“And the people who put him in don’t see anything wrong with that image. They certainly miss the deliberateness of the insult.”
The White House actually gave permission for this particular picture to be released (as with all images). You must ask yourself, “Why this picture? Why this time—hours after the British Parliament voted down Cameron’s proposal for military intervention in Syria?”
I interpreted this image of Obama disrespecting a historic gift from the British people as a middle finger to the British - American alliance in response to the rejection from Britain’s Parliament.
You interpreted it as such, you and every other informed person who has a modicum of common sense and a rudimentary knowledge of the culture we are in conflict with and of which potus was formed