Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on September 8, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The White House posted this picture of Barack Obama last week on its blog:
Seriously — a halo? Didn’t we get enough of this during the campaign? It was bad enough then, coming from the national media. It says something strange that the White House itself is flacking Obama-halo pics. I guess they’re looking at the same polls we are …
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It just never ends with this punk
SuperManGreenLantern on September 8, 2009 at 8:08 AM
When will the media stop its love affair with this guy?
SuperManGreenLantern on September 8, 2009 at 8:08 AM
O come all ye faithful!
cmsinaz on September 8, 2009 at 8:08 AM
The halo effect is intended to remind us that Jesus didn’t have a birth certificate either.
TXUS on September 8, 2009 at 8:09 AM
All I can do is laugh. This guy is such a joke. Make him go away!
milwife88 on September 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Saint Barack, Patron saint of irritable bowel movements and diarrhea.
elduende on September 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM
That’s the light bulb in his head going on after realizing there are only so many times you can play the race card.
deadenders on September 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM
That must be robert gibbs favorite picture.
SHARPTOOTH on September 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM
During the campaign, Dear Leader admitted that He had “a pretty healthy ego.”
It is not healthy. It is a mental illness.
rbj on September 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Not only did Jesus not have a birth certificate, but he was also considered to be from Nazareth, even though he was born in Bethlehem to a father of Bethlehemite lineage. The parallels are striking.
gryphon202 on September 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM
I can’t find my frankincense or myrrh
blatantblue on September 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Maybe it’s actually a picture of his head about to explode. You know, from the stress and everything.
SagebrushPuppet on September 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM
What’s next? Replace “Hail to the Chief” with “Oh Come Let Us Adore him”?
trubble on September 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM
When will the media stop its love affair with this guy?
SuperManGreenLantern on September 8, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Never, they are getting paid top dollar for the daily lap dances. Nothing but a bunch of political prostitutes if you ask me.
milwife88 on September 8, 2009 at 8:11 AM
I am The One!
cmsinaz on September 8, 2009 at 8:11 AM
The is a real rube…and surrounds himself w/like rubes.
Jed1899 on September 8, 2009 at 8:13 AM
What happened to “separate church and state”..
the_nile on September 8, 2009 at 8:13 AM
He’s lost the magic, and he can never get it back. Having been proven a mere mortal, the campaign hype has fallen away and he has been revealed for what he actually is – an inexperienced, very left-leaning ideologue whose never seen a deficit he didn’t like, and who lied through his teeth during the campaign. The only real talent he had was the ‘gift’ he himself mentioned – the ability to sound like all things to all people. But he’s used that up, and his credibility is gone. For good.
ProfessorMiao on September 8, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Favorite Quip:
Main difference between God and Obama: God doesn’t think He’s Obama.
TXUS on September 8, 2009 at 8:16 AM
It seems to me,that the MSM over the course of eight
years of the Bush Administration,painted Bush,Condi,
Dick Cheney,of not so-flattering pictures,and it wasn’t
halos!!
canopfor on September 8, 2009 at 8:16 AM
The next thing you know he will be claiming the Immaculate Conception for himself…he will be without sin…
ladyingray on September 8, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Punk who posted this
Draws a government paycheck.
Your Tax Dollars, Chump!
Haiku Guy on September 8, 2009 at 8:17 AM
Doesn’t he like our names for him like The One, or Dear Leader?
Does he just want to be called “Shine”?
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:18 AM
The next thing you know he will be claiming the Immaculate Conception for himself…he will be without sin…
ladyingray on September 8, 2009 at 8:16 AM
no skin, no race card.
SHARPTOOTH on September 8, 2009 at 8:18 AM
I think the White House thinks people will be impressed by these kinds of things…when in reality, it’s just a reminder to the people how full of himself this guy really is.
powerpro on September 8, 2009 at 8:18 AM
So,its a Fence Post Turtle wearing a halo,
so then,unicorns can’t be to far behind!!
canopfor on September 8, 2009 at 8:19 AM
I can’t find my frankincense or myrrh
blatantblue on September 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM
How about RC Colas and Vienna Sausages instead? That’s going to be all we can afford, if we’re lucky.
kingsjester on September 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM
He is without sin. It’s always somebody else’s fault or failings, ya know.
TXUS on September 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM
It’s the “Fork moment”.
the_nile on September 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Although he mumbles
“Asamthwat the Elephant”
His wheels touch the mud…
Haiku Guy on September 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Ed, no mention? Where’s the love? I sent that pic to you and AP on Saturday.
h/t http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/
conservative pilgrim on September 8, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Gettin’ pretty high and mighty flaunting your money mister Royal Crown Coal
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Metadata from the picture:
There’s XML describing exposure characteristics of the camera and what processing software in Photoshop finally processed the picture, but nothing indicating whether the halo was photoshopped in or whether the photographer merely took advantage of lighting.
