U.S. President Barack Obama talks to a girl during a visit to the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland, Broadway section, in Cleveland, Ohio June 14, 2012. [Reuters Pictures]Check out the caption on this similar photo of President Obama with the same young woman:
US President Barack Obama talks to a girl at the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 14, 2012. Obama's campaign savagely mocked Mitt Romney as 'out of touch' with ordinary Americans Wednesday with a web video featuring a highlight reel of the Republican's gaffes. The move came as Romney, a multi-millionaire former venture capitalist, argues that it is Obama that has lost touch with the economic pain [hurting] the US heartland, and as each candidate tries to outdo the other in professing deep empathy with the middle-class. [Getty Images]That's an interesting caption. I'm not sure Mitt Romney would ever be described as having "savagely mocked" the President. Republicans "criticize." President Obama "savagely mocks."
It's also interesting in its suggestion that Obama is feigning empathy for a photo-op. There are a lot of legitimate criticisms to be made about President Obama. Interacting insincerely with children is categorically not one of them. He is, without question, the president with the most natural rapport with children in my lifetime, and probably long before. He clearly respects children and young adults, and that is no small thing.
Here are some of my other favorite photos from the President's visit to the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland yesterday:
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