OMG do we really need that many pics of 3 men at a table?

I was watching a speech by Barack Obama about that corrupt Governor in Illinois trying to sell his senate seat.  He barely mentioned it and went on to talk about global warming and such with Al Gore and VP Elect Joe Biden. What I got a kick out of was that it sounded as if someone was typing on a typewriter everything he was saying when, in fact, it was just a bunch of photos being taken non-stop.  Now, I’m not that in to political photography but I can’t imagine we would need that many pictures of Obama, Gore and Biden sitting at a table??  I know, random.  The things I get a chuckle out of these days…