The halo is white, shading to gray, uniformly 3 pixels wide all the way around his head.
It’s nice to know that HotAir can use this but HuffPost can’t.
unclesmrgol on September 8, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Walmart was out of Sam’s Choice.
kingsjester on September 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Considering the current poll numbers, maybe it’s not a halo, and Obama’s just glowing because he’s radioactive.
jon1979 on September 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Obama, with the energy saving 60 watt head
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM
You’re laughing now….I’m pretty sure this very proposal is sitting on Nancy’s desk waiting for the vote.
anniekc on September 8, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Mr. High & Mighty drinkin’ your Sam’s Choice Cola
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:24 AM
I thought “Oh Come Let Us Adore Him” was the MSM theme of his campaign.
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Any introductory study of Western Art includes numerous studies of images with halos. Yet generally all
of those images are holy images.
It is a strange hypocrisy for the anti-religious
party to rely on such religious imagery.
thgrant on September 8, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Next week we’ll be shown a photo of Barack Obama appearing suspended over the stage, hovering there a foot off the ground, “walking on air” by way of perspective or bungee chords or magic suspenders (who cares, at this point).
I thought the photo (saw this already a few days ago, elsewhere) was creepy beyond belief. It’s not a halo to my eye, but a ghastly, ghostly loitering foul breath of awful.
Lourdes on September 8, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:24 AM
I know. I’m saving up to get a real Diet Coke.
kingsjester on September 8, 2009 at 8:26 AM
I’m waiting for him to walk on water and raise the dead Teddy.
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:26 AM
btw-That blog isn’t mine. I found the photo there.
conservative pilgrim on September 8, 2009 at 8:27 AM
No, no, the halo effect is to remind us that Mohammad is a cartoon.
Lourdes on September 8, 2009 at 8:27 AM
the halo effect takes your eye away from the turban……(does that mean he is a pull start?)//
Ris4victory on September 8, 2009 at 8:27 AM
I know your type, one of those rich people that drink water out of a bottle. LOL
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:27 AM
I find these attempts at beatification lame and disgusting. Lame that they think they can pass these off as chance photos and disgusting that they think we are so gullible as to have a positive response to them. As previously suggested, it smells like desperation.
SKYFOX on September 8, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Everyone else sees a halo. I see the light coming through his ears. *shrugs*
Winston_Smith on September 8, 2009 at 8:28 AM
I wonder when the ObamaVoterBots realize that the house,
car payments,and the million jobs is just not going to
happen,so when they figure they were gamed by Hopey/Cha
ngey,its going to be some Liberal Rebellion!
canopfor on September 8, 2009 at 8:29 AM
So when they took that stupid photo of him looking like a nerd on that bike with that helmet, his head was actually shining under that helmet.
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:29 AM
“Damn, I was hoping for at least 5 pixels.”
TXUS on September 8, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Perhaps an image of him nailed to a cross would be more satisfying?
gh on September 8, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Pictures like these to the contrary, for an increasing number of the American electorate, the glow seems to be off Obama’s halo.
I saw this last week on the WH website; I couldn’t believe it was taken in August 2009, not during the campaign. Unreal.
labwriter on September 8, 2009 at 8:30 AM
LOL
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Just when you think you’ve seen it all!
margretto on September 8, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Seriously my future name for Obama will be “Shine”.
He seems to like it.
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:30 AM
LOL
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:31 AM
Perhaps an image of him nailed to a cross would be more satisfying?
gh on September 8, 2009
When he does crash and burn half the media will paint it as a crucifixion; the other half will call it a lynching.
SKYFOX on September 8, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Can I get one with a red halo please?
shaken on September 8, 2009 at 8:32 AM
With this idol worship continuing, can we start calling Obama “The Golden Calf”? Cue the late Eddie G. as Dathan: “Where’s your Moses naaoooow?”
kingsjester on September 8, 2009 at 8:33 AM
It’s not a halo, it’s gas.
Lourdes on September 8, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Ed
Do you play Halo?
you know you do.
blatantblue on September 8, 2009 at 8:33 AM
I guess now I know what they mean about not being able to tell sh#t from shineola.
proudteadrinker on September 8, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Which also explains the Mommy Jeans.
Lourdes on September 8, 2009 at 8:33 AM
He’s expelling his whiteness.
RedRedRice on September 8, 2009 at 8:33 AM
lolol
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Seriously my future name for Obama will be “Shine”.
