India Appalled at Obama’s Latest Gum-Chewing Episode
No class whatsoever.
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No class whatsoever.
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How much longer?
Patterico (9c670f) — 1/26/2015 @ 7:42 pm1
If my math is right, 724 days.
But, with respect, narcissist engaging in uncouth behavior is not really surprising.
kishnevi (294553) — 1/26/2015 @ 7:55 pmHe’s a baby.
nk (dbc370) — 1/26/2015 @ 7:56 pmEverybody knows that’s Nicorette. Why doesn’t he just smoke?
elissa (ae9e01) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:07 pmElissa, I’m not so sure. Nicorette needs to be chewed a couple of times and then “parked.” Otherwise it tends to taste unpleasant or peppery. Not that I think he has ever given up smoking.
Gazzer (e441dc) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:10 pmAlso, most of America is also appalled.
Gazzer (e441dc) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:10 pmEven when I was a two pack a day man, I could go without a nicotine fix for ten hours if I had to. He’s a self-indulgent sissy-boy.
nk (dbc370) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:12 pmHe’s on methadone but is still chipping.
AZ Bob (34bb80) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:13 pmnot all Indians were appalled. some thought it was kind of cute, or showed the regular joe aspect of an American President.
me? i’m hoping it was nicorette.
seeRpea (1d44c7) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:13 pmI wonder if he is allowed to smoke in the Oval Office. It IS a federal workplace, after all. Can he be impeached for that?
Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:14 pmHow much longer?
Six days short of 2 years. He’s climbed to even in the polls, too. I guess to many people gas prices are everything.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:18 pmI think he goes on to the porch if he actually wants a cigarette, but he makes sure no photographs can be taken.
He isn’t so keen on the nicotine gum being photographed either, but I gues he thought nobody would notice.
If he was honest, he’d come out for e-cigarettes, which at least don’t pretend to be something to be used only temprarily to help someone in quitting. E-cigs aren’t safe and not just because of impurities that those made in China may contain, but because the effects of nicotine on the heart are more life-threatening than that of tar on the lungs.
FDR died from smoking.
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:21 pmIf he was honest,
Gazzer (e441dc) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:22 pmYeah, well, if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:18 pm
It’s the poll question. It asks what kind of a job he is doing
Present tense.
What’s going on right now.
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:23 pmE-cigs arem’t harmless, but they are less harmful than regular cigarettes, and don’t bother other people.
They are also safer than anti-depressants (which damage the heart twice as much as cigarettes) and work better too.
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:26 pmI think the Indians were set off by when he stuck the gum under the seat of a cherished antique
steveg (794291) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:42 pmObama has admitted in the past to being a lapsed smoker who occasionally off the wagon and uses Nicorette gum to try to stop smoking. But it seems strange that he doesn’t try a nicotine patch for public events, if only because moments like this are becoming more frequent and (presumably) embarrassing.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:47 pmYou’ve never smoked, DRJ?
nk (dbc370) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:52 pmre #17: nicotine patches are not covered by Ocare.
seeRpea (1d44c7) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:57 pmre #12: FDR died from a lot of things. He was not a well man for months before his death.
re #01: don’t look forward to his leaving office, remember when he does there is going to be Presidential Pardons for so many crooks and knaves that a fleet of USPS trucks will be needed to deliver them.
I’ll bet Obama thinks it’s America’s fault that he’s still smoking. If we’d only be reasonable and let him be the kind of emperor he knows he was born to be, he wouldn’t feel so much annoyance, and wouldn’t be driven to smoke.
George W. Bush is probably the most to blame, followed by the rest of the GOP, but all America — heck, the world — is surely to blame for Obama’s inability to quit smoking.
Beldar (fa637a) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:00 pmNo, but how did you know?
DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:04 pmoh come on DRJ, we have seen your posts. You smoked something .
