#teamrhetoric  @TPM has a nice piece on the Five Big Takeaways from Obama’s Documentary. I would add this about the visual choices: The framing of Obama as the lone man in the Oval Office, making all the decisions, is the visual touchstone of the narrative. Makes sense when Repubs always want to portray Obama as weak, but it also echoes LBJ’s 1964 “Our President” ad, a much more explicit framing of the president-as-lonely-and-prudent-decider. With heavy reliance on still photographs from Pete Souza, including moments when they drop color to heighten the drama, the film is crammed with shots of Obama worrying, listening, thinking, pondering, all by himself. The loneliest job in America.