Count me among the latter.
Yea, verily, at last I subscribe in good faith to one of the many conspiracy theories in which royal court enthusiasts have been awash lo these five years.
Nay, Obama be not a man of Kenyan born, and neither in cabineteering packs he a 'Marxist Reader,' nor with double toil and trouble doth Obama bewitch the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But that POTUS would claim his Camp Davidian retreats are devoted to popping clay pigeons? In high dudgeon I bewhiff a trace of skulduggery in this.
Produce the spent cartridges, I say. And the camouflage clothing, too, for evidentiary vestiges of presidential white powder. And above all, call Darrell Issa.
I don't know why he feels the need to kow-tow to every right wing crazy demand. They didn't believe he was a U.S. citizen, he produces his birth certificate. End result: They don't believe him. This is the b/c all over again on maybe a smaller scale, but still there. I wish just once he would tell every 'bagger, gun freak, and right wing wackaloon to all just go take a long walk off a short pier so the adults can get back to work addressing this country's most urgent problems. And demanding that the president produce a photo of himself with a gun is certainly not one of them. It's petty and it serves no real purpose other than to try and satisfy the demands of unsatisfiable people, which always fails. It only makes them angrier.
Posted by: AnneJ | February 03, 2013 at 09:28 AM
Seriously? You don't think they had a big hot laugh out of producing that photo? Showing a Black guy shooting a gun? I'm sure they're laughing their asses off in the WH over the reaction to this. The President does not take himself seriously about stuff like this. I think he upped his manly image yet another notch. Plus he looked wicked hot in that picture.
Posted by: Tien Le | February 03, 2013 at 11:05 AM
"Wicked hot," what a great line.
Posted by: Anne | February 03, 2013 at 12:03 PM
Besided, it wasn't just rightwing nutjobs "demanding" a photo. CNN and other marvalous media outlets did, too. 24/hr news media has produced this result. When you've to fill a lot of time with very little budget, you hype the frivolouos to score a few more eyeballs.
Posted by: JayJay | February 03, 2013 at 01:44 PM
Sorry re typos. Smartphones!
Posted by: JayJay | February 03, 2013 at 01:46 PM
Do you need camouflage so as not to spook a clay pigeon when skeet shooting or is this merely an American custom.
Posted by: Peter G | February 03, 2013 at 02:48 PM
You should check out Plouffe's and Pfeiffer's tweets of the photo. They aren't kowtowing to the crazies, they're trolling them and having fun doing so. Sort of like how they had fun trolling Donald Trump with the birth certificate.
Posted by: mdblanche | February 03, 2013 at 02:48 PM
Cue Hulk Hogan's "I Am a Real American" video.
Posted by: MinneapolisPipe | February 04, 2013 at 12:16 AM