COVER STORY: APPROVAL BUMP?

The cover of the November 15, 2010, issue of the magazine is titled “Bumped,” by Barry Blitt. Obama is in the Oval Office with John Boehner, the Republican from Ohio expected to replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. Boehner is offering his fist, while Obama extends his hand for a shake.

In this slide show, you can view other covers by Blitt, including his July 21, 2008, cover, “The Politics of Fear,” which showed Barack and Michelle Obama giving each other what a Fox News anchor called a “terrorist fist jab” but is more commonly referred to as a “pound” or “fist bump.”

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