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What A Man – Obama Frightened By Ceremonial Gunshot

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  April 9th, 2009 at 02:30 PM  | 

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Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the story and inspiration for the video. A little fun at Obama’s expense:

Heh.

You know, there are a million pointy sticks to be had here. I can’t find the link, but I saw one blog this morning sardonically inquire as to the implication of jumping at gunfire because he’s in a Muslim country. Would leftblogs cry racism? Ouch. Still, you have admit it has a lot of humor potential … as has this whole trip actually. From his awkwardness with Queen Elizabeth, to his awkwardness with Carla Bruni, to his bowing obsequiously (not to mention awkwardly) to King Abdullah, if Obama’s trip has done nothing for the American image abroad or to bolster foreign policy, at least we can say this: he’s produced material for a million youtube videos to come. So that’s something, right?

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  • RoscoeP

    Maybe he was just watching the Dark Knight on his video ipod that the Queen immdeiately regifted to him and was having a flashback to the scene where the cermonial guard turns his rifle on the podium.

  • Tbone

    marksman. LOL

    Actually, someone needs to tell him you never hear the one that gets you.

    Of course he could be flinching at hearing our National Anthem instead of his, (whatever it may be.)

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I guarantee you’d be jumpy too if you took on Dick Cheney *and* Rush Limbaugh in the last year. :-)

    • randy streu

      nt

  • http://www.braindeadrepublican.com Michael DeWeese

    I will be keeping the entire hard disk manufacturing industry afloat storing all this stuff.

  • mom2oneson
  • http://www.skiloveland.com skicougar

    The more I watch him, off script; the more I am convinced he’s going to continue to be so inept, that people will be running back to the GOP in 4 years.

    Unfortunately, he’s going to do some damage to the U.S., but the U.S. can survive him.

    I don’t care if he’s the coolest thing since ice cubes, he’s going to make Carter look decent and that’s not going to help the donkeys.

  • $peciallist

    his tighty-whitey’s…might need extra attention…’Shout it out’

  • Wing Zero

    Shouldn’t Dear Leader be use to gunshots and all being from CHICAGO?

    What happened to all that Chicago toughness when he told DC to “man up” during the winter?

    Oh wait, I forgot he keeps the Whitehouse at 85 during the winter.

  • Old_Crow

    Heck on hot summer evenings in the ’70′s, we used to sit out on the porch here in NYC, and listen to the pop pop of pistol shots, as much of a summer sound as the crickets in the country – and increases with temperature and humidity.

    Now the crack of a high powered rifle will always get my attention, as will the unique sound of an AK-47. But flinch at a ceremonial rifle, not a city boy that Obama..

  • http://cib4me.blogspot.com mrdadx6

    Look, I really want it to be clear, I do NOT like President Obama. I am opposed to many, many of his policy decisions so far. I’d like to see stronger action vis-a-vis pirates. I think he totally pussed out with regard to the NorK missile launch. I disagree with his intent to bailout GM (I disagreed with the Bush administration on that too). I disagree with the ridiculously large budget and the shrinking Military budget. I wish we had actually gotten to see his birth certificate. I’m not happy with having a trade war with Mexico, although I’d like to see tighter border controls and NO AMNESTY for illegal immigrants, regardless of how many citizen children they have pinched out on our shores.

    All that being said, this video is stupid, and so are any derogatory posts associated with it.

    I served in Afghanistan from April of 2007 to May of 2008. Two guys in my company extended for 6 months, to make a bit more money, and one of them was killed in late may of last year. I attended his funeral, and he was buried at a Veterans cemetery in nearby Anderson, SC. And I jumped at the rifle fire at his funeral.

    It’s easy to get distracted, to be thinking about someone else, and flinch when the rifle salute sounds off. It doesn’t indicate that you’re completely unfamiliar with the military (although he is) or that you hate all things military (although he seems to), or that you’re a coward and live in fear of being shot down because of your race.

    Just sayin’, this is one of those things that makes us sound stupid. And what’s more likely to end up on the news? This, or a really well-grounded argument about some particular policy decision by the current administration?

    • gazill

      Of the wide selection of issues to mock him of, or laugh at him about, this is probably the least ridiculous.

    • Caleb

      “concern” trolling is frowned upon here.

    • JadedByPolitics

      he had a lot on his mind too don’t cha think?

      In the future please do not attempt to take something WE find funny and WANT to make fun of and attempt to play at not liking the tool who now sits in the WH!

    • gekster

      And you were in the military how long??
      Not just your combat service, total military service.
      Not picking on him, just a question.

      • gekster
    • Tbone

      Of course the other didn’t figure he had it comin’ whereas Bambi has probably been expecting it for years from Michelle.

  • http://cib4me.blogspot.com mrdadx6

    LOL I’ve been in the military now for a total of 12 years. I’m not skittish of gunfire. I’m an infantry soldier and I love it. I’ve been shooting since I was 12 or so, and was a competition pistol shooter in college. I’m quite accustomed to the sound of rifle fire.

    I’m just saying when the rifles fire and you AREN’T EXPECTING IT, a flinch like that is perfectly natural. Does it show that BHO is unaccustomed to the drill and ceremony that he participates in? Yes. Does it show that his WH handlers are incompetent and aren’t walking him through the ceremony beforehand so he’s ready? Yes, but we already knew this WH was incompetent.

    Look, I don’t care if you believe me or not. My weblog from Afghanistan is at Cib4me.blogspot.com, you can read that and see if I’m a conservative or some lefty troll. I understand that you don’t like President Obama, and like I said, I don’t either. But this is not evidence that he’s a coward, it’s just evidence that he is 1) overconfident in his ability to wing it, and 2) handled by people who aren’t terribly good at what they do.