Let’s write a column about something that didn’t happen…
…that we wish had happened, because then it would make Republicans look really really bad. And lets only indicate way down towards the end that it almost certainly didn’t happen.
Or something like that, if you’re Todd Purdum at Politico.
By the way (and to understand what I’m going to say next, please look at Purdum’s piece), I can’t stand to look at Obama either. So what’s the big whoop?
If it’s any consolation, back when I was a liberal Democrat, I couldn’t stand to look at Reagan. And for quite some time (especially after the Lewinsky thing), I couldn’t stand to look at Bill Clinton. I kept picturing–cigars and blue dresses…
Actually, I can stand to look at Obama, although I’m not keen on it. What I really can’t stand is to listen to him. Or read what he has to say.
I’m wondering: which presidents could I ever stand to look at or listen to? I don’t remember a bit of difficulty watching Eisenhower when I was a child, although I was a Stevenson kid in a Stevenson family. JFK was great to look at and listen to, especially the sharp but strange accent. LBJ ugh! Nixon and Carter both set my teeth on edge. Ford was so-so. Reagan’s actory quality bothered me. Bush the First was dullsville. Clinton seemed like a fake even before Lewinsky. And George Bush wasn’t so fab for viewing, either, believe me.
Now, here’s something to look at:
But hey, that’s just me.
“‘What are the chances of an honest conversation with someone who has just said something so disrespectful?’ Durbin’s Facebook post asked with understatement.”
I don’t know. What are the chances of “an honest conversation with someone” who calls you an extortionist, hostage-taker and arsonist–all said about the Republicans by King Barack himself:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/08/obama_s_shutdown_analogies_a_complete_list_of_the_analogies_president_obama.html
Despite having lectured the country about civility, King Barack leads the pack in abusive name-calling. Can someone refresh my memory about Obama’s Greatest Trash-Talking Hits? There’s been a whole bunch, but I can’t recall them right now.
You could do worse than remember his offensive chiding of the Supremes a few years ago.
There’s nothing wrong with Steve McQueen; But, Clint Eastwood was quite the looker (and for his age, still is), has a terrific sense of humor, and has great politics to boot. What’s not to like? He would have made a fine president.
Susanamantha wrote:
You could do worse than remember his offensive chiding of the Supremes a few years ago.
Ah yes. Rude and unprecedented. A trash-taking innovation.
I can’t stand to look at Obama and his Mussolini like poses. Listening to him is like listening to fingernails on a blackboard.
NeoL
What I really can’t stand is to listen to him.
What Neo wrote. I have never listened to an Obama utterance for more than a minute or so.
Or read what he has to say.
I find it very entertaining to either Fisk what Obama says, or more often, read of someone else Fisking Obama. “Bitter clingers, transcontinental railroad, 57 states, speaking Austrian, you can keep your health coverage, Texas has always been Republican,….” his lie de jour- or his ignorant doesn’t know his ass from his elbow claim de jour.
Need I go on?
Classic Obama move, find a way to be a victim in order to distract from his failure. These stories are meant to plant the idea, so that years from now, people (who won’t remember the particulars or that it was false) will recall it as just another example of how those ugly, racist Republicans fought Obama because they hated him so.
And if it were true, it would be Obama’s own fault for insisting on intruding on so many non-presidential areas of our lives with his appearances on ESPN with his NCAA brackets, Monday Night Football, American Idol, Mythbusters, Leno/Letterman/Falon/Stewart, SNL, etc.
Excuse me: the Obama gaffe was NOT “transcontinental railroad,”, but intercontinental railroad.
From the linked article:
1) “But ‘I cannot even stand to look at you,’ is what Sen. Dick Durbin says one unnamed House GOP leader told Obama in a meeting during the recent government shutdown.”
2) “By Wednesday afternoon, spokesmen for the White House and Speaker John Boehner had flatly denied that any such encounter ever occurred.”
3) “Alas, White House press secretary Jay Carney insisted that Durbin’s story just wasn’t true.”
4) “It’s worth noting that the only face-to-face meeting between Obama and House GOP leaders was on Oct. 10, and Durbin was not present.”
Gee, I wonder if Durbin is lying.
BTW, what’s that “Alas” doing in 3)? Maybe it’s short for “Alas, a longtime senator and leading Democrat is a stinking liar.”
And yet, and yet:
“And yet Max Gleischman, a spokesman for Durbin, the Senate’s second-ranking Democrat, said, ‘Durbin stands by his comments.’”
Yeah, that’s mah story and I’m stickin’ to it…
I cannot stand to look at obama’s face except maybe on a dartboard or on a voodoo doll or maybe lining the trash can. Other than that I cannot think of one single good use for his visage.
And Durbin is probably lying but I would salute the guy who allegedly said it, were it a true story.
No one dares disrespect that phony, weasly, meagry, angry little dictator. Yet, he disrepects every American.
Another “fake but accurate” account from our ideological betters.
kit…
Durbin was projecting his own distaste for the Wan onto the near enemy.
Neo I should have sent you my picture. Then you could have really kfelled!
While I do admit to reading the text of some of his utterances; count me in as one who avoids watching and listening to the messiah.
I haven’t been able to stand to see or hear him since before the Styrofoam Column speech.
“I haven’t been able to stand to see or hear him since before the Styrofoam Column speech.”
I used to cringe every time he came to Iowa leading up to the Iowa caucus. The messiah actually visited my home town and I felt tainted. It took a few weeks of stiff winds from Alberta to blow away the stench.
http://www.charlotterampling.net/6-in-style/in_style_13.html
One for the guys… a beautiful red headed woman.
Not only can I not stand to look at him or listen to him but I unequivocally wish it were true that someone had said this to him. Repeatedly.
Has any man elected to our nation’s highest office ever needed to hear the truth said straight out and to his face, more than this man?
The man is a congenital liar.
This is a man who publicly supports infanticide.
This is a man who seeks to deny parental influence.
The man is seditiously working to destroy this country. And is doing so fiscally, culturally and subverting the Constitution to do so.
The man has violated his oath of office so egregiously as to “beggar the imagination”..
The man is directly responsible for the abandonment of American agents in harm’s way and did so strictly for political purpose.
Understanding the impossibility of impeachment, has there ever been a President more guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors?
Given all of this, telling the man that you cannot even stand to look upon his face isn’t rudeness, it’s polite restraint.
“Given all of this, telling the man that you cannot even stand to look upon his face isn’t rudeness, it’s polite restraint.”
He is the messiah, how dare you to refuse to look upon his majestic, halo enshrined holiness?
Durbin and slander . . . Durbin and slander . . . there was something — Oh, yes!
THIS:
“Last week in the Senate [June of 2005], after reading an FBI memo describing prisoner conditions in Guantanamo Bay, Sen. Richard Durbin, one of the highest-ranking leaders in the Senate said,
“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime – Pol Pot or others – that had no concern for human beings.”
The comparison, sadly, is despicable. The Senate should censure Mr. Durbin for his statement.”
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/jun/21/20050621-085511-9362r/#ixzz2io4BnrYi
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Generally speaking, hypnotism finds it really hard to work when the subject personally despises the hypnotist.
As such, this defense is held by some Americans but not by others.