Obama Takes Selfie With Malaysian Prime Minister (PHOTO)

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President Obama on Sunday took a selfie with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Obama and Razak met on Sunday to discuss trade and human rights. Following the talks, the leaders gave a joint press conference, during which Obama defended’s the way Malaysia has managed the search for the missing jet.

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. The conspiracy theorist and Neocons must be pulling their hair out. Coexistence in international relations is as foreign to them as a Selfie.

  4. Wonder if they’ll start blaming Obama for Flight 370? (“What did he know, and when did he know it?!?”)

  5. 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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