He seems to like it.
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:30 AM
i kinda like sliced bread, ya know cause he’s the greatest thing since. /s
SHARPTOOTH on September 8, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Oh, hahahahahaha…
Lourdes on September 8, 2009 at 8:34 AM
The Union in Ohio thought he sounded good, yeah I know these people are fruitcakes too who want the American people to sacrifice for them and share the wealth.
Well BullSh*t on that too. He should have said ” Hey Ohio How about all them jobs I created for you.” Of course he nor the media made mention of that.
bluegrass on September 8, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Lucipher was an angel at one time as I recall.
jbh45 on September 8, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Is he like a pumpkin. Is there a candle in there?
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Good point
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Yeah, it’s a turn off to anyone who doesn’t buy kool-aid by the barrel.
Lightswitch on September 8, 2009 at 8:35 AM
I can assure you that no members of the MSM know the words to “Oh Come Let us Adore Him” since most probably never step inside a church. I’m sure they don’t even know this song in in reference to the birth of Christ. But seriously, how mentally deranged does Obama have to be to allow this picture on the White House site for heaven’s sake!?
AusTex girl on September 8, 2009 at 8:35 AM
he does kind of remind one of Ichabod Crane
cmsinaz on September 8, 2009 at 8:36 AM
lol..that’ll work!
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Hey, where’s the MICROPHONE’S halo? Saint Microphone, meet Saint Teleprompter.
Lourdes on September 8, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Hmmm…now that you mention it
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Wait a tic,that halo was Obama’s brain working overtime
stumbling through the ah..and ums..and as soon as he
gathers his thoughts his brain over heats and that white glow is a heat signature!!
canopfor on September 8, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Seriously, what kind of brain dead moron would be motivated to have faith in Ochimpy because of stunts like this?
csdeven on September 8, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Yes, who claimed he was as fine and dandy as God.
God is not mocked.
Look what He did to Lucipher/Lucifer. Obama ought to take the whole “I’m so righteous, holy and fine” thing off the menu.
Lourdes on September 8, 2009 at 8:39 AM
those kool aid drinkers who still give him his 40+% approval ratings…
cmsinaz on September 8, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Totus: Ok, cue halo. Perrrrrrfect. Now, photos please, not to close as you may disturb the king. Greeeeaaaaaat. Now go away you photo servants…back to your enclaves and come up with a new look for our dear leader because he needs a image boost.
**good grief**
jbh45 on September 8, 2009 at 8:40 AM
I can’t imagine any President even allowing such an image of himself to appear on the White House website, but Obama did.
Lourdes on September 8, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Funny Jeff ( :
There is nothing this administration and President does by mistake….halo, puppy named Bo, candidate Obama seal, selection of Van Jones, etc.
yoda on September 8, 2009 at 8:40 AM
I love when the media and the WH portray him as a celestial being with supernatural powers. I hope they handed out wallet size photos to the entire staff. There is going to be nothing better than watching this man fall from grace. The higher he goes, the uglier the fall.
sherry on September 8, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Come on, folks. That isn’t a halo. It is fog.
Limerick on September 8, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Yep, I guffawed. Showed this to the wife and she didn’t even smile, just raised an eyebrow.
Bishop on September 8, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Maybe one of those leeches known as the White House Press Corps will ax Robert Bozo the Clown Gibbs about the photo!
bluegrass on September 8, 2009 at 8:42 AM
He’s just a man. Who are these people that keep wanting to deify 0bama? If ever there was a sign that religion has gone into the toilet, this is it.
4shoes on September 8, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Lucipher = Lucifer. Satan wanted to be God because he has a major self-image problem. God will make the proud humble.
jbh45 on September 8, 2009 at 8:42 AM
He’s preparing for impeachment day , when he gets that light in his face..
the_nile on September 8, 2009 at 8:43 AM
are you kidding? I’m sure they made this picture their desktop screensavers
cmsinaz on September 8, 2009 at 8:43 AM
These comments are great.
I imagine that eventually that halo is going to slip around his neck and strangle him.
Maybe his horns are what is holding it up this long.
ZeeMI on September 8, 2009 at 8:44 AM
hahaha
becki51758 on September 8, 2009 at 8:45 AM
O/T: If anyone wants to play with the Trolls, they’re on the school speech thread.
kingsjester on September 8, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Perhaps we should ask Gibbs if everything is ok….we keep seeing photos of Barry glowing…is he radioactive??
Haunches on September 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM
You say halo
I say goodbye.
TXUS on September 8, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Oh yea, and the radiation he is putting off is seriously lethal to ones eternal soul.
doriangrey on September 8, 2009 at 8:54 AM
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