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heh. When faced with a failing Obama (“Little Chimp 2″) presidency, some libs take solace in remembering the days when the Presidential Idiot (“Little Chimp 1″) was from the other party.
Sadly funny.
And you think that’s somehow ‘amusing’? And how does Obama resemble a Chimp precisely?
They’z both of them black peoples!
The ears. Also, the inability to speak extemporaneously.
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!
Plus, lotsa folks (esp. lefties) think he looks like a chimp. Remember how they all thought that the chimp in the cartoon about the stimulus plan was him?
http://contexts.org/socimages/files/2009/02/18delonas2_480.jpg
we have a winner!
Heh, yep.
Captions on this picture are never going to be f***ing funny. It’s just contemptible.
I disagree. I’m laughing my ass off.
I’m sure you are. Which pretty much makes anything else you say meaningless.
Just means that a picture isn’t the end of emotion for him. You can laugh at a joke and still grieve.
This is probably the kindest, most relevant, and most apropos
statement anyone on this site has ever said to this poster.
Kudos to you, kind sir.
Thank you
… as all those lefties that thought that that Chimp in the editorial cartoon was Obama.
Um, Obama didn’t write the stimulus package, genius. Congressional Dems did.
geeeeeez.
Actually I gotta say, as a die hard lefty, the chimp thing didn’t piss me off at all. Chimps being used as a reference for Bureaucrats has been around for a looong ass time. So, please, don’t lump us all together just because a few extremists. (you wouldn’t want us thinking you were all just like bush would ya?)
You were one of those kids that became hall-monitor in school and went all anal-retentive about the time other kids spent at the drinking fountain, weren’t you?
No one could have fixed all the problems in the US in just over 2 months.
How about we actually give him a chance before saying his presidency is a failure?
“No one could have fixed all the problems in the US in just over 2 months.”
Nope.
“How about we actually give him a chance before saying his presidency is a failure?”
Yeah, because doubling the national debt and historic spending is SUCH a great start. The guy’s a f***ing idiot. On a scale not matched…ever.
“Yeah, because doubling the national debt and historic spending is SUCH a great start.”
Where in the world were you when Reagan, Bush I and Bush II ran up 9 and 1/2 trillion dollars in debt, while pretending they were for smaller government? Suddenly you’ve discovered fiscal conservatism? Or does it just cheese you off that Haliburton doesn’t get any more no-bid, cost plus contracts?
PortlandMark, you sir hit the proverbial nail on the head. “Conservatives” have really had a come to Jebus moment recently when it comes to their “Core Beliefs” (and I use the term loosely). Reality check time, you cannot revise history as you see fit, Bush and his goons are responsible for the mess we’re in, Obama just has the unenviable position of cleaning up after the circus.
yup, i knew this would happen. bush got us into trillions of dollars of debt, a worldwide recession, and a war. now obama’s in office. and i guarantee, if, after 4 years, he hasn’t manages to fix what it took bush 8 years to screw up, he’ll be blamed for it. personally, if i was a spiteful person, i’d say let mccain get elected, just so it can be completely understood that it was no obama’s fault. completely unrelated point, while i’m in rant mode, what’s the case against regulation? seriously, we were completely unregulated for a few years, and boom: great depression. 10 years later, we get into a war, so the government takes over the economy to supply the troops, and, wow, we’re out of the depression. wow. imagine that. sorry, another ridiculously long post, but i just have to have a good rant now and then.
“This current mess” can be traced back to the bad fiscal policies of Nixon (and the Democrat controlled legislature), actually. Carter did the exact opposite of what was required to help the situation (along the lines of Obama’s current “efforts.” Again, Democrat legislature.) Reagan did exactly what had to be done, but was hampered by a continuing Democrat congress, who wrote the bills and continued spending – they never would have passed Reagan’s wonderful economic boons unless they were still allowed the spending. The economy did the expected turnaround from depression to a lasting and expanding boom; the longest in our history. Upon which the ’87 ‘crash’ didn’t cause even a blip. Bush 1 turned it back around into a downturn. Clinton was on his way to full-bore socialism in health care, education, etc…which led to the Freshman Class renaissance in ’94 (Gingrichh…ooooh!) and the combination gave us the inflated dot com boom (and laid the groundwork for a lot of the subprime crap), which had burst by the time Bush II came along. Bush did some halfway decent economic moves, such as some tax cuts, that did indeed grow the economy for his tenure.
So, yeah, no…no one’s rewriting history here; you are merely ignorant (not to be confused with stupid) about some of it and how far back things go.
Isn’t it great how everything is all black and white with well defined good guys and bad guys? No need for deep thought here, let’s move right along worshipping/demonizing politicians/political parties and decide whether we want to drive the bus off the cliff on the left side of the road or the right one.
as opposed to the conservatives who just want to pretend that the last eight years didn´t happen…
win.
Yes I do believe he is, also a dick.
This made me lol.
Thumbs up!
Did you lol when you heard the news too? HAHA!
Actually, yes. I just had to laugh. I saw the photograph. He blew his mind out in a car. He didn’t notice that the lights had changed.
Yeah, and I had to look having read the book.
Takes a really tacky type of mind to find 9/11 funny, but then it’s certainly been done before.
Yes, and it’s sad what Anne Coulter said about the widows, too, isn’t it?
If there’s any justice, actual harpies will swoop down and take Ann Coulter far far away. Can’t happen soon enough.
I just hope the harpies have their Dip-Tets up to date…
rabies vaccine too
Odd, I don’t recall ever mentioning that. Or her. {shrug} Did she get elected to office or something and I missed the memo?
If you’ll re-read, you mentioned “tacky type of mind” and
“9/11.” Sorry if my logical path gave you a nosebleed.
Except that the “widows” observation wasn’t a joke. I was referring to jokes. And the logical progression was a bit dizzying, even if that part is ignored…the hilarity of Bush supposedly not caring about terrorist declarations of war on American soil and Coulter commenting on people who were using 9/11 for political purposes, who MUST NOT be criticized simply *because* they lost people in the terrorist act (as though many of us didn’t lose people as well) just doesn’t really logically connect in my mind. And get over here with a rag for this damn nosebleed.
You know what I thought was disgusting, as someone who *did* lose people? The way f***ing Obama cavalierly tossed that flower on the Ground Zero site when it’s so obvious he doesn’t give a damn.
If you put all the guy’s other evils together it wouldn’t come close to that one, for me. There are some things that just aren’t funny. Ever.
“disgusting”
“f***ing Obama”
“cavalierly”
“so obvious”
“other evils”
Your bias negates any point you were trying to make.
Nonetheless, I meant every word of it. While the internet isn’t SRS BIZNESS, the 9/11 attacks were. I really hope he doesn’t show up next time to defile the proceedings; it was really disgusting.
Yeah, it’s SO OBVIOUS Obama doesn’t give a damn. Because you know what he’s thinking. Yeah you do.
