You know, even if he was checking out her ass, so what?

News flash, Obama’s a human being.

I agree, however, that this is yet another excuse for right wing outrage and pearl clutching.

If anything, he seems to be looking at the woman’s back.  I’m reminded of that unfortunate frame from one of the presidential debates that caught McCain in a silly pose.  These people have such short memories if they don’t remember that random photos can be taken completely out of context and be wrong.

They’re all looking down, probably at the photographer’s blocking marks on the podium/stage. Or were the two on the right so stunned by her butt that they were frozen in position?

Idiocy.

You know, even if he was checking out her ass, so what?

Oh dear, Captain. In anticipation of the 2nd-wave feminist outrage squad’s arrival to brand you and the owners of Pandagon as enablers of rape culture, and to save everyone a lot of time and keystrokes, I’d refer anyone who wants to discuss this to the comments in this thread. We exhausted that tiresome topic pretty thoroughly there and don’t need a replay here.

So whose posterior are the other two gentlemen looking at?

The second picture is more ridiculous than the first. First, it would be difficult to stare at her ass since she’s standing in front of him facing towards him. Second, she is reaching down apparently to pick something up most likely the item that Obama is staring at. Also, notice the other two heads of state are also staring down at something.

Butt… and to the left… butt… and to the left

I knew that a black Democratic president who was in love with his wife was going to drive them batshit insane.  Well, I mean, even moreso.

they can’t stand that their own guys can’t keep it in their pants.  What right does a black woman have to a loving, faithful husband?  there’s that part of it, and then the other part is that the clinton years addicted them to discussing Democratic men’s dicks.  The size, the shape, whether it was bent, where he put it, for how long, who came first..etc etc. 

Now, they don’t have that.  Instead they have Sanford and Ensign, and Foley and Vitter and on and on and on.  and they have Barack Obama.

A man in love with his wife.

It’s driving them mad.  And someone like Althouse already had a big head start, so who knows where she’ll end up.  But whatever she says remember; she’s not titilated and she’s not jealous.

No sir.

Sigh. I don’t usually go in for the “there are more important things to be talking about!” meme, but really, this is unnecessary. People’s bodies exist and sometimes come into others’ field of vision.

Not that I think that Althouse the seething guttersnipe will bother, but if you check out the video it becomes absolutely clear that the pic is extremely misleading and that Obama was attempting to help a different young lady down the steps and not checking out anyone’s ass.  Sarkozy however does appear to be openly admiring her.  I’m sure that matters to someone.  You know, I sometimes turn around and admire a man.  I don’t feel guilty about it either.  Anyway, here’s the video.

http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=2922741&ref=fpblg

I wanted to look at the picture to see for myself if Obama is a dog, but then I realized if I looked at the picture, I’d be implicitly eye-raping everyone in it, so I didn’t…

The video’s at the Media Matters link in the post, too. So thphttt.

I saw the other picture somewhere else. It looked to me like he was turning around to talk to someone behind him (I thought it might have even been Michelle) or to reply to something someone had just said as he was walking down a set of stairs. And there just happened to be a women walking up the stairs at the same time in that general direction. It seemed more to me to state more about the people accusing him of oogling her that were the ones who really couldn’t keep their eyes off of her.

Kind of like, Oh! There is a woman in the picture! The only purpose anyone can think of to possibly do in that circumstance is to ogle her! So that MUST be what he is doing!

Although I do like, in the TPM/GMA version of the video, the way the producers do the slight Ken Burnsian slow zoom on the woman’s ass. That’s classy.

Yeah, RMJ, but you know what THOSE PEOPLE get like when a shapely woman is around.

Morrissey, for his part, chickens out when he finds out the woman may be under 18, and switches to another photograph, supposedly showing Obama staring at a staffer of some sort as she bends over in front of him:

Wouldn’t the fact that she was under 18 make it worse, and thus justify making a bigger deal out of it? Yes, it would - if it were true. Which Morrissey obviously knows it really isn’t.

So he switched to another photograph, because once you’ve got an accusation in your mind, it’s easy to find a photo that “proves” it.

Someone is getting paid to look at these photos. Actual money. To look at photos of the president to see whether he might be looking at a woman’s behind. This is actually happening.

The comments at Althouse boil down to the same thing: “We all know what those niggers/apes are like when there’s pussy around.”

The ten or so regular commenters at Althouse are some sick sons-of-bitches.

They really have. got. nothing.

New Republican mascot: a bunny with a pancake on its head.

