ROFL: Lame White House “Photo of the Day”… Treas. Secretary Tim Geithner Grocery Shopping with Michelle Obama?
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 22, 2010
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner carries a small bag of groceries purchased at The Fresh Grocers in Philadelphia, Pa., during a stop with First Lady Michelle Obama to promote the Fresh Food Initiative, February 19, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
OOOOHHHH… THEY’RE JUST LIKE US! Look! Time Geithner is grocery shopping in Philadelphia! He’s buying produce! And he’s shopping with First Lady Michelle Obama! What a coincidence!
Wonder when the Brady Bunch kids — Marcia, Greg, Jan, Peter, Bobby, Cindy — with good-natured Alice in tow, will pop on over to say “Hey, there, Mr. Geithner and Mrs. Obama!” with their supermarket cart filled with rutabagas and arugula? Maybe they’ll start singing, and Timmy and Michelle will perform cheerful backup singing while thumping a few cantaloupes.
Gag-reflex kicking in, along with uncontrollable laughter.
So lame. So contrived. So ridiculously patronizing.
Does Team Obama think America will fall for this phony-baloney photo setup? It doesn’t help that Timmy looks so dang unsure of himself… a wobbly robot… because, well, uh, you know, uh, grocery shopping like “real Americans” is SO difficult to imitate. Has Geithner even stepped foot in a supermarket in the last decade? Love the “suits and ties” standing strategically about the photo’s perimeter… something I’ve never witnessed in MY grocery store’s produce section. Authentic? Heck no. And why, pray tell, is FLOTUS Michelle Obama grocery shopping? She has 27 assistants… one of them couldn’t wander the produce aisles? And whatever happened to the White House garden that was suppose to not only supply the White House with tons of fresh food, but help feed the DC community?
Maybe one of the “White House Photos of the Day” next week will show us Rahm Emanuel washing his own car! Or Nancy Pelosi popping in to visit her plastic surgeon! Or Barney Frank being ARTICULATE and CIVIL to reporters!
This is the caption for the photo, straight from today’s “Photo of the Day” gallery at the White House website:
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner carries a small bag of groceries purchased at The Fresh Grocers in Philadelphia, Pa., during a stop with First Lady Michelle Obama to promote the Fresh Food Initiative, February 19, 2010.
Remember when THIS photo of Pres. Obama and Vice Pres. Biden was featured on the White House Flickr page last month?
From White House Flickr page: VP 'Crazy Joe' Biden and Barack 'I Won' Obama... a picture is worth a thousand words
Related reading on the photo above and on Obama in general:
HillBuzz: Question of the Day: When you see this photo of Obama looking down at Joe Biden, what do you think and feel?
Frugal Café Blog Zone: White House Thought THIS Was a Good Photo? ‘Smug-faced Obama Facing Down Biden’ Pic Speaks Volumes and Prez Spendthrift: Luxury Hawaiian Mansion for the Obamas’ Christmas Vacation (video) and Conservatives in Washington: Why Conservative Policies Are Ignored in Favor of Liberalism and Rush Limbaugh & Glenn Beck: The Highly Anticipated “Free Speech in Jeopardy” Interview (5-part video)
Nice Deb: Sunday Silliness and Drudge Goes There: Obama’s Evil Eye
Althouse: “Damn, Obama looks like James Bond in this picture.” and Everybody’s talking about that James Bond/dead tired photograph of Obama
Little Miss Attila: On that “President Haughty” Pic . . .
The Lonely Conservative: The Same Media that Bashed Bush for Vacations Makes Excuses for Obama
Patterico’s Pontifications: Obama Effigy in Plains GA and An in-depth look at Rasmussen and vintage Democratic whine and Obama’s End-of-Year Polls (Updated x2) and We Have a Problem, Houston … and Washington
Publius, Big Government: Left Attacks the Messenger: Hide the Decline in Rasmussen Polls
Cold Fury: In like he’s Lyin’, Out like he’s Lamb
Ben Smith, Politico: Back to Hawaii
Gateway Pundit: First Family to America: Everyone Must Sacrifice, Everyone Must Have Some Skin in the Game… We’ll Be In Hawaii
Jake Tapper, Political Punch, ABC News: Gibbs Bashes Gallup Daily Tracking Poll
Hot Air: Dems declare war on Rasmussen?
Politico: Low favorables: Dems rip Rasmussen
Scared Monkeys: Democrats Whining & Attacking Pollster Scott Rasmussen as to Why America Against Democrat Agenda … That’s Your Plan?
GayPatriot: Did Bush White House Ever Go After Pollsters?
Beltway Blips: Poll: Americans Souring on Democrats
New York Post: Bam’s whiny blame game
American Thinker: Obama’s ‘can’t do style’
James Hudnall and Batton Lash, Big Hollywood: Obama Nation: Homeland Insecurity
Motor City Times: News Roundup: Democrats Whine, America On Wrong Track And Blizzard Cancels Global Warming Rally
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Brit gives Obama an F
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This is way off the thread but roxy has a really good post on her family.
