Discussion for article #231945
Imagine if a Republican President admitted to an oversight like this.
Oh hell, I crack myself up.
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Yeah, we should have sent someone there to walk for one block and pose for a picture:
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Well, honestly, what’s the point of having a vice president if not to send him halfway around the world to walk a block and pose for a picture with other leaders and quasi-leaders who’ve done he same?
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We sent Netanyahu. He’s not a high profile American official?
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I agree, although I honestly wish the White House hadn’t called this a mistake. Ed Henry was absolutely rabid at the press briefing and Andrea Mitchell baited (multiple times) four different French officials to get them to say they were disappointed in the President (They did not say that, btw, but said that they felt very supported by the US and weren’t upset with the lack of high-level representation at this event). Under normal political circumstances, it is wise to admit a mistake. In the world of today’s US politics, it just fans the flames of craziness.
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With our luck, a picture of Biden having a somewhat intimate conversation with Chancellor Merkel would be published and TPM would release an op-ed accusing him of being lecherous.
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Version 1,345,687 of reichwing manufactured faux outrage channeled into the corporate media.
Truly: WHAT THE FUCK.
If Obama had gone, they’d be ripping him for spending all that taxpayer money on a photo-op.
Also, Andrea Mitchell looks like a fucking bird.
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Ron Fournier (blech) actually wrote something which I agree with:
“America doesn’t need to march its president in the streets of Paris to prove its resolve.”
http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/obama-s-mistake-is-no-disgrace-20150112
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What did they accomplish posing for this picture?
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I would be curious to know how many world leaders flocked to the US after 9/11 to show their solidarity.
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Thanks for providing these links which give us multiple perspectives on the situation.
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Demonstrating that they’re against something that everybody already knew they were against?
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They got Faux News and the flying monkeys all riled up and ready to impeach Obama (again). How quickly “freedom fries” lost their taste with the Teahadists.
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Brilliant.
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Or the Boston Marathon bombing. But then again, we don’t dramatize ourselves quite as well as the French.
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Msg to Obama Admin: Grow some “couilles” and stop kneejerk apologizing!
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As long as he doesn’t try to give her a neck rub, I think Joe will be ok.
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I agree, should’ve sent a higher level official, but the media nontroversy advisory chart is already at “Stupid” and seems capable of reaching “Benghazi”.
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I thought they had that under control. Never apologize to the msm or republicans.
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