May 5, 2009

What does it say about political operatives’ and marketers’ regard for image over substance when a White House official is so keen on getting a photo op (and so insensitive to the feelings of New York residents) that he green-lights a flyover of Lower Manhattan by Air Force One merely for the camera’s sake? Didn’t we learn enough from George Bush’s "Mission Accomplished" debacle?

And why on earth is the Obama administration, which says it values transparency, now declaring those photographs “classified,” refusing to release them?