Making the background the foreground: political mistake?
Watching the President's speech in Ohio, and I still, still, am wondering which genius said "politicians will look better, people will be able to relate to them more, if we have people standing/sitting behind them, looking at the camera, when they make speeches." I really, really don't like that image. And of course, odds are one of them is going to pick his nose, let his attention wander, get distracted, or otherwise become the focus of the shot, and all it does it further detract from the person making the speech.