This picture is priceless:
I found this picture on the American Thinker Blog, and they say it all better than I could:
I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing.
Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?
In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful, I have always found that the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those who are less powerful. Do they understand that the others are also human beings with feelings? Especially when they think nobody is looking.
Enjoy. This whole Gates-gate thing is just eating away at his approval ratings. Oh, and in RE: the title: Michelle Malkin’s response to Obama’s complaint about the name “Beer Summit” was priceless:
Okay, “Opportunistic photo op for reasons of gratuitous blame-deflection with beer backdrop” it is.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:33 am
This is almost as good as the picture of Bruni-Sarkozy with Ms O that was posted. The former model looked sooooo good and Ms O looked like a Tim Burton creation.