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Pick Your Nominee Based On Sense of Humor

By SusanUnPC on April 2, 2008 at 12:42 AM in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, Pennsylvania

CANDIDATE NUMBER ONE:

CANDIDATE NUMBER TWO:

Sen. Barack Obama approached first overflow in the parking lot outside of the Scranton town hall, and immediately went to Denise Mercuri, a pharmacist from Dunmore who was wearing a Hillary Clinton button. She held an Obama button in her hand, and he asked what he needed to do to get her to wear his instead of his rival’s.

“What do I need to do? Do you want me on my knees?” he asked. He then conceded, keeping with his flirty trend of the day (see earlier report), “I’ll give you a kiss.”

– From the Obama Pool Report in Scranton, Pennsylvania

This guy’s a scream! Here’s what he said about Gen. McPeak in Medford, Oregon:

This is from Larry Johnson’s story, “Senator Obama, Have You No Decency?“:

OBAMA: Let me just say that not only do I consider General McPeak a friend and an adviser but I just think that he looks and sounds like Clint Eastwood is cool. Yeah … that’s what you want a general to look like and sound like. [SMILES BIG] Yeah …. uh …. you know, if you mess with him, you’re in trouble. So, yeah, uh, he … General McPeak has been traveling on my behalf and I’m just thrilled.

Yeah. That’s what I’m looking for in a senior military adviser. A guy who looks like Clint Eastwood and who looks like, “if you mess with him, you’re in trouble.”

And that “mess with” line reminds me of another remark … can you guess by who? Maybe Obama’s new pastor Otis Moss?

Maybe that “mess with” line isn’t quite as funny as Obama made it out to be to that innocent bunch in Medford. Maybe it’s a commonly used threat. Maybe it’s “code.”

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P.S. Here are the results of the latest SurveyUSA poll in Indiana:

Hillary Clinton: 52 percent

Barack Obama: 43 percent

BONUS VIDEO:

The tag line at the end of this video is relevant to Obama’s pleas today to that Hillary Clinton voter.

  • DisenfranchisedVoter

    LOL. I’m laughing at Obama’s complete arrogance combined with awkwardness. Not all of us women think Obama is attractive. Obamabot women might swoon for him at his rallies but if Obama ever kissed me I’d probably want to vomit. And yay for Clinton being comical and classy as she usually is.

    • chris

      You gotta love how he struts after bombing out in bowling. Even I bowled a 225 my first game from beginners luck. (my average actually went down the more I played as I learned to spin the ball, but beginner…I did pretty well).

      Nothing like watching Barry bowl and then strut as he calls for patience.

      Is this the future of his presidency?

      Very Bushlike

      • apishapa

        My son’s best friend bowled a 300 when he was a high school senior three years ago. He won several men’s league tournaments that year. Then he went to Iraq and was hit by an IED one week later. He lost his right eye and the use of his right arm, and most of the use of his left leg. No more bowling for Josh, but he lived. It breaks my son’s heart.

        I’m a lousy bowler, but I used to take my kids every weekend, because it is cheap, and they had fun.

      • mimi

        What I loved was that there didn’t seem to be too many people at this photo op. And the expressions on the faces in the crowd was like:

        “Who does this guy think he’s fooling?”

        Too bad the press didn’t make mention of that in the same way they describe the large swooning crowds that Obama was attracting at one time, but no longer.

        And the press keeps gaslighting us with claims of fairness and that Hillary’s supporters are whining.

        Not exactly. We have eyes, ears and brains.

    • mimi

      He has big ears!

  • MarkL

    Isn’t he just the mirror image of Bush?
    Ugh!

  • truthteller2007

    Does he not realize how much of an idiot he appears to be in his failed attempt to connect with middle class voters? Nothing about this man is authentic: everything is staged, and everything is coordinated. But what does one expect. He is, after all, a gutter politician.

    • BernieO

      Hey, at least he is better than his wife who was dumb enough to complain to working class women in Ohio about how hard she has it economically because of the high cost of dance, music, sports etc. for her children which costs $10,000 a year AND she and Barack only recently got out of debt from all those loans to Ivy League schools. I’m surprised she did not mention the cost of her Jimmy Choo shoes…….

      Wonder what the media would have said if Hillary had done this when Bill was president. They would still be talking about it. Look at how incensed they were about John Edward’s home and haircut…..

    • Pete

      You mean the Arugula remark didn’t work?

  • truthteller2007

    I choose candidate #1.

