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The President said he wanted an open and honest debate. And when Rep Paul Ryan gave him one, this is how the President reacted. (Screencap from about 11:56AM Pacific, while Ryan was speaking.)
UPDATE: If you didn’t know, I’m liveblogging it here.
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The Mucinex ad should be a Rolaids ad. This is just too good. Priceless.
You’d think by now that someone would have told him that the middle finger is not a good look. Even worse when coupled with a vacant stare. Okay, not vacant, he looks like he’d rather be someplace, any place, else. Shouldn’t a nationally ranked politician be able to fake sincerity and interest?
Limbaugh was calling it “the Boris Karloff stare.”
I’m pretty sure his middle finger is extended. This is the way petulant TOTUS-types show derision.
Alderman Marty Swayzak: You see that glow in the corner of your eye. It’s your career dissapation light and it’s going into overtime.
Lt. Steven McCaffrey: If anyone’s lights are about to go out, believe me they are yours.
“I crush your head. I crush your head.”
What an utter disgrace to the office of the president.
Makes sense…. I don’t like him when he’s not angry either.
Another angle of that shot shows the index and middle fingers extended.
Did Rep. Dingle just say “before they were virgins”?
Blah, blah, blah, blah! Maybe if I give him the Death Stare, he’ll shut up. Hmmm. Still going on. I wonder what’s for dinner. Maybe Wagyu beef, mmmmmmm, wagyu.
I am the Tax Man.
http://louminatti.blogspot.com/2010/02/taxman.html
If I was in Chicago, I’d have capped you for that!
Good one Bobbi!
“I find your lack of faith, disturbing.”
…
“Damn it, why isn’t he choking??!!”
Steve:
I was working, you know that think that actually contributes to the economy, jobs, et.al. while this was going on.
If you succeeded in live-blogging the whole thing w/out decending into (snarky) drunk blogging, you’re a better man than I’d hope to be.
Oh, heck. Who am I kidding. I hope you did snark, drunk blog the think. Kabuki theater deserves little else.
He looks like he’s contemplating the horrifying image of 3 debates with Paul Ryan in the 2012 presidential election.
Pussy
I heard that Lindsay Vonn has to give up her Gold Medal from the women’s downhill skiing event in the Olympics and give it to Barack Obama because he’s going downhill faster than anyone else!
chicopanther
“if my disciples think they can keep throwing me out there to perform another miracle, I’m going to reincarnate them as seals, tooting horns in a circus for fish.”
Remember the school bully Scut Farkus, and his “toadie” Grover Dill in a Christmas Story? That’s Obama and Emanuel.
Do you recall what Ralphie did with those two? That’s Obama and Emanuel.
The face that launched a thousand primary challenges.
The face that launched a thousand Democrat concession speeches.
And the Award for Sheer Guts goes to Lamar Alexander for daring to stare up into Obama’s funky nostrils at the apex of the Pres’s favorite arrogant posture. Keith “Teabagger” Untermann, Producer.
Did anybody check Paul Ryan for a heartbeat? For a brain wave? If looks could kill!!!
Watch out! He might transform into The Rock Obama!
Obama is always angry. He has been angry for decades.
Now in his late 40′s and never having accomplished anything after showing such promise at Harvard, his presidency is making his resume look even more unaccomplished than before. He doesn’t now how to make the country a better place and he is causing a lengthy economic depression which he will own. All of this makes him more angry. Which makes it more difficult for him to learn how to do anything right. Which makes him fail. Which makes him more angry. Round and round we go.
He has been hamstrung by anger since his youth. This is what happens to a boy whose parents dump him.
“L’etat c’est moi”
~King Louis XIV~
“I won…shut up”
~Barokeydoke Hubris Obozo~
” showing such promise at Harvard”
I’d buy that if Haavaad was not one of the big ten affirmative action colleges. Remember the mental genius, Skip Gates, is a proooofeeesssor.
“The face that launched a thousand primary challenges.”
I’ve been saying for month Hillary takes him on and wins.
The Democrat concession speeches are going to be as numerous as grains of sand on a beach once Barry gets done playing President.
Hey Lester,
Hillary? Hell, Jared from the Subway ads could beat him at the rate he’s shedding approval points.
You know, you’d think you could put an angry communist with daddy issues in the Whitehose and everything would be as awesome as the press told us it was going to be. Go figure.
I think Obama is as pompous as the next on this board, but I think this one is wrong. My guess is that his index finger is also extended on the side of the middle finger, you just can’t see it in this shot. A shot from the other direction would clear it all up.
Regardless, he still looks like he hates life in this shot…
Mr. W:,
The problem is that “His Royal Wonness” has never had a job with a performance metric. Just showing up was enough. Now he’s got a job with all kinds of metrics (job approval level, unemployment rate, deficit numbers…) and he can’t handle it. So when he gets questioned, he goes to the “Obama Stare Of Death”(tm). He has the emotional maturity of a 12 year old.
Remember, Obama is damn good at popularity contests.
It’s what he’s been doing for years, from Harvard Law Review editor on up.
He’s what you get as the end result of someone specializing in the field of high-school popularity.
“Now in his late 40’s and never having accomplished anything after showing such promise at Harvard, his presidency is making his resume look even more unaccomplished than before. He doesn’t now how to make the country a better place and he is causing a lengthy economic depression which he will own. All of this makes him more angry. Which makes it more difficult for him to learn how to do anything right. Which makes him fail. Which makes him more angry. Round and round we go.”
That’s called a Graveyard Spiral, around these parts.
My thought, when I saw that cold stare yesterday, was that he was thinking how these difficult Republicans would go straight to the Gulag if he had the power he wants.
Barack Hussein-Darth O’Vader let the mask slip.
I’m as conservative as anyone, but this is much ado about nothing. I often cup my face in the same way when tired or thoughtful. Two fingers are extended, index and middle. You just can’t see the President’s index finger from the camera angle. It’s clear that the President is taken aback by Ryan’s comments; they’ve argued the same points in other settings, but it’s a stretch to suggest he’s flipping Ryan off. Whether he is or not is immaterial. Everyone loses their cool. Let’s stick to arguing policy and substance and not silly ad hominem attacks on fluff and nonsense.
“I’ve been saying for month Hillary takes him on and wins.”
I heard she was admitted to a hospital last night. She watched the wh infomercial by herself, and her aides found her on the floor, with an unretactable smirk on her face and severe abdominal pains caused by laughter.
C’mon you all know what Obama was thinking – “How can this Ryan guy memorize all that stuff and say it without a teleprompter?”
Hillary? Hell, Jared from the Subway ads could beat him at the rate he’s shedding approval points.
The old fat Jared at that!
A propos fingers and comestibles – My favorite Booger: http://www.luminomagazine.com/2004.10/spotlight/nerds/images/booger/booger5.jpg
Just tryin’ to class up the place, Steven…
I’m a little late to this thread, but what he’s doing is the typical Hawaiian stink eye. I know this look well from my own childhood.
51. Jennifer,
The ‘stink eye’ knows no ethnicity, darlin’. TRUST.