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Obama's selfie

What do you think of obama's selfie


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If nothing else, your passionate response to this non story tells me that you do actually believe Nelson Mandela was worthy of respect.

Quite a turn around from your previous posts on his passing.

only when we need to feed our Obama outrage.
 
Oh god taking a picture...

Yeah, go figure...

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I thought this was rude, childish and egotistical behavior. Yucking it up and taking selfies as speeches were being made about the man people came to honor at his memorial. Is this spoiled child really our president? Even Michelle looks disgusted. God help us.


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When I was in college, I went to DC with a group of friends for the annual March for Life. During the march, one of my friends pulled me aside so we could have a picture taken of the two of us. I didn't realize until I saw the pic later, but we had managed to park ourselves in front of a rather large, sad and graphic poster (I'll spare everyone further details). So there we are, in front of that graphic pic, grinning like we're posing with Mickey Mouse in Disneyland. My point? Someone point a camera at you, the impulse is to smile.

I'm no Obama fan but this is a non issue.
 
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Jeebus H. Christo, you Obama Delusion Syndrome folk really can't handle anything can you?

Bush took a selfie at the event (not a funeral, a celebration)

The talk radio fed ultra right tea party folk need a constant input of manufactured "anger" to get through their days of willful ignorance.

Bread and circuses....
 
if nothing else, your passionate response to this non story tells me that you do actually believe nelson mandela was worthy of respect.

Quite a turn around from your previous posts on his passing.


smack!
 
If you saw the memorial service on TV, the entire tone of the event was exciting and celebratory, not sad and somber. I'm not sure if that was simply a manifestation of South Africa culture, the fact that Nelson Mandela had lived a very long life or both but that atmosphere of celebration was led by the South African people in the stadium. I think the South Africans electrifying the atmosphere with happiness was likely contagious to those from other places and affected people like our President and the leaders of the UK and Denmark. People in the stands were literally dancing and cheering. You can't go into another culture and impose our ways of doing things on them. When in Rome....

I've found most people I've talked with around the water cooler were fine with it. It seems the only people bothered were those who already don't like the President. In any event, I think it'll help him with younger supporters.

When my father died, we had the obligatory "rosary" service, my dad was a long disaffected catholic like me and had no use for the baloney, but we did it (we had to do a closed casket because he didn't want to be embalmed ($2500) nor buried ($5000 casket, $4000 to dig the ground, $2000 to engrave the stone). His sister in law by way of his brother lost her second husband (not my dad's brother, better), a month before my dad died. His brother is an old school Chicago priest. We had the visitation, and everyone sat down expecting the dreary rosary, but no...:) The priest got up and said, "there are so many stories in this room, let's hear them and laugh and revel in this man's life!, we aren't going to recite the rosary" What followed was a lot of great, funny stories from his kids, grandkids, cousins, friends, etc. All the while, people sneaking out to the parking lot to a full ice chest of beer. We laughed, we cried we enjoyed life. The next week, an associate who worked for me, an older man who was a full hellfire and brimstone pentacostalist (who I had several great agnostic vs fundamentalist discussions) came to me and said "I have never, in my life been to something that should be somber and quiet, that was so joyful, and so full of love, thank you!"

Mandela was a great man, because he changed, because he dropped the hate, because he defied all the haters that desperately needed him to hate to make themselves feel superior. Mandela forever made the word "apartheid" a past tense word. Let's enjoy the good and bury the anger and hate that so many people in the media want us to have (after a word from their sponsors)

Is that too much to ask?
 
First lady not peeved, says photographer who caught the Obama selfie - TODAY.com



So what this is really about is that the Danish PM was sitting between Cameron and Obama, and took out her phone to take the picture. And we're outraged because Obama smiled?Is this another case where you'd like to see him tell world leaders to go **** themselves? Especially considering Denmark and Britain are our friends?

The defense of Michelle? She wasn't peeved. She always looks like that.:lol:
 
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Jeebus H. Christo, you Obama Delusion Syndrome folk really can't handle anything can you?

Bush took a selfie at the event (not a funeral, a celebration)

The talk radio fed ultra right tea party folk need a constant input of manufactured "anger" to get through their days of willful ignorance.

Bread and circuses....

it's ok to be outraged over anyone posing with Bono
 
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Jeebus H. Christo, you Obama Delusion Syndrome folk really can't handle anything can you?

Bush took a selfie at the event (not a funeral, a celebration)

The talk radio fed ultra right tea party folk need a constant input of manufactured "anger" to get through their days of willful ignorance.

Bread and circuses....

