Boehner: Obama Using Service Members As ‘Campaign Props’

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8. Mission Accomplished, Indeed! Here's another staged Bush photo...

As rescue efforts continue in the rubble of the World Trade Center, President Bush puts his arms around firefighter Bob Beck while standing in front of the World Trade Center debris during a tour of the devastation, Friday September 14, 2001. Bush is standing on a burned fire truck. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said 4,763 people have been reported missing in the devastation of the World Trade Center. (Doug Mills/The Associated Press)

He went to Ground Zero, and was photographed at the site on the wreckage with a fireman. One thing that’s obvious, but it’s worth bringing out there, is that there are very few casual photographs of the president of the United States. The whole thing is managed. With the exception of the guy hurling the shoe at him, these are all photo opportunities that are organized by the White House Press Department and set up for the members of the traveling pool or media group that accompanies him everywhere. So you have to look at them within that framework, that it’s being orchestrated to send a message. And, in this case, the message is that the Commander in Chief is getting his feet dirty at the site of the attacks, and is showing that he cares, that he’s in control, that he’s a leader.

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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/