Photos: When the cold and detached president met the angry people

[ProSense]

Photos: When the cold and detached president met the angry people by blackwaterdog

Gulfport, Miss.

















Much more at the link above

[lamp_shade]

1. Thanks. I needed this.

[Inuca]

28. Word for word

what I posted in the original thread on Kos :-)

[Empowerer]

50. Was he wearing his fancy pants?

:sarcasm:

[Cha]

2. Good ol' Blackwaterdog..thanks

ProSense!

"So, yes, we’re emerging from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Yes, we’re a nation at war. Yes, we’re now battling the worst economic -- environmental disaster in American history. Any one of these challenges alone would test our country. Confronting them all at once might overwhelm a lesser nation. But look around you. Look at the person standing next to you. You look around and you see the strength and resilience that will carry us through".
(President Obama, Naval Air Technical Training Center Pensacola, Florida, June 15, 2010).

The President giving a dose of reality.

[O is 44]

6. Yeah, she's great! I'm a lurker on that site but I make sure stop

by to check in on her posts. Lovely pics!

[Jennicut]

3. He is a cyborg, showing no emotion!

:sarcasm:

[Whisp]

27. no no, he's grinning too much! why is he laughing at the poor people of the Gulf?

he shouldn't look happy!! omg!

must be because BP was his biggest contributor!! yeh, thats the ticket.

:sarcasm:

[Cant trust em]

4. At the risk of being labeled a hater...

While these photos are nice, I don’t think that they convey the message that they really need to. If I were going to post some photos to show how the President is engaged with the situation, I’d show him listening intently to residents giving their complaints. I’d show him looking asking tough questions to Thad Allen. These photos look like generic campaign photos and don’t really connote the kind of hands on, getting things done image that he’s being criticized for not having. It’s not happy picnic day at the beach. We need to get down to business.

That being said, I think that a lot of this PR and “is he angry enough” stuff is junk. But if that’s what these photos are intended to solve, I don’t think it gets the job done.

[Cha]

10. We've seen those pics you speak of ..these

are a different view..along with these words.

"So, yes, we’re emerging from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Yes, we’re a nation at war. Yes, we’re now battling the worst economic -- environmental disaster in American history. Any one of these challenges alone would test our country. Confronting them all at once might overwhelm a lesser nation. But look around you. Look at the person standing next to you. You look around and you see the strength and resilience that will carry us through".

(President Obama, Naval Air Technical Training Center Pensacola, Florida, June 15, 2010).

And, there's no need to bring in "hater" ..they're obvious and criticism is not hating.

[dflprincess]

19. "Yes, we’re a nation at war"

The U.S. policy of endless war would better be described as status quo not a challenge. The real challenge would be to become a nation that didn't feel the need to destroy its own economy by killing people in other countries.

[Cha]

23. It is a challenge and there's a

reason we are there and it's based in the reality of the crisis.

[dflprincess]

31. There is no good reason

protecting the profits of war profiteers is not a good reason.

And, after 9 years, there is no crisis - it is business as usual.

The challenge is having the courage to get out and redirect the money being wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan to our own infrastructure - something that might help our economy instead of continuing to run it into the ground.

[Cha]

34. I'm listening to the President when he

says there is. Not the continual complaints about Obama for the last 3 years.

[dflprincess]

44. I bet you thought it was a good idea when Bush got us into the mess as well.

I complained about these extravaganzas when Bush was president and I see no reason to stop because there is a Democrat in the White House. We need to get out if, for no other reason, we can't afford it. The cost of these wars will destroy us.

BTW, Johnson & Nixon told us there were good reasons for Vietnam and you know what? They were lying too.

[Cant trust em]

20. The best photo here is the one with the construction guys. nt

[FrenchieCat]

12. The point of your post shows very clearly that....

He's damned no matter what, because the people who want to complaint always will find something
to complaint about.....

That's what Republicans do best....

[Cant trust em]

15. and there we have it...

Maybe hater wasn't used, but the sentiment was there.

[FrenchieCat]

21. Yeah.....you are right....

hater wasn't used, so you are right about some things and that's good.

[Cant trust em]

22. You know, I usually worry that I'm not critical enough of the president.

I was an organizer on the campaign in 2008, so I've drank my fair share of kool aid. Compared to many people on this board, I'm a totally in his tank. But your push back on my minor criticism about these photos really gives me some perspective. As much of an Obamaphile as I am, there are always people out there who will always stick up for everything he does.

[FrenchieCat]

25. Because a poster decided to string a few pictures together

of various activities by this President from his visit, you chose to comment that it won't solve the problem....but of course, I don't believe that anyone thought it would. The point is that the OP chose those photos; it wasn't a press release from the White House....which is why your comments in reference to those photos made little sense to me.

