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DEL.ICIO.USThe changing faces of the presidency, from Washington to Obama
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Andrew Malcolm over at Top of the Ticket, the L.A. Times political blog, points to a visually arresting YouTube clip made up of the morphing faces of 44 U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Barack Obama.
Writes Malcolm:
It was, as you may have noticed in early vintage photographs, very unfashionable to smile, even for politicians. Everybody was supposed to look grim and ever so 19th century.
So it’s not until Jimmy Carter here in 1977 that we get that trademark cheesy grin. And from him on, they’ve all got smiles of one kind or another right up to the Change Maker himself, No. 44.
Comments
By BarryDog
January 12, 2009 4:41 PM | Link to this
They should have changed the music at the end to gangsta wrap. Hope and Change muther Fockers. White folks is about to get what is comin’, yo.
By Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 12, 2009 6:12 PM | Link to this
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Just Pathetic.
By Copyleft
January 14, 2009 11:31 AM | Link to this
Looks like BarryDog’s afraid his racism is about to come back and bite him where it hurts!