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[If there is one phenomenon that should strike blind terror into White House spin doctors it is the sound of derisive laughter. No political career can survive that. The day may be coming when Obama will feel nostalgia for the days when an opponent shouted “You lie!” instead of “Aw, stop it – you’re cracking me up!”]

This is true. And it’s even more true for Mr Obama who is particularly sensitive to mockery. He flew off the handle during the campaign when wussername journalist mentioned his “big ears” and he totally acts like a child whenever unflattering pictures of him show up on the interwebz. Remember the incident with John Kerry in the bunny outfit? He posed for pictures at NASA and when they showed up on websites with silly captions he denounced them all and then went on a rambling tirade in which he blamed a NASA conspiracy to make him look bad. Of course, if he had just laughed off the pictures they would have been forgotten in a day or two, but the fact that he made a big deal about it gave it staying power and made him look like a jackass.

Politicians have to be more thick skinned than this - crying about it only guarantees that your opponents will just produce more mockery and laugh all the harder.

Joker Obama. Heh, heh, heh. Good one.

" This is true. And it’s even more true for Mr Obama who is particularly sensitive to mockery. He flew off the handle during the campaign when wussername journalist mentioned his “big ears” and he totally acts like a child whenever unflattering pictures of him show up on the interwebz. "

DUMBOBAMA

“If there is one phenomenon that should strike blind terror”

If there’s terror to be struck, it should best home with all to lose. This small time Chicago thug has been handed the football. What can it all mean, one may wounder.

Well its not all as simple as the moment, I don’t think.

Rab

“Joker Obama. Heh, heh, heh. Good one.”

There’s something to this; a useful tactic in weakening 0bama could be to make a complete mockery of him. He then gets off his “no-drama” shtick and starts yammering incoherently unless there’s a built-in TOTUS response. Imagine the GOPers at a State of the Union or another joint session yukking it up whenever 0bama comes up with what he thinks is some signature line. Perhaps less like British Parliament and more like Def Comedy Jam.