  • llilytoo

    You can see Kerry is advising him!
    This reminds me of the Kerry hunting
    laugh riot from 04

    • DisenfranchisedVoter

      These folks are so disconnected from reality and the life of common American folks it is ridiculous. And Rev. Wright actually had the audacity to try to make Obama out into some sort of victim who grew up in a single parent home as if he grew up in the inner city on welfare. Give me a break.

      • mimi

        I used to dream of Hawaii when I was growing up in Harlem.

  • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

    STRICTLY OT BUT IMPORTANT: If any of you post a comment, and it does not appear immediately, e-mail me, with your username, at susanunpc at gmail dot com

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    However, if you e-mail me with your USERNAME — the name that you use when you post comments here — I can quickly search the entire spam filter and restore your comments.

  • LatinoDem

    Hmmm.

    Sexually harassing people into voting for him? That’s an interesting technique, I wonder how it will work.

  • http://thumbsnap.com/v/78mn2yFc.jpg 1Watt, eggumacated

    haven’t checked, but are y’all cross posting @ the corner yet?

    • TeakWoodKite

      Good day 1Watt

  • MarkL

    Wasn’t Clint Eastwood in Bataan? He’s one tough dude!!

  • Fredster

    Oh how I wish that woman would have said to him: “Well you can’t get me to wear your button. You simply don’t have the qualifications or experience yet to be the President. Stay in the Senate or another 4 or 8 years, hold some subcommittee meetings and learn some things. Then ask me about wearing your button.”

    Of course nothing like that will ever happen. It would probably devastate him to hear the truth.

    • Carrie

      I think she should have slapped him good and hard right in front of the camera.

    • barbh

      Even if she had said it the Omedia wouldn’t have quoted it!

  • TeakWoodKite

    “What do I need to do? Do you want me on my knees?”

    No but Rezko might. oops

  • Birgit

    Definiteley Candidate Nr. One. I appreciate her deadly serious tone and mimic on it . I Like her sense of humor. This was funny LOL :-) )
    Unfortunatly as a foreigner I can´t vote for her. So please do me a favour and get her into the office. I count on you :-)

  • kenoshaMarge

    I want candidate #1. Smart, classy and with a sense of humor. Be prepared for outrage from the elite who will not understand that “staying out of the gutter” is a bowling term and that think all us peasants that go bowling and know these terms aren’t worth bothering with.

    Is it true that Obama, doing the phony Kerry bit, actually only bowled a 37? Good grief, my eldest son, at four years old bowled got a 43 the first time he bowled. (That was forty years ago and I know because we framed his score sheet and still have it.) Guess low-brow things like that make me and my family real “Archie Bunker” types.

    • Rob Gard

      Kenosha Marge:
      Obama bowled a 37, but Axelrod excused the worse than rookie performance by saying that he quit after 7 frames; so not only is he a lousy bowler, but a quitter too. You’d think that knowing you were going to shoot a photo op at a bowling alley, you’d get in a bit of practice first, and lose the tie. Those “Archie Bunker” types that your campaign set out to woo at the bowling alley can’t imagine bowling while wearing a suit & tie.

      • kenoshaMarge

        No our bowling teams never wore a suit and tie. It might have looked a little silly combined with a shirt that had “Dempsey’s Bar” embroidered on the back.

      • Pete

        Go easy on him. He thought he was going to play tennis.

  • DCDemocrat

    Susan:

    I’ve been thinking a little bit about the Site that Must Not Be Named, and I have come to some conclusion about Markos and his cohort.

    Essentially, they’re pubescent. My assessment is that only the most puerile bloggers on the net post there. I’ve decided that being a blogger at Markos’s site is a ready and accurate signal of political and social immaturity.

  • Arabella Trefoil

    I want a president who stands up for me, not somebody who kneels for me.

  • Honora

    I wish the woman had said that she wanted Obama to support counting the votes in Florida and Michigan. I remember when Kerry was running and “Flip-flops” came to every campaign event. Maybe we need people in a Florida orange suit and a….(help me with something from Michigan) to attend all Obama’s events.

  • bmc

    Like the time Obama was at the rally and a woman shouted out “I love you, Barack,” and he stopped his speaking momentarily to reply, in the most smarmy manner imaginable, “Well, and you know I love you too!”

    It was one of those moments when his arrogance, his cockiness, and his confident propensity to use his CHARM to get what he wants, was just so crystal clear. A gag moment for most women I know. Utterly disgraceful because it was the response of a man who has lived on his CHARM.

    I just cannot imagine this man becoming the next president. He’s a con man, the charming equivalent of a political psychopath, who has no shame, no character, and no experience, but gets whatever he wants because he is confident he can charm people into believing he is authentic; so confident of his ability to charm that he isn’t afraid to describe himself as a “blank slate onto which people of all political stripes project their own views.”

