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'Selfie' diplomacy: Michelle Obama looks unamused by Barack's joking with Danish prime minister
Telegraph ^ | 12-10-13 | Raf Sanchez

Posted on 12/10/2013 11:10:26 AM PST by SJackson

First lady appears to fail to see the funny side as her husband takes a 'selfie' with Helle Thorning-Schmidt and David Cameron

For a memorial service it was a remarkably jovial scene: Barack Obama, David Cameron and Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Danish prime minister, huddled together for a smart phone photograph.

But one person looked distinctly less amused by the world leaders' "selfie" - Michelle Obama.

The First Lady stared straight ahead, hands clasped in her lap, while her husband laughed with the Europeans at Nelson Mandela's memorial in Johannesburg.

Another photograph shows shows her looking on, unsmiling, as Mr Obama shared a joke with Ms Thorning-Schmidt and patted her on the shoulder.


(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mandelamemorial; morons; obamaselfie; searchmuch
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To: ozzymandus

He is married to the 200 lb. hag.


41 posted on 12/10/2013 12:04:43 PM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: JoeProBono

Seriously?


42 posted on 12/10/2013 12:06:58 PM PST by Chickensoup (we didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: SJackson

“I never thought I’d be nostalgic for the quiet, somber dignity of the Wellstone memorial”. —Iowahawk


43 posted on 12/10/2013 12:07:37 PM PST by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: Venturer

God, Barack is gonna have a black eye by the time he gets back to DC. Mooch is gonna make him pay.


44 posted on 12/10/2013 12:09:39 PM PST by sunmars
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To: SJackson
You shouldn't be messin with Sasquatch.
45 posted on 12/10/2013 12:12:20 PM PST by One_American
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To: JoeProBono

46 posted on 12/10/2013 12:12:55 PM PST by SMARTY ("Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect. " Spengler)
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To: SJackson

I can’t remember another time where I looked at a photo and though Mrs Obama was the classy one. How embarrassing to have the leader of the free world acting like a teenager at a state funeral


47 posted on 12/10/2013 12:13:48 PM PST by old and tired
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To: SJackson

President Selfie is at it again. This wasn’t about flirting...it was about feeding his narcissism.


48 posted on 12/10/2013 12:14:05 PM PST by CASchack
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To: technically right

49 posted on 12/10/2013 12:14:20 PM PST by SJackson (the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
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To: SJackson
“Highly inappropriate funeral/memorial service behavior.”

I will be honest, if I am at a funeral of someone who has been debilitated and bedridden by various illnesses, and has been at death's bed for quite a period of time -- I am not going to be mourning. 95 years was beyond the fourscore years allotted to the strong in the Bible - so Mr. Mandela had a good run of years.

If I was at Mandela's funeral, though, I would be mourning - but simply because I thought the individual was probably destined for hell (based on what we know. Hopefully he had a private conversion before he passed on).
If I thought the person was probably destined for Heaven -- I'd be happy. I wouldn't be snappy 'selfies', but I certainly would not be sad.

So, as much as I'm glad to take a crow-bar to Mr. Obama wherever possible, this is not one of those cases -- except for the self-photo part - that was pretty tacky.

50 posted on 12/10/2013 12:14:57 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: SJackson

“Selfie” has got to be the stupidest word the millennials ever came up with!

Followed closely by “millennials”!!

SB “Moronicals”, IMHO.


51 posted on 12/10/2013 12:16:10 PM PST by djf (Global warming is a bunch of hot air!!)
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To: SJackson

Oh boy..she doesn’t trust him...


52 posted on 12/10/2013 12:17:53 PM PST by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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To: SJackson

Blondes-Black man’s Kryptonite!


53 posted on 12/10/2013 12:21:54 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: SJackson
And as an aside:

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54 posted on 12/10/2013 12:22:13 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Lou Budvis
You can be the POTUS, but when you’re sitting next to a hot blonde with nice legs - all men are the same.

Um, no. Not all men are the same. Not all men are interested in women.

55 posted on 12/10/2013 12:22:19 PM PST by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: SJackson

The OJ aquittal explained in one photo.

56 posted on 12/10/2013 12:26:01 PM PST by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
I bet they don't fly home together.

Have they left yet?

57 posted on 12/10/2013 12:28:17 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Venturer

Wonder if Moochelle wears a dirty bleached-blonde wig at night.


58 posted on 12/10/2013 12:29:20 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: SJackson

Even Michelle knows that its inappropriate to act like this at a memorial service, even if it is for a Commie dictator..besides, Michelle knows that Obama isn’t interested in women, only dudes so she doesn’t need to worry about him pulling a Clinton


59 posted on 12/10/2013 12:29:33 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Baynative
Something happened.

PM from Denmark looking in Mooch's direction.

Obama looking pissed with arms crossed.

There has to be video of the switching seats.

Mooch didn't switch seats to talk the PM.

60 posted on 12/10/2013 12:30:25 PM PST by TexasCajun
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