Pect Diplomacy
Anyone think Obama doesn’t want the world to know he’s been doing pushups? Some crunches, too, by the look of it. Washington Post reports on the Secret Service’s failure to prevent this breach of national security.
Reporters, photographers and television camera operators traveling with the Obamas have been banned by the Secret Service from approaching the oceanfront estate in nearby Kailua where the family is vacationing. But an enterprising paparazzi photographer wearing a Hawaiian shirt apparently strolled along the beach, saw the Obamas, took out his long-lens camera and started shooting.
The photographer was less than 200 feet from the Obamas, said Frank Griffin, co-owner of Bauer-Griffin, the California-based paparazzi agency that snapped the shots. But the Secret Service agents guarding the property did not ask the photographer to leave the beach.
“There was tacit approval that he was able to shoot what he could shoot. It’s a public beach,” Griffin said in a telephone interview Monday with The Washington Post. He declined to identify the photographer, but said he is a contractor who lives in Hawaii and whose family has a house not far from the Obama’s vacation property.
“The guy just walked along there. He had a camera in his hand. He wasn’t hiding behind the bushes. He took some pictures. Everybody saw him. And then he walked off,” Griffin said. “It was as simple as that.”
Griffin added that the Secret Service “didn’t seem to mind.”
“He wasn’t hiding behind the trees, he wasn’t on a boat and he wasn’t doing anything that we are used to doing,” Griffin said.
I think Obama’s trying to out Putin Putin, maybe signalling to the world that, along with the Gates and Hillary appointments and the Rick Warren thing, he’s getting all buff, muscleheaded, Neanderthal, testosterone-charged. (No HIllary testosterone jokes, please). Watch out. Here’s one 90-pound weakling who doesn’t intend to get sand kicked in his face. At least, I hope that’s what he’s doing. Terminator shades are a nice touch.
Here’s Putin with his … rod.
Memo to Putin and Obama: here’s a paunchy old guy to show you it has more to do with what’s in your spine:
Topics: Neanderthals, Obama
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:52 am Comments (2) on Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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December 23rd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Sorry. Not exactly BodMan quality, Putin or Obama.
December 24th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Yes…and he’s the first president who will be a Metrosexual Girly Man who shaves his chest.
http://feedyouradhd.blogspot.com/2008/12/guys-turning-girly-at-alarming-pace.html