    It’s shameful that Americans could be so deluded.

    But, after G.W. Bush’s ascension to the White House, I’m not surprised by anything anymore. I’m just disgusted with the Democratic Party.

    If Florida and Michigan are not counted to determine the nominee, I will vote in solidarity with Florida and Michigan in November. I will not vote for Barack Obama as President.

  • barbh

    I love Hillary’s sense of humor.

    I find the fact that BO did this offensive, not to mention extremely arrogant, but that seems to be par for the course. He’s definitely full of himself for sure.

    What would Hillary be called if she did this to a man?

    The whole thing reeks of sexism to me.

  • Escoffier

    My favorite is the photo of Sen Obama wearing the black cowboy hat. One of my co-workers said it looked like it came from a gay porn site.

  • bmc

    April 2, 2008 – Clinton Leads 50 – 41 Among Pennsylvania Democrats; Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Whites Give Clinton Lead In Key November Matchups: — PENNSYLVANIA Democrats: Clinton 50 – Obama 41; FLORIDA: Clinton 44 – McCain 42; McCain 46 – Obama 37; OHIO: Clinton 48 – McCain 39; Obama 43 – McCain 42

    New York Sen. Hillary Clinton holds a 50 – 41 percent lead over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama among likely Pennsylvania Democratic primary voters and runs better against Arizona Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican nominee in Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

    http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x2882.xml?ReleaseID=1164

  • ebonyscrews
  • apishapa

    Didn’t Obama use the excuse that a 10 year old bowled on of his frames and that brought his score down?

  • Steve Judd

    I think Sen. Obama was obviously the victim of a Clinton-inspired plot to secretly make him bowl with a right-handed ball when everyone knows that he’s left-handed! Or maybe they secretly put him on a right-handed lane! Yeah, that’s it!

    Ooh, those Clinton people will stop at nothing!

  • Silver

    Well, Obama’s first mistake was to even pick up the bowling ball. I’m a crappy bowler too, which means I stay away from bowling alleys. Shows he can’t even think quick on his feet and give a good excuse like, “Sorry guys, can’t today, sprained my wrist while trying to lug White Granny out from under the bus and onto the train tracks for a second run.” I guess that Jesus feeling must have gotten to his head. In addition to walking on water, he thinks he can bowl too. Let’s just hope his next stunt doesn’t involve flying like Michael Jordan. Next thing you know, he’ll have a campaign rally at a circus and attempt a somersault on the flying trapeze without a net. “Splat!”

  • Newport News Dem

    I want to be fair to our yuppie opponent, if we extrapolate the 37 through 7, he really bowled a 53. Much better! I wonder if he also had a glass of chardonnay instead of a Yuengling while concouring the lanes

    Obama offered to go down on his knees with the woman from experience. All the obamadroids are on their knees in idolatry to their media created rock star, it is what he knows!

  • rjj

    Obama is almost as bad at the hoi polloi thing as John Kerry.

    George Bush is better at it – maybe because he was never distracted by policy shit.

  • http://tersaona.net MoodSwingeR

    I hope he says “Do you want me on my knees?” to a male voter next time.

  • Silver

    Obama seems to have gotten his personality/looks confused with someone else’s regarding the knee and kiss offer. It might be okay if it came from someone with integrity and a loin cloth like the Spartan guy in 300. But Obama reminds me more of the dorky, suck-up character that Rick Moranis played in Ghost Busters— the one Sigourney Weaver kept trying to avoid.

  • OldCoastie

    I am hoping someone with skillz on the internets can put together an “I beat Barack!” website with lots and lots of pics of kids bowling and showing their scores… Mr. “I Can’t Be Mocked!” would probably not react too well to a bunch of 3, 4 and 5 year olds showing off all their MUCH higher bowling scores…

    I think it would bother him immensely and I like the idea… Rev. Wright may not bring him down, but perhaps bad bowling will… (or at least him being a poor sport might be very revealing)

  • Kathy

    I have a suggestion for Hillary on what to do about the Bosnia gaff. This is my husband’s idea and he can be pretty funny.

    At one of her big rallys, come out in a flak jacket and helmet and just say
    something funny like “I just want to be prepared.”

    Can anyone else picture this? Or too much?

    • JoeySky

      Your husband is a genius. I love the idea. But I don’t know it will be too much or not. She shouldn’t look like a goofy in any circumstance. The bowling joke worked because it’s an April fool joke. She played by the rule.

  • Silver

    Kathy, that’s funny.

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