🙂
seeRpea (1d44c7) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:09 pmMaybe Obama could learn what borders are about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_PzMSw6jZo
AZ Bob (34bb80) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:11 pmHeh. I’m high on life, seeRpea.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:14 pmOh guys, come on, stop being so critical.
Those were obviously delicious cinnamon bears that Obama was fishing out of his pocket and eating during the ceremony.
JVW (60ca93) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:14 pmNow that’s a link, AZ Bob.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:18 pmI used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused.*
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:25 pmSmoking is a weird habit. I’ll give you an example. I stopped chain smoking, and started walking down two flights of stairs and out two doors to smoke. Well, when I tried to quit that too, I found out it was the walk outside I was looking forward to. In the middle of Chicago winter.
I don’t downplay the addictiveness of nicotine. But I think it also strongly reinforces the complex set of behaviors involved in smoking a cigarette or chewing nicotine gum, and that set of complex behaviors, the habit, becomes ingrained and they’re part of the pleasure. Like runners and their “runner’s hight” (but that’s a guess).
To bring it to Obama, the whole ritual from taking the gum out of his pocket, to popping it in his mouth, to chewing it, to playing with it, is as compelling if not more compelling than the nicotine craving, in my opinion.
nk (dbc370) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:26 pmI’ll bet Obama thinks it’s America’s fault that he’s still smoking. If we’d only be reasonable and let him be the kind of emperor he knows he was born to be, he wouldn’t feel so much annoyance, and wouldn’t be driven to smoke.
One of the reasons that the left hammered on the tobacco companies so hard is because it fits into their narrative that the citizen is powerless to fix their own bad habits so the government must weigh in with the all-powerful regulatory state and act in our best interests. Not that the tobacco companies weren’t led by crass liars and useless craven marketing dorks, but so is Hollywood and you don’t see the government trying to crush their influence.
JVW (60ca93) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:29 pmI was focusing on the nicotine fix aspect more than the habits that accompany smoking. But I also assume he’s good at hiding his smoking in public, at least since 2007 when he started running for President. How does his public gum-smacking fit that part of the profile?
DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:34 pmOn the other hand, we know he doesn’t care about protocol. The repeated gaffes by his Administration prove that. Gum-chewing, bowing, none of it matters to him. Maybe he only avoids smoking in public because he doesn’t want to anger Michelle.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:38 pmPeople often chew gum and pop mints in an attempt to cover their smoker’s breath.
elissa (ae9e01) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:39 pmI’m about to say something politically incorrect so the faint of heart need to cover their eyes. I don’t care what Obama or his family do, wear, or say anymore. If green lipstick in the White House doesn’t bother them, nothing will.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:43 pmWait a minute…what’s that?
Gum?
AND YOU DIDN’T BRING ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY?
Bugg (f0dbc7) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:47 pmIf green lipstick in the White House doesn’t bother them, nothing will.
That’s an awfully apt epitaph for this Administration, DRJ. I think you nailed it.
JVW (60ca93) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:51 pmSomewhere there is a lefty Obamabot reading this blog post and sneering, “Those wingnuts: they focus on the most insignificant things just to criticize Obama.” Yet another demonstration of how different our worldview is from theirs.
JVW (60ca93) — 1/26/2015 @ 9:54 pmIs this what you have in mind DRJ?
http://www.gocomics.com/glennmccoy/2015/01/26
elissa (ae9e01) — 1/26/2015 @ 10:03 pmThe Urkel Presidency.
If only he was so well meaning and empathic as Urkel was.
Instead we got the class jackass. The one cracking wise at
everything the teacher said. Disrupting the learning of everyone
in the class.
But the girls love him.
jakee308 (f0aa61) — 1/26/2015 @ 10:04 pmA lot of addictive behavior is ritual. You can actually get habituated to
the ritual as much as the drug/action.
This applies to ALL addictions.
jakee308 (f0aa61) — 1/26/2015 @ 10:06 pmI was thinking of Glozell, elissa. That’s a very funny link.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/26/2015 @ 10:16 pmInstead we got the class jackass. The one cracking wise at
everything the teacher said. Disrupting the learning of everyone
in the class.
