Old Picture Foretells Our Future Under President Obama

New York Times ^ | May 21, 2008 | NY Times

[X180A]

The author, Fareed Zakaria, fortells was interviewed (emphasis added).

"As Mr. Zakaria sees it, the “economic dysfunctions in America today” are the product not of “deep inefficiencies within the American economy,” but of specific government policies — which could be reformed “quickly and relatively easily” to put the country on a more stable footing. “A set of sensible reforms could be enacted tomorrow,” he says, “to trim wasteful spending and subsidies, increase savings, expand training in science and technology, secure pensions, create a workable immigration process and achieve significant efficiencies in the use of energy” — if only the current political process weren’t crippled by partisanship, special-interest agendas, a sensation-driven media, ideological attack groups and legislative gridlock."

[dfwgator]

FWIW, here is Snopes’ take:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/postamerican.asp

[X180A]

The photo was published 21 May of 2008 by the NY Times. It resides on their website to this day: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/21/books/obama-reads-533.jpg

[SoCal Pubbie]

According to Snopes, the photo is real. I could point out why I disagree with your analysis of the photo, but if Snopes is correct it's moot.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/postamerican.asp

[gunsequalfreedom]

Here he is carrying the unabridged version of the book.

As opposed to the photo in this post.

It would be far more comforting to see him reading Churchill's A Gathering Storm.

[gunsequalfreedom]

I suppose we will have to go with fact instead of my analysis. Call me wrong on this one.

[HKMk23]

I couldn’t condemn anyone just for reading a book like that,...

Hear, hear!

Recall the ancient maxims declaring it a wise thing to "Know thine enemy"

...Obama was looking for pointers.

The man who follows Truth may well endure the journey alone, but the man who follows Error seeks a host to suffer with him.

[redpoll]

>>>The title is “The Post American World” and...this photo is suspect as a photoshop job.<<<

So I downloaded the photo and looked at it using my version of Photoshop CS4.

I also saw the cut-off title of the book. That’s suspect to me.

What’s also suspect is that the original picture shows a mass of pixelation when I blow it up to 1200 percent, but the inset picture at the same resolution shows the letters clearly.

As an old photojournalist myself, your comments about shadows and so forth also make sense.

I’m with you, then, in the “suspicious” category.

[TribalPrincess2U]

In other words... he’s going by the book.

[sappy]

Does everyone love us yet?

[38special]

Well I’m looking forward to the post Obama world.

[bamahead]

the second—what I call the flattening of the world—is a metaphor for the rise of middle-class citizens, from China to India to Brazil to Russia to Eastern Europe, who are beginning to consume like Americans.

And there in a nutshell, is why the left will maintain a constant war against the middle class. A strong, independent minded international middle class does not beg for government dependence and handouts at every turn, and does not vote for candidates who espouse such.

The fact that the middle class can freely consume goods and resources which should be left as bountiful and abundant for the elites ONLY, really irritates them. More paupers worldwide, means more for them.

[Gabrial]

Snopes claims it is a real picture.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/postamerican.asp

[Canadian Outrage]

You just rocked my hobby horse. All that you said is true SO the only answer is ‘GET RID OF THE TYRANT”!! No tyrant has ever gone peacefully or by the voting booth way, they always have to be removed and the sooner, the better. CO

[nmh]

I agree ... but if he sucks in the middle class then he’ll have the 60% he craves dependent on GOVERNMENT.