PHOTOS: President Obama visits the DMZ at the start of the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit

[flpoljunkie]

President Barack Obama steps off Marine One before he visits U.S. military personnel inside a chow hall stationed at Camp Bonifas along the DMZ which borders North and South Korea outside Seoul, March 25, 2012. Obama is in Korea to attend the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit. REUTERS/Larry Downing


President Barack Obama shakes hands with troops while he visits U.S. military personnel inside a chow hall stationed at Camp Bonifas along the DMZ which borders North and South Korea outside Seoul, March 25, 2012. Obama is in Korea to attend the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit. REUTERS/Larry Downing


U.S. President Barack Obama visits U.S. military personnel stationed at Observation Post Ouellette along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which borders North and South Korea, outside Seoul, March 25, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama visited South Korea's tense border with the North on Sunday in a show of solidarity with U.S. ally Seoul and a message of resolve to Pyongyang's new young ruler in his country's nuclear standoff with the West. REUTERS/Larry Downing


US President Barack Obama looks towards North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette, during a visit to the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) near Panmunjom on the border between North and South Korea. Obama peered deep into North Korea, as he contemplated Pyongyang's planned rocket launch and his first showdown with untested leader Kim Jong-Un

[HopeHoops]

1. WOW! A president smart enough to take the fucking lense caps off of a pair of binoculars!

Imagine that!

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=%3Fw%3D480&imgrefurl=http://journelog.wordpress.com/tag/comedy/&h=300&w=300&sz=15&tbnid=VAwll4QWLKfYKM:&tbnh=105&tbnw=105&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbush%2Bbinoculars%2Bpicture%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=bush+binoculars+picture&docid=56GY73AhxFnKNM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VzJvT-SlLqiI0QGHyJCfDA&ved=0CCoQ9QEwAQ&dur=3967

[progressoid]

2. They'll soon photoshop the Obama pics too.

Just like they did to Clinton & we did to Bushy

[HopeHoops]

3. Yeah, but the one I posted wasn't the Photoshop job. There were others that were.

[uppityperson]

5. Snopes seems to indicate it was

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/binoculars.asp

[cyberswede]

6. Huh...

I read this as saying the lens caps may have been on, then removed soon after - not that the photo was photoshopped...

Another photograph of President Bush taken from the same sequence as the one above demonstrates that even if his binoculars did initially have their lens caps in place, they weren't there for long:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/binoculars.asp

The picture is still funny as hell.

[HopeHoops]

9. The original "caps on" picture is real. There were some shop jobs done afterwards.

[treestar]

4. The leather jacket is pretty cool

What brought that on?

[ellisonz]

7. For the third and fourth pictures they had a shield of bullet proof glass. n/t

[charlie and algernon]

8. Yeah, here's a photo from farther away:

[ellisonz]

11. POTUS gotta watch out for those North Korean snipers.

[charlie and algernon]

13. North Korea would have to be suicidal to try to take out POTUS.

To attempt to take out a sitting US President while he was on their border would invite a MASSIVE retaliation.

[ellisonz]

14. They could always blame it on Iran.

No but for real, just that the Secret Service thought to do it is kinda hilarious. Also, you're right, we'd fuck their shit up.

[charlie and algernon]

15. heh "We swear! We thought that Iranian soldier just wanted to watch Mad Men with us!"

Oh, but you just KNOW that the right wing would raise a hissy fit if the Secret Service allowed the President to be out there unprotected. Of course that glass really only protects you from bullets. That shield wouldn't do shit if the North Koreans decided to use rockets.

[politicasista]

10. A REAL adult president

Yes We Still Can.

[K Gardner]

12. I'm so glad you're still posting Prez pics, thank you ! n/t