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 ...
ROFL. Oh no, you made me snort!
NBC is reporting that he also shook hands with Robert Mugabe.
I suppose so that Maddow & Co. over on their cable net can celebrate.
For cripes sake, even Mandela would have nothing to do with Mugabe.
Yes and yes.
Yes.
Wow, he’s lost the Trib. Will the Sun-Times be next?A long time ago, John Kass wrote a flowery column on Barack. I believe it was his coverage of the inauguration. But not all that long afterward, he penned an apology, and has been strongly against Obama's ways since.
Obama didn’t even know he took a selfie until he saw it on the news with “you all”.
Thank you Mr. President for representing your country in such a fine and dignified manner.
For better or worse, that picture's going down in history because it's tells an underlying truth about who those people really are... each and every one of 'em.
He wishes. I have a sick feeling it means just the opposite. I could almost feel sorry for him.
It may get to the heart of the man, but “Dignified” does not get to the heart of the woman.
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