{"id":38829,"date":"2013-12-13T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38829"},"modified":"2013-12-13T06:04:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T11:04:38","slug":"yeah-thats-truly-presidential-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38829","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, That&#8217;s Really &#8220;Presidential&#8221; Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a picture of the POTUS sharing a lighter moment with some other international leaders.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a57.foxnews.com\/global.fncstatic.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Politics\/876\/493\/Obama_selfie.jpg?resize=500%2C281\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just one tiny little problem.\u00a0 The above happened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/12\/11\/obama-creates-international-incident-with-selfie-at-mandela-service\/\">at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Way to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">very<\/span> publicly reinforce the negative stereotype of the \u201cugly American\u201d, Mr. President.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.\u00a0 You think the POTUS would know better than to act like a young teen playing with a Game Boy <em>while attending a freaking state funeral as the senior representative of the United States of America.\u00a0 <\/em>Even LBJ \u2013 as crude and vulgar a man as we\u2019ve ever had serve as POTUS &#8211; had better sense and taste than that.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, at least the First Lady apparently acted like an adult with a bit of dignity.\u00a0 Kudos to her.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second major public photographic gaffe for the POTUS in the past three days.\u00a0 Three days ago, we had this:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media2.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Slideshows\/_production\/gss-131210-mandela-tuesday\/131210-obama-castro-hmed-650a.photoblog600.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The man with whom the POTUS is shaking hands?\u00a0 That would be <i><a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/12\/10\/21846669-obama-shakes-hands-with-cubas-castro-at-mandela-service\">Raul Castro<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that<\/span> Raul Castro.\u00a0 As in &#8220;Fidel\u2019s brother&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That also happened in South Africa at an event connected to Mandela\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Wonderful.\u00a0 Just freaking wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a picture of the POTUS sharing a lighter moment with some other international leaders. There\u2019s just one tiny little problem.\u00a0 The above happened at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela. Way to very publicly reinforce the negative stereotype of the \u201cugly American\u201d, Mr. President. Sheesh.\u00a0 You think the POTUS would know better than to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9,26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-a6h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}