Believe whatever you want about it; as will I. The way he threw that flower down, the look on his face, his friendship with the most radical of domestic terrorists and the likes of Wright, the refusal to visit wounded vets because cameras wouldn’t be allowed…all add up to what I said. If I had to guess what he was thinking, it would be “Is this shit over soon, I want some wagyu and arugula; and ffs I hope that idiot cameraman is getting my good side.”
so ayers is a more radical domestic terrorist than timothy mcvay or that unabomber fellow or the klan or the Symbionese Liberation Army or that guy that set off bombs at the atlanta olympics, or the dip in charge at waco? after all the weathermen & bill ayers didn’t kill a single person, and three of their own people were so ineffective that they blew themselves up… but he’s worse than all the rest? can you explain your reasoning for that opinion? or cite a source?
Oh, my. Didn’t you know? Anniee sees into the souls of men, and knows their innermost feelings, motivations and levels of radicalism. Do not question her!
*cough*delusional*cough*
snork, rofl… now i have to wipe my enchilada off my screen
Heh, you admit that everything you say is irrelevant because you have an overwhelming bias towards the right, but you insist that you “meant every word of it.” Isn’t that basically like flinging your feces when you know full-well it’s outright disgusting?
Born and raised NYer.
Lost people.
Know others with health problems because they helped during the attack.
Is TIRED of people using 9/11 as some kind of barometer for patriotism. SOME OF US just want to move on and take care of the living people. Some people are tired of grieving and are ready to move on to the rest of the world. Some people think that getting others KILLED needlessly, stupidly, and ignoring the warnings that would have prevented the tragedy from occurring in the first place are MUCH MUCH WORSE than throwing a flower on the ground in a way that YOU deem disrespectful.
Get the heck over it. You do no one service this way.
I absolutely loved that scene, in all seriousness. It was very beautiful.
Funny, too, hehe
By the way, that was fodder for you to make hay out of. I threw you that one for free.
LOL!! Sometimes my cat does that. She will do something thoroughly stupid, then give me her “I meant to do that” face. It’s cute when she does that…
My cat fell off my banister once while I was watching, landing on her side and tumbling halfway down the stairs. She then attempted to walk away nonchalantly as if falling was exactly what she planned to do.
Well, in this case it doesn’t work because I really did give you that for free, as I immediately told you.
You know what it works for, though? Michael Steele’s gaffes. The whole Rush Limbaugh thing and the apology and blah blah…the bling bling and all the dumb things he’s said and done so far? He **meant** to do all that – just as him. He’s just really really far over our heads; he’s that lofty and that strategerical and stuff. So when you think of those cat moments, definitely think of Steele.
Steele meant to be a dumbass? Hmmmm…..well, that explains him being a dumbass. Good grief, Anniee, please please please learn to tell truth from fiction. Michael Steele is an impotent joke at this point, and keeps backpedalling so much that I think we need to attach a crawfish tail to him to complete the illusion.
Aaaaaaaaaand there go the names again. Geez, it doesn’t take you long to go from being an intelligent poster with something to say to a frothing two year old with an inferiority complex, does it?
“Did she get elected to office or something and I missed the memo?”
Did the captioner of this lol get elected to office or something and I missed the memo?
ZING!!
Paul is dead.
Beatles reference win.
NIce use of the lolbuilder, too!
Wow, this never gets old, not
I echo your sentiment, K
Bush-R-Stoopid…huck, huck, huck.
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But it IS cleverly designed. Now we need an Obama-R-Jesus to follow it up.
Can someone create an Obama strapped to a giant letter “t”?
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It’s only fair, since we haven’t stopped hearing Clinton blowjob jokes yet either.
Besides, this was cleverly done. I give props for execution of lol.
This made me LOL. Not as funny as the not trying anal before Christmas on FailBlog, but a LOL nonetheless.
Dude…seriously. Blowjob jokes are non-partisan.
What’s that old political adage? Never get caught with a live boy or a dead girl?
no, I don’t think we’ll be doing that. Poking fun at Obama is not funny.
really? why not? He deserves to have his life blown up into a caracature and then relentlessly ridiculed… just like any other president we’ve had.
Yes, but Clinton had the Lewinsky scandal to ridicule, and W had his general stupidity. What does Obama have, exactly?
I firmly believe that nobody is capable of living in the intense public scrutiny our presidents do for four years without being caught doing something ridicule-worthy. In other words, give it time.
So far he’s got his big ears, his “Jesus” comparisons, cabinet members who didn’t pay their taxes (until they got caught), and that special Olympics gaf he pulled on Leno. 2 Months in and there’s enough to make fun of already.
I just don’t get why so many Republicans get so whiny whenever Bush is made fun of. It is funny, just like making fun of all that stuff I just listed is. Oh well, I’m going to go home (I’m at work) and pray to my Barrack Obama Presidential Victory Commemorative plate now. And I’ll make sure to hold my painted Barrack Obama Commemorative coins while doing so.
Our Obama , who art in Washington,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy budget come.
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bailout.
And forgive us our partisanship,
As we forgive those who art partisan against us.
And lead us not into further recession,
And deliver us from Bush and Chaney’s legacy.
[For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Big eared Hawaiian Oreo.]
Oh, I was almost crying with mirth by the end of this! You Win all the Internets.
*grumbles* Damn… Wholesome gets all the Internets. *kicks pebbles*
*notices that, while pebble kicking, DWN caused a
1/4 internet to fall out of his pocket*
*picks up 1/4 internet and gives it to Wholesome*
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
I can’t pronounce rhorho but I can pronounce “thank you.”
Thank you.
*snort* Just about snorted beverage all over my computer – too too funny! Well done!
Agreed! Big eared Hawaiian Oreo, FTW!
Cracked me up, too. Oh, Mr. Wholesome? Don’t forget to water your Chia Obama. It’s looking a little dry.
OK that’s it. Barry’s new nickname is “Beho.”
No need, I just hope for it to grow. It works.
By the way (off subject), my mom got Rick rolled the other day and I thought it was hilarious. It wasn’t that it happened to her, it was that she didn’t know it was a joke and said, “I love this song!” It was great. I then explained that it was a prank. That most people think that the song sucks and it’s like a trick. I told her to look out for it on April fool’s (today), and my mom got scared and said you’re moving to your auntie and uncle’s in Bel Air. I begged and pleaded with her day after day But she packed my suite case and send me on my way She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket. I put my walkman on and said, ‘I might as well kick it’. First class, yo this is bad Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass. Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like? Hmmmmm this might be alright. But wait I hear there’re prissy, wine all that Is Bel-Air the type of place they send this cool cat? I don’t think sow I’ll see when I get there I hope they’re prepared for the prince of Bel-Air Well, the plane landed and when I came out There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out I ain’t trying to get arrested I just got here I sprang with the quickness like lightening, disappeared I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror If anything I can say this cab is rare But I thought ‘Now forget it’ – ‘Yo homes to Bel Air’ I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 And I yelled to the cabbie ‘Yo homes smell ya later’ I looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air
um… give it time? What a 70 days ago thing to say!
