This really is a pretty bad picture, isn’t it?
I didn’t really take a look at it before, but Ann Althouse, Little Miss Attila, and Protein Wisdom Pub are all correct: that’s just a lousy photo. It looks better in smaller versions, for reasons which I’m sure are immediately obvious to professional photographers – but in the full-size version it looks like somebody dipped it in nicotine oil.
The weirdest part? This must have been the best picture, too.
Odd.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
I could see where it might, but there’s something… off about it, and I’m not sure what it is.
Yes, yes, I’m taking a webcomic’s in-strip business model concept seriously. Brain is Swiss cheese right now, remember?
Either Repo! The Genetic Opera
Moe Lane
PS: The book that some of you are probably trying to remember right now is The Very Hungry Caterpillar
(Via AoSHQ) These free cutouts (click to get the pdf) are, in point of fact, nigh-epically cool; I shall have to make certain that my children print them out and cut them up when they’re old enough.
Moe Lane
PS: While looking for Xtranormal in order to do a movie for the above, I found this.
I believe that covers it. So everybody have a bite to eat, or something.
Crossposted to RedState.
Interesting gambit, that.
Mind you, this is all perfectly accurate (Via Ace):
…but a bit unexpected to have happen quite this early. Admittedly, the President hasn’t been having the best of months, but this is something that normally takes place after, say, disastrous midterms for the party in power.
I think that the answer is in the format: Ed Morrissey notes, this is a web-only ad*. It may be designed primarily to kick an anthill or two on the other side; from the NRSC‘s point of view, it’s not so much why the Online Left screams, as long as it screams. Which would also explain why the AIG shout-out; just a little extra flick of the earlobe. Cheap enough to do, and it’s kind of a slow season for the NRSC right now anyway while they wait for the next spectacular Democratic meltdown.
Moe Lane
*A point lost on a good number of critics of said ad, from what I’ve seen so far.
Crossposted to RedState.
Zogby will also always have been hated and despised by half the left-blogosphere by this time tomorrow, but that’s another story.
Although there is a fairly massive caveat there:
The honeymoon is over, a national poll will signal tomorrow as President Obama’s job approval stumbles to about 50 percent over the lack of improvement with the crippled economy.
The sobering numbers come as the president backpedals from two prime-time gaffes – one comparing his bowling score to a Special Olympian and another awkwardly laughing about the economy, which prompted Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” to ask “are you punch-drunk?”
Pollster John Zogby said his poll out in the morning will show Americans split on the president’s performance. He said the score factors out to “about 50-50.”
(H/T: Protein Wisdom & Jules Crittenden)
“About” in this context could mean anything from 48% to 54%, and if it isn’t 50% it’ll be closer to the latter. The RCP average implies that this is the first poll that Zogby’s doing for President Obama’s approval ratings, so we don’t know whether he’s looking at likely voters, or adult ones. Although it should be noted that a 50 approval rating from adult voters wouldn’t be bad news for the President: it’d be the kind of catastrophic news that makes people start exploratory committees. Continue reading Zogby to report a 50% approval rating for Obama tomorrow.
