Jerry Seinfeld has president Obama as his guest on his show Comedians in Cars getting Coffee. He usually picks his guests up in a vintage sports car and they go to a restaurant. In this episode, the first part went fine with Seinfeld driving a 1963 Corvette to the White House but the second part was thwarted because the security detail would not let them leave the grounds.
It is pretty funny and there are also some insightful moments.
From Crackle:
Yeah, it made Australian news…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-01/sizeable-percentage-of-world-leaders-crazy-obama-tells-seinfeld/7063196
What I find notable is this:
A succinct synopsis of the times.
Reminds me of a President who once proclaimed: “Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little Temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
(Mingling amongst the people? God forbid!)
“reminds me of a president…”
That was Ben Franklin. Cool dude, but never president. The quote, though, is correct… it is rarely quoted correctly.
Cuttlefish, thanks. Appreciate that.
(Obviously, I looked up the actual quotation, but didn’t confirm Franklin’s status.
No worries, mate.
As much as I’m pro-elites bashing myself, you have to realize such measures are the main reason Barry hasn’t been shot dead by white terrorist militiamen yet.
That the Secret Service intervened does not surprise me in the least. Allowing POTUS to ride around in an unsecured and somewhat flimsy sports car just wasn’t going to happen.
Cuttlefish @ # 2: … Ben Franklin. Cool dude, but never president.
A Nit here must be Picked!
B. Franklin never served as president of the United States. He did, however, legitimately hold the title of President of the Supreme Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (roughly equivalent to a modern governor) from late 1785 to late 1788; President of the Board of Trustees of the College, Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia (and later in the same role when that institution became the University of Pennsylvania); President of Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery; and I suspect a few other presidencies as well in his spare time.
/Pick
Mobius @ # 6: That the Secret Service intervened does not surprise me in the least. Allowing POTUS to ride around in an unsecured and somewhat flimsy sports car just wasn’t going to happen.
Rather odd that the appointment should be set up without anyone considering that detail in advance.
Otoh, from recent reports it might seem even odder that anyone in the Secret Service sobered up enough to notice that a famous comedian had driven a ’63 Corvette through the gates at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
“Rather odd that the appointment should be set up without anyone considering that detail in advance.”
Who says it wasn’t? TV has writers.
I suspect that every detail was cleared in advance.