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Posted on 04/08/2015 7:10:15 PM PDT by Mozilla
We’ve all been there: You’re invited to a function, you think you’re just going to be a passive observer and then suddenly you thrust into the spotlight.
One guy apparently had that uncomfortable experience with the commander in chief.
President Barack Obama stopped by Hill Air Force Base in Utah last week to talk about the economy.
His speech was closed to the public, but the presidential team sent some invites to the media and industry leaders.
That’s where things went wrong.
Image via imgur/TheBlaze
The above picture, posted to Reddit on Tuesday, apparently shows an unprepared, mid-level employee trying his best to blend into an intimate roundtable meeting with the president.
The man’s company sent him, a leader in the firm’s design department, instead of the company CEO because they thought he’d just be sitting in the audience, wrote the Reddit user who posted the picture.
The Reddit user explained:
The Obama administration sent an invitation to his speech in Utah at Hill Air Force Base. We thought they wanted a representative from our company in the audience. Turns out they wanted the representative for a special round table with the president. Due to this mix up we sent my friend (a leader in our CAD dept) instead of the CEO.
The Reddit user went on to explain that the company sent the design department guy because he’s an Air Force veteran and they thought it appropriate since Obama would be talking about employing veterans.
The company didn’t realize Obama was actually hoping to get input from industry leaders.
“I know the person responsible for the mix up is in some serious trouble,” the user wrote. “But I’m sure the CEO is kicking himself over missing this chance to meet the president.”
The Air Force Materiel Command media people salvaged the situation as best they could: They cropped the polo-wearing guy out of the picture.
Image via Air Force Materiel Command
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Obama had to cheat to win 2 terms. What makes anyone think they can get him a third?
Really? Am I the only one who noticed that Mrs. Fisher was participating in Bring Your Daughter to Work Day?
If this was a “one of these is different than the others” Quiz, 99% would answer “Obama”, not the guy in the White Polo.
Speaking of Orrin, he is now 4th in line to the Presidency as President Pro Tem. God help us.
Hill has an 18 hole par 72 with several nearby off-base courses. Maybe he didn’t want to play because there were no limousine lefty fatcats available. Or Reggie.
Good call. I missed the Hatchling, hater of Lee, being present.
They should have cropped out Obongo instead.
Obama is sans jacket and tie with his long sleeves rolled up to the elbow 90% of the time. Why worry about how you look?
When we took out Bin Laden, Obama was in a golf shirt and most likely was wearing shorts as they had to tear him off the golf course.
FUBO!
t shirt guy....janitor.... only guy who knows what he is doing .... casual friday at the office..... obumbler talking about the aerodynamics of a golf ball slice....
talking about the economy at an air force base......incongruity... and the guy is obama’s T shirt warmer upper.... obama then off to golf or a fund raiser...
The ONLY question I would have had of the sob is “where’s your fng birth certificate asshole?”
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