Silly, of course we want the Marines to hold umbrellas over Barack Obama.
Because, golly, he’s the Messiah.
I found a video of the event here. But it cuts right before the marines come up with the umbrellas.
You do realize that Obama is black right? And the marines are white? Am I being obtuse or do you really not see the problem?
This post is just a joke! But, seriously, I do believe that a lot of the criticism aimed at Obama is due to his race.
Hey, that’s the Army’s job!
Well, no, dipshit, because he’s the President, and when the President is a Republican your political stripe is always talking about ‘respecting the Office’, but your partisan memory (and standards) are short. Only Republicans seem to insist that Obama is the Messiah, which always strikes me to be both odd and somewhat sacriligious.
Well, yes and no. We’ve gotten to the point where very few people will admit to any racial prejudice. But he represents change more than anything else, and that is uncomfortable for many people. My Texas uncles would have shit themselves, and I only wish they could have lived to see the day.
Gee, my old man had a driver and a batman when he was a lowly LtCol in the Australian army. The driver used to open the car door for him and everything!
Heck, in 1997 I wandered into a Montana gun club and had an otherwise pleasant time until the conversation turned to politics. I thought Colin Powell was a viable candidate, mentioned him as a military veteran alternative to Bill Clinton (not popular locally, I gathered) and then tried not to react when a guy there said matter-of-fact that he “could never vote for a nigger”.
There was another traveler there, a guy from New Jersey. He and I shared a few moments of “what the heck was THAT?” in the parking lot as we walked to our cars.
The Montana guy was in his early fifties, I guess. Probably still alive. I wonder what he thought in 2008.
It had to be Marines holding those umbrellas. Nerd’s arms would have gave out in less than a minute. And then where would we be?
Seriously, my arm gets tired even thinking about that picture
I don’t think Messiahs get rained on in the first place, so I guess that answers that question.
Ha ha ha ha whoosh!, ah, good times!
were these pretend dress-up Marines? if so then i would think it unfair.
if these were actual Marines that got training outdoors and occasionally get a little wet then this would probably be light duty.
Those colors don’t run!
:dubious: Where do you get “pretend dress-up Marines”, outside of a Broadway production of South Pacific or some such?
I was not aware that “pretend Marines” were allowed to wear actual USMC uniforms, much less serve in the Marine Security Guard Battalion that acts as a Presidential guard of honor.
Folks, those guys were already standing in the rain. They had umbrellas ready to deploy. Their CiC ordered them to deploy them. They did so. Effectively.
I must say that the OP while never having that stellar of a posting history has reached a new nadir in his feigned outrage schtick. This is the kind of polemic that has poisoned the well of American politics for too many years now.
Is it possible to do a ‘reset’ and get back to relatively amiable terms with each other?
This is becoming tiresome and I am not alone in saying so.
So they’re not so much soldiers as Batmen, then.
Until the drone umbrella program is ready, they’ll have to do.
God damn!
Well, that’s cuz Australia is a Comm’mist Socialist Monarchy!
Fuck that, silenus! What those two red-white-and-blue Devil Dogs have gone and done is thrown down the gauntlet on the rest of the fucking world! You wanna get an umbrella held right? You call a born-and-bred, tried-and-true, Semper-fucking-Fi US Marine!*
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Seriously, man. Ex-military (US Navy) here. Ceremonial guys get asked to do stuff like this all the time by people a WHOLE lot lower ranked than POTUS. If I were one of those boys, I would ask AP for the hi-res original and get a friggin’ poster made of it.
- All kidding aside, they do look pretty damn spit-and-polish up there.