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Original – U.S. President Barack Obama during a presidential portrait sitting for an official photograph in the Oval Office on 6 December 2012.
Reason
High quality, high EV - clear view and good composition, highly used, lead image of Barack Obama. A different pic of Obama was featured before, but was delisted.
Articles in which this image appears
Barack Obama, President of the United States and many more
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
Fine for an article such as this one, but not for a Main Page fixture, where they look like free advertising. Sca (talk) 14:55, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
My opposition has nothing to do with what I may think about President Obama. It has to do with the fact that, like all such photos, this is an official portrait taken by someone working for the subject, and therefore may be considered free political advertising.
A candid news-type shot would be a different matter, as Brandmeister notes. Sca (talk) 23:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 15:44, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]