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What is becoming more clear now -- having dropped out of the race to protect the country in wartime -- is how much Mitt's campaign was like amateur hour.

How else do you explain this shot of Mitt and Ann last month in the Michigan state capitol rotunda under a portrait of Mitt's father, the late Governor.

Even if you are feeling awe, you don't stand there --across from the photographers, in the middle of your presidential campaign --looking wide-eyed with your mouth hanging open, especially when your Dad -- larger-than-life, and venerated above you -- is looking like he still owns the place.

Miscalculations Dogged Romney From the Start (NYT)
image from Romney Drops Out Of Presidential Race (WAPO slideshow)

Romney: A Shadow Of The Real Deal (BNN)

(image: LM Otero/AP.  Michigan. Jan. 11, 2008. washingtonpost.com)

Comments

[MonsieurGonzo]

a remarkable photograph. As we are so often critical of staged images, self = camera awareness of the observer's point of view by subjects acting as ‘performers’, it seems disingenuous of us to then disparage these people for their seeming naiveté apparent.

imho, even if the viewer does not recognize the Romneys, no meaning is lost in this message: it's timeless; universally understood as/by any daughter or son of "The Grand Father" figure : the scions of Royal stock.

oh! The blessings and curse of it/Him. The burden of my peerage: expectations; to be as he, instead of me, my own self ~ whom I am likely to never know. . . full of woe, is this awe.

with apology Cactus : “What I see in the photo is a son struggling to tell his father something, and that father is giving his complete attention to himself, without regard for anyone or any thing other than his own agenda, ie., becoming The Grand, instead of being My Father.”