Obama: But listen! She never actually said, “no”, --so it’s okay.
Ann Althouse: No. Dude, no. You checked her ass.
Obama: But!
Ann Althouse: No. Barack. What you did is RAPE. You RAPED her.

Ann Althouse: HONK! HONK!

“New Republican mascot: a bunny with a pancake on its head.”

...and an onion on its belt?…

Next on Fox:  Rahm Emmanuel is tight with money.  And makes matzoh with the blood of Christian babies.

Am I the only one who was kinda sorta impressed by the fact that this was debunked on, of all places, Good Morning America?  On ABC? In the MSM?

Progress, maybe?

I’m not sure that I’m down with the idea that a person who notices the attractiveness of another person (insert genders of taste) suddenly ceases to be a loving and faithful spouse, Caton.

JadedOptimist:
I’d feel better about them if they hadn’t sniggered and said “ooh la la” (ooh la la, for god’s sake) when noting Sarkozy’s interest.

99.9% of the time, if someone is bending over next to you, you’re going to see what they’re doing in case they need a hand with something*, and 99.9% of the time if someone snapped a photo of you while someone was bending over next to you and you were trying to see what was going on, then the photo would look like you were checking out that person’s ass.

* and during that moment you might realize that they have a fine ass and have a look.

So whose posterior are the other two gentlemen looking at?

There’s a naked woman lying on the floor.

laying

Damn it.

As someone who has looked at an ass or two in my day (frequently without inquiring with the lady attached to said ass whether or not my ass looking was acceptable) I would like to say that I am a horrible person who doesn’t deserve to live because surreptitiously admiring the bodies of people we find sexually desirable is the absolute worst thing one can do. If someone needs to be crucified to make up for the sins of me and my fellow ass-beholders, let me suggest that I would be willing to be nailed to some wood (heh, heh… wood) to wash away the sins of all the naughty lads (and ladies, I know you do it too, you dirty, dirty girls) who gaze upon physical beauty with such inhuman (no, that’s not the word I was looking for… what was it again; ah yes, human) abandon.

Besides, everyone knows that “a girl’s but is where cooties come from” (Bart Simpson)

I hope I don’t get banned for this admission. I will try to be better in the future. Actually, no; I probably won’t. Asses will be admired. Boobs too.

Gracchus,

Yeah, well, that’s why I wrote “he’s a human being” rather than “he’s a guy.” All evidence indicates that women like to look at butts, too. 

In my experience, those who wish to be outraged will find a way to be outraged, with or without my help.

Also, let me point out that I have been faithfully married for twenty one years but sometimes the asses I admire are not attached to my lovely bride. But it’s OK, our eyes have an open relationship: if you know what I’m sayin’.

Yeah, that’s right. We’re eye swingers!!!

and during that moment you might realize that they have a fine ass and have a look.

Thank you, Ponygirl.  My point exactly.

The comments on Althouse’s post are pretty sickening: “An ass smaller than a wash tub? Michelle told me that was not possible!” If you feel sufficiently knowledgeable about the size of Michelle Obama’s ass in comparison to the size of this random woman’s ass, you’ve probably been doing quite a bit of the ogling you’re accusing Obama of.

“In my experience, those who wish to be outraged will find a way to be outraged, with or without my help.”

That seems to sum up Ms. Althouse pretty damn well…

Of course, to be fair, Ms. Althouse is an amateur compared to someone like Ms. Maglalang, whose outrage detection manufacturing skills are honed to a razor’s edge…

“In my experience, those who wish to be outraged will find a way to be outraged, with or without my help”

How DARE you!

Good Day… I said Good Day sir!

<blockquote>laying</i>

No, lying.  You lie on the floor.  You lay carpet.

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This is news ?

1) So what ?

2) He may have been looking down to avoid falling down the stairs, like Bush did often

3) Who cares ?

Meh.. Look but don’t touch.

Much ado about nothing

I’m not sure that I’m down with the idea that a person who notices the attractiveness of another person (insert genders of taste) suddenly ceases to be a loving and faithful spouse, Caton.

seeker6079 on 07/10 at 02:08 PM

An uncle of mine had great line about that.  In response to getting caught lookinganother woman by his wife he would say either: “just because I’m not hungry doesn’t mean I can’t look at the menu,” or “if I’m not looking at a beautiful woman, check for my pulse.” And then gaze obver obviously admiringly at his wife.”’ Cliche and corny, yeah, but he celebrated his 65th wedding anniversary before he died, so.... maybe good advice?

