It's Obama's garish, loud, and tacky display of power to his homies. It's important for him to show that he is "living large." That's the way it's done in the Southside.
He doesn't give a d@mn what America thinks. He is always playing to his own private audience..."his people."
Yet he did not go into one black neighborhood and Maxine has called him out on it. Blacks have to be waking up to his game.