While I just found what perhaps is another example of the Hillary camp taking a photo of Obama and altering it so he looks blacker, Obama may have done the opposite. Once again, look carefully at this untouched photo of Obama:
Now look how it appears on Obama’s website:
Now I could just be imagining it, but I think they made him appear whiter. I contacted the Obama campaign about this, and they said any difference is just from some gamma correction they did to make the image contrast less with the website’s background. Again, I’m no photography expert, so I guess I’ll have to take their word for it.
I love the way he narrowed his lower lip. Damn white of him.
I like how they changed eye color. How does that make him white?
It’s hard to find any notable difference this time. Even the warts look the same.
I do notice than in the lower picture his tie is bluer, suggesting that he’s what we used to call … “theatrical”.
But he’s never given us any reason believe that.
Is it just me, or does the second photo look a lot like Howard Cossell?
I’m leaning towards Marv Albert, myself. Trying to remember what kind of perversion he got busted for….
Patrick Ewing, down low, takes it inside, YESSSSH!
And with the lighter skin tones, he’ll do better at higher latitudes.
All that photoshopping and you couldn’t do something about those ears?
If I wasn’t at work, I could make…I mean, show you the one he is using to court Irish-Americans for St. Patrick’s Day. The red afro and green leprechaun hat are complementary colors, you know.
My barber tells me afros are on their way back in – someone asked him for one a few months back.
The more things change, the more they stay the same? We should all hope not. The 70’s really sucked.
I like the “Michael Jackson” nose.
I’m a white guy…what’s with the tie? That’s like totally gay! I wear a tie a lot and if I showed up in that tie my homies would take me out back and biatch slap the s*it out of me for being a homosexual!
Is Obama trying to recast himself in the mold of Leonard Nimoy? I can understand the need for more logic and gravitas, but jeez. Decide for yourself….
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Looks like Mathew Broderick.
Oprah has been doing this same thing for over a decade on her TV show.
She’s at least 3 shades whiter on TV than she is in real life. Maybe she tipped Obama off since it’s worked wonders for her.
My thought was Habib Sinjawalla, proprietor of the Maple Street Stop-N-Go.
Now that’s just disturbing. How did he get Howard Cossell’s toupee? Maybe more important, when?
I think he looks like Mister Rogers. All he needs is a zip-up cardigan and to change his shoes unnecessarily.
He’s a Skrull, I tell you…A Skrull
This could only be done by the republicans as a black man he was “untouchable” if you know what I mean. But as a white man, the last legitimate target for bigots, he can be beaten.
So… Obama + Whiteness = Dennis Kusinich?
Also funny how whiteness adds 10-20 years. I’ll have to be more careful picking up black women in bars. They might have kids my age.
Also funny how whiteness adds 10-20 years.
Hey, keepin’ the black man down is hard work!
Isn’t that Bobby Jindal?
HILARIOUS! It’s funny cause it’s true. Obama tries to seem whiter and everyone else tries to make him seem blacker.
Obama wouldn’t be here if he wasn’t half white. We are to racist. The only famous full blood black i know of on TV is Whoopi Goldberg.
Also as a form of racism we ignore his GLARING flaws so we can support a black guy and seem less racist. Alan Keyes is facepalming as we speak.
In the second one, he looks a lot like that Tony Robbins guy who did all of those motivational infomercials. Has anyone ever seen them together? Seems like Robbins used to blather on about change too…