Obama is an avid photographer and Nikon D3 user!!

On 10/1/09 03:58 , Chris H wrote:
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On 2009-10-01 00:28:44 -0700, Chris said:

In , D. Peter Maus
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On 9/30/09 12:19 , Chris H wrote:
In , D. Peter Maus
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On 9/30/09 09:10 , Savageduck wrote:
On 2009-09-30 06:45:27 -0700, "D. Peter Maus"
said:

On 9/30/09 05:35 , Larry Thong wrote:
I never thought he had it in him, but Obama is enjoying one of his
favorite hobbies, photography. And with his recently purchased D3 that
he acquired from a local Maryland Photo shop he is now assured of
getting
some really nice images in his spare time. It's all clear now. Obama is
definitely the second coming, his love of Nikon and the
almighty perfect
D3 reinforces this!
LOL! The disturbing matter is that he's got 'spare time.'
Didn't Nikon pick up the Olympic sponsorship/endorsement?
...well for Beijing at least.
You know, that's a really good point.
And why am I not surprised.
Why are you "not surprised"?
Just curious as there is no love lost between the Japanese and Chinese.

No, but he's campaigning heavily to get the Olympics into Chicago.
It would be politic to support a major sponsorship, to the Chicago
mentality.
Are you saying he bough Nikon because they were the last sponsors of
the
Olympics? Therefore he assumes they have some pull for the next one?
Just out of curiosity are Nikon normally the Official Camera of the
Olympics or does Canon also get a go?

Canon was the featured track side and event banner bearer, for at least
16 years, until Beijing when Nikon got the trackside endorsement and
"Official" camera label. So I guess it was a case of Nikon usurping
Canon and getting a "go".


So we can see Mrs Obama buying a Canon "just in case" ? :-)

I am not at all sure that the US president buying a particular make of
camera will have any effect what-so ever.


It would be silly if it did. But you need to know where he comes
from. The Chicago mentality goes to this kind of nonsense first...a
political motive for everything. The visible totality of the
commitment is everything.

Whether or not it has any real impact, only the IOC can say, and
I don't believe they will.

But when you're looking for any edge, the mindset, "it couldn't
hurt" becomes a commandment.

On 2009-10-01 01:58:10 -0700, Chris H said:

In message 2009100100523021153-savageduck@REMOVESPAMmecom, Savageduck
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On 2009-10-01 00:28:44 -0700, Chris H said:

In message , D. Peter Maus
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On 9/30/09 12:19 , Chris H wrote:
In , D. Peter Maus
writes
On 9/30/09 09:10 , Savageduck wrote:
On 2009-09-30 06:45:27 -0700, "D. Peter Maus"
said:

On 9/30/09 05:35 , Larry Thong wrote:
I never thought he had it in him, but Obama is enjoying one of his
favorite hobbies, photography. And with his recently purchased D3 that
he acquired from a local Maryland Photo shop he is now assured of
getting
some really nice images in his spare time. It's all clear now. Obama is
definitely the second coming, his love of Nikon and the
almighty perfect
D3 reinforces this!
LOL! The disturbing matter is that he's got 'spare time.'
Didn't Nikon pick up the Olympic sponsorship/endorsement?
...well for Beijing at least.
You know, that's a really good point.
And why am I not surprised.
Why are you "not surprised"?
Just curious as there is no love lost between the Japanese and Chinese.

No, but he's campaigning heavily to get the Olympics into Chicago.
It would be politic to support a major sponsorship, to the Chicago
mentality.
Are you saying he bough Nikon because they were the last sponsors of
the
Olympics? Therefore he assumes they have some pull for the next one?
Just out of curiosity are Nikon normally the Official Camera of the
Olympics or does Canon also get a go?

Canon was the featured track side and event banner bearer, for at least
16 years, until Beijing when Nikon got the trackside endorsement and
"Official" camera label. So I guess it was a case of Nikon usurping
Canon and getting a "go".


