Discussion for article #222045
Okay. Now, I love my President, and think he’s done/doing a great job under truly ridiculous circumstances. But if I were Michelle, I’d tell his SS detail to snatch any cell phone out of his hand (or anybody else’s hand) if/when a Selfie opportunity pops up.
I think it’s totally great. Obama has embraced social media–this guy does not behave like he’s still in the 20th century. A selfie is documentation, the press always takes photos of leaders but now, in this century, a photo subject can take the picture themselves with a camera phone and post it immediately to the public.
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The conspiracy theorist and Neocons must be pulling their hair out. Coexistence in international relations is as foreign to them as a Selfie.
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Wonder if they’ll start blaming Obama for Flight 370? (“What did he know, and when did he know it?!?”)
I’m sure somebody on the right is ginning up a hissy fit that Obama doesn’t act Presidential and doesn’t have the experience for the office. In 3…2…
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And why was Obama in Malaysia?
To promote the TPP, which has been described as NAFTA on steroids.
Malaysia’s fear is that it will suffer the same fate that Uruguay, Australia and Thailand have in other trade deals: dragged into an expensive, years-long international legal fight over its right to block cigarette companies from advertising.
When Malaysia’s trade negotiators have pushed to carve tobacco out of a section of the deal that would otherwise allow businesses to challenge whether a country’s laws and regulations meet its international trade obligations before an independent panel, the United States has balked and instead called for an approach that Malaysian officials believe would leave their country exposed.
“We are unhappy to say that we have no support from other countries” for exempting tobacco, and its manufacturers from the deal, Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, Malaysia’s trade minister, said this week.
But TPM stops at “look, he did some trade stuff and took a selfie”!
That’s some DEEP “reporting”.
Why is Obama fast tracking the TPP? Anyone even care?
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 25 — Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir said Malaysia should not feel pressured into signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) just because of President Barack Obama’s visit to Malaysia this weekend.
“We should not be compelled to sign (the TPPA) although a leader of a big country is visiting a small country like us. In the end, we will be at the losing end,” he told reporters after launching a book, titled “Saya, SPR dan Pilihan Raya’ written by former Elections Commission Chairman Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar here today.
He was commenting on concerns expressed by certain parties that Obama’s visit to Malaysia may pressure the government into signing the TPPA.
Just another small country being bullied into a destructive trade act. Business as usual in the USA. Now, with smiling selfies!
Selfies usually render poor results as shown in their rather silly photo.
President Obama is on a diplomatic tour of Asia this week and one of his top priorities is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement that includes restrictive copyright enforcement measures that pose a huge threat to users’ rights and a free and open Internet. In particular, he’s seeking to resolve some major policy disagreements with Japan and Malaysia—the two countries that have maintained resistance against some provisions in the TPP involving agriculture and other commodities. Despite some reports of movement on some of the most controversial topics during meetings between Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Abe, it seems that the TPP is still effectively at a standstill.
As negotiations continue to be shrouded in secrecy, the Pacific trade deal faces mass opposition both inside and outside of the U.S., and reports say little progress has been made for many months. State leaders and trade delegates have held dozens of closed-door meetings to discuss possible trade-offs and concessions over various tariffs and regulations, including some of the most controversial copyright enforcement provisions in the Intellectual Property chapter. Based upon the leaked text published by Wikileaks in November, several countries are resisting the extreme U.S. proposals on Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Internet Service Provider (ISP) liability.
This pushback is great news, and it comes thanks in large part to users around the world contacting their lawmakers and asking them to question and oppose TPP’s secretive corporate-driven agenda.
Who needs GWB? The Democrats are more than willing to be just as destructive to the world economy and environment to please their donors. Sickening.
Somebody is doing some serious image control…
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People were always able to take a picture of themselves using a camera with an enhanced self initiating timer. This is just the updated version in what has become a trending fashion these days. I think its much ado about nuthin’ personally. But good for the President for his joyous spontaneity if nothing else.
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Take your crap somewhere else.
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He’s a fine looking mann and anyone should be proud to have my President take a selfie with them.
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Unable to reply coherently? That seems to be an issue among the Obots.
Ad presidential as usual.
I posted earlier here that repubs were sure to get upset about Obama’s “lack of dignity”… on redstate there was a comment about “Charleton Heston is my President”. And… that makes sense in that he had a case of Alzheimer’s
I suppose that you have never ever committed a spelling mistake?
I was referring to the mindless “take your crap elsewhere”, actually.
But thanks for playing.
You are welcome…