Am I missing something?

What's up with the press photos with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton lately? Is the press putting together a collage just in case a love affair sprouts up in the near future? Every other picture is a close-up of one, with the other looming behind them, partially out of focus, scowling like a creepy stalker ex.

I confess I haven't been watching the debates, but surely nothing was said to ellicit what these photos seem to be suggesting. These two might even be working in the same administration in the near future. Or is that just it? Plenty of photos to turn to when the first bogus rumor pops up that the male President and female Vice President are doing it dirty in the oval office? Jeb Bush will be there four years later preaching about returning integrity to the presidency, waving these photos in the air, and around and around we go. Oh God no.

In all seriousness, the press needs to give up trying to glamorize these debates. At the end of the day these two are on the same team, they're not in a relationship, and neither is stalking the other. This is kind of like the photo journalistic version of a sound bite. Cheap tricks, fellas. Photograph what happened and show as much as you can. Leave the interpreting to us.

"Is she back there? Don't look! Just tell me if she's there."