I don’t really know why she posted it.
I can identify.
Thanks, AFVET – I’ll check it out in a bit. Sounds intriguing.
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UR2 Funny, great find and great post. Jim
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The complete lack of maturity being shown throughout this administration is frightening.
These people are operating on the maturity level of teenagers.
I’m sorry if I have offended any mature teenagers out there.
Geithner is so perfect for the site – a frugal shopper. And such a delicate man – such a light load. Good shot in a “upscale” market. I would have thought that Michelle would not be seen in such a place where people earning $250,00 and above shop. What was she thinking. Perhaps it is so upscale that Tim could not afford a larger sack of groceries. You never can tell as GB Shaw would have said.
I’ve been trying to determine what in the heck is in that teeny bag Timmy’s holding… one scrawny kiwi? A handful of grapes?
The poor man looks unwell, frail in this photo, don’t you think? Maybe he carried as much as he could handle.
Nah, SH, Timmy’s still plenty rich, even with his tax evasion secrets out. He can easily afford a man-size bag of fresh produce.
I haven’t been able to locate a photo of FLOTUS in the market… maybe it will be uploaded on the WH site tomorrow. I’m curious about which pair of inappropriate, super-mega-dollar shoes she’s wearing when she goes “slumming” like the rest of America does in a supermarket… BTW, love your sly little GB Shaw aside.
Teeny bag,…his balls.
You can’t find FLOTUS because its a game.
She has his balls and he has to find them.
So sorry ! I just couldn’t stop.
Bad, AFVET, bad boy!
LOL
He looks unwell and unmanly. LOL
George Bernard Shaw would have applauded Geithners excursion into the realms of the common people.
Photo-op.
Shaw maintained the philosophy that we have infesting the government right now.
Intelligent people can see through “faces”.
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Did you see the comment somewhere in the blogosphere that told you – nay bragged that I grew up and still have access – albeit farther away – to the Classic Film collection at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester, NY? Pure joy. Too much cake. Their film preservation program allowed viewing of wonderful old films newly restored and that could have been shot yesterday. Such a wonderful experience with old film and it updates the director’s vision.
The collection is the largest outside the Bibliotheque National in Paris and MOMA.
Please tell me you are weak with envy LOL
I am also near Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario, Canada – home to the GB Shaw festibal – 3 theatres! I majored in dramatic literature in grad school. You recognize my drama queen leanings, don’t you? You have to have had the same background. I stopped with an MA then got my library degree.
*tinge of green developing*
No, I missed reading that about your background, SH, but I’ll bander about and see if I can find the post to which you’re referring. How extremely COOL!
You’ve almost nailed me perfectly. Long ago in a galaxy not far away, I was, for a brief while, a theatre major, then had a moment of lucidity and switched to English literature. Not many theater opportunities here in Arizona, and I’m not much of a singer nor dancer. But, baby, I can EMOTE. LOL. Won lots of speech competition awards in high school, and competed and won at the state level (AZ), most notably for a selection from Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible.” I also toyed with becoming a screenwriter and a comedienne, with little success. But like I said, that was long ago. Youth is wasted on the young… heh, heh.
The George Eastman collection??? Zowie, I love those old photos. I pop over to Flickr for Creative Commons photos often, and have located and posted several from the Eastman collection here on this blog and my frugal companion website. I’m a classic film buff (hence my username out in the blogosphere) and am particularly fond of film noir.
Thanks for looking at our stuff on Flickr! Just a note, Creative Commons and Flickr Commons are two very different (But both wonderful) deals. Our photos are marked No-Known-Copyright-Restriction on the Commons, which you can read more about here (http://www.eastmanhouse.org/flickr/statement.php).
By all means, keep enjoying them!
-Ryan Donahue,
George Eastman House
Maybe next they’ll join the ranks of the unemployed – to show us how they are just like us !
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I loooooove film noir. In fact, I viewed the newly restored copy of The Maltese Falcon and it would have blown you away. It brings out so much of the filmmakers art – the lighting, the shapes and forms that inspired him – when you see no flickers, nothing to detract you.
Good news. YouTube has loaded in several parts
The 1946 French film La Belle et la Bête, by director John Cocteau, I just love that film. Here again, camera work, sets – all amazing for the technology of the time.
So cool! I’ll check YouTube out. Thanks for the info on Cocteau.
I saw a colorized version of The Maltese Falcon a few years back. It would have made you cry. Or puke. Or both. I would love to see it, as you did, fully restored in B&W. I particularly love those old Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall films. To Have and Have Not is one of my faves. Dark Passage is stunning, although not the best script. Anything film noir with Veronica Lake or Barbara Stanwyck is also great. Mrs. Miniver, although not film noir, is one of my passionate favorites of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
I left some of my Broadway favorites on Roxi’s site under that special tab she has. Hey, they wanted me to major in voice at Skidmore. “I coulda been a contendah.”