Lord knows I'm not so happy with the administration's response, and believe it could have been handled better, from a PR point of view, considering that I wrote to the White House about 3 weeks ago asking them to have him give a speech from the Oval Office, and commented that is what was needed here at DU at the time...

Read it here....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=312070&mesg_id=312086

and here....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=310307&mesg_id=310320

and check the dates.

Glad they read my email....late, but at least they took heed eventually.

[Cant trust em]

38. My point is that better pictures could have been used to make a better point.

Chosen by the poster or the White House, I don’t think they convey the message that the title of the OP led me to believe that they were going to. I even admitted that this whole controversy is phony.

You responded to my minor criticism by lumping in with republicans and someone who "wants to complain". I worked really hard on the campaign, so I don't need to put up with that.

[Cant trust em]

40. Here are some pictures that I prefer.

Maybe this is just my photography buff side coming out.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=339888&mesg_id=339888

[treestar]

29. If those photos you described

were there, you'd be saying he's not talking to the ordinary people.

[Cant trust em]

36. Please don't lump me in with what other people might have said.

Use someone else as your straw man.

[lamp_shade]

37. Was your post really necessary? I mean really? You could have just

... oh never mind.

[NC_Nurse]

5. Thanks for that. Not exactly what the media is portraying...

[Ernesto]

7. This is so sad!

I just we still had a tough, resolute "cowboy" leader in charge.
:sarcasm:

[politicasista]

8. Wow. They said that?

What a joke. We all know the media lies about Obama. However, when they lie about other Democrats (i.e. Past former presidential candidates) people here buy into their lies like they are gospel. Me don't get that. :shrug:


OTOH, the photos are nice and tell a different story.

[bluestateguy]

9. Something we tend to forget

By and large these people did not, and probably never will, vote for him.

Look at the Obama totals from the Gulf Coast in 2008. The numbers are terrible. So their predisposition will be to think he's doing a lousy job no matter what. At least the people in the pictures seem inclined to give him a chance and hear what he has to say.

[tridim]

11. I remember when The Dick showed up in Gulfport, MS after Katrina

http://politicalhumor.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=politicalhumor&cdn=entertainment&tm=13&gps=301_334_1212_727&f=20&tt=9&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dp3SemYQH-8o

I don't remember the MSM even bothering to address it.

[BrklynLiberal]

14. I remember that. It was CLASSIC.

I must have watched it 20 times back then...

One of the biggest lies he ever told "That's the first time I heard that."

[BrklynLiberal]

13. Wow. Those "angry" and "hostile" mobs really showed up in force.

Those troops really seemed so "turned off" by the President. It was evident in their faces.

NOT!!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. Take that Morning Joe!

[Scurrilous]

17. K & R

:thumbsup:

[City Lights]

18. Those are wonderful photos.

Thanks for bringing a much-needed :D to my face. ;-)

[Uzybone]

24. President Black Ice found a way to freeze the warm hearts of "regular" Americans

you know...those "middle-class" Americans. Look at the dearth of emotion in those pictures. Darth Vader would be proud.

[impik]

26. Oh, wow. These almost made me tear a little bit. And these are not exactly Blue States

[Phx_Dem]

30. Those people obviously don't care about the oil spill. They're smiling.

How dare they.

I don't see a tear or a angry face in the crowd. Damn commies.

:sarcasm:

[Phx_Dem]

32. One of the commentors at the DK link left this very appropriate quote.

"He's being treated like the janitor in chief, mopping up messes made by others, and being chastised for leaving streaks". (Charles Blow)

[AtomicKitten]

33. Ain't that the truth?

:fistbump:

[rury]

35. My warm, caring, competent

president acting true to form!
Thanks, BWD!!

[backwoodsbob]

39. so he did lots of photo ops

ok

[treestar]

46. geez

When he didn't, people were whining about that, too.

[newtothegame]

41. Wow these people really have no idea what's happening to their world do they?

They're worshiping when they should be praying. Life will never be the same down there.

[GeorgeGist]

42. Thanks for the distraction ...

for a moment there, I plumb forgot about BP being in charge of fixing the leak.

[scheming daemons]

43. Where are they hiding the pitchforks? torches? This can't be right...

...

[besdayz]

45. a

the irony is that he looks so much more like a peoples person in character and attire than his predecessor, who made every attempt to be perceived that way.....

[silaness]

47. illusionists

In the old days we called this smoke and mirrors......

[librechik]

48. thx, ProSense--I was aking to be talked down and that helped

I love Obama. I just wanna know what happened to the hope.

[AspenRose]

49. It was all staged.

:sarcasm:

[Aramchek]

51. you won't see these on the MSM. doesn't fit the narrative.