He’s already given a KMart-style DVD collection to our closest ally, proven incapable of holding a PRESS CONFERENCE without a teleprompter or a TOWN HALL without making it a Potempkin Villiage of campaign workers and donators.
His complete and total inability to speak in public without a teleprompter, for one.
look at you! you spread a meme! awww, isn’t you a cutesy convservabot?
when confronted with the ineptness of ‘bama, attack the messenger.
Nice.
There is nothing inept about using a teleprompter.
It’s a heads-up rolling display of a script. So what?
Durrr…you can’t show up to an important speech prepared! He’s supposed walk in with no idea what to say and come off like a completely inept moron!
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Next thing you know they’ll be criticizing him for having his speeches written and rehearsed in advance!
it wasn’t a ****speech**** it was a ****press conference***.
Not the same thing.
Which is nothing compared to his predecessor’s inability to speak in public even WITH a teleprompter.
Sorry, but when did Bush use a teleprompter for a *press conference*?
And how many times has Obama had to go back and apologize for something he said during a press conference?
…or during a late night TV show, or during a meeting, or during an appointment…….. I think there is crap on both sides, guys. Although, Obama’s continued dependence on the teleprompter is a huge thorn in my side. If he can’t speak from the heart and sound sincere, what’s he doing speaking to people?
I think it’s been proven already that Obama is a little shaky coming up with things to say on the go. On the other hand, his charisma when delivering a speech or when he has an idea of what he’s going to say is unmatched.
Don’t get me wrong, Obama has done a mighty good job of putting his foot in his mouth already, but it’s still a huge improvement over Bush.
I liked hearing Bush speak, but that’s because we share an accent
Now, I will give Obama his props and say that up next to Clinton, they are probably the number one and number two greatest orators of the last 25 years.
If anyone else saw the latest press conference, Obama was answering questions on the fly, and doing a fine job of it, as well. He didn’t read his now-famous answer (“because I wanted to know what I was talking about”) from a teleprompter. He has also vastly improved on his vocal pauses.
The most amazing things I’ve heard Obama say so far involve apologies (eg. nominee problems) and taking responsibility for events. My ears weren’t (and still aren’t) used to hearing such words from a president.
Can anyone point me to an apology GWB made while in office? I’m not saying there weren’t *any,* but I’ll wager there were very few.
The teleprompter was used for his opening statement only. The answers were unscripted.
… and you know this… how?
Seriously? I can’t believe you guys are criticizing Obama for being well prepared instead of more like this guy [link]
Besides, I listened to Obama answer questions for fortyfive minutes without a teleprompter, and he gave thoughtful, intelligent answers all the way through. I bet you couldn’t do the same!
I think we’re witnessing the result of the latest regurgitation from the right-wing illusionists. These talking points hit PK like waves. Consistently, over a short period of time, one or two odd comments will float in, then -whammo- everyone and his dog *suddenly* has a major concern about one central notion, and each con will sound off on the issue, seemingly to verify compliance with the latest topic of group think.
Agreed. I just don’t see how using a teleprompter is such a big deal…would they be less harsh if he read off prepared cards or paper in front of him?
Evidently, it’s all about the sinister tone. Funny thing is that Hannity spoke in such a tone about the diabolical nature of teleprompter use, while reading his diatribe…from a teleprompter (!)
If it weren’t pathetic it would be funny.
Okay, it’s both. The fake nooz media knows what they’re doing: They know it’s all a game. Keep the gullible riled, and your ratings stay high. If there isn’t a good enough topic up for debate, make one up!
Note cards and politicians together makes me think of this. [link]
LOL!
Bush couldn’t speak with OR without a teleprompter, he fudged speeches constantly, and often sounded like a complete moron.
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I would rather have him read line for line from an intelligently written speech than end up sounding like G.W.
70 days of ameturism?
Has any president in living memory committed a similar number of blunders in the same period of time?
Take your pick … inability to make appointments, conduct diplomacy, manage his first and primary task : the economy, etc, etc, etc…
R IS GOOD! D IS BAD! R IS GOOD! D IS BAD!
um, thank you for sharing.
other than more tribalism, do you have anything else to share?
Aw, shucks, I done been taken in by a troll. I actually made a substantive comment below, to which you trollishly replied, to which I substantively replied, to which you ran away. Figures.
Sorry, but telling people to google a few keywords is not “substance”.
Um, considering he managed to help negotiate a cease-fire between Israel and Palestine and the stimulus package is already helping to bring back jobs, fail.
Cease-fire in name only (as has been done before), and 24 jobs? Are you serious?
This is exactly the reason I was requesting facts and citations.
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There’s so much squabbling about what he’s doing it’s hard to sort out the actual factual evidence of what he’s really accomplishing/not accomplishing.
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No offence intended; the perceptions are interesting but at the end of the day the facts are really helpful. Too bad everyone is so damned polarized over this election.
It’s very easy not to screw up when you’re off golfing most of the time. 70 days of actually working is a little different.
Except the letters at the bottom are in the wrong order.
I know – they should spell, “I’m a raton.”
omg, this one was strong xD It cracked me up.
Hahahaha
this is pretty clever, well done
Somebody worked hard on that LOL, but it’s not funny. That pic if when GWB found out about the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center. It did not go in one ear and out the other.
You’re right, that was a bit in poor taste.
It went in one ear, and bounced around for 5 to 7 minutes before finally landing.
TOO SOOOOOONNNN!!!111!!!11eleventy!!
OK, I’ll give you that. Any other picture of someone talking in W’s ear would have been fair game for the same treatment, however.
There’s PLENTY of other pictures out there of Bush being told something and looking like a deer in the headlights. It did not need to be this one, which as PaulaH stated, was from when he found out about the first of the 9-11 attacks.
Keep in mind he was also reading a book to children and managed to keep reading to the children and didn’t say anything to worry or scare them. If anything, that was one of the moments when he was strongest…. he was amazing during 9-11 and the days after it and I do hope history remembers him for that, even if the rest of his 8 years in office were an epic fail.
I don’t think continuing to read to the children while our nation was under attack was exactly strength. If someone is crashing planes into buildings, then the kids can just get over it. Just sitting there with a deer in the headlights look for a minute probably made that jackass Bin Laden laugh uncontrollably. I don’t consider that to be an admirable moment for him.
I don’t fault him for being unable to comprehend the full meaning of what was happening. At the time of the first impact, all anyone knew was that a plane had hit the WTC tower. The tragedy was undeniable, but the question of whether it was an act of terrorism was not then known. It wasn’t until the second impact that people widely knew the destruction was intentional.
Put into perspective and 20/20 hindsight, Bush could have made a hasty exit and left others to explain while he dashed off to AF1. Nothing would have changed, though, so I don’t see why this is an issue still.
Can someone enlighten me as to what I’ve missed?
There is half an uneaten donut behind a bowl on the counter in your kitchen. You missed that but I don’t know what that has to do with Bush or 9/11. Why’d you ask?
