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True Blue Door

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3. I'm guessing that portrait had something to do with being brutally murdered.

Reply to Enrique (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 25, 2014, 05:38 PM

Aug 2014

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It's a bit of a stretch to argue that that's an expression associated with "leadership." The JFK portrait is more about his death being a gut-punch to the national psyche.

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Infuriating media trope: The "Obama Looking Downward" photo. [View all] True Blue Door Aug 2014 OP

it's presidential Enrique Aug 2014 #1

Bingo! Little Star Aug 2014 #2

I'm guessing that portrait had something to do with being brutally murdered. True Blue Door Aug 2014 #3

Yeah well there will never be a picture in which he looks like a moronic simpelton like so Rex Aug 2014 #4

I wasn't prepared for this photo--involuntary snort... TwilightGardener Aug 2014 #5

Hehe... Rex Aug 2014 #6

How many DAYS ago was the huge drama about him smiling while playing golf? underpants Aug 2014 #7

"How dare he smile while so-and-so is going on in the world?!?" True Blue Door Aug 2014 #8