I’m pretty sure this is an old photo, as I think I saw it months ago on the WH Flickr page. But on Father’s Day, it was tweeted out:
The White House tweeted a Father’s Day photo of President Barack Obama holding a toy gun and playing with his daughter Sunday, but the image quickly became Twitter fodder as users voiced their outrage.
The toy gun picture angered many people who have complained that schools are too rigid in their disciplining of students nowadays. In the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, a 6-year-old Maryland boy was suspended after making a gun hand gesture and saying “pow,” an Illinois teen was kicked out of class for wearing a Marines T-shirt that had a picture of a gun on the front, and a 7-year-old Maryland student was disciplined for chewing his Pop-Tart into the shape of a weapon.
Plenty more links of the ridiculous in the comments section of an earlier post. Also here.
It’s a perfectly fine, harmless photo- unless you’re president Obama, supposedly showing leadership since Sandy Hook for the anti-gun movement amongst his liberal supporters.
He’s leading by example, apparently….from behind?
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
The picture is not new. See it and another here. They are teaching kids to shoot each other.
Liberal dictates demand that Obama be suspended.
. . . . from his cold, wet hands.
I can just envision Secret Service agents diving in front of the weapon’s spray of ammunition, absorbing those hits meant for the President.
Remember, he is the one who said, “If they bring a knife to a fight, we’ll bring a gun” (or words to that effect)
Also, remember the kindergartener who was suspended for bringing a pink bubble gun to school…
If I am not mistaken, the president is carrying a high capacity water pistol with no safety. It is considered by some to be an extremely dangerous weapon, its use serves no purpose in civilian hands.
Skook,
Maybe he can redeem himself in the eyes of his offended constituents by turning it in at the next toy gun buyback program.
@DrJohn:
Ah, yes. Thanks for reminding me. I posted the photo(s) a day earlier in the comments section of a Most Wanted.
Something that had long perplexed me from your post: Where did Buffet figure into it?
@Skookum: It’s to compensate for his inadequacies as a male.
A Liberal mother is concerned and consulting with pediatricians, psychologists, teachers, and community agitators because her six month old boy keeps leaving messes in his diaper that resemble automatic pistols. The child’s father had a preoccupation with guns before he deserted her for another man.
She wants to head off a future catastrophe and realizes it is imperative to consult with behavioral experts if she is going to change the boy’s attitudes before he commits a terrible felony with a real gun. The experts have suggested she raise him as a girl, thus he will learn what it is like to have victim syndrome before she explains the real nature of his gender and why he was suspected early on of being a potential problem.
@Skookum: I think you got it!
Hey where’s the trolls??
OBAMA all for me is okay,
and nothing but revenge for you PEOPLE.