I have seen hundreds of photos of "grips and grins" over the years, but Al Sharpton with Leon Panetta has got to be the strangest pairing I have ever seen.
From the White House Correspondents' Association Cocktail Party. By way of HuffPo.
After looking at (62) photos of elitist hob-nobbing among the Ruling Class, I think Pat Sajak makes a good point when he observes that "the whole thing comes off as sort of ... icky" and should be done away with.
... maybe it’s the growing mean-spiritedness of contemporary humor, or maybe it’s the nature of the problems facing the country and the world, but the whole thing comes off as sort of—if you’ll pardon a technical term—icky.
Besides which, we don’t need these dinners to see the “lighter side” of our presidents. Between the tweeting and the talk shows, there’s no shortage of opportunities for our leaders to show us just how funny they are. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind having more chances to see how serious they are.
Indeed.
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