But of course he was:
Gum chewing really isn't a good look. Especially in formal settings. Most people know this. http://t.co/dMjcrAYlTN
— Rick DeVos (@RickDeVos) November 10, 2014
Yeah, well, Obama isn’t most people:
Obama emerged from his car chewing gum; he’s a well-known user of Nicorette, the smoking-cessation gum. But Chinese Internet users, accustomed to the highly formal standards of their stiff party leadership, quickly characterized the leader of the world’s most powerful nation as an impolite “idler,” or careless “rapper.”
“We made this meeting so luxurious, with singing and dancing, but see Obama, stepping out of his car chewing gum like an idler,” wrote Yin Hong, a professor of journalism at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, on the Twitter-like Sina Weibo micro-blog service. Twitter, like Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, is banned in China, whose censors fear such services could aid political protest.
walkin in da club like pic.twitter.com/WvkzRSy2tV
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) November 11, 2014
Does he not have a handler or life coach or some such who can keep him from making these kinds of embarrassing — and immature — faux pas? Conservative blogging queen Lucianne Goldberg has the perfect person in mind:
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Maybe ValJar could put her hand under O's chin when photogs appear and say "Gimme the gum, Barry" like third grade.
— Lucianne Goldberg (@LucianneLinks) November 11, 2014
Brilliant!
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