Growl

Politicians have as much right to a good chuckle as everyone else, but I still find something deeply irksome in this picture of President Obama clowning around with sleazeball Silvio Berlusconi and Putin-pawn Dmitri Medvedev.

Maybe it's the wholy clubby vibe of the thing or maybe it's the fact that Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi is looking on with amusement in the upper right corner. It would seem that a dash of gravity would be required on Obama's part when he's standing four feet from one of Africa's Grade-A human rights abusing dictators. Perhaps I'm just feeling grumpy.

Comments

[Steve B]

No, you're right. Although it's the thumbs up with Berlusconi that riles me more than the grinning Meles.

[lauren]

Or standing behind two of the world's Grade-A+ human rights abusing autocrats, China's Hu Jintao and Saudi King Abdullah. But I want to smack the smirk off the orange-skinned Berlusconi more, too! What's that about?