Being tewwibwy afwaid of getting his hair wet, during a press conference President Obama summoned two Marines to hold umbrellas over himself and the Prime Minister of Turkey.
Just looking at the picture makes me want to kick…um…someone in the throat.
Fuck you, you arrogant, condescending fucker. There’s no reason that you couldn’t just suck it up like a score of press attendees are doing, and towel off and change your fucking suit later. Or move the goddamn thing indoors. Nope, you decided instead to look around and find a couple of what you must consider peon scum to trot over and hold your umbrella like fucking servants.
This is about one step up from Obama stepping out of the shitter, and Biden clapping and calling for wipersclad in dress uniform.
Maybe because he had to ask for the umbrella for the PM (it’s not being a good host to let a guest get wet, after all) and having an umbrella over the other guy and not him would’ve looked kind of silly?
Just when you thought complaints about Obama couldn’t get any stupider, this happens. Sicks Ate, rest assured Darrell Issa has already formed a committee to investigate this crime.
Obama haters are really getting desperate. I never would have thought to believe a person who has sworn to serve his country could have to get wet while holding an umbrella for the commander-in-chief and his guest. That is truly beyond the pale of sacrifice.
Well, this is nice to see. There are about 1,000 staffers and interns who could have shagged their ass out there and held an umbrella. The Marines are there for ceremonial purposes, this is degrading and comical.
I fail to see any point in the OP’s outrage. Of the possible choices Obama could have made, I think this was the correct one - continue without pointless delay over some varying rain, but keep an honored guest from getting wet.
Consider this: the OP is just one of the hundreds of people who also read whatever conservative blog or FOX News affiliated site that the OP did who feel exactly the same level of outrage.
Frankly, using those Marines as political tools against their Commander in Chief strikes me as much more degrading than anything Obama could do to them, short of shipping them out to a needless war to get them killed.
Men should never use umbrellas. They are for ladies and children. Real men get soaked to the bone in the rain, and preferably die from hypothermia. And if a real man does find himself desiring an umbrella, he should hold it himself, not have some nancy guy in fancy dress hold it for him
You can push 'em out of a plane, you can march 'em off a cliff, you can send 'em off to die on some God-forsaken rock, but for some reason you can’t ask 'em to hold an umbrella.
