Comments on: More Groveling By Obama

By: sharonmcp

sharonmcp — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:19:58 +0000

Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio on Tuesday dismissed the controversy over a photograph that showed President Obama bowing to her last week at an Air Force base in Tampa, saying the president was only being “gracious.”

…Iorio told Fox News Obama was just being a gentleman.

“It’s hard for me to believe that this is such a major issue,” she said. “It is an unusual photograph, but … I wish people could all meet President Obama face to face, but he is a kind and sincere and gracious individual and you really see that when you meet him.”

Iorio said the issue does not deserve “the kind of analysis that’s been going on.”

…The photo quickly made its way around the blogosphere over the weekend. Redstate.com, in a scathing post, suggested Obama should save his bows for more reprehensible figures.

“The mayor of Tampa isn’t a Third World potentate, totalitarian dictator, or terrorist leader so I can’t understand why Obama would be in full-bow mode. Is bowing now the standard way the president greets people these days? Is he misoriented, for some reason, and thinks Tampa is a terrorist stronghold or an enemy of the United States?” Redstate.com wrote in a post.

By: blooch

blooch — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:52:44 +0000

“Is he misoriented, for some reason, and thinks Tampa is a terrorist stronghold?…”

He thought she was thePresident of the University of South Florida.

By: blooch

blooch — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:40:09 +0000

By: blooch

blooch — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:34:38 +0000

By: Jack_Savage

Jack_Savage — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:09:31 +0000

The next time I get way too close to a woman’s cleavage. “I was just listening to her talk, honey! Really!”

I am sure that will fly. Many thanks from all of us.

By: RedBeard

RedBeard — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:25:18 +0000

Can’t seem to hit the REPLY TO THIS button, risking intervention by a grumpy mod.

By: RedBeard

RedBeard — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0000

By: beanerecmo

beanerecmo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:32:20 +0000

The only reason he is bowing to one of America’s mayors is just to show that it was no big thing to bow to the foreign leaders (pretenders) because it his way of trying to blunt that criticism; i.e., it’s his standard protocol.

By: 7underafter6

7underafter6 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:26:05 +0000

Well dang-it, why is it that wherever I go I’m stepping in it?

By: anotherindyfilmguy

anotherindyfilmguy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:15:45 +0000

ooops… oxymoron about a moron… never mind…

By: rickindenver

rickindenver — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:28:29 +0000

show the mayor kicking him in the ………. ?

By: wardjh

wardjh — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:12:49 +0000

I think he is trying to be respectful.

My suggestion is that instead of bowing he should

Curtsy.

More fitting, and it leaves him in a position that doesn’t promote a SWIFT KICK.

By: WylieJon

WylieJon — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:00:40 +0000

We all know he bows to heads of state…

By: muffin

muffin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:50:02 +0000

this is close enough. YES!

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:06:59 +0000

“You are sure I am not in this photo?”
I am sure you will be cropped out Governor….
“Good, I don’t want those Rubio supporters looking at this photo of me wearing a blue tie standing next to Obowma.”

By: randy streu

randy streu — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:04:29 +0000

and EVERY TIME with a different excuse. At some point his handlers need to just tell him to stand up like a freaking adult.

By: terrisimandl

terrisimandl — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:03:32 +0000

That is the Governer of Florida

By: yoyo

yoyo — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:00:29 +0000

and I will save the snarkiness until after I say this:

I do this to my wife, mother-in-law, mother, step-mother, co-workers, and all other associated “vertically challenged” folk around, especially on a tarmac or outside. I am 6′ 5″; BHO is close to this. What happened is that the Mayor was speaking and he couldn’t hear.

That said, the photo is unfortunate. And HILARIOUS. It couldn’t have been better if someone snapped a pic of him scratching his … well … doing something with his other hand at the same time as shaking hers.

LOL

Keep it up, Barry. Your caricature is almost complete.

By: hickorystick

hickorystick — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:58:13 +0000

If I had read the Kowalski more carefully i might have avoided this misunderstanding. All the best.

By: GenEarly

GenEarly — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:40:15 +0000

Charlie Rino Crist , current govenor of Florida who appointed a bench warmer to hold his future Senate seat until the 2010 election. One little problem Marco Conservative Rubio is currently leading in the polls for the republican primary. Not to worry Charlie(it’s all about me) will run as an Independent in the general election after he loses the primary.
Obama and Charlie get along well and Charlie makes McCain(Rino) look conservative.
By the way Florida state government is headed for a financial disaster and the dumb a_ _ republicans (majority) are now considering whether to ban plastic and paper bags at the grocery store.