I don’t know, jakee308: I was the class jackass and I always had a soft spot in my heart for that type of character. Obama seems more to me like the class suck-up. The kid with the great baritone voice and smooth elocution who always dressed sharply and made everyone believe that he was going places. The teachers and the other students somehow just knew that he was super smart, even if the stuff he said in class was pretty pedestrian and unnotable. He would get “A”s in class because the teachers were conned into thinking that something must be wrong with their teaching methods if this kid didn’t score well on the tests; either that or perhaps the tests were biased in some way. So the kid goes through class dragging down the achievement of the rest of the students because he is content with mediocrity and doesn’t have the courage to aspire to more and he gets everyone to settle for average. Twenty years later everyone realizes that the guy never amounted to anything and was never all that remarkable of a character to begin with, but by then it’s way too late.
JVW (60ca93) — 1/26/2015 @ 10:23 pmApparently it’s not just the Indians getting a clue: Per Richard Engel of NBC (via Ace)
Our country is in the very best of hands.
elissa (ae9e01) — 1/26/2015 @ 10:29 pmI’ve heard of a “gumshoe” before, but….
Open mouth, insert gum…?
Not the usual context for “gumshoe”…. LOLZ.
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d) — 1/26/2015 @ 10:38 pmAs cruddy and trashy as I know Obama is — from his politics to his notoriously self-unaware egotism — I didn’t realize just how bad he was in terms of chomping on gum like a bratty teenager at noticeably inappropriate times. Regrettably, he is merely a reflection of the socio-cultural erosion of this society in general over the past 50-plus years. (Uh, anyone see the recent Gallup Poll on Obama?)
There’s no turning back.
When I read about the recent murder of a prosecutor in Argentina tied closely to that nation’s leftist president, who’s not too much more disreputable than Obama is, and also the plight of an Argentinan journalist covering the crime now having to flee his country due to a potential threat to his own life, I’m reminded of how low — very low — a society can go, and how it can end up going even lower than that.
What’s unnerving is that the US, with its increasingly corrupt Hassan-ized/IRS-ized/Benghazi-zed hiearchy, isn’t necessarily much above and beyond a nation like Argentina. That reality should keep sane, decent and watchful Americans up late at night.
Mark (c160ec) — 1/26/2015 @ 10:51 pmghetto is ghetto… that’s all he’ll ever be.
a commenter at AoSHQ nailed it the other day:
redc1c4 (cf3b04) — 1/27/2015 @ 1:25 amseeRpea @19
== re #12: FDR died from a lot of things. He was not a well man for months before his death.==
Because of smoking. That’s my point.
== re #01: don’t look forward to his leaving office, remember when he does there is going to be Presidential Pardons for so many crooks and knaves that a fleet of USPS trucks will be needed to deliver them. == Clinton did that. Obama is not from he same background.
(1d44c7) — 1/26/2015 @ 8:57 pm
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/27/2015 @ 1:43 amI can’t stand this guy. I am second to none when it comes to the shear magnitude of the amount of contempt I have for this preezy.
Yet, I can’t help but notice he’s sitting next to a guy with a hat designed by Lady Gaga.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 3:25 amObama. He’s freakin’ historic.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 4:17 amI can’t wait until I have to choose between electing another national disgrace or being called names. Last time, racist. This time, sexist.
That’ll be, what, 2016?
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 4:22 amI guess I can wait.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 4:22 amI don’t know about anyone else, but my chest swells with pride every time I see our historic first black President debase himself and disgrace the United States.
And I was OK with George Washington’s nicorette, and all those other white President’s playing with their gum-stuffed faces. So what’s the problem, racists?
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 4:33 amThe Department of State actually employs people whose job is to inform the leadership concerning local customs and taboos, and to advise on matters of manners. If our honored President doesn’t know something about protocol, these people are supposed to inform him.
