Absurdity: Media Re-Brand Obama as Kennedy-Like With Photo
That’s it. There is no intention to pretend at being J.F.K.
Perhaps it is the Brit’s unseemly penchant to slobber over royals, but a recent photo of President Obama has elicited that ever-so-common, shop-worn, knee-jerk royalesque response in the media over there. (Yes, it’s a words-with-dashes sort of day)
The photo of the president at his Oval Office desk while daughter Sasha playfully spies on him from behind a couch has caused the Brit media to raise comparisons to the famous photo of J.F.K at his desk as little John, John plays under it.
At least three British news sources and one Australian outlet absurdly claimed that the Obama photo “invoked” the comparison to J.F.K. to which one can only say, stuff and nonsense. (The Telegraph, SkyNews, The Mail, and the Australian.)
There is no “invoking,” no provoking, no revoking, prevoking or postvoking. There’s no voking at all, but one does wonder what the Brits are toking.
The simple fact of the matter is that Obama has young kids. Young kids play. White House photographers then catch those kiddies playing. That’s it. There is no intention to pretend at being J.F.K. The “invoking” is just in the Brit’s mushy little heads.
This president is no great leader, not even one on the level of a J.F.K. — no great leader himself. But no matter how bad Obama is, this photo is just a photo of a president and his kids in the White House.
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