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After a roadside bomb exploded near Kabul yesterday killing 12 U.S. soldiers, many were surprised to find that according to this photo taken four years ago, President Obama appears to think the attack is extremely humorous.
“These men were serving their country when an unbelievable tragedy took their lives,” said Allison Wittley, a close friend of one of the deceased soldiers. “And it just really worries me that according to this photo taken years before this event even occurred, the president is treating it like it’s some kind of funny joke.”
Concerned citizens, who were hoping that the president would take a moment to honor the lives of those killed in action instead of laughing at their deaths in a photo taken at a time during which he could not possibly have known of the attacks as they were to take place several years in the future, were disheartened to be met with further irreverence in a photo of the president vacationing with his family in July of 2003.
“It’s just not right,” remarked Representative Joseph Dollan (R-Ohio). “First he laughs, then he decides to go on a tropical vacation? It’s like, judging from these pictures of the president taken at random moments in his life, some before he was even elected president and significantly prior to this particular tragedy, he doesn’t seem to care about the deaths of these brave American heroes.”
He added, “Why else would he be behaving so whimsically at a time like this in a photo from more than a decade ago?”
When asked to comment on what many Americans felt to be an insensitive response to the bombing, the president was a baby in a photo taken in 1962.