Let’s not forget basic facts of biology that applies to everybody: Obama or Gingrich, H. Clinton or Palin: the human eye is drawn instantly to motion; the human eye is drawn to colour differentials.

Obama might indeed have been looking at this woman.  She’s also dressed in a splendid orange outfit amongst black- and grey-wearing people, and she’s crossing his line of vision.  BFD.

One of my profs had a favourite pair of jeans that had a small white tag on the bit of cloth that covers the zipper.  After a while everybody, male and female, hated those jeans.  One’s eyes were drawn to his crotch as he moved about, talking, and it had nothing to do with sex.

It looks more to me like Obama is trying to figure out if he can help her pick something up or not drop something. 

Very difficult to tell ANYTHING from a still photo.  Is there a video?  Of course, that would show a finite moment in time to be part of a larger context - something the reichwing avoids.

Parellel universes:
Let’s see, the anti-Obama-ites have now been making sexual jokes about a teenage girl who unwillingly became a part of this becuase of a photo she wasn’t even aware was beign taken of her. 

David Letterman made a joke about a teenage girl (Willow Palin) who wasn’t aware tehphot would be mistaken for her sister Bristol.

Proper response:  let’s go pickett ALthouse’s publisher to request the she be FIRED.  She’s such a pederast!  She shouldn’t be trusted with anyone underage.

Jokes about Palin’s kids were OMG off-limits even though SHE dragged them onstage, and even though the jokes veered more to how their BEHAVIOR reflected on Cariboo Barbie’s parenting skills, parenting which she wanted others to follow.  (or ick, legislate about.)

Jokes about Chelsea Clinton and now this young woman (who I happen to think was striking, especially that beautiful curly golden hair) frm the anti-Obama-ites all focus on looks - they get their jollies frm misogyny to girls, no less.

Scumbags.

Ann Althouse: HONK! HONK!

Said the goose - and geese are nasty like that.  Was he gandering?

There should definitely be a band called Nasty Like That with an album called Honk Honk.  That’s my takeaway from all this.

Q: What is worse than being the Republican Governor and initiating an affair with one of your staffers who is married to another one of your staffers while both of said staffers are staying as guests in your house along with their kids and your kids, then getting your mommy and daddy to pay for 96 thousand dollars in hush money when you finally get caught, all while leturing the rest of the country on the positive Christian values inherent in faithful heterosexual marriage?

A: Lookin’ at ass while being a Democrat!

(That has an “Aristocrats!” feel to it. You can make the question anything you want and the punch line is always the same)

You know, even if he was checking out her ass, so what?

Oh dear, Captain. In anticipation of the 2nd-wave feminist outrage squad’s arrival to brand you and the owners of Pandagon as enablers of rape culture, and to save everyone a lot of time and keystrokes, I’d refer anyone who wants to discuss this to the comments in this thread. We exhausted that tiresome topic pretty thoroughly there and don’t need a replay here.

Oh dear god! “eye rape” ?  What if he was a blind man imagining some hot sex with a woman ? “ear rape” ? “Nose rape” ?

Someone ought tell NSSFM that trying to control people’s thoughts is a fools errand. And not a very liberal, democratic goal. Is the other side that tries to tell what you can and can not think.

I couldn’t care less what some man (or woman) thinks in their privacy about me or my body. Even if I did, I wouldn’t think it is my prerogative to tell them what to think.

What I CAN do is to object to me - my person - being brought into someone’s fantasies by him / her calling themselves to my attention with leering or some direct remarks. If they keep it to themselves, they can imagine me anyway they like. Not my problem. Got other things - real things - to worry about.

Good Day… I said Good Day sir!

Blast him! Curse that Filby and his foul “Good Day To You”!

Requisite warning; seriously NSFW beyond that page.

Yeah, well, that’s why I wrote “he’s a human being” rather than “he’s a guy.” All evidence indicates that women like to look at butts, too.

Back when I was a giggly highschooler, we called attractive male butts “salt.” Nice Ass, Clean Lines.

Wouldn’t the fact that she was under 18 make it worse, and thus justify making a bigger deal out of it? Yes, it would - if it were true. Which Morrissey obviously knows it really isn’t.

Perhaps the recent wingnut protestations about how mocking Palin for using her children as political props equals an attack on children got him worried that it would distract from the focus of his ridiculous attack. (I know these chuckleheads normally have no problem asserting six contradictory things before breakfast, but if it isn’t a matter of intellectual honesty, just effectiveness, they might give it some consideration.)

