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Obama Loses His "Cool"
reason.com ^ | June print edition | Matt Welch

Posted on 05/11/2009 11:06:35 PM PDT by nametrader

With his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man. When the generation of Americans under the age of 30 gets around to realizing that this handsome young president might not be nearly as cool as they’d hoped, it won’t be hard to affix a date on when the milk began to sour. It was March 26, 2009, when Barack Obama conducted a live town hall press conference featuring questions submitted online.

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I new this was Simmer'n on the Burner. Got a lot of Digger's mad.
1 posted on 05/11/2009 11:06:35 PM PDT by nametrader
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To: laweeks

He’s not handsome and he’s not young. He’s 47


3 posted on 05/11/2009 11:12:22 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: nametrader

So Obama’s youth vanguard are going to turn on him over the pot issue?

Sigh, whatever works...


4 posted on 05/11/2009 11:14:01 PM PDT by sinanju
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He's never come across as "cool."

He comes off as an arrogant dweeb.

Erkel. Except Erkel is charming and self-deprecating in comparison.

5 posted on 05/11/2009 11:16:26 PM PDT by Allegra ( Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.)
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To: nametrader

I guess that ‘cool’ that everyone sees is the flagrant arrogance that grates on me so?


6 posted on 05/11/2009 11:20:17 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: laweeks

“He looks less like a Man and more like The Man”
I bet if he came to my house the milk would spoil too.


7 posted on 05/11/2009 11:22:09 PM PDT by nametrader (THERE IS HOPE!)
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To: nametrader

“I told you...Dave’s not HERE, man!”


8 posted on 05/11/2009 11:24:05 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Charter Member, 58 Million Club)
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To: americanophile

Dick Cheney doesn’t think he’s “Cool” either.


9 posted on 05/11/2009 11:24:09 PM PDT by nametrader (THERE IS HOPE!)
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To: nametrader

Gosh, I’m loving Dick Cheney.


10 posted on 05/11/2009 11:25:42 PM PDT by americanophile
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Late 40’s is young? LOL Handsome? He looks like a malnourished monkey. Cool? Total dweeb. He’s a darker Erkel.


11 posted on 05/11/2009 11:25:49 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: nametrader

this is so typical of Democrat Lib candidates for President ;
campaign promises of weed law changes and then they get in and you almost never hear another word about it .
Carter....Clinton....and now Obama
That any weed lover trusts or believes these guys is absurd .
They don’t do a thing to even lighten things up . much less de-crim
I hope this festers for them all


12 posted on 05/11/2009 11:27:13 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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I guess that ‘cool’ that everyone sees is the flagrant arrogance that grates on me so?

You got that right!!! I hate that arrogant, uplifted nose, condescending, prideful little pig....to put it another way!!!

"Pride goeth before a fall, and an haughty spirit before destruction".

Please Lord...... make it happen sooner rather than later. Our country won't survive that long.

13 posted on 05/11/2009 11:31:16 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: laweeks

I don’t think either one of them is particularly attractive. I don’t think McCain was, either, so it’s not a partisan opinion. They used to go on about Clinton’s looks, and I thought he was rather unattractive, too.

I do think Obama cuts a nice figure, i.e., he wears a suit of clothes well.

That said I vote positions, not appearance.


14 posted on 05/11/2009 11:34:24 PM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: laweeks

I don’t think he’s handsome, he looks like a cartoon, but his wife is just plain fugly.


15 posted on 05/11/2009 11:59:10 PM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: nametrader

It would seem to persons of even moderate intelligence, that behind the rhetoric of Obama being an agent of “change”, that he would never advocate illicit drug use as the POTUS.

To the self medicated, who, in thier own little world, belived (fell for) the Obama tripe. AND to the other ‘non evil’ - Pot head / slightly productive, (as a whole) persosns, that they now find out that this “new” guy is not on board with the legalization of pot.
What did you expect?
Were you pot heads so high as to think this “O” guy was your buddy? Or were you just high enough to vote third party candidate?
Either way, now - we all have to deal with this.
Get less dopey, get more involved, and care about the future, because Obamas path will collide with true feedom, Your true freedom.


16 posted on 05/12/2009 12:06:22 AM PDT by ChetNavVet (Build It, and they won't come!)
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To: laweeks

He acts like a man that has accomplished nothing in life. He never took a stand as an elected official as eveidence in his voting record.


17 posted on 05/12/2009 12:11:42 AM PDT by Always Independent
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To: laweeks

Handsome? BWAHAHAHAHA...Handsome compared to what...


18 posted on 05/12/2009 12:29:03 AM PDT by KLT (A damn Yankee, from the great state of Mississippi....Go Freepers Go!)
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To: KLT; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER

19 posted on 05/12/2009 12:44:07 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: nametrader

He never has been cool. Always a poser. :)


20 posted on 05/12/2009 1:49:34 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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