"the trip-when obama became acting president"

[madrchsod]

the picture was from the washington post`s july 21st slideshow.

this is m shaw`s response to the frank rich article.

http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. A picture is worth a thousand words

to quote from the link:

Frank Rich is dead on regarding the vacuum. Obama's clear point, on heading out, was that he was embarking on a "listening tour," and practically every image from the Iraq leg backs that up. In spite of the fact, however, it takes little-to-nothing to imagine this scene actually taking place in February '09, with the C.I.C. parked in the center of the action, Vice President Hagel fighting a little jet lag and Secretary of State Reed telling Petraeus (and the about-to-be furloughed Mr. Crocker) how it's going to be.

I'm not making any personnel predictions, by the way, or assuming the actual circumstances here involve anything other than a conversation. The dynamics of the pic, however, speak to how powerful the trip was in visualizing Obama in the Oval Office, and just how much the intellectual and policy authority is shifting, as well.

[leveymg]

2. I think what you describe is the present, not the future, of U.S. foreign policy

Bush and Cheney have been under a sort of White House arrest for two or three years, and that photo does capture the existing power structure.

It takes a long time to turn around the USS United States, but she's starting to respond to the helm.