December 12, 2013 | 4:25am
President Obama shares a laugh with Danish Prime Minister
Helle Thorning-Schmidt as his wife, first lady Michelle Obama looks on
during a memorial service for late South African President Nelson
Mandela.
Photo: AP Photo/Matt Dunham
Maybe he went into sugar shock over a Danish pastry.
The president of the United States, leader of the free world,
standard-bearer for everything upright, good and wholesome about the
nation he leads, lost his morality, his dignity and his mind, using the
solemn occasion of Nelson Mandela’s memorial service Tuesday to act like
a hormone-ravaged frat boy on a road trip to a strip bar.
In front of 91 world leaders, the mourning nation of South Africa and
Obama’s clearly furious wife, Michelle, the president flirted, giggled,
whispered like a recalcitrant child and made a damn fool of himself at
first sight of Denmark’s voluptuously curvy and married prime minister,
Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
Not to be outdone by the president’s bad behavior, the Danish hellcat
hiked up her skirt to expose long Scandinavian legs covered by nothing
more substantial than sheer black stockings.
With Michelle glowering, the world judging and mental fidelity
floating into the abyss, the president leaned into the air space of the
cross-legged Danish cupcake, who is known in Copenhagen as a fan of
America’s randy TV show “Sex and the City.’’ It was the memorial
equivalent of a bodice-ripper.
Obama takes a selfie with British Prime Minister David
Cameron and Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt as Michelle
Obama gives her husband the cold shoulder.
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Thorning-Schmidt placed her hands dangerously close to Obama’s side.
The president’s cackling head moved inches from the Danish tart’s and
yards away from his wife’s. Obama then proceeded to absorb body heat
from the Dane, which he won’t be feeling at home for a long time.
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is often hard to connect actions to racism—and sometimes it is hard not
to. When conservative activists and leaders excitedly contend that the
first black American elected president was secretly born overseas and,
consequently, is a pretender to the office, it certainly is difficult to
ignore racism as a possible contributing motive. (These same people are
in no uproar about Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's birth in Canada.) And
when President Barack Obama is repeatedly branded a sexed-up flirt,
despite the evidence he is a stand-up family guy, a similar query is
unavoidable: Is race a factor?
The conservative
New York Post this week has done extra duty
to promote the idea that the president is a cad (and Michelle Obama is
the resentful, jealous, and bossy wife). After photos emerged of Obama
taking a selfie with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (with
British PM David Cameron the third wheel) and the first lady looking
displeased, the media was all abuzz, and Rupert Murdoch's paper led the
way with its front-page coverage pitched with this witty headline:
"Flirting with Dane-ger." The next day,
Post columnist Andrea Peyser pushed the story—and the already widely spread meme—further. In an article headlined, "
Flirty Obama Owes Us an Apology,"
she ranted that Obama had "lost his morality, his dignity and his mind,
using the solemn occasion of Nelson Mandela's memorial service Tuesday
to act like a hormone-ravaged frat boy on a road trip to a strip bar."
She referred to the Danish leader as a "hellcat" and pegged the needle
in sexualizing this story: "Thorning-Schmidt placed her hands
dangerously close to Obama's side. The president's cackling head moved
inches from the Danish tart's and yards away from his wife's. Obama then
proceeded to absorb body heat from the Dane, which he won't be feeling
at home for a long time." Meet Obama, the lustful and wild predator who
cannot control his urges at a solemn occasion.
Peyser was working with an idea—the president as sexy beast—not the
facts. The day before her story appeared, Roberto Schmidt, the German
Colombian news photographer who had snapped the shots that had ignited
this nonscandal
threw a bucket of cold water on the story Peyser and others were peddling:
I captured the scene reflexively. All around me in the stadium,
South Africans were dancing, singing and laughing to honour their
departed leader. It was more like a carnival atmosphere, not at all
morbid. The ceremony had already gone on for two hours and would last
another two. The atmosphere was totally relaxed—I didn't see anything
shocking in my viewfinder, president of the US or not. We are in Africa.
I later read on social media that Michelle Obama seemed to be rather
peeved on seeing the Danish prime minister take the picture. But photos
can lie. In reality, just a few seconds earlier the first lady was
herself joking with those around her, Cameron and Schmidt included. Her
stern look was captured by chance.
Schmidt noted that he spotted nothing improper. Obama had not been a
wild man who had prompted a wifely rebuke. Still, that did not prevent
Peyser from day-threeing this event with lasciviousness: "Michelle
frowned and looked as if she wanted to spit acid at the man she married,
a good-time guy who humiliated her in front of their friends, the world
and a blonde bimbo who hadn't the sense to cover up and keep it clean."
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