You know what’s even worse than Obama peeking at the woman’s butt?  He’s a black man.  A BLACK MAN!  A BLACK MAN OGGLING A WHITE WOMAN!

Those jungle savages are coming for our women!

Thank god for Ann Althouse.  But for her vigilence all our women might have been defiled by these ape-creatures by now.

New Republican mascot: a bunny with a pancake on its head.

Lady GaGa is a Republican?  *shrugs*

Yeah, well, that’s why I wrote “he’s a human being” rather than “he’s a guy.” All evidence indicates that women like to look at butts, too.

Yes, but as you’ll note in the other thread, when a man looks at a woman he finds attractive, it’s the equivalent of rape (all points on a spectrum being equal, of course—I think that’s from answers.com or something).

In my experience, those who wish to be outraged will find a way to be outraged, with or without my help.

But don’t you see, you didn’t provide a Shakesville-style trigger warning for your obvious endorsement of eye-rape? You’re a patriarchal monster—just like Amanda Marcotte!

Ok, getting back to this idiotic “scandal,” the same thing you said could just as easily be applied to the wingnuts obsessed with it as it’s applied to the sort of more-PC-than-thou feminist we saw in the other thread—immersion in knee-jerk ideology will do that to a person.

The foot closest to the woman, like Sarkozy’s, is planted and aimed forward, but the other steps off in the direction of the woman, bending the knee upward into a bit of a crotch-squeeze and forming the base of a dramatic tilt of the entire body into a flexible S-shape that leans toward the woman...His mouth is open as if to say: That’s what I want.

What is she, some kind of half-assed Sister Wendy? She’s definitely servicing herself as she writes this.

They really have. got. nothing.

Oh, I don’t know: they’ve got obsessive amateur body language micro-analysis, revealing much more about their desperation and personal neuroses than about the alleged subject. That’s something.

I’m aware of too many internet traditions.

She’s definitely servicing herself as she writes this.

That’s it. I’m shutting off my computer now.

Here are a few choice comments from Althouse’s scumbag readers:

Basic rule: You can look but not touch. The O appears to be ready to break the rule.

Sarkozy is laughing at Obama wanting him some white ass.

“An ass smaller than a wash tub? Michelle told me that was not possible!”

There’s our leader doing what he does best – community booty organizer. The only ghetto mannerism missing is his unconscious hand clutching his boy-brain (crotch) in MJ fashion!

How do you like having a primitive for president?

...as noted, at least AA’s face doesn’t make one want to puke. The G8, Jr. girl needs a bag over her head - two bags.

In light of the video, some have fallen back to the position of “he DIDN’T LOOK AT IT and that means he’s a big HOMO GAY!!!”:

So, here’s video of the incident, in which it’s clear Obama wasn’t paying the least bit of attention to the “woman’s ass.”

Yeah but the Frenchie was takin it all in. Well that settles it. We know who the nancyboy is now.

It’s not about Obama staring at that woman’s ass. It’s about the lying.

Gracchus, I don’t know what other thread you’re referring to. Am I going to regret asking?

LOL Althouse’s “match made in heaven” has gone flat that soon huh?

cheez - talk about taking your sexual frustrations out on others.

An uncle of mine had great line about that.  In response to getting caught lookinganother woman by his wife he would say either: “just because I’m not hungry doesn’t mean I can’t look at the menu,” or “if I’m not looking at a beautiful woman, check for my pulse.”

Well, as with checking out other people, there’s a difference between polite appreciation and leering.  I’ve noticed guys I’m dating look at other women, which I don’t blame them for; I’ve caught myself checking out other men when I’m out with a date or boyfriend.  But I think it can become a problem if it crosses the line from detached appreciation.  I’ve personally never experienced a boyfriend leer at a woman in my presence, but I’m sure that would make me feel like shit, like he’s deliberately trying to make me feel that I’m not good enough.  But I tend to identify and ditch choads early on, so I hopefully won’t ever have to experience that.

Re: this most recent picture.  Is it just me or does it seem like Obama can’t even see the staffer’s ass from that angle?  Her ass is pointed away from him.  He’d have to lean over her to see it and it doesn’t look like he’s doing that.

Re: this most recent picture.  Is it just me or does it seem like Obama can’t even see the staffer’s ass from that angle?  Her ass is pointed away from him.  He’d have to lean over her to see it and it doesn’t look like he’s doing that.

I’m glad you pointed this out.  People seem to forget from time to time that a photograph is a 2-dimensional representation of 3-dimensional space.  So someone isn’t necessarily looking directly at whatever is positioned in front of them.

