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(19,877 posts)Just to make conservatives heads explode!
Baitball Blogger
(46,684 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,908 posts)They can be deadly in the hands of a klutz.
JHB
(37,157 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,908 posts)Oh, well, if you insist...
Segami
(14,923 posts)sybylla
(8,497 posts)To hold an umbrella for a black man. At least that's what I'm getting from the ridiculous outrage.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,824 posts)You just KNOW that's the problem.
SQUEE
(1,315 posts)I dislike it because it makes him look weak.
LeftinOH
(5,353 posts)Cha
(296,881 posts)President Obama checks to see if he still needs the umbrella held by a U.S. Marine during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 16
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/16/this-and-that-75/
thanks for the umbrella pics EarlG
If that marine was not required to stay emotionless, I bet he would have a smile on his face. You can tell the POTUS doesn't want him holding the umbrella over his head.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)I spent a lot of time marching, digging holes to shit in, polishing everything, and saluting idiots when I was in the Marine Crotch, but holding umbrellas for big shots? I woulda signed up for that bit of high living.
MineralMan
(146,262 posts)people to hold their umbrellas. Maybe if Sarah Palin got elected, she'd get the same treatment.
She's just jealous.
MineralMan
(146,262 posts)Note that it isn't just the President who has a Marine holding an umbrella over his head. Heads of state get that kind of treatment, it seems. It's a matter of respect.
LeftInTX
(25,150 posts)Oh the Fauxrage!!!!!
MineralMan
(146,262 posts)that seems to appear on rightwing sites. And, yes, that other man is a Muslim, to be sure. Prime Minister of Turkey, in fact, one of our countries allies.
I didn't see the one of the Alter Bush, though. That one's excellent.
LeftInTX
(25,150 posts)Response to EarlG (Original post)
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Rex
(65,616 posts)I should have known.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)and umbrellas. I do know that the only photos of marines holding umbrellas is the recent photo with President Obama.