# Obama does his best to degrade a couple of Marines. Next episode: Wipers! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 16, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538 "2013-05-16T18:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/201 "2013-05-17T17:18:38Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I am a little curious about why Obama couldn’t hold his own damn umbrella, though. Was he doing something with his hands? 😕 It would have prevented him from ending the press conference by holdig up both middle fingers and stating “Fuck this, I’m out!” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/202 "2013-05-17T17:19:24Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I Was he doing something with his hands? 😕 That podium was working awfully hard at running away. I’m sure of it. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/203 "2013-05-17T17:20:48Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I can only assume that **Sicks Ate** is helping to cover the administrations possibly legitimate scandals by starting one that’s so ridiculous it will make people ignore whatever the Republicans are saying. > > I am a little curious about why Obama couldn’t hold his own damn umbrella, though. Was he doing something with his hands? 😕 Right. I want to know why he can’t open his own doors, drive his own limousine and clean his own office. What, his arms are broken? ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/204 "2013-05-17T17:25:39Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Then allow me to clarify: War is much worse than umbrellas. True. I’ll try to remember that pearl of wisdom when someone complains about the rain. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/205 "2013-05-17T17:29:14Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > One has to ask why somebody wasn’t smart enough to bother to look at a weather report, see that it might rain, and hold the function indoors. Then one remembers that it is the Obama administration. one thinks your post is stupid. not as stupid as the OP, but still pretty stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/206 "2013-05-17T17:50:24Z")
What’s even more embarrassing, at least according the the thread title, is that this i s apparently the best Obama can do to degrade Marines. Which means he sucks at being a secret Muslim, sucks at being a socialist, sucks at confiscating guns, sucks at closing Guantanamo and now totally sucks at degrading Marines. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/207 "2013-05-17T18:22:53Z")
You know I’d storm Baghdad to kick Saddam’s butt Swim to Havana bring home Castro’s beard For my buddies throw my body on a live grenade I guess I just don’t know the meaning of fear But please Please Please please please please please Don’t make me cover a Turk with a brolly Not a brolly – that’s just folly 'Cause holding it is so degrading Degrading – honor fading – Fred Small (paraphrased) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/208 "2013-05-17T18:39:38Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > ETA Just to clarify: I’m not, war is bad, and umbrellas are not, in hindsight, as bad as they were yesterday. :eek::eek: THEY got to him!! ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/209 "2013-05-17T19:13:35Z")
Of course Marines shoudn’t hold umbrellas. That’s traditionally an [Army](https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/428500_483363745062616_308786770_n.jpg) duty! ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/210 "2013-05-17T19:43:33Z")
So, really the President is insulting the Army. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/211 "2013-05-17T20:16:56Z")
Even if it were degrading, which it’s not, why should anyone care? They’re just marines. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/212 "2013-05-17T21:28:01Z")
I for one am imprssed with those Marines. Have you ever tried holding anything up perfectly still like that for that many minutes at a time? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/213 "2013-05-17T21:40:00Z")
I’d hardly noticed Mr. Ate before (many of his posts are in threads I don’t even read, e.g. “Why does it take so long for people to poop?”) but this OP — and especially his peculiar need for the sober followup admitting that GWB’s Iraq Blunder was “lots” worse than Umbrellagate — did induce me to click “Show Posts.” I see that Mr. Ate is no newcomer to the meme that those to the left of Glen Beck think Obama is the Black Messiah: > [@I must admit, I'm surprised and disappointed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-admit-im-surprised-and-disappointed/639956/2): > > Because how could _anybody_ not have wet drams about Obama? Another of his posts exposes the secret of who tells Mr. Ate what his opinions should be: [Index of /blog/](http://americanthinker.com/blog). (The “thinker” in the domain name is of course an oxymoron.) [Here’s American “Thinker’s” article on Umbrellagate](http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/theyre_marines_mr_president_not_butlers.html), with a link to an even stupider website where people pretending to be soldiers comment on the Marines’ "humiliation"and “dishonor.” (I don’t get CSPAN where I live. When Congress takes up Umbrellagate, will some kind Doper please send me links to the YouTube highlights?) ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/214 "2013-05-17T21:57:06Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > I for one am imprssed with those Marines. Have you ever tried holding anything up perfectly still like that for that many minutes at a time? Agreed, particularly when it’s raining. There’s a reason they asked Marines rather than some White House interns. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/215 "2013-05-17T21:57:53Z")
LOL! Keep fucking that chicken, Sicks Ate! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/216 "2013-05-17T21:59:39Z")
Duplicate post ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/217 "2013-05-17T22:08:25Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I see that Mr. Ate is no newcomer to the meme that those to the left of Glen Beck think Obama is the Black Messiah He’s gonna set the world on fire. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/218 "2013-05-17T22:17:45Z")
Wow, what an abuse of a marine. Doesn’t Obama know that it is disrespectful to ask a marine to do anything other than fight a war for his country. A real president would make sure it is a bullshit war. Like Johnson, Nixon, Reagan and W did. Marines are supposed to die in their barracks while making their CinC look politically macho. The Navy exists solely for fake aircraft carrier fly ins in front of Mission Accomplished banners. Holding an umbrella for the President of the United States and a visiting Prime Minister is utterly beneath the might dignity of a man in is spiffiest dress uniform, even if he is gay, and there is nothing wrong with that, not that we need to ask. Couldn’t Sandra Fluke have held the umbrella. Particularly because she wants free “raincoats.” ---
**Author:** ![LouLou7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@LouLou7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouLou7)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/219 "2013-05-17T22:20:37Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > The should look spiffy. They wear pee pads to protect those white trousers. The horse guards at [Buckingham Palace](http://golondon.about.com/od/londonpictures/ig/Westminster-Walking-Tour/Guard.htm) have had more time to get it right: there’s a catheter going into one of those boots. Wait, what? Is this true? Pee pads and catheters in the boots? Please tell me you’re joking. I guess I’ve always assumed our military personnel were potty trained. I hate to think they’re standing there in adult diapers or maxi pads while they’re in uniform. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/220 "2013-05-17T22:29:27Z")
This is just the break the Romney campaign has been waiting for! Ah, that felt good. I was just picturing Romney toughing it out in the rain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538.md?page=12)