President Obama on Sunday took a selfie with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
My selfie with President Obama ! pic.twitter.com/mr94wZtmuA
— Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) April 27, 2014
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.
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.
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.
The conspiracy theorist and Neocons must be pulling their hair out. Coexistence in international relations is as foreign to them as a Selfie.
Wonder if they’ll start blaming Obama for Flight 370? (“What did he know, and when did he know it?!?”)
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…