Pete Souza’s Resistance Thirst ("Obama nostalgia")

Slate ^ | August 3, 2017 | Katy Waldman

[2ndDivisionVet]

Since the election, former White House photographer Pete Souza has been flooding Instagram with postcards from the presidency of Barack Obama. The timing of each upload is deliberate, designed to contrast the former POTUS’s grace and poise with the current one’s flailing malice. Souza’s Instagram, which now has about 1.5 million followers, feels like a magic mirror swimming with images from a brighter past.

After President Donald Trump gave a keynote speech at the Boy Scouts’ jamboree only to gloat about election night 2016, Souza unearthed a photo of Obama shaking the hand of an awed kid in uniform. “I can assure you, POTUS was not telling this Cub Scout and the Boy Scouts who followed about his Electoral College victory,” he wrote.....

[2ndDivisionVet]

That is so sad.

[17th Miss Regt]

“I can assure you, POTUS was not telling this Cub Scout and the Boy Scouts who followed about his Electoral College victory,”

No. He told them about how much fun the bathhouses in Chicago were. Getting' em while they're young, ya know!

[adorno]

Worshiping Obama is like worshiping a good-looking dog crap on the sidewalk. Democrats would probably build a shrine around it.

However, the dog crap did serve a much bigger purpose to humanity than Obama did.

[BenLurkin]

It’s satire.

Isn’t it?

[DoodleBob]

I will wonder when these get posted:

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[DoodleBob]

[GnuThere]

Ah yes, those delightful halcyon days of yore.
It’s all fun and games until somebody gets unmasked - am I right, Susan Rice?

[W.]

Yo’bama, we’re glad you’re gone!

[Boomer]

I’ll never look at dog crap the same way thanks to you.

:D

[xp38]

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