IDIOT.
No No you have it all wrong Barack Hussein is a genius. According to the media it was George W. Bush who was an idiot. I miss George W. every time I hear Obozo speak it’s like a small child talking to grandparents all generalities no substance.
He might have done more damage to the pro-democracy movement in Burma by just visiting and then he does that??
The junta must be laughing about this!
When I first saw the photo on Drudge, I thought it was really weird. After all, Obama actually lived in Indonesia. Even if his childhood experience didn’t acquaint him local custom and etiquette, the State Department country experts certainly would try to. It’s not that hard to learn about such things: every tourist guide to SE Asia advises against PDA.
Then it occurred to me. Obama knew exactly what he was doing.
Aung San Suu Kyi is a champion of liberty who opposed tyrants. Obama’s PDA was a public demonstration to put her in her place. There’s nothing more pesky to a tyrant than a genuine champion of liberty.
This is Obama’s M.O., by breaching “tradition” or “protocol” thus setting a new tone. All these social faux pas are done on purpose, symbolizing either weakness (By his bows) of the US or setting a personal tone of authoritarian by this so called “forbidden kiss”.
I wish we had Republicans who have Obama’s bravado, but sadly most of them are a slang for a female body part.
These ‘gaffes’ happen every time the O fambly goes overseas.
I know that there is a White House Chief of Protocol and IIRC the State Dept has at least one person serving the same function at every embassy, providing the TOTUS and party with the host country’s rituals and mores such as not to offend even inadvertently.
His most egregious buffoonery occured in the UK.
Are Samuel Jackson and Roseanne Barr giving him protocol pointers?
Oh, and BTW, in the ‘kiss photo’. It looks like O is trying to suck her brains out. Just look at the grimace on his ugly mug. That boy ain’t right.