunno, lots of republicans thought Al was da bomb. Maybe the Obama campaign was too quick to bring on unemployed Hillary workers?

Anonymous said...

Nice catch, pony.

HRH King Friday XIII, Ret. said...

Oh wow... $50 billion?!? Fiscal conservatives are going to hang themselves.

Alkibiades said...

Shouldn't that read "HUNG"?

dguzman said...

And don't think those scamps at CNN didn't know exactly what they were doing.