Barack Obama Shows A Little Salsa

Nice!

Ha Ha, Bush wins hands down, oops, I mean hands up. He added different moves to the dance and looked good as he did it.

Obama came next, I think, although Michelle did not look too happy with his effort Hmmmm…. Maybe she is thinking of the Healthcare bill and not the Salsa.
As for Karl Rove, that made me gag. Sorry, but to see this scheming uncaring wolf so relaxed was saddening.

Great post though!

LM

http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/i-fully-support-gun-ownership/

I know some might see it as trivial, but I really love the way the Obamas are spotlighting and celebrating the traditions and holidays of so many faiths and cultures.

Michael Scherer:
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I was about to say something mean, but then I noticed that you included Dancin’ Dave.
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I guess I’ll shut up now.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, behold “Pres Barack Obama Shows A Little Walk” move as he strides from the Oval Office to the podium outside the White House to talk to Reporters ….

Swooning Michael Scherer: “I know for sure that it’s yet another thing Barack Obama looks good doing that I don’t look good doing.”

Can we ever get Time magazine to post the video of Obama throwing a baseball like a freakin’ girl?

Let me guess: The swooning Scherer thinks Obama “look[ed] good” throwing out that first pitch.

Lord, please help us ….

Wow. You’re so twisted with hate that you’ll even lash out at a trivial little thing like this.

That’s just sad.

Trivial is correct. Which bodes the question as to why a journalist would spend time posting it. It demonstrates the type of press coverage that Obama has received since he began to run. There are nut jobs all around his administration, felons in his past and they go unscrutinized by the press. Instead we get dancing and basketball games for the First Tourist and journalist getting tingles up their legs.

Maybe we now know where Monica’s kneepads went!

dude looks good doing what he does. what can i say?
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just love the ‘caliente’ hand gesture he does at the end. lol

totally agree with you. I would look better throwing a baseball than obama did, since for starters i don’t own baggy daddy jeans, and even if i did, I would not wear white sneakers with them.

here is video for textee.

“Amor a la Mexicana” no wonder…

Dear Textee: Really? You have not had enough with the frinik’ “like a frikin’ girl” thing. Are we not beyond that? Sure plenty of girls can throw way better. A bad throw is just a bad throw.

All of this is wonderfully cute, like kittens playing with a ball of yarn. And, I think Time for expending their “reporting” resources towards heartwarming cuteness.
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Meanwhile, I cover things like Obama making extremist “reconquista”-style comments and Obama’s support for (one style of) White Power.
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Turn to Time for the cute and the pabulum, visit my site to learn all the things Time will never tell you.

Mr. Scherer:

Thank you for the video. I still can’t believe that you posted the video. I’ll not only never say anything critical of your work, but the thought of ever saying anything critical of your work will never cross my mind. Great job!

It helps that the chanteuse is, unless I badly mis-recognize, the smoking-hot Thalia, also a telenovela star before her recording career took off and she married music mogul Tommy Mottola.

This thread hilarious. Freep and teste suggest Scherer, uh, I better use their words, ” now know where Monica’s kneepads went” and then he does their bidding.

Why it has been hours since you have performed so well Michael!
What with that conclusion in search of evidence thingee the other day.

oh, paul no. textee had a point. Obama looked lame throwing the pitch. he looked good dancing the salsa. I’m just reporting the way i see it, but thanks so much for reminding me that no swampland thread is complete without a fellatio reference.

Ummm….throwing a baseball while wearing a bullet-proof vest appears to be an art mastered by very few.
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George H.W. Bush – 1st baseman at Yale, no less – tossed out a pitch back in 1991-ish that took 2 hops to roll to the on-deck circle. I seem to recall that dead-tree TIME had a graphic about this at the time, but I have not been able to find a link nor video.

Seeing as how suggesting you performed that act got you to do what they wanted I predict more of that in the future.

Sigh…
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Thanks so much for…responding to commentary, Michael Scherer. It is, in fact, greatly appreciated.

please stop teasing me. it hurts so bad.

(I wonder, and I know I am out of line here, if the internetting will ever evolve to a point where people do not express themselves by alleging sodomistic practices on their foes. A bit like fish becoming monkeys or whatever Darwin said. Just thinking out loud.)

Again, Paul-no, I don’t mind the criticism. Just think the tone makes you look childish.

Again, Paul-no, I don’t mind the criticism. Just think the tone makes you look childish.
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Seeing as how you rewarded textee’s childish comments, I’m not surprised in the least to see other commenters adopting a similar tone.