So we can see Mrs Obama buying a Canon "just in case" ? :-)

I am not at all sure that the US president buying a particular make of
camera will have any effect what-so ever.

Just think of how things might be interpreted as a lack of awareness,
if he had a Leica hanging from the strap around his neck.



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"D. Peter Maus" wrote in message
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On 9/30/09 05:35 , Larry Thong wrote:
I never thought he had it in him, but Obama is enjoying one of his
favorite hobbies, photography. And with his recently purchased D3 that
he acquired from a local Maryland Photo shop he is now assured of getting
some really nice images in his spare time. It's all clear now. Obama is
definitely the second coming, his love of Nikon and the almighty perfect
D3 reinforces this!


LOL! The disturbing matter is that he's got 'spare time.'




How many "Vacations" did GWB take while in office ;-)
having said that I suspect the neither man was ever far from the Job if the
situation called for it.
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Christ." Gandhi

On 2009-10-01 01:58:10 -0700, Chris H said:

In message 2009100100523021153-savageduck@REMOVESPAMmecom, Savageduck
writes
On 2009-10-01 00:28:44 -0700, Chris H said:

In message , D. Peter Maus
writes
On 9/30/09 12:19 , Chris H wrote:
In , D. Peter Maus
writes
On 9/30/09 09:10 , Savageduck wrote:
On 2009-09-30 06:45:27 -0700, "D. Peter Maus"
said:

On 9/30/09 05:35 , Larry Thong wrote:
I never thought he had it in him, but Obama is enjoying one of his
favorite hobbies, photography. And with his recently purchased D3 that
he acquired from a local Maryland Photo shop he is now assured of
getting
some really nice images in his spare time. It's all clear now. Obama is
definitely the second coming, his love of Nikon and the
almighty perfect
D3 reinforces this!
LOL! The disturbing matter is that he's got 'spare time.'
Didn't Nikon pick up the Olympic sponsorship/endorsement?
...well for Beijing at least.
You know, that's a really good point.
And why am I not surprised.
Why are you "not surprised"?
Just curious as there is no love lost between the Japanese and Chinese.

No, but he's campaigning heavily to get the Olympics into Chicago.
It would be politic to support a major sponsorship, to the Chicago
mentality.
Are you saying he bough Nikon because they were the last sponsors of
the
Olympics? Therefore he assumes they have some pull for the next one?
Just out of curiosity are Nikon normally the Official Camera of the
Olympics or does Canon also get a go?

Canon was the featured track side and event banner bearer, for at least
16 years, until Beijing when Nikon got the trackside endorsement and
"Official" camera label. So I guess it was a case of Nikon usurping
Canon and getting a "go".


So we can see Mrs Obama buying a Canon "just in case" ? :-)

I am not at all sure that the US president buying a particular make of
camera will have any effect what-so ever.

That would be the same as one of them wearing an "Official" Olympic
Omega timepiece, and the other hedging the bet by wearing a Rolex, and
having a Seiko in the wings as an understudy.


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Regards,

Savageduck

On 9/30/09 23:15 , Neil Harrington wrote:
"D. Peter wrote in message
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On 9/30/09 14:03 , Neil Harrington wrote:
"Larry wrote in message
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I never thought he had it in him,

I'm sure you were right in the first place.

but Obama is enjoying one of his
favorite hobbies, photography.

Get out!

And with his recently purchased D3 that

GET OUT!

he acquired from a local Maryland Photo shop he is now assured of
getting
some really nice images in his spare time. It's all clear now. Obama
is
definitely the second coming,

He certainly agrees with you there, but he doesn't need a camera. As long
as
there's a mirror around he can admire himself all day, while he practices
looking presidential.

his love of Nikon and the almighty perfect
D3 reinforces this!

I don't believe this. I can't find anything on Google that supports what
you're saying. And the thought of any corrupt Chicago machine
politician's
sleazy fingers even touching a holy Nikon is absolutely revolting.




