President Obama marks end of combat operations in Iraq with another portrait of himself

Twitchy ^ | 8/31/12 | staff

[Nachum]

Posted at 9:09 pm on August 31, 2012 by Twitchy Staff | View Comments

Barack Obama

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@BarackObama

A promise kept: pic.twitter.com/m7iLA3eF 31 Aug 12

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We’re certainly aware the president isn’t sitting in front of a copy of Photoshop putting these tweets together personally, but are we the only ones noticing a peculiar trend?

The Obama campaign recently honored the late astronaut Neil Armstrong by posting a photo of … Obama. So what better way to mark the anniversary of the end of combat operations in Iraq than by posting another photo of Obama?

[Iron Munro]

[SparkyBass]

[AlexisHeavyMetal1981]

The empty chair ought to haunt every campaign stop he makes.

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Best we start calling Barry “Chairman Obama”.

[submarinerswife]

He’s such a pig.

[rockvillem]

he is desperately trying to portray himself as part of the American story he shares so little of with the American voters

This is a good point and one that applies across a spectrum of issues. As a similar example, I hear it with his jarring use of "folks" to describe middle America in his speeches - he sounds like an anthropologist reporting on some exotic tribe he discovered.

[kearnyirish2]

“he sounds like an anthropologist reporting on some exotic tribe he discovered.”

Well put, and probably closer to the mark than you think. Do you think in his Chicago days he ever had to deal with private-sector taxpayers and/or their issues/concerns?