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- IS OBAMA A MURDERER BECAUSE HE LAUGHED? We have resisted the temptation to write about this all day but did you know that Politico WON THE AFTERNOON yesterday? Totally ace! AND YET VERY SERIOUS: Obama’s “awkward laughter” on 60 Minutes last night “highlighted an issue [he] has faced dating back to the campaign, a sense that he sometimes is too ‘cool’ and detached to fully grasp the public anxiety over mounting job losses and economic worries.” Laughter = cool… jackpot much!? This probably is an issue “he has faced dating back to the campaign,” except not really. And more importantly, the campaign ended in November so please stop writing like you’re covering a campaign. [Gawker]
If the teleprompter says laugh, you laugh.
Why does the Politico keep missing the point, that according to all available records, Barack Obama was never even born!
Oh hey has anyone heard about this one “Reverend Wright” dood? I think that might hurt his campaign.
The big Drudge face is scary.
Would they prefer he said: “Ohmigod, we are so fucked! Y’all have NO IDEA how fucked we are! Sob, sob…”
Yeah, much better!
I suspect Barry wanted to convey the adage that you can laugh or cry at a bad situation, but laughter is better. But the RW-tards would have accused Barry of being a pussy.
I personally can find gallows humor in any situation. At my mother’s funeral, I laughed hysterically when receiving the final statement from the funeral home.
Also.
It goes without saying, too, that in case of huge financial/economic/military cluster fuck, the last thing you want to see in a President is somebody cool and detached. What you want is somebody highly emotional and manic.
The big Drudge face is scray.
shortsshortsshorts: Did you know that Obama is the Most Liberal Senator who Ever Existed?!?
And he hung out with kids that blew up ant hills with firecrackers when he was a kid!
Wake up America!
Thank you, Jim, for your continued policy of not linking to Politico (except Ben Smith). You have enviable willpower.
Drudge has got the weaseliest face I’ve ever seen. Little weasel eyes. Weasel nose. Probably smells of weasel tang. Weasel hat. Weasel bow tie. I hate weasels. People type weasels that is. Weasel!
Colander:
Heh. Win on the first post. Hats off to you, sir.
I agree with politico. Our president should be sweatin’ bullets and staring into the camera like a small whimpering child.
also come on… if this were bush, you know what’d we’d be saying here.
What was that even? A chuckle? A gaffaw? A terrorist mouth giggle?
Oh, indeed, Politiho…this is as compelling as your crack reporting on how the previous administration was dogged by a sense that Bush’s relentless smirking and Cheney’s propensity to say “So what?” somehow betrayed an inability to fully grasp the public anxiety over MOUNTING FUCKING BODY COUNTS.
So, yeah, thanks for driving another finely crafted stake into the moribund heart of journalism.
Well I kinda see where they are coming from. Nicholas Hughes, the son on of Sylvia Plath just killed himself at his home in Alaska, and I completely blame Sarah Palin for it. So….
Incidentally, as a member in good standing of the Brotherhood Of Homosexualists, I think someone should tell Drudge that wearing a straw hat with a bow tie and suit jacket has been one of our secret “tells” since Truman Capote initiated the practice back in 1942.
Or perhaps he knows that already.
Colander: Ha!
He’s laughing awkwardly, so he doesn’t inadvertently use that scary “shut the fuck up, Joe” face again.
You libtards just don’t understand, this is the demeanor we want from a president:
In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, “A number of protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Karla Faye Tucker.” “Did you meet with any of them?” I ask. Bush whips around and stares at me. “No, I didn’t meet with any of them”, he snaps, as though I’ve just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. “I didn’t meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with Tucker, though. He asked her real difficult questions like, ‘What would you say to Governor Bush?’” “What was her answer?” I wonder. “‘Please,’” Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, “‘don’t kill me.’” I must have looked shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel — because he immediately stops smirking.
