PHOTOS: BARACK OBAMA and family prepare for a family portrait at their home in Chicago on Thursday

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his family, from left, daughter Sasha, wife Michelle, and daughter Malia, prepare for a family portrait by photographer Martin Schoeller (not shown) and his assistants, right, at the Obama family's home in Chicago, Ill., Thursday, June 19, 2008.
(AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)


Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his family, wife Michelle and daughter Malia, partially visible at left, are prepared for a family portrait by photographer Kwaku Alston, second from right, and his assistants, at Obama's home in Chicago, Thursday, June 19, 2008.
(AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)


Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., removes his tie after a photo session with photographer Kwaku Alston, left, at Obama's home in Chicago, Thursday, June 19, 2008.
(AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)


Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., removes his tie after a photo session with photographer Kwaku Alston, left, at his home in Chicago, Thursday, June 19, 2008.
(AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)


Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, greets people on his doorstep as he move around his home in Chicago, Ill.,Thursday, June 19, 2008, during photo sessions with photographers. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)

...of bad pics of Obama, but it's usually because of the lighting. Everybody takes a bad pic once in a while.

Such a nice looking young family. I'm looking forward to them being the face of the United States to the world.

media will be digging them up and using them in the Fall, such as the one of Obama smoking, hardly one of his better pictures. Using unflattering pictures is an old tactic, and there is no reason to think this campaign season will prove the exception. The corporate media will be working overtime for the Repubs.

But photoshopped as to his smoking? I don't know. He is a smoker who is trying to quit. I'm sure there are many photographs out there of him smoking. And the corporate media will use whatever it thinks is unflattering once the campaign starts. It's an old trick. The late Henry Luce of Time Magazine infamy was a master of the photographic smear.

The one that was posted here and everywhere. The original photo was found and compared. As far as real photos of his smoking, which I haven't seen any of, if they are out there, it's no secret he's been a smoker. Anyway, it's no big scandal to smoke and someone who is stopping it gets sympathy and admiration, not scorn. There are a whole lot of smokers and ex-smokers in the general population. This goes nowhere, in my opinion.

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that and he's "just another politican"-

:shrug:

Funny, how many of us who've been accused of being cult followers- of seeing Obama as a "god" are more realistic, and grounded than those who were so anxious to call US the deluded ones.

Obama is an imperfect human being- but, he is by FAR the best person for the job that we have to choose from.

peace~

and a sub thread removed talkin' smears on Obama and here you are again taking a big ol' chimp dump on a postive Obama thread, chimpymustgo.

I'm sick of your hypocritical, negative Obama posts in the Presidential General Election threads. You will be held accountable.

"I see a lot of "concern" around here and if its legit then I have no problem with it,but I think much of this "concern" is more about trying to make us 2nd guess our choice and undermine the spirit of the movement behind him".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6393911

:eyes:

Get over yourself or get lost.

:hi:

Real kids, not the party monsters of late.

I even tried to cut some slack for the Bush twins, as difficult as that was and is.

Being the child of a celebrity is difficult enough; but even Brad Pitt and
Angelina Jolie are better situated to shelter their children than is a sitting president.

I think Barack Obama has finally made me swoon.

:shrug:

Completely dangerous. Of course I always recognized that he was a handsome man, but that photo? Wow. Just wow.

I don't know if the White House can handle the level of hotness he and Michelle are going to bring.

OMG. How do I look?

*smooths hair, laughs nervously*

dayum!

;)

Take it off! :)

I hadn't really been that into his looks, but that picture has me reconsidering.;)

(Sorry - I find this kind of stuff - obligatory though it is - really creepy).

Ok - so I guess from an electability pov I am glad Michelle Obama is photogenic and the kids are appealing. But what if they weren't?

I wish we could all grow up.