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In reply to the discussion: Obama Tells Woman: "Interesting" Unemployed Husband Can't Find Job [View all]tblue37
(65,408 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 2, 2012, 01:24 AM - Edit history (1)
an appalling display of bad manners and disrespect toward the POTUS--and the racial overtones are inescapable.
At the moment she is milking it for her 15 minutes of fame, and probably she will become a Teabagger darling like Not-Joe the Not-plumber. But if she has any sense at all, at some point she will want to crawl under a rock and hide there in embarrassment for a very long time. Even most racists don't want to be too overt about their racism these days, just because they don't want a lot of other people criticizing them.
Oh, and on edit, despite the rude demand that he "get up and dance a little jig for us real quick" and then the interruption and demand that he sing a song, he was very gracious and treated the idiot's request with gentle good humor. (Yes, the woman actually also interrupted him as he was responding.)