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PRUDEN: Tickling with cheap flattery
The Washington Times ^ | April 7, 2009 | Wesley Pruden

Posted on 04/07/2009 6:08:50 AM PDT by Scanian

Barack Obama may not be the Big Thinker his fans think he is, but his big-time groveling is impressive. We've never seen a presidential performance quite like his Groveling, Toadying and Apple-Polishing Tour of the Olde Countries. If this is Monday, this must be a mosque.

The president is understandably eager to see whether his honeyed tongue can tease and tickle the Europeans the way it teases the libido and scratches the itch of the hoi polloi at home, but the early returns show that he gave away a lot more than he got in return, which was nothing. The European masses shouted the expected hosannas - this is Easter week, after all - but so far that's all the messiah from the south side of Chicago has to show for his groveling. Michelle showed off her upper arms to louder applause. Michelle hot, Barack merely cool.

He bowed deeply to the Saudi king in London, so deep that he risked banging his head on the floor, a real presidential first. Bowing is a revered custom in parts of the world where tugging at a forelock comes naturally, but someone in the protocol office should have told him that Americans bow only to God. A firm handshake, with both hands if absolutely necessary, is enough. Hugging and kissing is optional, best left to the ladies. John F. Kennedy famously warned Jackie on the eve of their first trip to Britain. No bowing, not even to that nice queen.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhovisit; europe; flattery; groveling; obama; obamabow; pruden

1 posted on 04/07/2009 6:08:50 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Ok. I simply don’t get it. What is so great about Michelle’s arms? Setting aside all personal and political opinions, I still don’t see it. I’ve made a point of searching out pics of her arms, but I don’t get a tingle up my leg at all. Seriously, someone please point out what’s so hot about them.


2 posted on 04/07/2009 6:17:40 AM PDT by bgill (This IS my happy face.)
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To: bgill

as a harvard educated constitututional lawyer, she thinks the second amendment gives everyone the right to bare arms

you got a problem with that, fish-eyed fool?

s-a-r-c


3 posted on 04/07/2009 6:24:47 AM PDT by silverleaf (We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
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To: Scanian

And the eurotrash is laughing behind Obozo’s back.

Making promises they don’t intend to keep.

Commitments made out of thin air.


4 posted on 04/07/2009 6:25:10 AM PDT by Carley (President Obama Dropped a MOAB on America)
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To: silverleaf

Before it’s over, hers will be the only arms bared or beared.


5 posted on 04/07/2009 6:30:49 AM PDT by bgill (This IS my happy face.)
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To: bgill

“I don’t get a tingle up my leg at all.”

You lack the requisite shallow thinking and shallow, celebrity-worshipping emotions necessary to get those tingles from the empty suits and empty celebrities who are annointed as “geniuses” and “fashion icons” by the brain dead lamestream media. Maybe you need to drink more Kool-Aid.


6 posted on 04/07/2009 6:33:07 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

I guess I’m just not one of the hip crowd.


7 posted on 04/07/2009 6:35:50 AM PDT by bgill (This IS my happy face.)
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To: silverleaf
I thought it was "bear arms".


8 posted on 04/07/2009 6:50:18 AM PDT by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: bgill

What’s so great—or even average—about anything Michelle has? I haven’t talked to a single man who finds her attractive in the slightest.


9 posted on 04/07/2009 7:34:53 AM PDT by Scanian (i)
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To: Scanian

A fabulous column. Old Wes really skewers our rat king.


10 posted on 04/07/2009 9:54:08 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Cecily
It's public relations. That's all it is. Obo blew the gift to the British prime minister and the press buried the story. Then he cooks up a new stupid gift for the queen and AOL commie news has the story “A gift for the queen. What did he give her?” This type of reporting is brainless twaddle. Positivity for positivity’s sake. It is psychological conditioning. While only brainwashed idiots would actually read it, the media rains these pieces down like sewer water, and there's no way you can miss stepping in it. The press’ mind control is total.

Michelle has already had more stories written about her than Laura Bush did in eight years.

11 posted on 04/07/2009 10:01:06 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21

[Michelle has already had more stories written about her than Laura Bush did in eight years. ]

But you have to admit, it is pretty comical watching the media trying to put lipstick on the pig of the meme that Michelle is some fashion icon. A fashion horse, perhaps.


12 posted on 04/07/2009 10:49:34 AM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: bgill

They are leading your attention from that huge ass and those chicken legs.


13 posted on 04/07/2009 11:34:42 AM PDT by steve8714 (Drill for oil, drill for gas, drill to heat water in the Earth.)
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To: Luke21

Rush was talking today about the fact that all the Michelle magazine covers are not moving those rags off the shelf any faster than normal. He made the point that the lamestreams are trying to create another Camelot myth like the first Camelot (which was a myth).

http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=135789


14 posted on 04/07/2009 12:38:21 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Scanian

"Barack Obama may not be the Big Thinker his fans think he is, but his big-time groveling is impressive. We've never seen a presidential performance quite like his Groveling, Toadying and Apple-Polishing Tour of the Olde Countries."

Bingo.

It's obvious he shares Michelle's doubts about whether he can be proud of his country. He keeps apologizing for and criticizing the USA.

15 posted on 04/07/2009 1:55:56 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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