Contrast: Iranian Protestors Shot As Obama Goes for Ice Cream
posted at 6:59 pm on June 20, 2009 by Patterico
Here are some Twitter messages I saw today from Change_for_Iran, a pro-Mousavi Iranian student, and Mark Knoller, CBS News White House Correspondent:
Everybody “laffing”?
(Cross-posted at Patterico.com.)
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From an old Caps Quarters post:
Dave’s favorite ice cream flavor is rasberry solipsism. (nuts and cherrys are optional)
Rovin on June 20, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Sorry… This is not that big in the context of what is coming.
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To quote Obaby… ‘You ain’t seen nothin yet’. The Zero is the absolute king of doing nothing when he should do something, and doing something stupid when he should do nothing.
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Wait til the Norks decide to steal the front page from the Iranians… I look for O-b-s to go out for a walk with the dog, complete with pooper-scooper and little plastic Obama Bag (video at 8).
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RalphyBoy on June 20, 2009 at 7:45 PM
It won’t be long that when Obama, Rahm and company get done with the American economy no one will be going out for ice cream. We might be rioting in the streets looking for food. Pray for the people of Iran taking a stand against evil powerful people (you know, the same kind that are taking over our government and country!)
wepeople on June 20, 2009 at 7:46 PM
I can’t wait for the Obama Ahmadinejad photo op during their negotiating “summit”. I mean the campaign commercials seem to write themselves. tee hee!
elduende on June 20, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Obama is just showing solidarity with the ice-cream licking terrorist Uighers in Bermuda.
profitsbeard on June 20, 2009 at 7:48 PM
I guess Obama wants to get some ice cream before he raises taxes on “unhealthy” foods. I wonder if he mentioned to the ice cream parlor that his policies will probably put them out of business?
hawksruleva on June 20, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Awww, namecalling. The indication of a great, great, great intellect.
mjk on June 20, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Bozo will still have his ice cream. Bozo Antoinette Nero Hussein Obama.
dogsoldier on June 20, 2009 at 7:48 PM
None of you understand! 0 believes the presidency is a job like the senate, you know, work 3 to 3 1/2 days per week and always get the week end off. That is family time, you know.
Oleta on June 20, 2009 at 7:50 PM
I think you’re misunderstanding, somewhat.
None of this rage over ice cream trips is serious. Who cares if he went out with his kids for ice cream?
Here’s the issues:
#1: He’s done nothing about the situation in Iran. It took forever for him to issue the blandest of statements on the situation.
#2: If he can’t piss off our allies, foreign policy seems not to interest him much at all.
#3: If this were Bush, you KNOW the news stories we would be seeing. Don’t lie to yourself now. The next week would be full of headlines about how the forces of freedom in Iran died while Bush licked his sprinkles.
#4: We’re tired of the fawning over Obama’s every last move. CBS reporter following an ice-cream run, and bubbling over it, comes right off of days of hearing about his inhuman reflexes in saving humanity from a fly.
Put all of those together, and you’ve got a little frustration bubbling to the surface. Sorry if you’re not in tune with that, but I certainly feel a little bile rising into my throat.
12thMonkey on June 20, 2009 at 7:51 PM
And in six weeks or so when the dust settles in Iran, Obama will have a solid opinion. Till then, ice-cream (soft serve) seems about right.
RalphyBoy on June 20, 2009 at 7:53 PM
This event was probably planned a while ago as part of the PR run-up to Barry’s big Father’s Day Special airing tomorrow.
The “optics,” as they say inside the Beltway, are bad. Barry and his girls could’ve made homemade sundaes in the White House–away from the cameras–but then he wouldn’t be seen showing off his awesomely awesome dad-ness.
Christien on June 20, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Its not just that, its the complete indifference to the situation.
He is not in command.
He does not appear to be in command.
He doesn’t care if he appears to be lackadaisical and indifferent.
Never demonstrated that he CAN command effectively.
When a person is actually a leader it shows. Actions speak louder than words, always have, always will.
Bozo’s just showing us what he’s made of. I’m not outraged /shrug, just pretty sad that our electorate put this guy in the driver’s seat.
dogsoldier on June 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
I’ll have two scoops of the blood-red raspberry sherbert with apathy sprinkles on top. I made the mistake of watching the Iranian woman lying on the ground with blood flowing from her nose and mouth just before I sat down to dinner tonight. I’ve lost my apetite. What the hell is Obama doing?!!!
