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Obama Gives San Francisco’s Batkid a Six-Second Shout-Out

All Miles Scott wanted to do was to put on his Batman costume and fight crime on the grimy streets of Gotham City.

Miles, a 5-year-old leukemia patient, got his wish on Friday, and his heroism earned him a pat on the back from President Obama.

“Way to go, Miles. Way to save Gotham,” the president said in one of his first posts on Vine, a social media site that loops six-second videos uploaded by its users.

With the help of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco, part of the city was transformed into Batman’s hometown as throngs turned out to see the Batkid in action.

Escorted by two black Lamborghinis outfitted with the Batman logo, the junior Caped Crusader took out familiar adult-size villains like the Joker and rescued a woman stuck on the cable car tracks. (He arrived just in time.)

The Justice Department got in on the action, too. After Batkid saved the San Francisco Giants’ mascot, Lou Seal, from the Joker and the Riddler, the United States district attorney’s office announced the villains’ arrest in a news release. “The havoc they could have caused, if it wasn’t for the shrewd crime fighting efforts of Miles, a k a ‘Batman’ a k a ‘Batkid,’ would have been widespread and could have caused great harm in the city and surrounding communities,” it said.

The president’s video drew a range of reactions on the Vine site, not all of them friendly.

“You need to get off Vine and fix our country,” one commenter said.

Another defended the president: “Just because he made a six second video doesn’t meant he stopped taking care of the country or doing his job calm down.”



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