Thanks darius for explaining my point, clearly I am a poor communicator.

textee
” … Can we ever get Time magazine to post the video of Obama throwing a baseball ..”

Come to think of it , what we saw was a mild sin .. – -
– suppose he had heaved a 200 mph ball smack between the face of that catcher ..
- suppose he had dislocated his elbow while trying to impress idle blokes like this textee ….
- suppose he had brought along his tin of snuff in the back pocket ..
- suppose, like a good baseball player, he had – just before the throw – scratched his – (what was it that Rosie O’Donnell would scratch?)

texteeeeoo, you ARE a dear – just like those rednecks who wouldn’t notice a basketball hoop yet they would mock Pres Obama for days because his wayward bowling ball preferred the gutters.

textee and other nuts like Beck are developing their animus toward Pres Obama into an all-consuming artform. That may as well be their claim to prominence. A great king would have in his court determined flies buzzing about and causing a distraction. It comes with the tuff. Muhammad Ali had his Howard Cossell …

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MS:
There but for the grace of god ..
You do have something against baggy pants and white sneakers, Over 50 million of your starving compatriots in USA wouldn’t notice the fine detail in attire – or the attire even .. But then, that demographic probably doesn’t read your highfalutin pretensions, MS. So all is well.

MS,
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You respond to typos and crap like this. So, forgive us for being a bit childish, particularly in light of your snarkish & perpetual condescension. If only civility were miraculously restored in this backwater of the web then suddenly you’d sprout wings and engage the rabble or represent views other than village mo-fos who’ve wrecked the country. When you said you admired Mencken, was it his elitist contempt for ignorant Americans that most got your rocks off? Or was it his populism, his trenchant disgust with those in power? Cuz there are two Menckens–he can appeal to elitist sellouts and populist rabble rousers alike. Which side are you on? At M-Jones and now?
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Of course, we loathe you. It doesn’t bother me to say it. As if you or I or any of us are real people. We’re all engaging ghosts when we should be in on the streets, by the millions. But we might grow a touch of illusory respect if you and yours show the least bit of outrage about the people getting f@cked day in and day out by the very people you guys journalistically felate every day.

” … what was it that Rosie O’Donnell would scratch? ..”
Correction:
“what was it that Roseann Barr would scratch?”

[Serves me right for not paying attention to pop culture and national pasttimes ..]

jcjapan, I love how me objecting to being told i orally pleasure the genitals of various public officials and commenters is a sign of my elitism. I read the criticism on Swampland, and as I have always said, I am not able to properly or evenly respond to comments because of time. I do not pretend that i am above criticism, nor do i suggest that any commenters opinions are not valid. I simply make a plea for serious criticism, not pornographic allusions. But of course, this means, in your eyes, that i am condescending to you. A long time ago, i used to engage more in this sort of discussion, and after a while, I stopped. I will keep reading the comments. You can keep writing criticism in whatever form you choose. Your continued loathing is invited, if that is how you feel. I will read it seriously to the extent that it is written seriously. And indeed textee’s comments were, and have long been, written in the same childish vein. I am not trying to play favorites here.

Several responses you have posted here refer to the pleasures of the flesh.
Is there a deep-rooted reason for the pre-occupation? Do you have issues in that regard? [Yet we have no shrinks in the Swamp - except the moonlighter textee who seems to know all that is wrong with the pres ..]

MS: Yes, we’re a fickle bunch here in the Swamp, but we do have standards that we (hope to) uphold.
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Fer instance, a gaggle of us have been on strike since the Beck cover. Rarely post. Haven’t heard from Pirate Wench since the 19th of Sept. But we still check in. It’s tough to quit Swampland.
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We give credit where credit is due. Do you remember when you got your first question at the WH presser? You asked a tough question as I recall (looking for link…). The Swampcritters were mostly unanimous in praising you.
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Lately, sadly, it seems that you only respond when we point out typos. Is this what you want Swampland to be? GOP Talking Points Mon-Thurs and 1000 Words on Friday? Jus’ askin’…