Half of an uneaten doughnut…or is it half eaten…?
*stares wildly at lamp, as cats hastily exit room*
The doughnut was clearly designed to be too large for your appetite
Please submit new doughnut plan designs at your nearest dunkin for
approval
So…it is “donut” or “doughnut”? It’s made of dough. But it’s generally referred to as a “donut”.
No, both are acceptable. That fact must be difficult for a goose-stepping partisan to comprehend, but there *really are* two acceptable ways to express the same idea.
I want a donut. Or a doughnut. Or a dhaughknutt. Hell, I’m just hungry.
*hands Diss a fastnacht*
*hands diss a olykoek*
Sheesh! *an olykoek!
(I was concentrating on getting the spelling right, so, naturally, I messed up the pronoun agreement. Ach!)
*contemplates just having a cruller instead*
Hey, one I agree with. I believe the Secret Service were not particularly pleased that he didn’t rush out immediately, but all in all it didn’t make a difference.
As to its still being an issue, there are a lot of things that really are non-issues that are still made issues, on both sides of the political aisle, so…this is just one that’s always going to be made so, IMO.
Though it would be nice if people would be more consistent – either Bush overreacted like a crazy Nazi or he underreacted.
There were a lot of comics made about the fact that Carter just didn’t give a shit about the hostage crisis, too – but that went on for a hell of a lot longer than 7 or 8 minutes.
The love of the Wang is strong in this one…
“ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY WANG!!!!”
Long time…
I disagree with you. Bush had already been warned that Bin Laden was “determined to strike at the United States”, and despite testimony after the fact to the 9/11 Commission, it turns out that attacks from hijacked planes was indeed one of the things he had been warned about. Plus, was it just a coincidence that the most highly placed members of the Bush administration avoided New York and D.C. for all of August and the first part of September?
Arguing that Bush had been forewarned is moot.
Bush had been thoroughly informed that the New Orleans levy system was in grave danger. However, when Katrina hit, Bush stated, “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”
[LINK]
In Bush’s case, “forewarned” is not “forearmed.”
You could make the same argument about the governor of LA at the time, and the mayor of NO.
…not to mention the large number of people who could have evacuated and chose not to. (Not counting those physically or financially unable to in this group, ‘k?)
I’ll have to admit not having a whole hell of a lot of sympathy for those you mention (not those truly unable to leave). When you hear someone tell you that ‘You will DIE if you don’t leave, please leave!’ and you don’t, well…….
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The same thing happened in Galveston a year ago.
Ummmm yes it did. He sat in that classroom for over 7 minutes, with no reaction, after being told that the WTC had been hit. It either took his brain that long to ‘warm up’, or the information DID go in one ear and out the other
So what would you have done? He had 3 choices. Stay there, finish the book, and then leave and take care of the situation; get up and give a lame excuse and hope no one starts to worry; or last cause a panic by announcing the problem and leaving. so again what would you have done.
Realist, it wasn’t that he was warming up to the information or it didn’t sink in, but that he had a classroom of school children who could have easily been upset and panicked by the news if he abruptly left or revealed the news. Believe it or not, he IS capable of thinking of children and their needs…and this was one of those moments. The man’s just been informed of a crisis on US soil on a scope which was unimaginable, the country was attacked… if you saw the rest of his book-reading, the man looked like he was about to start crying any second.
Tho I will admit when I turned on the TV right as the second plane hit… I screamed and I couldn’t say anything when my sister asked me what was wrong, all I could do was point at the TV. How DO you put something like that, something unthinkable, into words?
I’m not Bush’s biggest fan, but during those days it has to be said he was amazing.
“I’m not Bush’s biggest fan, but during those days it has to be said he was amazing.”
The reaction of the rescue workers to his presence a couple days later will always bring a tear to my eye. Or a flood of tears.
Giuliani’s response on the day (which was pretty much all we here had access to, being largely cut off from communication) was also really damned awesome. He wept with us that day, and while he wasn’t my main choice in the primaries, I will never forget him for that. When asked how many people had died, I just remember him sobbing and saying, “More than we could bear!”
The fighting started in again soon after, but I guess that just speaks to the American spirit.
OMG tell me about it… Bush and Guiliani were amazing those days. I hope SOME history book somewhere will at least place the picture of him on the rubble pile with the megaphone, addressing the rescue workers. If only THAT Bush stayed around through those 8 years!
Guiliani wasn’t my pick for primaries, either, but the way he handled 9-11 and did his best to take care of things on a mayorial level was incredible.
As far as tears coming to eyes or sobbing… it’s so hard to look back on 9-11 WITHOUT doing that! I remember watching everything unfold through the day, the buildings collapse, and hoping to see some action here walking out, people slung over his shoulder that he was rescuing, and some end credits rolling and it all being a horrible work of fiction.
We had action heroes, however… better than any that some Hollywood mind could ever create!
Well wronged, friend! He had another choice: brave, compassionate honesty. He chose craven cowardice, followed by politically savvy fear-mongering and the tactics of a police state. I hope I would have chosen the former, followed by honest anger and proper military action, coupled with a fierce and resolute protection of the rule of law, human rights, and the Constitution.
well, huh. Why hasn’t Obama stopped any of them thar “police state” activities?
When did he call for a repeal of the Patriot act, again?
Funny how these things are bad, bad, bad ’till your boy is in.
Please take the time to re-read what I said, and to Google “logical fallacies”.
(waits)
OK! You now realize that what I said had *nothing* to do with the current administration, that I said *nothing* in praise of the current administration, and that your comment had *nothing* to do with what I said! Well researched!
If you want to address what I actually said, the ball remains dead in your court.
Oh, good. So we recognize that Obama’s just as much of a fascist dictator as Bush. Even without a current crisis of that magnitude. Glad that’s cleared up.
“He had another choice: brave, compassionate honesty.”
To the kindergarteners? Uh.
Also, knowledge of Secret Service emergency response fail. They wanted him bunkered, and immediately; that’s how it works.
Considering what all was going on that day, it was crucial the President was kept safe. SS wanted to avoid a Constitutional crisis (death of president) during a National crisis.
So your saying that you would have told those children that the WTC Tower was hit and people had died? or are you talking about after that incident?
Let’s translate that “inner conflict” into a dialogue:
“Mr. President, we received information that a plane just hit the World Trade Center.”
“Errrrr…whatever, but lemme read story, or kiddies get sad.”
“Sir, this is a major catastrophe which is possibly…”
“Me not wanna upset kiddies!”
“With all due respect, but…”
“YOU MAKE KIDDIES CRY! ME NOT LIKES YOU! GO AWAY! I FINISH STORY FIRST!”
Yeah, that’s a tough choice he faced…
Yeah, I guess that makes sense if you were one of the kindergartners.
As an adult, not so much.
I guess that’s why you think that a President should rather entertain children than pay attention to major catastrophes or possible terrorist attacks. Hopefully you will overthink these priorities once you get to primary school.
