photo agenda why do all of the photos of obama posing with one other politician exclusively include republicans this seems to be a political decision to portray obama as bipartisan by showing him only with republicans things like this however subtle undermine the integrity of the article because they suggest a deliberate effort to portray the president in a certain light that they find advantageous to him politically the point is that it doesn't make sense to show obama with only republican senators and not a single democratic senator johnhistory