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Promising Practices
Photo: Obama is Not Impressed
- By Mark Micheli
- November 19, 2012
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You can’t say President Obama doesn’t have a good sense of humor—or Internet pop culture. Obama jokingly mimicked U.S. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney's "not impressed" look while greeting members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic gymnastics teams in the Oval Office last Saturday:
For the uninitiated, Maroney became an Internet sensation last year when she scowled atop the podium after falling short of gold on the vault. According to Know Your Meme, soon after a photo of her visible disappointment came out “the single topic blog McKayla is Not Impressed was launched on Tumblr to showcase photoshopped images of Maroney’s glare set against historical or spectacular scenes in the background.”
A few examples of Maroney being unimpressed with some of the more notable political and government moments of the last few years:
The Osama Bin Laden Raid...Not Impressed
The Landing of NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover...Not Impressed
Team Romney...Not Impressed
Hope and Change...Not Impressed
Mark Micheli writes Excellence in Government’s Promising Practices blog and serves as the program manager of the Government Business Council. Prior to his current roles, he worked as a management consultant on national security and emergency management issues with the US Treasury Department. He’s worked as a political research analyst, a reporter for the Des Moines Register at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs. He studied at Drake University where he has degrees in Magazine Journalism, Political Science and History.
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