PHOTO: President Obama meets with Captain Phillips

[Thrill]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse

[Cha]

1. Good ending to a

scarey story with the pic to prove it.

Thanks, Thrill.

[Vinca]

2. Okay, so as a person who loves antiques, I'm always ogling

up close shots of the White House furnishings. That said, I wonder what is on the little stand underneath the table. A phone and something else?

[lunatica]

5. Would it be a recording device? Seems somewhat clunky

Or an intercom system? Maybe it's the famous red telephone, or the nuclear football in the room...

[Sanity Claws]

3. Good to know he's meeting real people

and not just the fat cats, as GWB did.

BTW, look at the shelves under the end table between Obama and the Captain. A telephone is on the bottom shelf and a recording device appears to be above it. What do you think?

[lunatica]

4. Everything in this photo makes me proud to be an American right now

All three people are heroic in their own way regarding the rescue and in the Oval Office. I feel very proud of them all.

[HerbieHeadhunter]

6. Oh Noes! Obama isn't wearing a tie!

nm

[ellenfl]

7. call me old fashioned, but i would have dressed up

for a trip to the wh and especially for a meeting with the prez, even dubya . . . but that's just me (being catty :evilgrin: ).

ellen fl

[greenbird]

8. Thank you!

I was thinking the same thing.

[Saturday]

9. I think since both are tieless it was prearranged to be casual.

ETA - Remember the other day when the shovel ready workers stood behind Obama in jeans holding their hard hats? I think this attire stuff is prearranged.

[Arctic Dave]

10. Hell I know guys that think getting dressed up is wearing their least stained blue jeans.

[ellenfl]

12. yeah, but i think most women would dress for the occasion. eom

[annarbor]

14. I'm with you on that one....

I think that the Captain and his wife are dressed up, and I think that it's a beautiful photo-op of the three of them.

Whereas I would have been in a suit, I have met many down-to-earth folks that looked pretty spiffy dressed just as these folks are.

Ann Arbor

[Phx_Dem]

11. I thought the same thing. No disrespected intended.

But I still get irked when I see people wearing sweat pants on an airplane. Air travelers should certainly dress for comfort, but sweatpants? Ewww.

[ellenfl]

13. i'm with ya there. eom

[Alameda]

18. Maybe that is dressed up to her. Everyone does not have

"dress up" garments

[NV Whino]

19. I'm pretty sure that visitors to the White House

are clued in as to the appropriate dress for the occasion.

[Nordic65]

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Amazing new photos every day of one very special man...

[Kaleva]

16. Captain Crunch dissed

[Wednesdays]

17. K&R

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