WordsMatter on June 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Revolting. I bet Knoller feels like an ass.
BJ* on June 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM
BJ* on June 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Hah – i bet he gets kudos from his fellow empty head colleagues.
dpierson on June 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
He’s living vicariously through Obama. Remember, Harper is a CONSERVATIVE.
NathanG on June 20, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Well said. It’s like the date nite the Obama’s took to NYC while MILLIONS of Americans have lost jobs.
TN Mom on June 20, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Here’s a greatest hits quote for you HA folks.
From the diary of King George III of Great Britain, July 4, 1776.
dogsoldier on June 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM
This guy Mark Knoller is an Obama sycophant. The entire W.H. press corps are clueless tools with the exception of one or two.
All politics with Odrama, no substance, little integrity.
Obama doesn’t give a wit about the fight for liberty taking place in Iran, only how well he is liked by his (dwindling) base.
FireBlogger on June 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Outragehead must be the Canadian version of butthead.
NathanG on June 20, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Other than “makes me wanna puke,” I can’t think of another word to say.
Rational Thought on June 20, 2009 at 8:07 PM
The guy didn’t even bother to photoshop the times of the twitters to at least give the impression that the events happened at the same time.
Dave Rywall on June 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM
I found this video enormously sad, and ended up watching it over and over.
From what I understand, she wasn’t even a protester, at least not an active one, and was apparently simply a bystander.
She looks… surprised, mostly. As if she didn’t quite understand what had happened. You can see her eyes catch the person with the camera just as it comes around to view her. And then the blood comes from her mouth.
Her hands seem to be grasping for the other hands around her. I guess her father was there, and perhaps those were his hands she was reaching for.
I wonder if she knew what had happened.
Curiously, I was also wondering who she was and what she was doing this morning. And what she was planning on doing tomorrow.
12thMonkey on June 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM
I bet BO supporters (drones as Mark Levin likes to call them) are keeping a very low profile now. BO is a shameful embarrassment.
jbh45 on June 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM
So no events happened before those that happened today?
What, time only passes when Barack is being slathered with love by you and his media concubines?
aikidoka on June 20, 2009 at 8:09 PM
It is but mental masturbation to write here. Write the Whitehouse, Congress and media. Dear Leader responds to polling, not Hot Air.
Dingbat63 on June 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Too bad drywall for brains isnt keeping a lower profile.
aikidoka on June 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Thank you, Ma’am. My job included.
Uh because its been SEVEN DAYS COMING. Wow are you clueless or what? Please crawl back under your rock.
dogsoldier on June 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Andrew Sullivan is praising Obama for not being baited by the Mullahs and the neocons (I think that means Jews).
It is shameless that no matter what happens, Obama is just wonderful and can do no wrong. Well it is too little, too late. Sorry Andrew, you are now to Barack Obama what Hugh Hewitt was to Mitt Romney
Mr. Joe on June 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Not the first Emperor to fiddle while a capital city burns.
jgapinoy on June 20, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Give that man Knoller the Triple Scoop of Obama Poop cone with a cherry on top. He earned it.
RandyChandler on June 20, 2009 at 8:12 PM
So?
I see this post is still getting under your skin though…which is a fun thought.
AUINSC on June 20, 2009 at 8:13 PM
OK, it’s NPR, but if you take their word for it, King George 3 never kept a diary:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92108861&ps=bb3
jgapinoy on June 20, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Yeah – the emperor has no clothes – not a pretty sight.
dpierson on June 20, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Is CBS’s special about how Obama is the greatest dad or something still schedule for tomorrow? Does the press actually expect us to fawn over him as all of this more important event is taking place?
Savrielle on June 20, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Did he take his black cow…I mean did he have a black cow? (for those that don’t know, its chocolate ice cream in a glass of rootbeer).
Curious minds want to know….
jbh45 on June 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
John F. Kennedy’s innauguration speech:
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty”
58 years later Barack Obama’s immortal words have replaced those:
“I’ll have a double butter-pecan…and make it SNAPPY, my man!”
Justrand on June 20, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Uhmm m
Well we have Waffle-gate, Dijon-Gate, now Cone-gate.
