It would have prevented him from ending the press conference by holdig up both middle fingers and stating “Fuck this, I’m out!”
That podium was working awfully hard at running away. I’m sure of it.
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?
True.
I’ll try to remember that pearl of wisdom when someone complains about the rain.
one thinks your post is stupid. not as stupid as the OP, but still pretty stupid.
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.
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)
:eek::eek: THEY got to him!!
Of course Marines shoudn’t hold umbrellas. That’s traditionally an Army duty!
So, really the President is insulting the Army.
Even if it were degrading, which it’s not, why should anyone care? They’re just marines.
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?
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:
Another of his posts exposes the secret of who tells Mr. Ate what his opinions should be: Index of /blog/. (The “thinker” in the domain name is of course an oxymoron.)
Here’s American “Thinker’s” article on Umbrellagate, 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?)
Agreed, particularly when it’s raining.
There’s a reason they asked Marines rather than some White House interns.
LOL! Keep fucking that chicken, Sicks Ate! 
Duplicate post
He’s gonna set the world on fire.
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.”
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.
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.