Obama in Vietnam

[kuuan]

😉

Obama cares for Vietnamese Deli coffee by andreas, on Flickr

 

[skopar steve]

Well, I won't fault him for his taste in coffee. I like Vietnamese coffee as well.

 

[Dan Daniel]

Looks like he's preparing for retirement, collecting royalties and residuals for modelling work, etc. Although I doubt this kind of work pays as well as the kind of speeches Ms. Clinton could arrange for him.

 

[kuuan]

certainly Mr. President never will have tasted this coffee and will be blissfully oblivious of being used to promote it and to be starring in front of that communist star. Interesting I thought..only worry a bit that a law firm could see my photo an opportunity to get money from that coffee maker

 

[jenhao]

Obama has a natural connection to coffee. Watch him and Jerry Seinfeld in "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee". 🙂

 

[kuuan]

Obama has a natural connection to coffee. Watch him and Jerry Seinfeld in "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee". 🙂

thank you very much for that, I enjoyed the video and the brilliance of Mr. Obama! The Vietnamese coffee maker however must hope that potential customers won't see it. They would understand that Obama, also Jerrry and the American public, for that matter, don't know a thing about coffee. 😉 Coffee is not about getting it, no! First served in style it's all about having it, lingering on in a realm of elevation and fulfillment

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Anyone who suggests that's an authorized use of President Obama's image must be pretty stupid.
Wait; their further comments proves they are.

Once that image gets around it will no doubt give rise to more wingnut conspiracy theories.

Chris

 

[Phil_F_NM]

They would understand that Obama, ... and the American public, for that matter, don't know a thing about coffee. 😉

Don't be so sure. Pres. Obama spent much of his youth in both Indonesia and Hawaii. Places where coffee is a big deal.

As for the photo, it's a funny misappropriation that will almost certainly be found out and possibly stopped.

Phil Forrest

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I can't read Vietnamese. "Obama cares for Vietnamese Deli coffee" to be hot or what?

"Если женщина красива
и в постели горяча (hot)
в этом личная заслуга
Леонида Ильича!"

"If lady is nice and hot
it is only because
Leonid Ilyich (Brezhnev) took care of it
personally." soviet anecdote.

 

[L. M. Tu]

Funny, the poem printed on the poster, and on the cup pictured in it, is a declaration of the age old Vietnamese resistance against foreign invasion, mainly from the north (China). OK, I think I get it now. It's probably a celebration of Obama's planned alliance of Asian countries, including Vietnam, against the rising Chinese world order. A blend of coffea robusta and Pax Obama 🙂.

 

[oftheherd]

Any misappropriation of the president's photo is the responsibility of the president and the person who used his photo.

But Vietnamese coffee is great imho. It is hard to find in the Northern Virginia area, but one of the Korean grocery stores has it often enough to keep me in supply. Tay Nguyen and Café Demonte are enjoyable.

 

[Srono]

Funny, the poem printed on the poster, and on the cup pictured in it, is a declaration of the age old Vietnamese resistance against foreign invasion, mainly from the north (China). OK, I think I get it now. It's probably a celebration of Obama's planned alliance of Asian countries, including Vietnam, against the rising Chinese world order. A blend of coffea robusta and Pax Obama 🙂.

Well, Obama quoted that poem in his speech in his Vietnam visit recently, that's why they use it on the ads.

 

[pacco]

Well spotted! I particularly like the whole setting, having Obama in front of the communist star. In Laos, I have seen advertisements with Obama drinking fresh coconuts - he makes a good job in promoting drinks! 😉

 

[kuuan]

the title I had given to the photo and my thoughts on coffee obviously had been purley in jest. Mr. Obama well may be a coffee connoisseur. However, as Austrian living in Vietnam the discrepancy between these two much alive traditional coffee cultures and to bring coffee into play merely as someting "to get" had been too obvious to let pass uncommented.

thank you very much L. M. Tu and Srono for the translation and for pointing out that Obamam had cited this very poem during his recent visit to Vietnam. Puts it all into the right perspective.

Pacco, the Obama coconut ads, they do without poems about defending Laos against Vietnam? 😉