Dana Perino Bashes Obama For Being Shown Walking Alone At Stonehenge

[KamaAina]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dana-perino-obama-stonehenge

Were you, concerned American citizen, dismayed by those pictures of President Obama touring Stonehenge on Friday? Did it bother you that many of the photos showed Obama taking in the prehistoric structure by himself? Former White House press secretary Dana Perino is pretty sure you were.

While her consistently indignant Fox News colleagues Eric Bolling and Kimberly Guilfoyle bashed Obama for making an impromptu visit to the mysterious site, Perino didn't join the pile-on.....

"But remember this is the White House that says they're not that worried about optics?" Perino continued. "Today, to show the President of the United States standing alone amongst the rocks, by himself ... I would have asked David Cameron or somebody to walk with him. Get some staff or have some — take the pilot, whatever you have to do so you don't have to, he's standing alone. I don't think that's a good optic."

For what it's worth (probably very little), Obama was shown with others while at Stonehenge, a fact that Perino briefly acknowledged. Presumably she wanted more group photos.

Aw, c'mon, Dana. He took off the tan suit, for crying out loud!

[WinkyDink]

1. "the rocks"??? The ROCKS?! Oy.

[cwydro]

3. I know, right?

Erg.

[gratuitous]

7. Pretty good for Perino

She wasn't quite sure where the Cuban Missile Crisis took place (she guessed "Cuba" but admitted she didn't know). So when she talks about the rocks at Stonehenge, you have to give her credit for using English.

But yeah, desperation because the right wing keeps flinging dry shit at the wall and none of it sticks.

[Stargazer09]

16. No kidding!

That struck me as incredibly dumb, even considering the source.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Maybe because the rocks are smarter than her?

She's probably envious.

[Octafish]

56. Mystery Solved!

Dana thought the Cuban Missile Crisis was that Bay of Pigs Thing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2454555

She was press secretary at the time. She still is envious of rocks.

[roguevalley]

50. I've been there. its holy ground and a great place to walk alone.

this bimbo really fries my ass

[CTyankee]

2. Oh, good lord! Desperation, anyone?

[CurtEastPoint]

4. "optic" THIS, Dana.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Impeach. nt

[BeyondGeography]

6. Stonehenge's purpose continues to be a mystery

You can't say that about Dana.

[bluedigger]

15. ...

[AuntPatsy]

26. Lol nice one

[Orsino]

57. Beautiful. n/t

[VanillaRhapsody]

8. I find the images very poignant actually

he is currently struggling with having to go back into Iraq or not...or what he is going to do on the world stage under the circumstances of ISIS....

It shows him being deliberative.....he went to a place like that for solitude from the world to think!

[Stargazer09]

17. Exactly

He is under a lot of pressure right now. I like how he takes the time to think about what's going on before making a decision.

[VanillaRhapsody]

19. Under this kind of stress...it is probably one of the BEST things he could do to

take care of his own mental health....

[Stargazer09]

20. If I were in his shoes,

I'd probably want a few weeks on the moon or on Mars, just to escape the pressure.

Stonehenge is easier to reach.

[VanillaRhapsody]

22. at least it feels far removed from the industrialized world!

[1StrongBlackMan]

30. And the republican talking head response ...

"Deliberative??? Think??? what is the meaning of those words."

[flamingdem]

41. I love the imagery

of his solitude and buy it completely meanwhile knowing that there are hundreds of security people and peeps snapping photos of him there.

But for Obama that's the closest to solitude he gets!

[Agschmid]

58. Me too, I thought they were great photos.

[JI7]

9. walking stonehenge while black should be a crime

[CherokeeDem]

10. Just when I think they simply cannot be any more stupid.....

They go and say something else stupid...

Dana Perino is an idiot....

I figured they get all over him for wearing a blue shirt today... but no... he can't walk by himself...

Nothing should surprise me anymore but some how, these idiots keep managing it.

[TrollBuster9090]

11. She's just pissed off because she doesn't know what Stonehenge IS. And why should she...

...It was BUILT before she was BORN!

Seriously, this is coming from George Bush's pathetic ditz of a Press Secretary who defended herself for not knowing what the CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS was because it 'happened before I was born.' WTF? Only FOX would give an imbecile like that a job as a foreign policy pundit. "Foreign Policy Dipshit" is more like it.

[GoCubsGo]

12. Is this a joke?

I'm trying to understand why him being photographed alone there is a bad thing. Or, why his visiting the place was wrong. Other than that these people are batshit crazy.

[Stargazer09]

18. Honestly,

I thinks it's just because they are batshit crazy.

[blogslut]

13. Dana Perino Bashes Obama For Being

There. Headline fixed.

[treestar]

14. What is bad about it?

The President of the United States is a VVIP. I don't see anything wrong with the optics. It's the most important person in the world, or one of the most important people, at a very historic place. It's history that he's there.

And FFS if I went there, and it wasn't really crowded, I could get a photo of mere there alone. Anyone could.

[Skittles]

28. nothing; that gal is unhinged

[Rex]

47. Yeah no doubt.

But when all they have to 'report' on is the color of his suit...you think there is nothing more petty. Then BAM Stonehenge-gate.