Relax, Neil. Capone went to Mass at Holy Name. And he took Communion
every Sunday. Except for a few bullet holes in the stonework, Holy Name
was not soiled.

Yes, but Capone was merely a syphilitic gangster who occasionally murdered
people -- arguably a nicer all-around guy by an order of magnitude than a
Chicago machine politician. (You *knew* Capone was a crook and he never
seriously pretended otherwise.)



Well, can't argue with you there....




Nikon's case surface is textured so the sleaze rubs off. And even HE
can't make that glass see what's not there.

If The One can't make a Nikon fudge the truth, he will abandon the camera
faster than a campaign promise. And that's saying something.



I believe that's the quantum unit of time, isn't it?

"D. Peter Maus" wrote in message
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On 9/30/09 23:15 , Neil Harrington wrote:
"D. Peter wrote in message
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Nikon's case surface is textured so the sleaze rubs off. And even HE
can't make that glass see what's not there.

If The One can't make a Nikon fudge the truth, he will abandon the camera
faster than a campaign promise. And that's saying something.



I believe that's the quantum unit of time, isn't it?

LOL! I think that's right, yes.

"D. Peter Maus" wrote in message
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I'm saying that the Chicago mentality is to do nothing that doesn't
advance one's political motives. And that the displaying of the totality
of his commitment to supporting the Games in Chicago would be in visibly
buying a camera from the most visible sponsor of the Games. The
competition between Chicago and Rio is so close that it's now down to such
idiotic emotional trivia.


About that Chicago business, there's a lot more than meets the eye. Or at
least a lot more than the Obama-loyal mainstream media has exposed to the
public eye.

Read Michelle Malkin's column from yesterday:

____________________________


All the president's Olympic cronies
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

When government officials play the Olympic lottery, taxpayers lose. That has
been the disastrous experience of host cities around the world (Forbes
magazine even dubbed the post-Olympic financial burden the "Host City
Curse"). So, why are President Obama and his White House entourage headed
to Copenhagen, Denmark this week to push a fiscally doomed Chicago 2016 bid?
Political payback.

Bringing the games to the Windy City is Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's
"vision." The entrenched Democratic power-broker - in office since 1989 -
would like to cap off his graft-tainted career with a glorious, $4 billion
bread and circuses production. The influential Daley machine backed Barack
Obama for the presidential primary. Obama lavished praise on Daley's
stewardship of the city. Longtime Daley cronies helped pave Obama's path to
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Now, they're returning the favor for their
hometown boss.

Senior White House adviser and Obama consigliere Valerie Jarrett is a Daley
loyalist who worked as his deputy chief of staff, deputy corporation
counsel, and planning commissioner. She hired the future First Lady of the
United States, then-Michelle Robinson, as a mayoral assistant. Jarrett went
on to serve as president and CEO of The Habitat Company, a real estate firm
with a massive stake in federally-funded Chicago public housing projects.

One of those public-private partnerships, the Grove Parc Plaza Apartments,
was run into the ground under Jarrett's watch. Federal inspectors graded the
condition of the complex a bottom-of-the-barrel 11 on a 100-point scale.
"They are rapidly displacing poor people, and these companies are profiting
from this displacement," Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle of Southside Together
Organizing for Power, a community group that seeks to help tenants stay in
the same neighborhoods, told the Boston Globe last year. "The same exact
people who ran these places into the ground," the private companies paid to
build and manage the city's affordable housing, "now are profiting by
redeveloping them."

Coincidentally enough, Grove Parc - now targeted for demolition as a result
of years of neglect by Obama's developer friends-sits in the shadows of the
proposed site of the city's 2016 Olympics Stadium.

