President Obama in The Situation Room

By Pete Souza - White House Flickr Feed, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15098315
The Situation Room
Pete Souza
2011
Official White House photographers document Presidents at play and at work, on the phone with world leaders and presiding over Oval Office meetings. But sometimes the unique access allows them to capture watershed moments that become our collective memory. On May 1, 2011, Pete Souza was inside the Situation Room as U.S. forces raided Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound and killed the terrorist leader. Yet Souza’s picture includes neither the raid nor bin Laden. Instead he captured those watching the secret operation in real time. President Barack Obama made the decision to launch the attack, but like everyone else in the room, he is a mere spectator to its execution. He stares, brow furrowed, at the raid unfolding on monitors. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton covers her mouth, waiting to see its outcome.
In a national address that evening from the White House, Obama announced that bin Laden had been killed. Photographs of the dead body have never been released, leaving Souza’s photo and the tension it captured as the only public image of the moment the war on terror notched its most important victory.

Now why I choose this photo, because I feel this photo shows what real democratic country is. In my impression, the president is always the most important person in the whole country. Wherever he walks, there must be a lot of people (guards) around and he must be the focus in any situation. When sitting at a table, he must sit at the most honorable place. But you see in this photo, Obama, the president at that time, is sitting at the corner and the chair is small and low almost without a back! Other officers are sitting at the desk in normal chair, of course some others are standing at the back. (But they are not president, who cares. )
Nobody seems embarrass for Obama's place, even himself. I can not believe if this kind of situation can happen in any other country...