President Barack Obama is featured on the cover and in pages of the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine, which is all well and good …

… but, the mag used a photo (that was shot by Annie Leibovitz) that has already been published on a previous issue of VF that went to press back in 2007 — clearly they do not believe in Change:

Barack Obama is on the cover of the new Vanity Fair as part of the magazine’s photo portfolio of his team and supporters taken by Annie Leibovitz. (Not to be confused with The New York Times Magazine’s photo portfolio by Nadav Kander from earlier this month.) If President Obama’s sideways position and stern expression look a little familiar, they should: It’s the same photo that ran on the cover in July 2007 as part of a 20-part celebrity-filled spread devoted to Africa, albeit with some small differences. A call to the magazine’s spokesperson confirmed that the two covers use the same photo and that the credit inside the new issue acknowledges that Ms. Leibovitz took the portrait of then-Senator Obama in 2007. We’re just excited to play “Check… and Double Check,” which we hadn’t done since our subscription to Highlights ran out in the fourth grade.

LOL! Clearly the new president didn’t have the time to sit for a photoshoot with Leibovitz since taking office … must be all that runnin’ the country that he’s real bizzy with these days. While I think it might’ve been more prudent to wait for a time when the president could pose for a new photo, I guess VF didn’t want to wait. In any regard, it’s a nice photo … I liked it the first time I saw it. At least we now know that Vanity Fair magazine is into recycling.

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