Posted on 12/11/2013 4:17:27 AM PST by glorgau
There are many ways to remember President Barack Obama's appearance at South Africa's memorial for Nelson Mandela.
Some may remember Obama as Mandela's spiritual son, our president riding on his own soaring rhetoric at that stadium, wrapping himself in Mandela's mantle, dreaming of the father of the new South Africa.
And others will seize on Obama shaking hands with the executioner of Cuba, our president bowing to Raul Castro just as he once bowed to the lords of the Chicago Democratic Machine before beginning his climb.
But those images — Obama riding on his magic rhetorical carpet, reaching for dreams of Mandela, or his clasping of the right hand of Fidel Castro's demonic brother — are about politics.
But there's another image from the memorial that defines Obama. It has nothing to do with ideology.
A news photographer captured the president sitting with the prime ministers of Great Britain and Denmark. He has a cellphone in his hand. The three of them are grinning.
First lady Michelle Obama sits off to the side, somber, dignified, as the world remembers Mandela. Yet next to her like some goofy adolescent who hasn't yet been taught how to behave properly at a memorial service — her husband — is snapping a memorial to himself.
President Selfie.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Arrogant. And he gets away with it because no one dares cross him.
Mandelapalooza.
With the money we pay the White House groundskeepers, you’d think they could keep the dog crap pick up off of the lawn
It's Obamas inner Caucasian bursting forth. Dude can't help it! (snicker)
Most black women I've encountered can't handle it when a black guy fawns over a white very caucasian woman (double snicker)
When Obama finds out about this selfie, he’s going to be very angry and get to the bottom of it.
...getting tired of beard duties.
both, plus a self-absorbed marxist.He reminds me of Hugo Chevez
By far the most arrogant, in many ways the dumbest also, a puppet.
Looks like they are at a ball game
Won’t see #8 in the media. Lolz.
Bitter resentment is so appealing.
Only after he hears about it in the news first.
This guy had a ghostwriter for autobiography, for heaven's sake. Watch him give a speech without his teleprompter.
There's nothing there, folks. And this is what America has become.
I would love to see the stills photo sequence or video in between these shots where she tells him he will change seats with her and then makes him do it!
What happened to Cameron during this photo sequence? Did someone usher him out of there fast?
LOL.... busted...
Wish we had time stamps on these photos.
“Somber” and “dignified”? I don’t think so. That’s what we low-brow folks call the “stank eye.” She was pissed off. Initially you could say it was due to his selfie nonsense, but the fact that she made him switch seats smells a lot like jealousy of the hot white chick. Nothing “somber” or “dignified” about it.
Looks like NYC mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan (The Rent’s Too Damn High! Party) sitting a row in front of them. Man! That guy’s got some pull.
Yes.
Wow, he’s lost the Trib. Will the Sun-Times be next?
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