Obama Knocked for Chewing Gum in India's Republic Day Parade: 'Ungainly Sight'

Weekly Standard ^ | 01/26/2015

[SeekAndFind]

President Obama is being knocked by local press for chewing gum today at the Republic Day parade in India.

"In an ungainly sight, cameras caught US President Brack Obama chewing gum during the Republic Day parade on Monday. In the picture captured by cameras and posted on Twitter by some users, Obama was spotted removing his chewing gum while PM Modi was seen trying to explain something to the US president," reports the Times of India.

Here's the picture that appears to be driving the conversation:

The report has more:

[Mercat]

Does your chewing gum lose it’s flavor on the bed post overnight;
And your mother says don’t chew so you swallow it in spite;
And it catches on your tonsils and you heave it left and right;
Does your chewing gum lose it’s flavor on the bed post overnight?

[Catsrus]

I think the whole darned bunch at the WH are ignorant elitists.

[spokeshave]

Doesn’t anyone sit down with Obama and explain these things to him prior to a trip?....or does he just not bother wasting his time with these “silly little details

? “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”...and as for the adviser on protocol, local customs, appropriate behavior....I think that my life in Kenya, Indonesia and visits to Pok-istan are sufficient.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[NY Cajun]

He’s a classless “democrat”. (dindu)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

What? You don’t stick it behind your ear for later chewing or stick it under the table or chair?