Goodbye to selfie president, hello to another?

Saturday, January 21, 2017

On Feb. 12, 2015, President Obama made a selfie-stick video for BuzzFeed. You may remember it -- or perhaps not -- because if there's one thing Barack Obama delivered during his eight years in office, it was plenty of celebration of himself. The country was treated to Obama slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon, sharing his Final Four brackets, fantasizing about what superhero powers he'd most like to have, and on and on. His fascination with himself was inexhaustible. Except the selfie day was different -- because it was just hours after the president learned that another one of ISIS' American hostages had been killed.

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