[Cha]

21. This thread needs a pic..

MOre..
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/09/05/president-obama-visits-stonehenge/

[flamingdem]

42. Looking good

O rocks

[Cha]

44. "O Rocks"! lol

[madamesilverspurs]

23. Jealousy is an ugly thing.

Perino is just miffed that Obama is fully capable of doing anything, alone or otherwise, unlike her former boss.

[LiberalElite]

25. I thought this was a joke - you know, like the Onion or

raving right wing lunatics or.... then I realized it wasn't a joke. Then I realized it was.

[Politicalboi]

27. "But remember this is the White House that says they're not that worried about optics?"

Unlike Bush who said he's not worried about Bin Laden. The goat herder AKA The Monster Bush told us who did 9/11.

[Nite Owl]

29. I thought it was

A beautiful photo.

I doubt he was really alone, there surely were Secret Service behind those "rocks".

[Skidmore]

31. What shallow, small-minded, idiotic people they are.

[Ineeda]

32. This president standing utterly alone

is one of the goals of the GOP, and Faux Snooze.

[yeoman6987]

33. Oh brother. I thought it was going to be a story

Of concern for the President being to far from the Secret Service or something. I had no idea it would be such a dumb article. I am sorta mad that I can't get my time back from reading that tripe.

[jwirr]

34. It is a beautiful picture. He stands alone in Stonehenge. As the president he stands alone in making

these very difficult decisions that effect our future. It is very symbolic. He takes comfort standing in this historical place that for many of us whispers of long ago decisions that have led us to this point.

[Blue Owl]

35. Only a Druid would defend Stonehenge so seriously

Therefore, Dana Perino = Druid

[Dale Neiburg]

55. Perspective

As a Pagan myself, I'd hope that the President was contemplating all the crises that the world has seen in the thousands of years that Stonehenge (and the Avebury complex, which I find much more powerful) have been standing there -- and that the world has managed to survive.

[Grammy23]

36. All this proves is that if there isn't anything in particular to criticize Obama for doing

(or not doing), the critics will just pick something at random and go from there. And their fans will go along because that's what they do. They never think, never ask questions, just listen like sheep and nod their heads in agreement.

I don't know how President Obama has been able to tolerate the disrespect and the sheer stupidity he has had to endure from DAY ONE of his Presidency. I guess we just have to consider the source and so that must be his strategy, too. But I must say it does seem to have taken its toll on him. And that is a shame, a real shame. I wonder how history will treat this awful period in our nation's history.

[SummerSnow]

37. ....

***WANTED***


For Walking Alone At Stonehenge




he has alot of damn nerve doesnt he? IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eleanors38]

38. Not the suit but...

He wore

Tan shoes and pink shoe laces.
A polka-dot vest, man-oh-man!

He wore

Tan shoes and pink shoe laces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band!

[Initech]

39. It would only be a disaster if the Stonehenge monument was marked as 11".

[dflprincess]

40. It probably confused her

is he a Muslim or a pagan?

[flamingdem]

43. She was too dumb to work the secret druid angle

[KamaAina]

65. DUzy!!

[Ken Burch]

45. I'm surprise she demand that Obama BOMB Stonehenge, then put up a cross in the rubble.

She must be scandalized that the president would endorse the Druid lifestyle.

[Blue Idaho]

46. Haters gotta hate...

Let's face it, it really doesn't matter what the President does. Dimwits like Dana and the rest of the clowns at Fux will find something to hate. If he had others around him they would have complained about how the crowd was spoiling the solitude of this magical place.

Pay 'em no never mind.

[spanone]

48. oh dana....you ignorant imbecile

[Mister Ed]

49. Yeah! Why the heck can't he be photographed alone looking out the window at a devastated city...

...the way a real president would?

[deafskeptic]

51. Is there no end to all the constant criticism of Obama? :eyes: n/t

[emsimon33]

52. Good grief!!!!! Dana, get a life!

[Vinca]

53. That's not the BS talking point I expected.

I assumed they'd start carping about how he's on "vacation" while ISIS is taking over the world. If they haven't said it yet, I guarantee they will.

[mercuryblues]

54. Okay

dana, 'll explain to you why he was there.

He heard the word Stonehenge and thought that was where the republican's kept their brains. As you can clearly see in the pic above, where he is smiling and shrugging, he found nothing.

[treestar]

61. lol

[Orsino]

59. Fox News: proudly content-free. n/t

[Gothmog]

60. Perino is not very bright

People who watch Fox News are idiots and this is what they expect from this channel

[Bluenorthwest]

62. Such nonsense, and this from Perino who Obama appointed to a nice gig a few years ago....

Not only were the solo photos very nice, I saw photos of the President with some English tourist family as well as with staffers from English Heritage who curate and manage the site and I was not even looking hard. No President has more often been photographed with random members of the public in casual situations than Barack Obama.
If I was President, that's exactly what I'd want to do on my way home. Stonehenge, the VIP tour. Yes please.

[Bluenorthwest]

63. Some famous Perino 'optics':

[rock]

64. Luckily he didn't have any body with him

He would've been criticized for that, you know!

[Blue Owl]

66. The optic nerve of that woman...

n/t

[Jeneral2885]

67. Is she concerned he's not holding

the nuclear launch codes?

[KittyWampus]

68. Thank f*cking GOD he wasn't wearing a tan suit at the same time

[KamaAina]

69. DUzy!