AP's stenographers do their best to
prop up Obama.
Immersing himself in Brazil's poverty and pride, President Barack Obama on Sunday held up the South American nation as a model of democratic change in a time of uprisings and crackdowns across the Arab world and yet another war front for the United States.
From Rio's glamorous beaches to a notorious slum to an elegant theater, Obama glimpsed the city's cultural extremes and offered the kind of personal engagement that can pay political dividends for years. Less than one day after announcing U.S. military strikes against Libya's government, Obama made time to kick a soccer ball around with kids in a shantytown.
The competing stories of Obama's itinerary - a war front in Africa, an economic commitment to South America - divided his time in incongruous ways. By morning, he spoke with his security team about the international assault against Moammar Gadhafi's defenses; by night, he was to stand atop a mountain and admire Rio's world famous statue of Jesus.
Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes pounded faraway Libya.
It was all summed up by one image: Obama, adeptly juggling a soccer ball, as his aides helped him juggle his agenda.
It perfectly sums up his presidency: Playing games while the adults do the heavy lifting.
AP's stenographers do their best to prop up Obama.
<span>It was all summed up by one image: Obama, adeptly juggling a soccer ball, as his aides helped him juggle his agenda.</span>
ReplyDeleteYou'd think someone in the AP would wonder if there's any connection between that sentence and the current state of things in the United States.
the ap link is as of this moment completely different. are you sure its the right link? and do you think they rewrote it after the fact?
ReplyDeleteIt was apparently rewritten.
ReplyDeleteI caught the AP doing something like that in the past. http://patterico.com/2010/10/25/wapoap-caught-revising-the-o%e2%80%99donnell-story-without-issuing-a-correction-2/
ReplyDeletelinked to the revision part of the story, here: http://patterico.com/2011/03/21/ap-caught-revising-a-story-on-obama-playing-soccer-as-we-go-to-war-without-issuing-a-correction/
ReplyDeleteHot Air: Obamateurism of the Day
ReplyDeletehttp://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/21/obamateurism-of-the-day-474/