Gracchus,

Yeah, I looked at that other thread.  Sorry I missed out on all the fun, by which I mean nothing of the sort.

Well, as with checking out other people, there’s a difference between polite appreciation and leering.

Exactly, and from both ends.  It’s one thing to discreetly enjoy looking at an attractive person.  It’s a very different thing to make sure that person is aware that you’re looking.  That’s where the creepiness comes in.*

It’s the random checking-out of strangers on the street with no purpose that often become problematic for women.  Why does that construction worker think I care what he thinks of my ass?  If he really likes it, he’ll try to strike up an actual conversation or go on with his day, not yell and whistle and make sure I know he’s ogling me.

* Unless you’re in a place where people are supposed to be checking one another out, like a bar, or if you actually are trying to get said attractive person to go on a date with you.

phylosophizer:

An uncle of mine had great line about that.  In response to getting caught lookinganother woman by his wife he would say either: “just because I’m not hungry doesn’t mean I can’t look at the menu,” or “if I’m not looking at a beautiful woman, check for my pulse.” And then gaze obver obviously admiringly at his wife.”’

It doesn’t matter where you get your appetite, so long as you come home for dinner.

In some sane future, Althouse will be getting divorced because either 1) she thinks her husband is ogling other women constantly or 2) he’s tired of being accused of ogling other women constantly.

Sarkozy is laughing at Obama wanting him some white ass.

The G8, Jr. girl needs a bag over her head - two bags.

The only possible way to find sense in these comments is if the commentators in question are quite, quite blind.

Funny how all the outhouse commentators seem to have forgotten W’s penchant for actually physically touching women - including heads of state - in unexpected and unacceptable ways.

Then there is Bachman trying to french kiss W.  How come that isn’t counted as beyond acceptable infringement of personal space?

What I find interesting in all of this is the fact that Obama is innocent and Sakozy is so clearly guilty and yet there is not discussion about his leering behavior.  I suppose when white men look it comes down to boys will be boys.

I’m not even sure Sarkozy is guilty of anything, either ... she just happened to drop something and bend down as they were chatting and laughing, she may be perfectly unogled.

I would have to see a video for the proper context.  Sorry.

Then there is Bachman trying to french kiss W.  How come that isn’t counted as beyond acceptable infringement of personal space?

ahem, Ms Kate, I think you mean “freedom kiss,” not “french kiss.” That Bachman is no dirty French socialist sissy, afterall 70 or so years ago the French needed us to help them win the war!!! U.S.A!!!! U.S.A!!!

My browser opens with the aol page.  They have this whole nasty photo gallery of “celebs looking bad.” One is of Tori Spelling, scratching her nose - daintily, politely, but for once, with all their millions, it made me realize how awful it must be - I mean, can you imagine having to be conscious of every single possible split second when a still photo can ruin your entire career?  There is no way that one can maintain picture perfect all the time.  Imagine, NOT BEING ABLE TO SCRATCH AN ITCH outside the privacy of your home?  The paparazzi have gone too far. I wish Obama would sue Hannity and others for making claims that are blatantly false - it sure seems like slander/libel to me, especially when the video so clearly shows what was happening, and that suggesting that Obama was ogling a teen has malicious intent against Obama.  It sure would set a good example to the rightwing that there is a line not to cross.

What I find interesting in all of this is the fact that Obama is innocent and Sakozy is so clearly guilty and yet there is not discussion about his leering behavior.  I suppose when white men look it comes down to boys will be boys.

To be fair, there is the age-old stereotype of Frenchmen as womanizers.  You know, when we’re not stereotyping them as cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

But the constant scrutiny of Obama to see if he’s (gasp!) looking at a white woman has a very, very creepy edge to me and, unfortunately, I think it’s a dogwhistle that’s being heard loud and clear by the people waiting for it.

When someone moves in front of you; you look.  We back to glance v. gape.  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Perhaps we should go into althouse comments and alternately use the names “angela Merkel” and “Emmett Till”.

You know, I just thought this is a good thing.  I mean, the minute I saw the photo, my brain went to, naw, even if he WAS glancing, Obama’s got waaaay to much class to be obvious about it.  But My bet was on, it’s a fake (and taking a candid still out of context is a fake). 

On the other hand, if it had been almost any reThug, my thought would have been, oh shit, there goes some idiot guns and fetuses misogynist asshole who should neer have been elected, being an ugly American yet again. 

