This is easily a magazine cover shot. Good work by Peter Souza, White House photographer (all of these photos are by Souza):


Obama gets a pat

Obama and Netanyahu lunch


O and Joe in the Rose Garden

O and Netanyahu

O, advisors in Roosevelt Room

O speaks to Jacob Zuma, president-elect of South Africa

O and speechwriter Cody Keenan who plays a pirate for Obama's correspondents dinner speech.


Post basketball

O, Sebelius, healthcare types

O listening to advisers


O chats up White House staff