And…Secret service FAIL once again. Um…did you NOT know what happens to a president during such a crisis? Idiot.
You DO know the proper procedure for when a national emergency Strikes, do you not? I mean, you DO know that you HIDE the f***ing guy in a bunker, right? Are you that stupid?
We’re well aware of it, Anniee… but could you imagine the fear and panic of a bunch of children if the President is whisked away suddenly? His staying those few minutes wasn’t to be “entertaining”, it was to avoid a panic. If it were older students, I’m sure he would have felt more comfortable dashing off.
Know how hard children that age are to placate? Would you want to leave a teacher with two dozen kids crying and screaming for their parents? The President was far away from DC, so yes, he probably felt he COULD stay those extra minutes and still be safe.
Arguably, he could have apologized to the kids and told them he had “Imoprtant President Stuff” to deal with that had come up suddenly without causing a panic. However, I don’t think quickly finishing the book and then leaving was a terrible option either. It’s not like he was Superman and he could change into his tights in the teachers’ lounge and fly to NYC and grab planes out of the sky or something to prevent further tragedy.
It seems like people expect Obama to be that kind of a superhero, or be a Messiah who can revive the economy like Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. If only… !
I certainly can imagine it, and I think it’s gross that people are criticizing the fact that he stayed there for a few minutes to finish the story, when in fact his men were dying to get him out of there and bunkered (as they should have been) – these people expect something that was never going to happen anyway, then call the guy an idiot for it.
I totally agree that Bush and Giuliani were amazing, and for that brief time, we were all Americans, there really was a short but shining moment there where we were united, albeit in grief. I’m sorry it didn’t last longer, but I’m glad that some of us from BOTH sides of the aisle can remember the reality of that.
So…this is about the third or fourth time I’ve seen you either respond to your own post, or wait thirty-or-so minutes to “add” something to another of your posts…you really should do something about that ADD and anger issues of yours.
*Gap*
You know, you probably wouldn’t have to re-post things you forgot to say if you wrote them out in advance…kinda like,…oh…I don’t know…UTILIZING A TELEPROMPTER BEFORE YOU MAKE A SPEECH!!!
Hey, I’m only one person in a horde of Obamunist robots – I gotta take up a little space if I have any chance of being heard, wot?
Because we’re all listening and taking you seriously…
Zing!
Perfect but a little late
A lot late. But we’ll forever live with the blue dress and the Watergate burglars; this is just par for the course.
well of course he can´t understand it… it´s going into his ear backwards.to him it´s just NOITAMROFIN TANTROPMI
EPIC WIN!
It’s cute, I feel like this most days…
He looks like I did when my husband told me my car was stolen:
“Your car is gone.”
…stare…
“Did you hear me? Your car’s been stolen!”
…stare…
“You need to call the police!”
…stare…
Try telling someone to bring an extinguisher, the transport is on fire, and see the gormless, vacant, looks you get…
I was pretty much the same way when I came home to my dorm with my stolen PS2 and CD collection. I was actually stunned enough to look under things to make sure I hadn’t just tossed it somewhere, like I would have ever moved the damn thing. It was practically rooted to its place of honor in college but apparently not rooted enough… *grumbles*
Ditto when I went outside one morning…to find my car stolen. I actually walked around the block to see if I had forgotten where I parked!
Ya, the indignation factor afterward was really comical in retrospect when I am not wishing the thief dead from a variety of circumstances that I won’t share from the vaults of my mind.
Was your car ever found?
Funny thing. The car was found in Rhode Island. Initial report was ‘minor front end damage, but when I got through to the RI police, ‘Oh, it was stripped.’ I asked about the conflict in reports and was told ‘there isn’t that much room to write in the forms’. I’ve seen those forms–they are CHECK OFF style!
Can we say ‘paid off’? I knew we could! And one has to go to the town where the car is to sign away the rights to the insurance company–but how do you get there when your car is stolen?!?! Oy, that was an interesting experience!
Houston cops were famous for stealing things out of
impounded cars. The impound lot makes money by the
day, so the motivation to keep the car is high. If they look
the other way during the police looting, they get more tows
to their lot. If they look the other way during the insurance
adjuster looting, they get another two days’ worth of fees.
I’m sorry to hear that you went through such a hassle! If
only you had been the victim of just the ONE theft…!
Yep. Stripped to the frame in Riverside.
Providence, but same idea!
Viking Gal, one of the times I’ve had a car stolen it was my second day on a new job (and this is the week after I left my ex and moved into an apartment, so fairly high stress levels anyway!). I had sent my girls off to walk to school and was going with my son to drop him at daycare and head to work and when I got to where I left my car in the parking lot — no car. Just a little pile of broken glass. And, yes, I stood there blinking in disbelief for more than a minute!
I think the worst part of your post is the phrase: “one of the times”!
*sigh* Yes, by the third time I wasn’t even shocked anymore. My personal favorite was the time they recovered my POS Camry station wagon and when I went to get it from impound I discovered that when the car thieves left it they were playing my Animaniacs cassette tape at ear-splitting volume. Glad you enjoyed my jams, car thieves!
After that one was stolen (in broad daylight parked in front of the store I was working in at the time, at a busy intersection!) I didn’t even bother replacing the busted ignition switch; I just started it with a screwdriver until I sold it. I figured out that the ignition switch only slows them down by about 30 seconds.
Ouch!
*empathy hug*
i’m so jealous, the only time anyone tried stealing my pos van my ex came home from working graveyard and scared them away – left a lighter, screwdriver, snips and steering column pieces on the floor. to this day i ask myself why it couldn’t have been one of the nights the ex left his keys in the ignition….they never came back either, took cars from all over the neighborhood, but never out of our cul-de-sac.
Wait, so not only did you not have to deal with calling the f’in impound lot every day for a week until it turned up, you got a free lighter and screwdriver out of the deal, too? I think I might be jealous….
your lol-fu is strong…
this is the moment the 20th century ended…may those murdered souls rest in peace, blessed be, amen
Wow, a “George W Bush is dumb” joke. That has all the timeliness and nuance of, say, a “Rosanne Barr is fat” joke. Way to keep it fresh, there.
Or “…your mom”.
Your Mom!
…goes to college!
Eats a duck!
Damn that most decidedly not charro person…
It might have been acceptable if it were done on another picture. This just shows the captioner is a vile and disgusting piece of excrement with no humanity whatsoever.
….or that they weren’t paying attention to the context of the picture and were just trying to make a funny…..It’s not really that big of a deal.
Have you forgotten already, froo? Internet = Srs Biznez
That’s only if Anniee has anything to say about it
Nope. Not considering the caption. There are a lot of pictures that would be suitable for the caption, and that one was chosen. Which is totally classy, and not gross at all.
How hard did you LOL when you got the news? As hard as the rest of us did? Haha!
I gotta say, when I heard, I laughed my ass off. Then, I finished picking my teeth with the finger bone of the small Malawian child that I adopted before Madonna got there and ate with a nice Chiante and some fava beans, and I went on about my day.
