Dan Amira of New York Magazine – shockingly, although perhaps that’s just my biases showing – has collected a few pictures showing an earlier, more innocent time when President Barack Obama still tolerated the innocent fork in his presence. I should point out, of course, that none of the people allowed to retain their individual forks in the very face of the President were Latino elected officials; I would hate to suggest that the President is profiling, here…
Via AoSHQ.
Moe Lane
To be fair, one story did say the “impromptu” runs to burger joints were not included in the “nothing sharp near the president” policy. I think it’s an amusing story, definitely an opportunity to swipe at an increasingly clumsy White House, but probably a sign of SOP rather anything new.
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Then again, President Bush flew into a warzone and served a turkey to a dining hall full of soldiers. I don’t recall *THEM* being denied forks, and given the desperation of the left to smear that story any way they could, I suspect we’d have heard. I mean, they *still* believe the “plastic turkey” BS.
I have a feeling that this is not too far off the mark.