Barack Obama is currently on a “listening tour” of the Midwest to bolster his uphill re-election campaign. When two average Americans dared to ask him about his administration’s harsh rhetoric against its opponents, Obama got testy before repeatedly putting his hands on a woman to try to stifle her.
At a Monday town hall meeting in Decorah, Iowa, Obama met two of the millions of Americans who disapprove of his performance as president. Tea Party activist Ryan Rhodes and an unnamed woman asked why Joe Biden was calling conservatives terrorists. The exchange clearly got the best of Obama:
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Obama is visibly tense throughout the exchange. Let’s look at that video again, more closely this time. Notice how Obama listens until the woman starts to speak — and then he decides to reach out and touch someone:
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Obama showed his thuggish tendencies in this video. The One is the most criticism-averse president in history; the Affirmative Action baby has gotten steadily promoted beyond his competence between orgies of adulation that he is “brilliant” and “articulate.” When anyone raises even the faintest criticism of his efforts, he gets bent out of shape. In this discussion, he could not take the mild questioning anymore and attempted to physically break this conservative woman’s line of thought, physically intimidate her, or at a minimum decided this little lady needed to be steadied because of her little feminine case of the vapors.
Where is the outrage? Where is the feminist movement? Remember the conniption they threw when Rick Lazio allegedly invaded the “personal space” of Hillary Clinton during their 2000 Senate debate?
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Obama ended the trio’s encounter with his typical condescension. “It doesn’t sound like you’re interested in listening,” he said. But Obama is the one on a “listening tour.” So, shut up, listen, and get your hands off of us.
This incident invites us to think about a possible scenario in the 2012 presidential race. Imagine for a moment if an unapologetic conservative woman were on the debate stage with him, either at separate podiums or at a town hall-style debate with no barriers between them. Imagine she had the guts to call Obama out for his record of failure and his terrorist pals. If Obama is able to keep his hands off her, he will boil over until he loses his cool in some other way. The flustered president will go down in flames — and the Left’s toughest champion will be beaten by a girl.
Update: This story was picked up by DailyKos by a diarist named qannabbos. Curiously, today we have seen a whole group of new people login, all posting a variation of the same comment: “While I do not support Obama, he did not grab her. We’re better than this! We Tea Party conservatives shouldn’t lie, like racist scum….” The new members then all like each other’s comments. The hate posters on DailyKos lack the subtlety to make their deception stick and lack the civility to lecture anyone about anything.
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I am not a fan of Obama!!! However, your headline is so wrong, that you need to re-route your thinking process…
Tell the truth up front!!! Obummer did not grab anybody!!! And you should get a new career, because you are lying about what was done…
You Story deserves to be trashed because it is not factual…
Doc
Wrong!
Think: Body language!
The very action of Obama placing his hand on the lady’s upper arm is a sign of dominance! He is ALWAYS doing this one motion when talking to someone he doesn’t have one iota of respect for! His lack of respect is so obvious in the video, it isn’t funny!
Read between the lines, pay attention! This video and the entire article is very well put!
You are right that was a lie. He did not grab her. I despise everything Obama stands for, but that headline is a lie. Tell the Truth. We have heard enough lies from the leftist media. Don’t you guys start this lying.
How can you possibly say he did not grab her? Perhaps you did not watch the video. I, quite frankly, do not care what he does and it amazes me to no end that you can act like loonies over the “did grab, didn’t grab” line of thinking – please…….
This headline is nothing more than a dog-whistle to the xenophobes who populate this sight. My oh my, I am twisting my pearls; how DARE that BLACK man touch that WHITE woman?
HE DID NOT GRAB HER! What a bunch of dog-poo. Get your facts straight or give up the keyboard.
“Grabs?” Seriously? You righties really are that desperate, aren’t you? What happened in that video bears zero resemblance to your headline. Are you hoping people won’t watch the video? Are you hoping like-minded tea partiers will see what they want to see? Both?
What a horrible excuse for reporting.
I am a conservative and that freaking was a lie. He did not grab that woman. (Nor did he have sex with that woman.)
I agree with Robert Livingston, otherwise known as Doc. I don’t like what Obama has done as President, either, but that’s not license to criticize just anything he does. This TeaParty lady was young and earnest. Her questions were valid, but it just wasn’t the right setting for the type of conversation she wanted. I think the president handled the situation nicely. He didn’t just walk away. He put his hand on her shoulder to calm her down, seeing that she was upset. I would have done the same thing. Some presidents would have put her off more than Obama did. I don’t think you acted fairly here, Ben Johnson. I think you ought to apologize to your readers, and to Obama. No, Obama won’t apologize to you, but you do want to keep yourself right with God, right? Any way, this is what I think. Be more careful next time, and don’t allow your dislike of Obama to mar your view of what he’s doing at the moment. Maybe if there were more apologies given between the parties when we are wrong, there would be fewer hard feelings. There could be allowances on both sides for mistakes. Not meanness, or criminality, but mistakes.
Honestly I cant baleev how calm he is wen peeps R being so rude
I wuldnt evan talk 2 peeps acting crazy like that, srsly
Impeachment? Hey this is a crime committed before election to the Presidency. He and his conspirators must be convicted in a Court of Law based on facts and evidence before a judge and jury of their peers not a Senate that may be tainted by others who have to be investigated and put on trial next. Chirac is on trial for crimes he committed before he became President of France because he no longer had the parliamentary immunity of the office. For Obama and his conspirators there should be no cooling off for the crime. Any successor is bound by oath of office to uphold the Constitution by bringing c0nviction and erasing all the evil done by this foreign implant and his conspirators.
I had to sign in to comment on the fact that obviously the Daily Kos commenters found their way over here too. Too funny.
You know they are busy as little beavers…..actually beavers make a lot more sense.