Did you want to come over later and share a pitcher of BabyRitas? I just got done throwing some into the blender.
I’ll come! I have some salt for the rim that I’ve distilled from Republican tears!
That’s what I’ve been thinking the whole damned time. That and I keep wondering if Annie is really Rush Limbaugh.
Why, yes. Yes I am. Why did you doubt?
The girl name threw me off.
Well, I should say it did! Jeesh, get it straight. That’s Limbaugh/Coulter/PolPot/Hitler/Mao to you, eh?
You forgot Satan, Beelzebub, Bush, Nixon, and Darth Vader (just kidding, he turned around in the end).
At last! Classic punditkitchen humour!
“classic” in the sense of “retro”?
Brilliant! Love it.
Has any one else gone on a train of thought comparing Obama to the sheriff in “Blazing Saddles?” Is Mel Brooks the real reason the american public was able to get behind a black president?
Erm, no. Now go back to your house before it falls on you.
Erm Yes, I did… ages ago…
um…. topical.
So?
I was just referring to the Mel Brooks part. Of course I’ve gone down the happy little trail of seeing Obama asking ‘Where de white women at?’
I’d thank you to keep your sordid fantasies to yourself…
Don’t mind him Froo, just AIM me tonight and tell me all about it.
with pictures after the style of Goya…
Shush you, you had your chance. No spoiling the surprise!
I was trying to add to your ant…
My mistake. I blame the artificial conscious I have through the power of caffeine.
…isss…
*waits breathlessly*
*waits too and bites Diss*
I was a Bush fan, but I sure as hell laughed at this one.
Thank you. You give me hope.
It would have been funny if it were a different picture. In this pic, Andrew is telling Bush that the World Trade Center was just attacked. I hated him as the president, but not as a human being. You can tell by the look on his face a few seconds after this that the whole world just came apart.
*points to comments further up* Reading is your friend
Yeeeeaaaaaaaahhhh….. everyone ALWAYS reads all of the comments before adding their own. Yeeeeeaaaaaaahhhh……….
Hehe. At any rate, love Bush or hate him, captions on this picture are about as funny as child rape; at least there are some honest liberals who know this.
Yeah, yeah, we got your point the first time you said it.
Oh, good. Then I won’t have to keep saying it.
That certainly hasn’t stopped you in the past.
You got that right, sister. Such dazzling brilliance is made to be shared!
Unfortunately, so are farts…
Lemme know when you have some to share.
Btw, I still found this funny.
… That was directed at Annie. I am not interested in shared farts…
It’s good you have a healthy self-esteem. Now if you could only master self-contemplation maybe you would realize what a droll, pointless, boring person you really are.
I think if she doesn’t verbally Goatse something every week or possibly every other day, she would develop a twitch. However, I can’t be sure of the timeframe because I don’t know if she is pestering other sites when she isn’t here.
Least she was nice enough to share the verbal Goatse and tell us how brilliant she is… Again… Without it showing…
Hey, it gets such a rise out of you people, why not go with it?
And that class, is what we call a troll.
I’m just relieved to know that she wasn’t ever trying to make any sense.
It does a bit to explain why she was constantly showing us her verbal rectum, Goatse style, like an underworked streetwalker…
*snort*
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Ouch, that hurt!
Bit of a Goatse fixation. Ew. There’s help for that, you know. Check on the bulletin board next to the Tubgirl Anonymous group meeting.
Glass trolls shouldn’t throw stones, by the way. If mentioning my dazzling brilliance gets on your nerves, I’d suggest working on your nerves instead of blaming me. Just bein’ honest!
Aww, forgot the link for the goatse problem – give it a try now. {link}
Eddie…I’m going to give you an honest answer to this one. The fact is, you really don’t know me. You have no idea of my self-contemplation, reflection, my private thought or prayer life, my day-to-day interactions with all the human beings that I have to interact with, my work ethic, what I do to help people who hit on hard times, charitable work…you don’t know ANY of these things. How could you? This is an internet site, and a silly one at that. It’s full of rage, anger, attacking and trolls – sort of like a very silly and text-based war zone. I will likewise acknowledge that I know little to nothing about you in your real life.
So one possible suggestion I would have would be to say things that are relevant to the discussion going on here, instead of thinking you know someone’s inner thought life as well as their external life situation, because I don’t think you’re a stupid person, and that just looks…stupid.
Annie, I will assume that you do and are all of the things you say. And as I have pointed out in the past, I don’t consider you stupid or ignorant. I will say however that my comment is based on your interaction with other people here (including myself) and that you come across as.. oh, I don’t know.. angry? While I do not see eye to most of the people here, I still enjoy the interaction. I’m sure you are a much different person in a face to face situation, I just don’t know why you can’t bring that to the table here.
Well, and we discussed this a few lols ago. But that was a really long one so I can’t hold that against them.
nobody else notice that the information is either going in backwards, or coming out of bush’s right ear?
This picture is not funny. He is being told of something very tragic that just happened.
I didn’t vote for him. I didn’t vote for Obama. I don’t think a picture of any president being told 9/11 news is at ALL funny.
READ WHAT’S ALREADY BEEN POSTED, OKAY?
Geez! What’s with people today?
OH MY GOD! THAT’S A PICTURE OF BUSH BEING TOLD ABOUT THE FIRST PLANE CRASHING INTO THE WTC BUILDING, AS ANY TRUE GOD FEARING, ABORTION HATING, GAY MARRIAGE HATING, TAXING THE RICH HATING, MUSLIM FEARING, HETEROSEXUAL, WHITE, AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW! HOW COULD ANYBODY POSSIBLY FIND THIS FUNNY?!?!?! AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I’M ANGRY RIGHT NOW!!!!! SO ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN YOU TASTE MY ANGER!?!??!?!?!?!?!?! BECAUSE IT IS SOME ANGRY ANGER THE LIKES OF WHICH YOU MAY HAVE NEVER WITNESSED BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
SHAME! SHAME ON ANY WHO LAUGHED AT THIS!!!! IT’S JUST….IT’S SO SO SO SAD….because there is no conceivable way that anybody could make this kind of joke without realizing what the actual context of the situation was! IT’S NOT POSSIBLE!!!! SO ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uh…I believe that was the second plane. And yes, on a political site there is little to no excuse for not knowing this.
Shame, because it IS sort of a funny caption (though trite as hell) if it weren’t such an epic fail due to what it’s about.
on a political site there is little to no excuse for not knowing this
As far as I know, that picture didn’t feature in our media at all at the time.
Where are you located, Danbala? I agree, because here at least we had almost nothing in the way of communications – only thing working was landlines and some live feeds off helicopters and such.
But that picture, which has been so badly mocked in the coming days, gets my ire up. What the hell reaction was he supposed to have? I know what MY reaction was and I sure as heck didn’t fault him for his, even if the Secret Service did (from what I’ve read they wanted him underground instantly, and he didn’t do that.) Is it wrong, do you think, to hold some things as sacrosanct? I mean…there was nothing funny about 9/11. Nothing. It was what it was. Admittedly I wasn’t alive for Pearl Harbor, but I’m told that was pretty similar. I also didn’t personally witness the reactions to the shooting of JFK, but I wouldn’t think to make jokes of them. It’s beyond crude.