Did anyone seem to notice that there are 24 hours in a day and that maybe he took a break to take his DAUGHTERS out for ice cream just to spend a weeee bit of time with them (God Forbid). And I’m sure that small time away from work to take his DAUGHTERS out for ice cream was the exact amount of time needed to solve the crisis in Iran.
Did you all not have a hissy fit over how petty, stupid, and hysterical it was that the Left was harping on Bush reading a book to kiddies after learning about 9/11 or playing a guitar while New Orleans was swimming with the fishies?
Magnus on June 20, 2009 at 8:25 PM
No one is complaining about the ice cream. It is the contracts of what is happening in the world and what is reported in the MSM. I don’t expect him to be hunched over the red phone 24/7 but he has been basically AWOL in this crisis.
dpierson on June 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM
“Can’t an overextended flyswatter, N. Korea silence-keeper and Iran-negotiator, not to speak of my stimulus endeavours on the economy I inherited from George Bush, have a cone of custard? Oh, and need I remind you of my speech in Cairo?”
Schadenfreude on June 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM
And to think he most likely had to pull a mini-totus out of his pocket to get the order right.
Rovin on June 20, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Magnus on June 20, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Bush got caught off guard by the 9/11 attacks and, when the facts became known, he reacted.
The Iran situation has been going on for a while now and, as of yesterday, everyone knew that there was potential for something big to happen there today.
If Obama wants to spend a quiet (i.e. no cameras) father’s day with his kids, that’s one thing, but the optics of going for ice cream while the situation in Iran develops is – at the very least – bad optics. He seems to think that the presidency is a 9 to 5 job.
landshark on June 20, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Well, we know it’s bad when they call Shep Smith into Fox News and pre-emp Huckabee. It matters not a twit what Obama is doing about this, how much time he devotes to actually thinking/doing anything about it. We are not going to give any encouragement to the people protesting.
He gave the people of Iran no hope with his speech about Islamic women in the U.S. and how they’re ‘free’ to wear a tent. He gave the men no hope by kowtowing to the various Islamic leaders in a subservient manner. Something not said is sometimes more powerful than what is said.
He just wants the world to get along, and wait for his glorius worldwide rise to power.
24K lady on June 20, 2009 at 8:45 PM
IT’S NOT ABOUT OBAMA TAKING HIS KIDS FOR ICE CREAM FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. IT’S ABOUT THE @#$@#$ MEDIA FAWNING OVER HIS EVERY STINKING MOVE WHILE PEOPLE ARE DYING FOR THEIR FREEDOM. IT’S PATHETIC. IT’S DISGUSTING. IT’S WRETCHED. I WONDER, THO, IF OBAMA REMINDED THE ICE CREAM SHOP VENDORS ABOUT THE SPEECH HE MADE IN CAIRO, BECAUSE THAT’S THE KIND OF MORON HE IS.
sorry for the caps.
scalleywag on June 20, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Bay of Pigs Redux
DSchoen on June 20, 2009 at 8:46 PM
You’re missing the point: all he does is “take breaks”. Wednesdays are for shindigs, Sundays for golf, Saturdays are date nights.
Real pattern here. Let’s not forget this episode when he was in the White House for barely 2 weeks:
He’s a useless, lazy, self-indulgent, narcissistic pos. There, I said it!
IrishEi on June 20, 2009 at 8:46 PM
But, he gets chauffered around in a full size Chevrolet Suburban, with flashing red and blue lights in the grille. And he gets to go wherever he wants to. And it’s just sooooo not Barry Soetoro, little half black kid from somewhere in Kenya.
Who cares what else is going on in the world.
Mr. Grump on June 20, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Man, just when I thought this place couldn’t get any more ridiculous, Patterico brings teh stoopid to a whole new level.
But cheer up buddy, this is makikng you famous all over again!
skylark on June 20, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Wonder if he’ll go out for ice cream when we take to the streets.
red131 on June 20, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Dear Mr. President-
You are an embarrassment to my country, my hemisphere and my species. Put this in your cone and lick it. /crotchgrab
SDSquint on June 20, 2009 at 8:49 PM
He doesn’t care about the rights of women any more than he cares about the rights of gays. He cares about OBama.
