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