But, as has been previously noted, the Commander-in-Chief either hasn’t been informed that chewing gum at certain occasions is considered déclassé, or he just doesn’t care. I can’t know that he has been informed, but my guess is that he just doesn’t care; it really is All About Him.
The diplomatic Dana (f6a568) — 1/27/2015 @ 5:03 amI first thought of the following as a bit snarky, but after reading some things above came to think maybe there is some truth to it.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:00 amRemember how Obama said he was smarter than everyone else and always knew more about something than his adviser in the room did? Maybe he really thinks his opinion is more correct on protocol than his expert? “Maybe some people think that way, but they’re stupid if they do. I’ll do what I know is best.”
IDK
#53: “Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.”
of course, Obola is oversupplied with both, so it’s six/five and pick’em with him. hell, i’ve got a Persian cat that’s smarter than he is, because my cat learns from his mistakes.
redc1c4 (cf3b04) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:15 am4 out of 5 doctors recommend American voters just face up to the fact that their president is a low-class p.o.s.
the other doctor is stupid
happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:27 amWhy aren’t all the people who are self-righteously screwing with people’s brunches because #BlackLivesMatter not lifting a finger to #BringOurGirlsBack?
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:35 amOT: Bowe Bergdhal to get Big Chicken Dinner as ETS award?
one can only hope…
redc1c4 (cf3b04) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:36 amI don’t want the Chicago contingent to get their panties in a wad or anything. I’m sure nice things happen every day in Chicago. I’m sure nice people come from Chicago and America is better off for it.
TFG is not one of those nice people.
http://www.hark.com/clips/sqzfdknfrt-this-town-stinks-like-a-whore-house-at-low-tide
Almost 30 years ago Sean Connery described the fragrance somebody like Barack Obama gives a place.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:44 amI administratively separated better Sailors than Bergdahl, Red. If the Army hadn’t charged that guy with desertion I would have had to apologize to every single one of them.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:47 ami got those alora thingers I think it was Mr. mg what told us about
mine ones are pino which they don’t have in the 16 oz bottle yet
they’re kinda pricey so I’ll probably refill it with a way cheaper brand but it for sure keeps the whore stink down
happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:51 amMe, knocking on some guy’s door.
“Hi, remember that time when you went UA for a few months and missed movement because you were having problems with your girlfriend? And you thought your command was just supposed to understand? Well, sorry, apparently you were right and we were wrong. We were supposed to understand.”
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:54 am#61: LOL.
redc1c4 (cf3b04) — 1/27/2015 @ 7:00 amredc1c4, don’t laugh prematurely: Mr 57 was simply telling us what’s going to happen in the not-too-distant future.
The Dana who can see the future (f6a568) — 1/27/2015 @ 7:28 amDana, the boat leaves tomorrow at seven. On the dot.
If we can muster a quorum.
Ship’s company, if you feel like it, show up.
If not, whatevs.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 7:41 amDana, I believe you can see the future.
God help us.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 7:45 ami was laughing at how accurate he was…
but then again, i’m the guy with a Retired Reserve ID card that the VA says isn’t really a veteran.
redc1c4 (b340a6) — 1/27/2015 @ 8:12 am“Don’t do stupid things” is the foundation for this administration’s foreign policy. Now all we need to do is figure out what these characters consider stupid. Sort of like the problem of figuring out what the meaning of “is” is. But in that case it was a matter of tense. It won’t be that easy with guy. The old standby “stupid is as stupid does” obviously applies, but how? Who could imagine that a guy from Harvard would need to take some lessons from Forest Gump?
