Obama WTF?!?!!!!
Sep. 16th, 2010 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumA kid in the UK sent an e-mail to the White House, calling Obama a prick.
Now, the merit of that e-mail can't really be known, because the only things we seem to know are:
1: it was a teenager.
2: he says he was drunk, and high.
3: the e-mail has not been shared with the public.
4: it was after he saw a documentary about 9/11.
Why do I mention it?
Because he has been given a lifetime prohibition from entering the US.
What the fuck? I'd have expected something like this from Bush, sort of. Who makes that call? How? Perhaps there was more in the missive, some actual threa; instead of a bit of verbal abuse, but I'm, sorry, that goes with the job. I can hope this was a bit of knee-jerk from a low level flunky, but even if Obama intervenes to overturn the ban, it looks petty.
And it offends me.
(not all is as it appeared: I got snookered
Now, the merit of that e-mail can't really be known, because the only things we seem to know are:
1: it was a teenager.
2: he says he was drunk, and high.
3: the e-mail has not been shared with the public.
4: it was after he saw a documentary about 9/11.
Why do I mention it?
Because he has been given a lifetime prohibition from entering the US.
What the fuck? I'd have expected something like this from Bush, sort of. Who makes that call? How? Perhaps there was more in the missive, some actual threa; instead of a bit of verbal abuse, but I'm, sorry, that goes with the job. I can hope this was a bit of knee-jerk from a low level flunky, but even if Obama intervenes to overturn the ban, it looks petty.
And it offends me.
(not all is as it appeared: I got snookered
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Date: 2010-09-19 12:06 am (UTC)