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bigtree

(85,998 posts)
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 10:08 AM Jan 2015

This is what many are clamoring POTUS should have attended?

April?@ReignOfApril 23m23 minutes ago
This is what many are clamoring POTUS should have attended. A staged photo op of JUST leaders & security. No citizens



April @ReignOfApril · 13m 13 minutes ago
"POTUS SHOULD HAVE STOOD W/ THE FRENCH!! On a blocked off road, w/ other leaders only, away from the #ParisMarch."


arginusae @arginusaefr · 10m 10 minutes ago
@ReignOfApril It really wasn't a debate, here in France. TBH, a lot of us would have preferred it if other heads of state had stayed away.

arginusae @arginusaefr · 9m 9 minutes ago
@ReignOfApril We were only able to march once they were gone and it stopped being hijacked by dubious politicians with their own agendas.
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randome

(34,845 posts)
1. He should have jetted there, stood for a photo then jetted back home.
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 10:10 AM
Jan 2015

That's what any real leader would have done.
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randome

(34,845 posts)
3. Even better! A virtual presence helps the environment!
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 10:38 AM
Jan 2015

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
5. Whose agenda would it help to blame Obama
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 10:44 AM
Jan 2015

for all the world's troubles. Had he gone the terrorists would have either surrendered or changed their ways.

Pity.


blm

(113,065 posts)
7. GOP WH would have had the gall to photoshop themselves into the pic.
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 11:48 AM
Jan 2015

They know they could get THEIR 'news' networks to promote as 'fact' any lie they choose to create.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
8. yes he should have stood with the other heads of state.
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 12:18 PM
Jan 2015

As a symbolic gesture of solidarity with the victims of terrorism.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
9. If they really wanted to be part of the mouring they should have been
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 01:38 AM
Jan 2015

part of the mourning.

They could have sent cardboard cutouts of themselves and saved some time.


Sad.
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