Scherer, you’re being disingenous, aren’t you? Aside from me being the childish equivalent of textee (validating your reasoned centrism), you can admit that there are numerous commenters here who treat you with respect, who genuinely attempt to engage you? I’m not one of them, of course. I have grave misgivings about the effectiveness of this aspect of the new media template. Whether you engage like KT or not, the product doesn’t change. IMO, until proven otherwise, I see MSM engagement with the netroots as a Rahm-like attempt to coopt progressives–we’re all in the veal pen now. We rant here in lieu of ranting on the streets. A wonderful pressure release for otherwise distracted citizens.
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Of course, my “loathing” is absurd hyperbole. It’s as real as your hurt feelings. It’s all cyber induced, fictitious rot. I don’t loathe you b/c I don’t know you. I loathe what you and Time represent. You’re simply a convenient whipping post for unbridled populist rage against the machine that you front. In your eyes, you don’t merit any of this scorn, you’re not at all complicit in the failure of the great American experiment. Wonderful, whatever works for you man.
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But please don’t mistake my criticism, childish, boorish etc. as a plea for engagement. I would question, however, if you consider this a blog or yourself a P-T blogger? If so, isn’t it your obligation to get down here on the street, close to the dirty hippies and gun-nutters alike? As with your amazing take on Russia, you’ll surely be a better writer for having such up-close and personal contact with the rabble, right?

jc, agreed on fictitious circumstances, and would love to spend more time with the rabble, but alas my current employ is at the white house, were the rabble are more often than not paid pros, and my task is to find out what is going on in rooms where i am not allowed entrance.
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had a great time on the campaign, where rabbles abound, as i did a few weeks covering the tea party march for beck cover, though i assume you do not approve of the results for aforementioned machine reasons.
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as for my complicity in the great american experiment, I will admit my part, and accept it as a call to do better. not done yet.

Wow, Scherer responded to the frequent ridiculous flow of some comments from some “commenters”.

Good for you Scherer, about time too!

LM

http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/i-fully-support-gun-ownership/

“Is this what you want Swampland to be? GOP Talking Points Mon-Thurs and 1000 Words on Friday?”
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…and the swamp has even fallen below that – there hasn’t been a “1000 words” in three weeks.

MS, good to hear you’re conscious of your isolation. Having grown up in the DC bubble, within that discourse circle if you like, having spent a couple of years on the hill, I know how different/surreal it can be relative to the rest of the country (sh!t relative to South Capitol Street, the timeless suffering I’ve observed there all my life). When politicians and the media who cover them are virtually set off from the street (literally right outside of the Longworth Bldg) what are the consequences, I wonder.
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And I missed your tea party reporting, though I guarantee I’d have no problem with the topic being covered. Discounting disproportion (vs. gay rights or anti-war protests), the Beck hysteria is by no means astro-turf alone. As Taibbi or GG have illustrated, it begins w/ populism, misguided, yes, but populism nonetheless.
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The problem progressives have with the media (textee = jc writ large) is one of equivalence … the whole
“there are extremes on both sides of debate, and thus they must both be radical or wrong.” The MSM by and large is incapable of distinguishing between real & faux populism. But the energy is largely one and the same–against an estab. that goes unchallenged in congress or in MSM pub’s. We naturally anticipate demagogues like Beck or Dobbs deluding the rabble, but it’d be far easier to refocus the people’s energy if our media didn’t take a pass (see: Jon Stewart’s brilliant bit yesterday).
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So, inside baseball is fascinating to a pt. MS, but at some point you have to pick sides, don’t you? From one ghost in the shell to another, we may lack your access/privileges, but you’d admit that you don’t have to be inside to see the light, right?
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Maybe Chomsky is right and all of you are conditioned out of calling b-s long before you interview for your cush (& fleeting) gigs. But I’ve never embraced that aspect of his theory. There are great, principled folks working as journalists in America. Sadly, I think far too many are closeted, for fear of repercussions, or simply peer pressure, that finding the golden mean is so embraced in Versailles that daring to question its primacy is heresy. Colbert’s stunning honesty a few years back at that roast comes to mind. The go home, make love to your wife…
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Anyway, your last comment is gracious and betrays an awareness of a lot of this, articulated or nay. Or perhaps it’s a throwaway line, I don’t know. I’d leave you with this, as someone about to welcome his first kid into the world: 20 years later, whatever you might be doing (and if I were you I’d entertain the notion that it might not be writing) I’d guess you’ll be doing alright. When you’re sitting around with family in your liberal enclave, maybe with a few kids at your knee, think ahead and wonder what you’ll tell them you did to advance justice in a deeply flawed society on the brink. I admit it’s a cheesy reverse carpe diem call to action, W-ever-TF that is. I say this b/c expatriate or nay, I have grave doubts about the world my kid will come to see (in a Cormac McCarthy sort of way).

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