Posted on 05/15/2010 12:16:37 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Barack Obama's brief visit to New York City this week will be remembered for bumbles that would make Chevy Chase proud.
The 44th president of the United States made a stop in the Big Apple on his way back to the White House from an earlier visit to Buffalo. He was speaker at a high-priced Democratic fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel.
As is customary, a press contingent awaited Air Force One at JFK airport. There the glitches began.
Normally, members of the press apply for access two days in advance.
For some unexplained reason, the White House Media Affairs Office never confirmed credentials, leaving many reporters to call Washington to ascertain the status of their requests.
The last-minute snafu had an impact.
As Air Force One touched down at JFK, the president of the United States was greeted by only three members of the press, two freelance photographers and WorldNetDaily.
A less than impressed commander-in-chief decided to ignore the assembled media and a new mother with a small baby waiting to be "kissed." Obama stared at the group, hooked a hard right turn and then sprinted solo into Marine One.
The baby, too, was unimpressed. He was given a bottle of milk.
Then en route to Manhattan, members of the Obama advance team were questioned about whether Obama would meet Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Both were concerned about federal aid cuts recently announced by the Department of Homeland Security.
Obama team members shrugged their shoulders proclaiming they "knew nothing" about any Bloomberg-Kelly meeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
A less than impressed commander-in-chief decided to ignore the assembled media and a new mother with a small baby waiting to be "kissed." Obama stared at the group, hooked a hard right turn and then sprinted solo into Marine One.
You know this must have REALLY p!ssed The One off.
The "Leader of the Free World" greeted at JFK by only 3 people and a baby! Gotta leave a mark on his delicate ego.
Big Babble Meets Big Apple
Or Rotten Apple goes to the Big Apple!
I am chuckling over that one. Can you
imagine .. the Messiah ?? No throngs
worshipping ?? ROFL!
This is also cracking me up ..
“On the outbound trip, there was even less drama. By the time Obama returned to Air Force One, only a freelance photographer for the AP remained on the high-rise platform.
“I’m not even here to photograph Obama. I just needed to be here in case he fell and broke his leg,” he confessed.”
Karma .. it’s something.
The president finally getting the press he deserves.
Poor Obama— “punished” with a baby.
MAybe he should have done another flyby first.
NICE!!
"Above all else, the Devil cannot stand to be mocked."Like father, like son! Eh, Barky?
I never have understood this photo-with-the-politician business. Everybody knows you’re not the guy’s friend, so why shell out all that money for it?
Nothing says the “U” word (u s * r p * r) like an adoring crowd of “subjects” that mysteriously fails to appear.
Clever-thats a hit from his past
So, his “no-drama” team has been in office over a year now, and they still can’t properly co-ordinate a press/photo-op event?
Wow.
Then again, maybe our emperor was merely vexed that they hadn’t arranged a significant number of marble columns behind him.
Sometimes he is terribly vexed, you know...
Awww..... did Potemkin village have the day off?
Hillarious. Thanks.
Not surprising, this marxist punk and his cabal haven’t had a clue since they came to power.
Not glitches, but intentional.
I’m sure that if you held a $25,000 a plate fundraiser, he’d be in Nashville in an instant.
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