I’m so glad he showed the world what he’s made of this week. He’s made of pudding. Butter pecan flavored.
scalleywag on June 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Thank you, Patterico, for putting this so succintly. God bless.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on June 20, 2009 at 8:53 PM
What a contrast–ha ha–thanks
Dollayo on June 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM
No, he’ll do what he did when we had the tea parties…”huh, what protests?”
scalleywag on June 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Could we call this A Tale of Two Tweets?
Kafir on June 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM
I think this is both about the fact that he went for ice-cream while Iran burns *and* the media breathlessly reporting it while Iran burns. BOTH make me sick… Obama’s actions even more so, imo.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on June 20, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Wake up, folks. He doesn’t jump to express condemnation of the Iran oligarchy because he thinks the real enemy is the USA. He’s also too busy creating his own oligarchy here to be bothered.
Daggett on June 20, 2009 at 8:58 PM
That is understandable. However here is the problem. All of you that are critical of him want him to do an say what you want exactly how you want it and when you want it or it is not legitimate and you assume you know exactly what is gong on behind the scenes and that you have ALL the information.
The Left did this EXACT same thing with President Bush. And I couldn’t stand it!
Perhaps Obama was waiting to speak until he got briefed of the situation or was sure what the dynamics where and how it would play out before opening his mouth about something he might not have all info about. This is not a new concept. We have no clue what meetings he has been in or what planning is going on behind the scenes. What don’t know what intelligence he is getting or what is being coordinating and for when.
The State Department stepped in on Twitter to keep their communications going specifically for Iranians to be able to communicate outside of the regime. Obama has made numerous statements in support of the Iranian people. But short of dropping and actual bomb on Iran nothing is going to be good enough.
I can’t wait for tomorrow when he is run over the coals for spending some time with his daughters for father’s day.
There is a complaint that the Left thinks Obama is a super hero, but it seems Conservatives and the Right think he is suppose to be one too but he is letting them down.
Perception is everything but it must be met with rationality. Remember when everyone flipped out over Brown mustard on a burger? I have some in my fridge and I paid 69cents at a run down Spanish grocery for it. Whoa that’s elite and fancy!
This is definitely ODS.
And yes I will take my Troll designation if so be it.
Magnus on June 20, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Good point.
jgapinoy on June 20, 2009 at 8:59 PM
It isn’t about not eating ice cream or taking breaks or spending times with the kids. What a President does publicly sends a message at time like this. Bush was ripped to shreds for supposedly doing nothing during Katrina,,, even though he did everything right!
Obama goes out publicly for ice cream while Iranians are being slaughtered in the streets protesting a corrupt government and a fraudulent election,,, something every American President should be concerned with for any number of reasons. Some people may be hanging on threads of hope that maybe just maybe an American President might do something some way to rescue them!! Isn’t fighting for freedom and liberty a core American value???? Is it really that hard to understand???
Presidents are suppose to have a brain. They are suppose to understand that all they do publicly is watched! Obama could have all the ice cream he wanted delivered to the White House! Going out for ice cream publicly while the streets of Iran are running with blood,,, while a nation may just possibly be on the verge of revolution,, a change in government that could effect the entire middle east,,,and he does out for ice cream????? Does he even realize what he is doing??? Is he that self absorbed, just plain stupid or is he indeed sending the message he wants to send???! That message being,, I don’t care!
JellyToast on June 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Perception is everything. He does not seem to be at all concerned and is more interested in photo ops than buckling down and doing his job. Dealing with crisis is his job, until this crisis is resolved I expect him to be at his post not getting ice cream to enhance his image.
dpierson on June 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Hey! Lets spine the wheel of Excuse!
Whoooshhhhhhh
Tick Tic
I have to much on my plate
Tic
I inherited this
Tic
I wasn’t born
Tic
Fox News
Tic
Rush Limba.
Tic
I still need a crises czar
Tic
Hey, like my profile shot?
Tic
Sean
Tic???
?????
DSchoen on June 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
There are pictures of bloodshed on the television and the President of the United States responds with frozen custard and Pup Pops. He is a craven coward and morally bankrupt.
highhopes on June 20, 2009 at 9:09 PM
When you’ve never had a real job, you don’t have a work ethic. Life is just one photo op after another. Talk about a poser.
red131 on June 20, 2009 at 9:09 PM
I say again: write the Whitehouse. Dear Leader reads polls, not Hot Air.
Dingbat63 on June 20, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Everyone who has gotten mad over this story is a fucking idiot.
