Reading The Pictures: Newsweek -- Swallowing GOP Attack -- Positions Obama As Leftist

First of all, I take issue with the idea America is a center-right country when Bush initially sold himself as a centrist, failed to earn a clear mandate when he was re-elected (basically through the exploitation of fear), and then lost the last mid-term election to the Democrats.

More concerning the visual politics here, however....

I'm troubled by the way Newsweek places Obama between us and the flag, and how a national news mag has Obama's back to us again (1 , 2) reinforcing the right-wing meme that we don't and can't really know him.

Most specifically, though, I take issue with the fact a politically centrist Obama is framed looking leftward -- at the same time, in the closing days of the election, his inordinately rightward-looking competition is openly branding him a socialist.

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Comments

[scandinavian]

you nailed it. and the aesthetically unsuccessful black stripe with the text brings in mind the way eyes are hided in pictures order to save anonymity. (i just learned the editor-in-chief is evangelical.)