Oh, I live one of them there backwards dictator socialist European countries with no freedoms.
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The details about who took exactly what actions within exactly which seconds after the Sept. 11-attacks just weren’t all that interesting, so. Yeah. I certainly didn’t recognise this picture as being anything special. I think I might have heard, far later, something about W not immediately reacting, which I didn’t see as strange at all. (That is in relation to how a lot of people react to absolutely unbelievably shocking news, not a jab at W.)
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“Is it wrong, do you think, to hold some things as sacrosanct?”
No, I don’t think so. It is a bit unreasonable to expect everyone else to share one’s own emotions and reactions, or to think less of those who react differently (unless they react by hurting someone else, I guess).
“Oh, I live one of them”
… live in …
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I would have added a smiley there too, but I am really getting tired of the good old ascii smileys being replaced with terrible icons.
I’m not going to argue with anything there; I actually agree, and frankly if you live overseas it would be unreasonable to expect you to have the same reaction to someone within smelling distance of ground zero. (The smell of burning bodies was horrific.)
One of the things I loved most, which is totally unavailable now, was a thread on LGF (a site I’ve never followed; I only saw the one thread) in which all the leaders of the world were shown weeping over the event. Horrible, but it was a love-sharing thing. It would be very strange, however, to find out that the creator of the lol had NO idea what was going on in that picture. On a politically active site…it would be pretty gross.
Yes, the “emotional proximity effect” is certainly a factor in reactions. (Geographically it’s almost twice the distance to New York than to Baghdad from here, though culturally NY is far closer. Just a side comment.)
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However, I am not trying to argue the point of how badly the Sept. 11 events affected people, only the point that “on a political site there is little to no excuse for not knowing this”, since the exact doings of one country’s leader rarely get the same attention in other countries. Our media was all about Sept. 11 for quite some time after the event, but probably in a rather different way to yours.
Hmm… The word “event” there sounds too positive and cheery. I can’t think of a more neutral word, sorry.
Having not been there (withy you I mean) I couldn’t say. I can say that the OK City bombing, I do know that being very far away makes for a different reaction, even while the media is covering it. With OK city, I must admit I felt very far removed, though I wouldn’t have made jokes about it.
Sigh.
Here? Given the caption and the picture? I am not willing to extend the benefit of that particular doubt out of hand – IF the person turns out to be a true ignoramus, then fine. If not, as I suspect, then gross.
You know, this may be unusual, but the Oklahoma City bombing shook me to the core in a way that 9/11 didn’t. They were both horrific, yes. More died in the 9/11 attacks, I know; and I wept over the victims and their families both times. But…to some extent there’s an expectation that terrorists from outside our culture want to do stuff like that to us. Ok City was Americans turning on their own, and for some reason that bothers me more. Maybe also because it was first.
Betrayal is always harder to comprehend than an outside attack. I will be more damaged by Lynn stabbing me than I would anybody else.
OK city was the first for our current span of memory. But actually, in-country terrorism dates back at least to the 19-teens, with an anarchist bombing Wall Street in NYC.
Good point.
Showing my age again…my grandparents were alive then.
I suppose mine were, too, but they didn’t make it to the US until around 1930.
1/4 of mine were here in 1890′s, 1/4 in 1920′s, and the other 1/2 never made out of ‘the old country’! I knew you and I had something in common–we’re Johnny-come-lately-ies!
Lol! Actually, I always forget about the other side of the family becaue I never spent that much time with them as a kid, but apparently they have been here Forever, according to one of my mom’s relatives who did some geneology stuff that I’ve pretty much forgotten about apparently. (Forever = pre-Revolutionary War, not literally…). So I guess I’m 1/2 Johnny-come-lately.
That’s odd, because I’m much closer to OKC (and to the related Waco siege site) than to NYC, but 9/11 rattled me more than both Waco and OKC put together. The difference for me was the “this changes everything” aspect of 9/11.
To be overly glib, if you can appreciate the sight of a Texan wearing a I♥NYC shirt, you know what I mean by “this changes everything.”
okc and waco were domestic incidents… i think 9/11 got more of a pearl harbor reaction from us considering that it was the first foreign attack on US soil since 12/7/41
…first *successful* attack since PH, that is.
Umm… And the WTC bombing in ’93?
Also, you really should take my post as an
answer to diss. We are all pretty aware of
the significance, but the point we were
discussing had to do with proximity.
(Above was @ubr.)
@Danbala–That’s what I was alluding to.
Ah. Six killed, 1,042 injured* seemed successful enough to me. But yes, as I understand it, it failed compared to their intentions, so I see what you meant now, I think.
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*) wikipedia numbers
@Danbala
From the same article:
So, in that way, the plan was not successful.
Yes, I read that part too, that was what I was alluding to in the second part of my post.
Damn, why are we such confusing allusionists?
I blame ubr, and you should, too.
*wags finger at ubr*
both of those events (Waco and OKC) both happened on my birthday, so I have a weird connection with both.
Interesting note: all the people involved with the ’93 bombing were imprisoned. Yay Clinton! How’s the perp count on 9/11? Anyone?
I don’t think it’s unusual. We all have our reactions for a lot of different reasons, and other people should allow for the fact that others’ reactions will be different to these horrific and pivotal moments.
The fact that the federal building had a freakin’ daycare center in it really got to me, too.
lol… “with no freedoms”
Yes? That’s what anything resembling socialism leads to, I’ve heard.
*nods sagely*
*waves rosemary*
*she wishes I would stop*
What media did YOU have? That picture was plastered everywhere! If it wasn’t that picture, it was the video clip. My heart broke for the guy, and breaks everytime I see that video or picture.
Non-American media? I bet it was featured somewhere, but no, I did not recognise it at all until I read the thread. (And no, it’s not a case of me not reading any papers or not watching any TV news.)
Once again proving that many people in the US need to spend some time outside this country, preferably not in a resort, so that they can realize that there are other cultures, media sources, languages, etc out there. The USA is not the be-all and end-all of civilization, folks!
/end rant
[reopen rant] What VG said. It’s embarrassing for me to read US folk say “This is a free country,” “If you don’t like it leave (the US),” etc., on PK. I’ll be happy when our sorry asses are #2, #3, or #4 in the global pecking order. Maybe then we’ll become less pompous, and easier to take.
Actually, Americans are pretty much liked everywhere (with some exceptions of course.) It’s the politicians and the policies that piss other countries off. When people find out I’m from the States, I get bombarded with all kinds of questions. It gets even worse when they find out I lived in California. Then they start asking for good places to eat and see.
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What I find somewhat amazing though is recently the PM from Australia visited with Obama and it didn’t make a blip on the media radar. A phone call to the Space Station seemed more important than a visiting dignatary. You should have seen the hew and cry in the media here about that one!