Nonfactor on June 20, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Dear leader reads the Daily Kos.
dpierson on June 20, 2009 at 9:12 PM
It’s yours.
Obama aplogists seem as clueless as the filthy liar in the White House. This isn’t about f**king ice cream or taking his spoiled brats out for a snack (wonder how much that cost the taxpayers). This is about serious people for serious times acting like adults.
Obama, the coward, has failed in his duties.
highhopes on June 20, 2009 at 9:12 PM
GW obviously didn’t care about the message he was sending when Katrina was drowning and he was jamming on a guitar.
Remember how this looked?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-corn/hurricane-katrina-and-bus_b_6618.html
And this was in his own country and own people!
So let’s stop with the faux outrage
Magnus on June 20, 2009 at 9:12 PM
For some reason I am confident the big O is aware of HA.
JellyToast on June 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
I don’t think you are a troll, you make a good point. Obama needs to have time with his kids and take breaks from the world, but what gets me is that he apparently has no political sense of how this appears. I thought he was supposed to be brilliant. He can have ice cream with his kids somewhere in the White House, anywhere in the White House, but to go to a public place while this is going on in Iran is simply not smart. Especially when you look at way he has handled the whole affair, or not handled the whole affair.
kam582 on June 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Talk about timing. If Bush had done this the left would be having an eye ball popping catterwalling hissy fit. But Obama??? Well it is not as if the same rules that apply to right wingers apply to The One.
makes me sick. What a moron.
Terrye on June 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Why is it faux – because you don’t agree with it?
dpierson on June 20, 2009 at 9:14 PM
I think you missed some points here. Obama is more than welcome to take his children out for ice cream. He’s a good father for doing so. The MEDIA, however, should not be tagging along with their tongues flopping on the sidewalk thinking they have just gotten the best “scoop” in their career (pardon my pun) when there is a major catastrophe going on. THAT’s disgusting. It makes a mockery of a serious situation. They’ll never figure that out. How do you think that makes the Iranians feel, though, that the media is more interested in what flavor of ice cream the US president and his daughters are having than how a brutal regime is beating its own people with batons and shooting them on the streets? And had it not been for Obama’s silence and flippant attitude about this dire situation…had he come out and said what he said today IN THE FIRST PLACE, no one would have much reason to criticize him today. In short, he blew it.
scalleywag on June 20, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Magnus”
Oh please. If this guy wanted to have ice cream with his kids, he could have done that in the White House, sans photo op.
Terrye on June 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM
You [sir, madam, or gender non specific] are not a troll.
You are an apologist, an enabler who defends your guy because he is your guy, not for any other reason or principle.
If Obama wanted ice cream, the White House kitchen has it.
What Obama wanted was to be seen on TV. and perhaps wanted to run away and hide from the chaos in the White House.
Skandia Recluse on June 20, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Doubtful
NoFanofLibs on June 20, 2009 at 9:17 PM
A Crisis Czar!! See,,,?? That’s why he hasn’t been too involved yet. He hasn’t appointed a Crisis Czar!!
I posted awhile back he needs to just appoint himself as Leader Czar so he’d no longer have to pretend to be accountable to anyone else but himself.
JellyToast on June 20, 2009 at 9:17 PM
I think the problem is that O thinks he can spend most of the day managing his image via the media, but part of his job is dealing with the unexpected. At that moment its time to put the image building crap on hold and deal with the issue at hand. I generally get the feeling that these “crisis” are irritating to him since they distract from the message he wants to put out there.
dpierson on June 20, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Tell it to the dead and dying in the streets of Iran.
JellyToast on June 20, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Magnus:
How that looked? How did it look when the buses Mayor Nagin ignored went under water? I can remember Bush going on TV two days before Katrina hit and telling the people of the Gulf Coast to leave the area. What was the Governor of Louisiana doing?
Bush took hell for not finding some place to land in LA a day after the hurricane and just doing a flyover…but he knew what was going on and he made sure the Coast Guard was out there doing their job. Too bad the Democrats who run the state did not do the same.
Terrye on June 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM
I personally am sick and tired of the media portraying us Americans as a bunch of blithering idiots who would rather hear about what kind of dessert our dear leader is having than what’s going on in the world around us. It’s insulting. No wonder we have a rotten reputation abroad.
scalleywag on June 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
faux outrage indeed.
