Hey guys so I was on Yahoo today when i came across another selfie....This time it was Obama in the photo though. Oh and the photo was taken at Nelson Mandelas memorial service. Many people are angry at Obama because they think it is wrong to take a photo at a funeral but too many people forget that Obama is just another human being like the rest of us. I think if any one of us were to be at that funeral service and happened to be in selfie distance from Obama we would take that photo as well.
If anyone wants to read a little more on this you could go here:
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-mandela-memorial-172822763.html
I believe that the selfie was an action unbecoming of the president of the United States, but thats not saying that Obama isn't human too and can't have some slip ups. However Obama wasn't just taking a selfie with a fan, but rather British Prime Minister David Cameron and Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. The three of them should have known that people would be watching and shouldn't have taken the selfie. But thats just my take on it.
ReplyDeleteTo touch on another very interesting point of the article which I believe is the more important of the two is that president Obama on his way up to the podium to give his speech shook hands with Raul Castro. Raul Castro is the president of Cuba who the U.S. has no official diplomatic relations and also is holding U.S. citizens in prison. The GOP reaction to the exchange was extreme, Senator John McCain said "Why should you shake hands with somebody who's keeping Americans in prison?" McCain told Public Radio International, adding: "Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler."
I don't like that Obama was shaking hands with Cuba's president who is holding U.S. citizens in prison and who we have had no formal diplomatic relations with since 1959. Maybe it goes to show that they have met before or I don't know, but it makes me a little uncomfortable. However I would not go to the extreme of comparing it to shaking hands with Adolf Hitler.
I understand that it is strange to shake hands with a man that is holding americans in prison but i don't think it was a big deal. I feel like Obama did it out of courtesy. Obama was at a memorial and it was the polite thing to do. Its like saying hi to someone you don't really know or you don't really like at a event. Its just the polite thing to do
DeleteI agree with hector on the matter of the hand shake. It was the polite thing do to in this case with all the cameras and news reporters their. However i believe that many of the news channel and reporters are blowing it out of context and making it seem like a big deal. Also ponder this question, if Obama would have ignored president Castro how badly would he be criticized? or would he not be criticized?
ReplyDeletePersonally I believe that the media should be focused on something else other than the selfie that was taken. We are forgetting that a revolutionary just died, but instead our focus being there our focus in on a picture. Regardless of who it was taken by, that shouldn't be the focus of our nations media.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the "selfie" was a happy moment in a otherwise sad situation, I believe that it was unbecoming of the Prime Minister to take such a photo because it diminishes what everyone was there for, to remember a foreign dignitary. And I agree with Max, the media should definitely focus on something more important than a darn picture.
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