You could set your watch by this. Newsweek goes to the annointed one’s defense in trying to say he wasn’t checking out da bootie.

“You may have seen this rather misleading photo doing the rounds this morning. The photo appears to depict President Obama checking out the rear of 16 year old Brazilian girl Mayora Taveres. We admit that the shot is incriminating, but the real story is far less titillating. If you watch the full video you’ll see that Obama was in the midst of an entirely gentlemanly manouvre – he’s about to offer his hand to the girl in the floral skirt and black top behind him to help her step done to his level. So, despite the unfortunate timing of this shot, Obama is innocent. Not only that, Obama is proving again that chivalry is not dead. (Rememer how he recently whisked his wife off to New York and Paris for dates?) French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the other hand, well, we will leave it up to you to determine what he’s looking at.”

The only problem is that the girl in the floral gown was a good six feet back before Obama offers his hand. But those eyes were fixed squarely on the butt of that 16 year old. He’s not “innocent” by a long shot.

And year we remember how he “wisked away” Michelle to New York and Paris for “dates” all while the government was – in his words – “Out of money”. That’s not “chivalry”, it’s “stones”, and most likely where his mind was at in this shot.

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