Terrye on June 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
So essentially he is giving the oppressive regime in Iran a pass as a professional courtesy? I’d say there is some truth in that considering the fact that the filthy liar in the White House has acted like a third-world dictator from the beginning.
highhopes on June 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Magnus,
I doubt the reaction of people like me would be quite as disgusted if the man’s performance as POTUS were different to date.
I see this photo op (right or wrong) for ice cream the same as the burger photo ops, just more face time for Bama to be on TV. I don’t see him wanting to hide off with his kids and focus on them to the exclusion of the outside world.
Had his words been any more supportive to the protesters, I might excuse this latest photo op.
As it is, the man is running true to form. The emptiest vessel makes the most noise, and he wins the kewpie doll for the last week.
The Iranian protesters will get the right message from this little escapade…Bama cares nothing for what they are doing, and the mullahs will know they can do what they want with little to risk from this naif.
Methinks Bama would prefer to have the level of control over citizens in this country as the mullahs and Hugo Chavez do over theirs. Certainly he could be firing IG’s with less blowback.
Eff this imposter. I suppose he is trying to do better than his father did for his kids, than his father did for him, but he is doing crap all for millions of kids in this country with his policies.
Harry Schell on June 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Dave Drywall…
Are you a Newfie? Just asking,it could explain a lot
katy the mean old lady on June 20, 2009 at 9:24 PM
God how I wish this nation would have elected a man of courage and conviction instead of a man that should just be convicted.
Chuck from Tacoma on June 20, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Hey, didn’t Obama also do that when Russia invaded Georgia last year. As I recall, he was in Hawaii and went out for shaved ice and bodysurfing. This is the brilliant temperament that everybody raved about.
JohnInCA on June 20, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Let’s see…Bush was visiting a military installation (official Govt business)…Already had the wheels in motion to aid Katrina victims…most of the Katrina disaster was brought on be the Dem Govenor and corrupt Mayor Nagin who didn’t do crap for his city except blame Bush…while his own cops were looting stores…somebody hands him a guitar while getting ready to entertain military service members and photog snaps a picture.
This is the example you use to compare with a staged Obama photo-op with his daughters? BTW, there’s certainly no ice cream in the WH is there? Had to go to Arlington VA for ice cream or it just wouldn’t do at all would it.
Sorry, your ‘faux outrage’ example is lame.
AUINSC on June 20, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Nothing wrong with Obama getting ice cream with his kids under the circumstances. Would have been nothing wrong if it had been GW or Clinton or GHW Bush, etc. Pretending there is just makes us look just as petty and stupid as the Kos kids.
The problem here is 1) that our media spent even 1/10 of a second “reporting” on this through any media and 2) the disparity of how such things are reported about Obama v how they were reported about the prior presidents.
There are plenty of reasons to be outraged about Obama’s presidency, however this isn’t one of them. Any outrage about this is well earned deserved by the fawning and CBS and Knoller for both bias and vapidity and should be appropriately directed to them.
deepdiver on June 20, 2009 at 9:27 PM
See, here’s the thing; It’s a leadership function – we should see him working during a crisis. Meeting with his national security staff, or with military, or with experts on the region.
In other words, doing the job; being the President.
Not watching the skateboarding, or going for ice cream.
The message sent by this is that this is not important enough to upset his schedule.
Bad message = bad leadership.
massrighty on June 20, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Hahahahaha…more ‘faux outrage’ from AllahP:
Obama issues ultimatum to Khamenei: “Try the rum raisin. Seriously, it’s amazing.”
7 minutes ago from twhirl
AUINSC on June 20, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Katy – I doubt it – Newfies, (and their descendents) are better than that.
massrighty on June 20, 2009 at 9:31 PM
deepdiver:
I disagree. This man is the president. He knew damn well when he went out for ice cream that it would be a public affair. This was not an outing, it was a staged event..It seems like every freaking day this guy has got to be on TV doing something.
Terrye on June 20, 2009 at 9:31 PM
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really deeply ashamed of my country. How could we elect such a poseur for freedom?
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We’re freakin’ America for crying out loud! If we will not stand up for liberty…
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well I just don’t want to think about it.
the_moll on June 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM
And the something he is doing is usually stoking his own ego. annoying.
Terrye on June 20, 2009 at 9:33 PM
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