bobathome (f208b6) — 1/27/2015 @ 8:47 amRed, there’s something about the symmetry of a government that denies status to veterans who have ID cards but insists on giving status to illegal aliens who don’t that I have to chew on.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 8:47 ambut yet who does he unstiltingly support
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/saudi-arabias-new-king-helped-fund-radical-terror-groups/
narciso (ee1f88) — 1/27/2015 @ 8:51 amMeghan’s coward daddy is over there sucking on the dead saudi royal pervert’s toes
#theydidsomethingtohisbrain
happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/27/2015 @ 8:54 amThe Bob who is at home wrote:
Easy: if it makes sense, our betters in the Obama Administration think it’s stupid. If, on the other hand, sensible people think something is stupid — for instance, releasing terrorists who want to kill Americans back into situations in which they could try to kill Americans — then the Ivy Leaguers in this Administration think that it’s an absotively, posilutely brilliant idea. We just never knew that the previous Secretary of State’s “Reset Button” actually lobotomized people.
In his book The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam noted that Sam Rayburn, noting all of the high-falutin’ degrees that President Kennedy’s incoming foreign policy appointees had, said that he wished that one of them had at least run for sheriff or something. And from those geniuses, Robert McNamara and the Brothers Bundy, we got our hugely successful plans for winning the Vietnam War.
The Dana with some common sense (f6a568) — 1/27/2015 @ 11:01 amAlso, Dana, Obama hates America.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 11:08 amI’m thinking of writing a book. It will be about WWII, which just had to suck.
I’ll call it Green Dragons and Black Cats.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 11:12 amWHERE ARE MY DRAGONS
happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/27/2015 @ 11:51 amThat’s what I’m fixin’ to tell you, Mr. feets.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 11:57 amSomebody threw a war, and they threw it in the 1940s.
And of all places, they threw it in the Solomon Islands. Which most people can’t find if they Google it. And they didn’t have Google back then, so figure the odds.
Anyhoo, I start from there and work backward.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 12:06 pmIs “low class” better than “no class”?
askeptic (efcf22) — 1/27/2015 @ 12:12 pmSomehow, I doubt it.
We will need to elect a new President that has a comprehensive Apology Tour planned.
Solomon Islands are somewheres west of Utah, no?
happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/27/2015 @ 12:13 pmThe danger. The excitement. The romance. The syphilis. The malaria.
Buy the book. It’ll all be in there.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 12:13 pmi will but it has to be on kindle
happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/27/2015 @ 12:14 pmYeah, Mr. feets. Head to Park City and hang a left. Keep bearing left.
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 12:15 pmI have to get up. My dog is looking at me “that way.”
Steve57 (a04df5) — 1/27/2015 @ 5:02 pmremember when he does there is going to be Presidential Pardons for so many crooks and knaves that a fleet of USPS trucks will be needed to deliver them.
That will NOT happen.
1) People who are pardoned cannot claim the 5th Amendment. They MUST testify. Lying at that point is not covered by the pardon.
2) Obama cannot pardon himself, and must therefore leave fall guys. If Nixon had pardoned everyone else, he would not have got a pardon himself.
Kevin M (56aae1) — 1/27/2015 @ 5:18 pmWait didn’t Marc Rich get a pardon without being tried or convicted whilst in Switzerland?
Gazzer (e441dc) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:05 pmbobathome (f208b6) — 1/27/2015 @ 8:47 am
Anything you think of first, and most uses of military force.
Whatever Obama doesn’t want to do, he calls stupid.
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:08 pmI am finally proud of Michelle Obama. Click it, you’ll like it. http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/_PT984.Bk.sflbHFT_AyTg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTMwNTtpbD1wbGFuZTtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz00NTA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2015-01-27T224743Z_3_LYNXMPEB0Q0TE_RTROPTP_2_OBAMA-SAUDI.JPG
Story here: http://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-navigates-limits-women-saudi-arabia-192549108.html
nk (dbc370) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:32 pmThey probably all think she’s a man anyway.
Gazzer (e441dc) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:47 pmre #86: I agree, I think Michelle did good and she didn’t dress disrespectfully.
seeRpea (1d44c7) — 1/27/2015 @ 6:54 pm