Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/President Barack Obama.jpg

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President Barack Obama.jpg

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Original – Barack Obama in the Oval Office on 6 December 2012
Reason
Quite suprised that this hasn't already been nominated... A very high quality portrait of an obviously notable subject. High EV.
Articles in which this image appears
Barack Obama, Presidency of Barack Obama, President of the United States plus nearly 50 others
FP category for this image
People/Political
Creator
Pete Souza
  • Support as nominator --VoBEDD 18:27, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Well it looks like the previous FP for him (
    Economic policy of Barack Obama and Surface and Air Transportation Programs Extension Act of 2011. Official portraits like this are quite hard to successfully nominate, and all the previous failed nominations and discussions on pictures of him will probably testify to that. — raekyt 18:34, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply
    ]

I have long hoped that the 2006 FP would be replaced by a superior, similarly candid Wikipedian's photo of him. That one hasn't come along shows how much less accessible he is than in the pre-presidency years. In turn, that demonstrates the ways in which that old FP is actually still (despite its admitted shortcomings) pretty valuable. Not every prominent photo of the president in the encyclopedia should be a White House release.

Chick Bowen 01:17, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply
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Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:33, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]