Here is the White House's pre-speech Obama photo and it's pitiful

Take a look at the latest one from the White House Twitter account. He’s totally serious and stuff, you guys!

At 9pm ET, President Obama will address the nation on our strategy to degrade & destroy ISIL: http://t.co/t0GIfrsqcS pic.twitter.com/zDp8j4u6ER

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) September 10, 2014

Pathetic.

Were these the instructions?

"Get me a photo of the POTUS without his jacket and looking in command as he directs an adviser. Now make it b&w" https://t.co/6Hq39Ibzrx

— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) September 11, 2014

Bam. But, you know, the president deplores the “theater of politics.”

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