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No kidding. This photo, from the White House Flickr stream (seen at Lefty Photoslant) didn't need much 'fixing'.

Even "The Bag" found this worrisome...

The visual allusion drawn by the White House, the President stumping the country for most of the week, is that Obama is having a glowing effect from the bully pulpit -- emphasis on "pulpit."

The shot currently leading off the WH slide show could easily be accused of playing the "Obamessiah" card. Black and white, young and old, these residents of St. Charles, Missouri are not only backlit by an almost heavenly light radiating toward the stage and adorning several of them with halos, but the good folk (except for the prayerful-looking woman, front left) gaze up in reverence, as if lined up in church pews, giving formal thanks, no less, to and for the President as he fights to bestow health (care reform) on them.

At least, I think he's found this over the top.

Unless that's him in the front row holding the sign...

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