Perspective is Everything

    In response to Clint Eastwood's mocking monologue at the Republican National Convention Thursday night (noted by The Rhetorician and Legal Insurrection) where he addressed an empty chair as if President Obama were sitting there, the President's campaign tweeted a photo with the words "This seat's taken."

This seat's taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012

However, the White House's Flickr stream shows a wider angle shot of the same meeting:




President Obama may very well have been wishing his seat was empty.