At the unintended risk of offending, one thing I've noticed about our side is nearly all of the "outrage" we get seems to be instigated by influential pundits and media outlets. I could create a list of stuff over that last 5 years and the explanations on why XYZ infuriated us can be written verbatim, everyone saying the exact same thing and not bothering to even put it in our own words always AFTER 3pm or the next day, never before the pundits got the chance to comment on it. I might be forgetting something but I can't personally recall anything an average person on our side got worked up over that it was obviously an original observation and position.
 
You're right. I should have just accepted it for the sexist slur it was.

Since you seem to have inside knowledge about bimbo's are there any other restrictions or rules we need to know about? Height / weight rule maybe? Age rule or something like that?
 
"Bimbo is a derogatory slang term for an attractive but unintelligent female. Similar terms are "dumb blonde" and "valley girl"."
Chauvinist, judgemental and disrespectful. Moreso when the target is the Prime Minister of a country (and incidentally the phone owner)
 
Well, I heard this morning that it was the woman (Prime Minister of ??? - can't remember - LOL) who actually wanted to have a picture with Obama. What should he have said? No?
 
OMG! A "SELFIE"!!???

You are talking about a narcissist who wrote two autobiographies before he was like 40 years old or something like that.

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With a bimbo while his wife is sitting right next to him. Classy

hahaha


Context, out the window. Look, Obama is not some schmoe sittin' next to a barfly at a crappy dive that he drove to in his hill billy pickup truck. Have some perspective.
 
If nothing else, your passionate response to this non story tells me that you do actually believe Nelson Mandela was worthy of respect.

Quite a turn around from your previous posts on his passing.

I believe in proper decorum by the POTUS when he is at any event whether I think he should be there or not. I do not expect him to act like a school girl.
 
Oh my. Obviously you guys only get selective media coverage there. I watched the entire Memorial Service and saw Michelle Obama laughing with Thorning-Schmidt, Cameron and President Obama just before the picture was talking.

Backed up by the photographer who took the actual photos by the way...

The photographer who captured President Barack Obama, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and UK Prime Minister David Cameron taking a selfie at Nelson Mandela's memorial service on Tuesday insists Michelle Obama's stern reaction seen in the photo was not directed at the group.

"I later read on social media that Michelle Obama seemed to be rather peeved on seeing the Danish prime minister take the picture," Roberto Schmidt, the Agence France-Presse photographer who took the photo, wrote in a blog post. But photos can lie. In reality, just a few seconds earlier the first lady was herself joking with those around her, Cameron and Thorning-Schmidt included. Her stern look was captured by chance."

That didn't stop the tabloids from splashing the first lady's reaction shots on their covers.

Photographer on Michelle Obama s reaction to selfie: Photos can lie - Yahoo!7



"Who's the bigger fool? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"- Ben Kenobi.
 
Oh my. Obviously you guys only get selective media coverage there. I watched the entire Memorial Service and saw Michelle Obama laughing with Thorning-Schmidt, Cameron and President Obama just before the picture was talking.

Backed up by the photographer who took the actual photos by the way...



Photographer on Michelle Obama s reaction to selfie: Photos can lie - Yahoo!7



"Who's the bigger fool? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"- Ben Kenobi.

Damnit dont let facts get in the way of all the hating!... stay on message! :)
 
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Context, out the window. Look, Obama is not some schmoe sittin' next to a barfly at a crappy dive that he drove to in his hill billy pickup truck. Have some perspective.
My goodness!!

What ridiculous lengths folks will go to in their efforts excuse Obama's behavior.

Are you seriously trying to insinuate that Obama is not a narcissist?
 
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Context, out the window. Look, Obama is not some schmoe sittin' next to a barfly at a crappy dive that he drove to in his hill billy pickup truck. Have some perspective.
Then why is he acting like one?
 
My goodness!!


Well, here in Dixie, it's best if a man don't be takin' a picturograph with womenfolk. If his wife is around, she's liable to fight that there woman, and if she's not it could end up costing a man a few dollars for an evenin'. Some of them there whores expect more than 2 dollars!


Wisdom from hillbillyland.



Then why is he acting like one?

Are you really this whipped?
 
This is stupid. The Prime Minister of where ever requested a picture with Obama, so it wasn't a "selfie" anyway. :roll: I'm not crazy about Obama either, but this is just ridiculous.
 
Well, here in Dixie, it's best if a man don't be takin' a picturograph with womenfolk. If his wife is around, she's liable to fight the woman, and if she's not it could end up costing the man a few dollars for the evening. Some of them whores expect more than 2 dollars!


Wisdom from hillbillyland.





Are you really this whipped?
WOW!

What is the definition of "bigot"?
 
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