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Obama Knocked for Chewing Gum in India: 'Ungainly Sight'
Weekly Standard ^
| Jan 26, 2015
| DANIEL HALPER
Posted on 01/26/2015 7:54:30 AM PST by george76
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posted on
01/26/2015 7:54:30 AM PST
by
george76
To: george76
That was not gum - it was khat.
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posted on
01/26/2015 7:55:45 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: george76
He doesn’t miss an opportunity to make America look bad.
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posted on
01/26/2015 7:56:55 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: george76
If he was walking at the same time it’s a point in his favor.
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posted on
01/26/2015 7:57:59 AM PST
by
AU72
To: george76
It is all about contempt for America.
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posted on
01/26/2015 7:58:54 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: george76
Maybe he’ll do this in Singapore and be sentenced to 60 lashes!
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posted on
01/26/2015 7:59:39 AM PST
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
To: george76
This guy is a juvenile jackass but I repeat myself.
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posted on
01/26/2015 7:59:48 AM PST
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: AU72
Only thing to complete this latest point of classy behavior would be the likely next frame of him sticking the gum underneath his seat.
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posted on
01/26/2015 8:00:36 AM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: driftdiver
Will be interesting to see how he behaves in Saudi Arabia. He chews gum for Christians and Hindus.
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posted on
01/26/2015 8:01:25 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: george76
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posted on
01/26/2015 8:01:28 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
To: george76
Obama still smokes like a chimney. Nobody is allowed to report it because he announced that he quit. The gum thing is his coping mechanism for when he can’t be seen smoking.
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posted on
01/26/2015 8:01:46 AM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: george76
wish he’d been in Singapore...
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posted on
01/26/2015 8:03:21 AM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: blackdog
Obama still smokes like a chimney. Nobody is allowed to report it because he announced that he quit. The gum thing is his coping mechanism for when he cant be seen smoking.I agree. Nicotine gum because he can't smoke in public.
To: WayneS
It was nicotine gum....Mooch is on the warpath I guess.
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posted on
01/26/2015 8:09:35 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: Responsibility2nd
Is the White House is missing Drapes again ?
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posted on
01/26/2015 8:09:59 AM PST
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: C210N
What? No infantile ‘selfie’ behavior?
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posted on
01/26/2015 8:11:02 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: george76
Here’s how the liberal media will handle it, if they find it’s too big to just ignore:
1. First, suggest that people are inflating the issue beyond what it’s worth. “Right-wing media consider gum-chewing the biggest diplomatic gaffe of the last 50 years!”
2. Come up with some dig at Bush about how the “right ignored Bush starting illegal wars but goes nuts about Obama chewing gum!”
3. Hint that the reason for the difference is that Obama is black.
4. It’s possible that they will somehow construe that the act of mentioning Obama’s gum-chewing is racist.
The bizarre thing is that most Americans could probably agree that the gum-chewing was perceived a rude act in India and Obama should have refrained, but it’s not exactly an impeachable offense. A minor error is a minor error.
To: molson209
Drapes? I was thinking more like shower curtains.
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posted on
01/26/2015 8:15:19 AM PST
by
twoputt
To: C210N
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posted on
01/26/2015 8:15:23 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: WayneS
That was not gum - it was khat. Actually, Obama calls it miraa.
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