Tommmcatt: I had a nice little retort about being surprised to learn that Michigan J. Frog was a queen, but alas he dons a top hat and lacks the bow tie. Oh, and he’s naked too.
Still, there’s Tucker Carlson, who apparently hides his straw hat in his *cough* closet.
Tommmcatt: i thought the shiny, blue, dong in the Watchmen was stunning but i have a girlfriend. Does this relate to your cabal of homosexualists? Because i hope it doesn’t.
american mutt:
wE R In ur drinkin waterz, stealun yr manhood…
If the vast right wing media conspiracy doesn’t succeed in doing the Obama administration in, maybe those drama queens at americablog can polish it off.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Quit bitin my style! user-of-owls:
user-of-owls: You will always be my own personal Turd Blossom.
Obama laughed? Time to begin articles of impeachment.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Is Hopey liberaller than Battling Bob LaFollette of Wisconsin? No way!
is this another secret black people thing?
He’s obviously NOT a murderer, cause murderers laugh like this:
muuAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!! muuAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
See?
Stuff Happens . — Dick Cheney.
Now watch this drive.
Perhaps the teleprompter had gone out and he had to cover for a minute while someone fixed it so he could continue reading the pre-written answers to Steve Kroft’s questions.
I miss the good old days, when a president, faced with a horrible crisis, didn’t acknowledge it and laugh in the face of it, but just continued reading a children’s book like everything was normal.
Like “Mua’Dib”, Obama is a killing word. Try it sometime. It only kills wingnuts though.
american mutt: “… if this were bush, you know what’d we’d be saying here.”
Hasn’t someone killed this fucker yet??
Ugh, Politico. It’s headlines must be written by PT Barnum. At one point today, it had two headlines, the jist of each was, ZOMG! Party Repubs/Dems imploding in fratricidal internecene war; Dems/Repubs dance on their grave.
Roger the Shrubber: Yeah, Bush had way more gravitas; he only gave that nervous, leering snicker when he was talking about starting another war.
He’s teh black. They don’t laugh at the same things we do. They laugh when white people are getting screwed.
I hope they gave Drudge a bowl of soup with that hat.
CaliforniaMike: He’s teh black? He’ll never be elected. Unless he’s, THE ANTI-CHRIST.
Sorry, I miss the campaign months/years/centuries.
Politico is a rightwing cesspool.
Never forget!!
Being cool usually meant being uncaring and detached. The present criticism is another epic fail from those who have no other way to pick on teh Preznit. Thus they continue with the hollow wingnut snowjob tactics of the past 30 years. Please note the heat in Barry’s response regarding Darth: probably the most “coolly” concise condemnation of him (so far). So much so the Repubtwits are asking him to stifle hizself. I’m looking forward to the linkage to Limpbow. Rahm must be giggling like a hyena. Also.
Obama laughed.
Atlas shrugged.
Custerwolf: OBAMA SMASHED.
Atlas just shrugged and laughed.
problemwithcaring: Well, that kinda sucks. It just goes to show you that people with suicidal genes should get on with their business BEFORE they reproduce.
I’ll be drinking a toast of cheap scotch from a bell jar tonight.
american mutt: “… if this were bush, you know what’d we’d be saying here.”
Yes, that he’s an incomprehensibly thick idiot.
Does not apply here.
Can you spot the difference?
sarcasticusername: OMG! PROBABLY! ALSO!
“if this were bush, this interview never airs.”
Fixed that for you.
What bull! The man is not allowed to laugh? I’m so happy he’s not an evil retard like the last guy, he can get down on all fours and bark for all I care.
I believe I see a consensus forming here that Obama’s laughter in the face of adversity is much more soothing than Bush’s maniacal giggling when murdering others. Go figure.
Also, is it just me, or are there actually some people here who can’t quit their man-love for the former cowboy preznit? Maybe they could be his future prison pen-pals?
RISE! Ok, rocking a full KMFDM, kinda have the ultra heavy beat.