Posted on 04/16/2015 4:42:12 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
At the end of March, two weeks before he declared his candidacy for President, Marco Rubio visited New York City’s Upper West Side to meet the moneyed class and hand out his new book American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone. In a gorgeous apartment overlooking the Park and the Museum of Natural History, Mr. Rubio delivered a spellbinding speech, skewering the president and articulating a cohesive worldview, especially in the arena of foreign policy. The smart and funny senator from Florida also took questions on all topics, impressing the room of well-heeled elites, plus journalists like Bret Stephens and John Podhoretz, with the poise that has earned him a reputation as the best communicator in the Republican Party.
The son of a bartender and a housekeeper who emigrated from Cuba, Marco Rubio’s life story reads like something out of a fairy tale.
Less well known is Mr. Rubio’s skill as a burlesque performer.
What you see below is a photograph from South Miami Senior High School’s annual talent competition.
The team nickname at South Miami Senior High School, which Mr. Rubio was graduated from in 1989, was the Cobras. Every year there was a male talent competition for “King Cobra” and in 1989, Mr. Rubio and some of his football teammates wowed the crowd with a Chippendale’s style dance routine. That’s him in front of the O in “Cobra” with the washboard abs (eat your heart out, Aaron Schock!).
In his first book, American Son, Mr. Rubio discusses the King Cobra contest—but not this one. Recounting how he sang the Lionel Ritchie weeper “Still,” Rubio says he “had a decent singing voice” and so decided to sing his number instead of lip synch. “For laughs, I adopted an obnoxiously braggadocio personality. I strutted around the stage, smirked, threw my microphone and stalked offstage after I finished the song. My friends got the joke. The judges did not — they voted me second to last.” The Chippendales performance didn’t make it into the memoir.
Same here. So what is acted like a high school kid when in high school.
This is pathetic and it only shows me how pathetic the media is.
Oh my! First he drank some water and now this.
Hilarious!
In my high school, the most beautiful girl in our class emerged during a school assembly, out in the middle of our auditorium as the Student Body Card. She had two large poster boards to cover her front and back with the image of the high school’s student body card on each side. We were all hoping for a “wardrobe failure” where the staples holding the edges of the poster boards closed popped, and revealed their contents. Then, it happened (she was in a bathing suit)! And, she ran out, holding the edges closed, to our delight.
Funny things happen in high school.
“Obamas pot and cocaine are OK.”
But, Rubio acting like a teenager when he was a teenager isn’t?
Thats going back a lot of years for nothing, isnt it?
Which Clinton scandal would be a good one to start with?
Or, closer to reality, which one wouldnt be?
His State of the Union response a few years back was more embarrassing.
When I was in HS, the football team dressed up like cheer leaders wearing mops on their heads, tight sweaters, and balloons strapped to their chests and did a dance for our Senior Assembly. We all thought it was hilarious. We had no idea that someone might dig up a photo 30 years later to try to ruin their political careers!
Those guys will never be president! lol
What would be more surprising is a photo emerging of 0bama acting like a president.....
/johnny
That’s just frigging AWESOME!!!
Didn’t they just pull this on Jeb Bush too?
Has anybody seen any of 0bama's college admission documents or grades yet?
What are some names of his old girl friends or even college friends (other than that Pakistani guy?
Did he become an Indonesian citizen and when (or if) did he regain American citizenship?
What passports has he held?
How about all his fake Social Security numbers - at least one which is for dead man who would now be a 120 years old?
Where did all those nasty scars on his head come from?
Anybody find out answers yet?
I didn't think so.
Let's talk about Rubio's silly high school drama instead...
thx jim
Thank you very much, kvanbrunt2!!
She was riding her pet dinosaur.
She was in a one room school house where they did their ciphers on a handheld chalkboard.
I did that in high school too.
I felt like an idiot. But I never liked Halloween either. Everyone else seemed to have a good time. Guess I was a stiff.
WOW. MY GOD. A high school skit!!! You’d think this is as bad as being raised by communists, abandoned by a promiscuous anti-American mother, groomed by a pornographer, snorting cocaine, smoking pot, and underage drinking...
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