You are kidding, right? From your comments, you sound as though you are living in Australia – in that case, you know (and this is from another Californian living in Oz) that the people here are pretty easy-going. I’ve lived in a couple other countries and traveled extensively, so I can assure you that Americans – in general – are considered fat, obnoxious buffoons in much of the world.
The media portrays us as such and too many of American tourists seem to make it their lot in life to prove that perception correct. Naaah. People may like individuals, but the stereotype I’ve come across most is definitely of Ugly Americans.
I remember a friend telling me about his trip to Germany. Apparently the people he spoke thought we were all gun wielding loons having car chases… Then again, he might have been pulling my leg but I found him trustworthy with his haggard look…
I have a feeling there might be a difference in how “Americans” and “American tourists” are viewed. For instance, I’ve never come across anyone who finds a colleague who’s from the US and working over here to be anything but … “normal”, whereas American tourists often are … Speshul.
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Then again, most tourists are.
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And, if the US-centrism of some Americans is what annoys some Europeans (again, just an example), they should greet the tourists happily. After all, they’re the ones who have at least decided to go look-see outside US borders.
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“People may like individuals, but the stereotype I’ve come across most is definitely of Ugly Americans.”
I would think that’s the most common one, yes. Though most would be hard-pressed to explain exactly what it means to them. (Beyond pointing at “Jay-walking” or whatever Leno’s section with really ignorant people is called.)
Then again, most tourists are.
They don’t change when they get back, either. My mother’s best friend used to bore the snot out of me with her list of “things they don’t have” in other countries. She was able to go with her husband (on his company’s dime) to lots of neat faraway lands, only to return, b!tching about the lack of paper towels in one country, or the lack of peanut butter in another.
*headdesk*
Urgh. Yes, that type of tourist tends to be really an
noying. (And probably quite a global phenomenon.)
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I also very quickly get tired of those who are completely unaware of anything about the place they are at – as if they’re walking through a gallery or a museum with no interaction expectations. Hmm… Maybe that’s a thing about the particular loathing for American tourists? I’ve come across a few who go on an “all of Europe in 14 days”-style trip, and they tend to be horrible to talk to, because they barely know which country they’re in at the time. I think it’s common for Chinese/Japanese tourists to do things like that, but you don’t notice it as much since they much more seldom insist on “a chat with the picturesque indigenous European”. Me, prejudiced? Hell yeah.
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But, you know … We shouldn’t make fun of tourists. It’s not funny. And it can really offend some people. It’s rude and disrespectful.
We shouldn’t make fun of tourists. It’s not funny. And it can really offend some people. It’s rude and disrespectful.
LOL! Yes, and, based on that one conversation with one person from each nation, we get to hear, “The people in Spain are rude, but the people in Portugal are very friendly.”
Ha. Yes. And if you behave as an obnoxious and loud tourist, you’ll find many more countries where people are rude, too! Anyway – I bet plenty of tourists are absolutely excellent, you just don’t notice them all that much.
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Kind of related, kind of funny anecdote: Last time I was doing some serious touristing, me and my better half were asked by even more touristy tourists if we would pose with their little kid in front of a tourist landmark. That was amusing.
(We were in London and the mega-tourists were Japanese. I bet they had seen too many of those “punkrocker in London” postcards, and we probably were the only people even vaguley resembling punks that they’d seen in their entire visit there. And yeah, we did the decent thing and posed for them.
That’s kinda cute though in a patronizing sort of way… But I probably would have done it too.
@Lis: Maybe it is the difference between living here and visiting. I’ve lived in a few other countries and it’s been pretty much the same reception. Or maybe they all realize I am Teh Speshul and treat me accordingly? OTOH, my experience in Singapore was just shy of awesome (I am leaving bit of wriggle room in case I get to go back). The people there were just the best and extremely helpful. I have heard that tourists are a pain in the butt, I’ve just never seen it. However, on one memorable trip to Disneyland, I did see a Hispanic and Asian go at each other. It was quite spectacular and the Hispanic guy had no idea what hit him when the Asian guy went all martial arts on his ass.
So I’m supposed to automatically know when someone is NOT from the USA based on their username on a website? Hmmm ok.
Not necessarily. But for future reference, there are two regulars from the UK, three frequent posters from Australia, a Swede, a few occasionals from Canada, and the occasional drive-by from New Zealand.
with sheep..
Nah, I don’t think anyone expects that. Since this is the Internet however, I would expect people to “automatically know” that any given actor could be anyone, and be located anywhere.
Sarcasm Win!
Indeed.
OH MY GOD! I ENJOYED BOTH OF THOSE COMMENTS! AAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dubya is a MORON !!!
Self awareness is the first step to recovery.
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The most unforgettable WTF/Duh face in history. Priceless.
Great use of the advanced LoL builder!
Obama’s president, Bush jokes are over. Bush jokes are old news anyways.
nah, we’ve still got the last 8 years of clinton/lewinski/blue dress jokes to make up for
8 years, and counting…
besides there is just tooo much material to rework with the shrublet. his retirement ought to provide some new material too, unless now he’s reading his speeches off cue cards and not having them feed to his ear with a secret service ear bud….part of me was always hoping that he sounded so illiterate was because he was always half a word behind whoever was feeding him his speech. but then that might be my ever eternal optimistical side showing again. just like i ‘know’ that the florida election wasn’t thrown or the machines made by diebold in 2004 didn’t have undisclosed flaws possibly throwing the election to the shrublet.
i know, i know, someone out there is thinking ‘just get over it already.’ tell you what, i’ll get over it already when you throw your influence and good will behind our current prez and do whatever you can to help this country succeed instead of standing back thinking to yourselves “see, told you so, the dems can’t fix anything”
The “Information” picture is a shot from Michael Moore’s movie “Fahrenheit 911″. Bush is in the Florida classroom listening to the children recite and he is told that a plane has flown in to the World Trade Center.
ROFL!!! XDDDD So true!
TTLY1!!!1!!!! XDDDdddD
This is an amazing lol!
Why are you bothering to bash him? Bush wasn’t God or anything, but its really pathetic to mock him NOW. His policies were not anything to emulate, but he isn’t the president anymore. He never had an affair, he never abused his power, and he hasn’t been bashing Obama. I’m sick of hearing about George Bush!
Newsflash: Bush is no longer President. Hasn’t bee for more than two months.
Although I guess this is a lot easier for the left than paying attention to the incompetent moron currently holding the office.
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Nah, it’s just funnier now because Bush’s incompetence can’t kill people anymore.
WORD. *points up*
THAT. Exactly.
WIIIIINNNN…. XD
LOLOLOL
*yawn*
yeah, same joke, different day. it’ll be funny someday.
lmfao almost fell on the table laughing.
Shouldnt make fun of that pic :/ The information he was given is absolutely not funny…
Yeah, this one is a little tasteless
wtf that is the day when this counter went to the fires of hell that when bush was informed the tower went down wtfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
gretz post lol