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Posted on 04/08/2015 7:10:15 PM PDT by Mozilla
We’ve all been there: You’re invited to a function, you think you’re just going to be a passive observer and then suddenly you thrust into the spotlight.
One guy apparently had that uncomfortable experience with the commander in chief.
President Barack Obama stopped by Hill Air Force Base in Utah last week to talk about the economy.
His speech was closed to the public, but the presidential team sent some invites to the media and industry leaders.
That’s where things went wrong.
Image via imgur/TheBlaze
The above picture, posted to Reddit on Tuesday, apparently shows an unprepared, mid-level employee trying his best to blend into an intimate roundtable meeting with the president.
The man’s company sent him, a leader in the firm’s design department, instead of the company CEO because they thought he’d just be sitting in the audience, wrote the Reddit user who posted the picture.
The Reddit user explained:
The Obama administration sent an invitation to his speech in Utah at Hill Air Force Base. We thought they wanted a representative from our company in the audience. Turns out they wanted the representative for a special round table with the president. Due to this mix up we sent my friend (a leader in our CAD dept) instead of the CEO.
The Reddit user went on to explain that the company sent the design department guy because he’s an Air Force veteran and they thought it appropriate since Obama would be talking about employing veterans.
The company didn’t realize Obama was actually hoping to get input from industry leaders.
“I know the person responsible for the mix up is in some serious trouble,” the user wrote. “But I’m sure the CEO is kicking himself over missing this chance to meet the president.”
The Air Force Materiel Command media people salvaged the situation as best they could: They cropped the polo-wearing guy out of the picture.
Image via Air Force Materiel Command
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This clown of an administration is a joke.
0bama seeks input? Cash maybe....
Not sure why the comment about the guy wishing he’d worn more than a polo.....have we seen the pics of odumbo with his feet propped up on the desk in the Oval Office with his jacket off and sleeves rolled up?
“Can You Spot the Guy Who Wasn’t Supposed to Be There?”
Obama. He serves no actual purpose.
Sorry, but Michelle there looks a little out of place herself.
One of these things just doesn't belong.
(and it ain't the guy in the polo shirt.)
Standard protocol for contractors is to wear a tie when meeting with the customer (DoD). Showing up in a polo for the meeting — no matter who might join in — was a bad idea.
Hey, give the guy a break. He was told he was going to meet Obama, so he dressed for the golf course.
Who are the chicklets on either side of Bammy? Where are the Latinos/peeps of color in the pic?
I wouldn’t care if I were sitting in my skivvies if I had to sit in a room with that rat ba$t—d.
Yeah, he has big ears and no birth certificate..
My initial thoughttoo. What AFB, especially an AF material base, doesn’t have a golf course?
You’d think they would have a rack of empty suits standing by.
So it is the clothes that make the man. And, therefore, the man in the polo shirt would have “fit in” if he’d worn a suit. If suits made the man our country would be much better off than it is. Judging a man by the clothes he wears is about as shallow as you can get.
It reminds me of that famous emergency meeting some years ago when Obama came in late and sat in the corner wearing his golf clothes.
What kind of idiots do they have working at the White House that they can’t communicate better than this? Why wouldn’t somebody personally explain the purpose of the invitation and the details of the meeting? Also, don’t they have to run security clearances on everybody who is going to meet with the president? When I was a journalist I had to submit to a background check just to be in the media pool for a vice presidential visit and there were hundreds of people in attendance. Surely they vet the people who are going to be in a small room with the “leader of the free world.”
True. Obama doesn’t belong their. He is unqualified.
Robert Byrd, over on the left, seems out of place.
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