Jarrett served as vice chair of Chicago's 2016 Summer Olympics bid
committee before moving to the White House, where she has helmed a new
"White House Office on Olympic, Paralympic and Youth Sport" with an
undisclosed budget and staff. It's not just taxpayers in cash-strapped
Chicago who should be worried about this field of schemes. Crain's Chicago
Business reports that Jarrett and Chicago 2016 committee member Lori Healey
met this month with federal officials at the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development "to discuss financing options" for the estimated $1
billion Olympic Village.

The door is open and the administration is "willing to meet and listen" to
any federal subsidy proposals, Jarrett said. Hey, what happened to Obama's
tough rules on interest-conflicted lobbying by his administration officials?

A majority of Chicagoans who live in pay-for-play-plagued Cook County oppose
public funding for the Olympic party. The city has more than a
half-billion-dollar deficit - and just received word that its Olympic
insurance policy will cover only about $1.1 billion of the $3.8-billion
operating budget drawn up by Daley. Cost overruns, fraud, and union-inflated
contracts are inevitable. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs defended
President Obama's all-out campaign for Chicago's 2016 Olympics bid by
claiming America will see a "tangible economic benefit."

But as is always the case with sports corporate welfare disguised as
"economic development," an elite few will benefit far more than others.

Take senior White House adviser and Obama campaign guru David Axelrod. He's
been a Daley loyalist since 1989, when he signed up as a political
consultant for the mayor's first run. Axelrod's public relations firm,
Chicago-based AKPD Message and Media, has pitched in work for the Chicago
2016 committee. It is unknown how much AKPD has received for its services -
or how much they'll make in future income if the bid is successful. AKPD
currently owes Axelrod $2 million.

The head of the Chicago 2016 bid committee is Patrick Ryan, chairman of the
Aon Corporation and a co-chair of Obama's deep-pocketed presidential
inaugural committee. (Under Ryan's watch at Aon, the company settled a
massive corruption probe with 3 states for $190 million. More here on
Ryan/Aon/Daley dealings More on corruptocrat Chicago Republicans like Ryan
and others here.)

Also on both of those committees: Obama confidante Penny Pritzker, who in
addition chairs the Olympic Village Subcommittee and is president of
Pritzker Realty Group - a mega-developer in Illinois that could reap untold
millions in project work if the Daley Machine/White House campaign succeeds.

Former Pritzker executive and Obama campaign treasurer Martin Nesbitt is
also on the bid committee - and serves as Mayor Daley's chairman of the
Chicago Housing Authority.

Another bid committee member, Michael Scott Jr., is "trying to develop a
for-profit real estate project that would sit within feet of the cycling
venue if Chicago wins the 2016 Summer Games," according to the Chicago
Tribune.

It takes a crony-filled White House to raise a Chicago Olympic village.
Daley and Obama will get the glory. America will get stuck with the bill.

In message , Neil
Harrington writes
It takes a crony-filled White House to raise a Chicago Olympic village.
Daley and Obama will get the glory. America will get stuck with the bill.

Can't argue with that!

Blair did the same for the UK :-(
Most of the UK was hoping Paris would get it. :-)

I have no idea why governments fight for the Olympics.
I wish it would go away.

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"Chris H" wrote in message
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In message , Neil
Harrington writes
It takes a crony-filled White House to raise a Chicago Olympic village.
Daley and Obama will get the glory. America will get stuck with the bill.

Can't argue with that!

Blair did the same for the UK :-(
Most of the UK was hoping Paris would get it. :-)

I have no idea why governments fight for the Olympics.
I wish it would go away.

I feel the same way exactly.

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:33:26 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:

"Chris H" wrote in message
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In message , Neil
Harrington writes
It takes a crony-filled White House to raise a Chicago Olympic village.
Daley and Obama will get the glory. America will get stuck with the
bill.

Can't argue with that!

Blair did the same for the UK :-(
Most of the UK was hoping Paris would get it. :-)

I have no idea why governments fight for the Olympics. I wish it would
go away.

I feel the same way exactly.

Most thinking people do.



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Neil
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