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...posing, I think. Not in front of the Sphinx, but for the Sphinx.



At least, he's not in front of Mt. Rushmore, posing. At least not yet.

(If you haven't already, see Charles Krauthammer's take on "The Speech".)

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UPDATE
Dan Collins wins the impromptu caption contest I hosted at the Pub.

And, thanks! to Dan for showcasing this pshop in his excellent post "Behind the Cult of Obama, and It's Future" on Protein Wisdom...

Now, I’m going to make a prediction. Whether we know it or not, Shakespeare has already mapped out the memetic trajectory of the Obamas in Antony & Cleopatra. Shakespeare’s great project in that play–the most difficult to stage of all of his dramas–was to counterpoint the regime of virile Roman power with the alternative of a co-regency in which what the literary critics would now call “the feminine” and “the masculine” principles are brought to bear equally. The stark utilitarianism of Roman diction and power projection is contrasted with the otiose pleasures of the Egyptian court at Alexandria. And behind that imagery of the marriage of the sun and the moon, Shakespeare has performed an epistemological act of archaeology that Foucault could hardly dream of, dredging up from behind North’s Amyot’s Plutarch the actual challenge posed in Egyptian history to traditional Egyptian religion by Amenhaten and his famous consort, Nefertiti.

You'll have to read that post. Dan pours his heart into that one.

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