Obama’s in office, adutls are in charge, all’s right with the world.  (At least for the moment, and in my mind, OK?)

Gee, this latest revelation by the GOP’s flacks is about as grave as their wailing over Obama’s taste in “eltitist” iced teas last summer.

But the constant scrutiny of Obama to see if he’s (gasp!) looking at a white woman has a very, very creepy edge to me and, unfortunately, I think it’s a dogwhistle that’s being heard loud and clear by the people waiting for it.

Actual comments from the Althouse thread:

Sarkozy is thinking, ‘I go home to Carla and you go home to The Beast of ACORN!’ There’s our leader doing what he does best – community booty organizer. The only ghetto mannerism missing is his unconscious hand clutching his boy-brain (crotch) in MJ fashion!

BTW the girl isn’t white. If you look at the frontal photo of her, she clearly has Africanish features. She’s high yella.

They want Palin to run........ STILL!!

Being dropped when you were a baby is one thing this photo crap is fucking retarded!!!

“What’s the underlying ideology, you are supposed to check your libido in at the door when you enter the White House?”

Certainly not!  What a preposterous idea!  I’m surprised you’d even suggest such a thing.

You’re merely supposed to belong to the right party…

To be fair, there is the age-old stereotype of Frenchmen as womanizers.

Sarkozy is married to Carla Bruni.  It’s not as if getting caught checking out a pretty ass is going to embarrass him or her one little bit, or make his public think any different of him whatsoever.

Linnaeus:

People seem to forget from time to time that a photograph is a 2-dimensional representation of 3-dimensional space.  So someone isn’t necessarily looking directly at whatever is positioned in front of them.

It’s even more complicated than that, because photos like these are taken with long telephoto lenses, which means that you get perspective compression.  Which means that front-to-back distances appear shorter than they are in reality.

This is particularly relevant to the new photo in the Ed Morrisey entry, the one with the staffer picking up something in the front.  Obama is most likely significantly farther from the staffer than the photo makes it appear.

An example of the opposite effect: realtors take photos of the interiors of houses with wide-angle lenses, partly because normal lenses can show too little of a room, but also because it exaggerates the distances and thus makes the rooms look bigger.

The lesson: it’s hard to evaluate distance in photos unless you know where the camera was positioned, and the angle of view of the lens when the photo was taken.

Only Americans would worry about this shit, one way or another.  Can you, swear to god now, imagine any other country running a headline “Leader looks at an attractive person!!!1!!!”

*MUMBLES IRRATIONALLY*

I don’t understand the outrage. I mean, it’s not like he rubbed her neck, or anything.

Somewhat surprisingly, Althouse’s scumbag readers are mostly way more racist and misogynist than the people at Hot Air. More choice comments from them:

that chick’s face is broken. She fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. I don’t even want to look at the video again because… a warthog may look pretty to another warthog ...  Perhaps where she comes from, that face is considered pretty. Wherever that is, though, I don’t want us to send any foreign aid other than contraceptives.

Sarkozy’s ruing the fact that W. or Obama or any POTUS can do what they want. Obama’s thinking “Yeah, I’m checking out her ass you worthless frog fuck. Keep up your smirking and I’ll fuck your wife too.”

The girl was a bit of a Butterface

Skinny too, no breasts worth mentioning, skinny calves - but what a butt! Obviously ready to breed whatever her age. I’m sure she can shake it like a paint mixer. Doable, but no, not pretty.

Most of them have moved on to tearing apart the girl in the photo, but here’s one desperately trying to maintain his rapidly flagging outrage-boner:

The video does not exonerate him. I was more than prepared to accept this as a too-good-to-be-true moment, that the video would show him trying to get down the stairs. It doesn’t; that’s nonsense.

Kind of sad.

Deriding or defending the ‘action’ in the still is moot if you actually watch the video. It bears no relation to the still at all.

1. Obama’s clearly looking behind him for the hand of another woman coming down the steps.

2. The person in the reddish dress is a woman of color

What does one do on a feminist-leaning blog when regular commenters pre-empt a “2nd-wave feminist outrage squad’s arrival” by dismissing all opinions but their own? Nothing, I guess ‘cuz that would be all feministy and outragey. No matter how douchey the pre-emption.

Also, “eye-rape”. Hilarious stuff.

“Can you, swear to god now, imagine any other country running a headline “Leader looks at an attractive person!!!1!!!” ”

How about “Leader puts Dijon mustard on burger!”

Or “Leader eats ice cream with daughter while world burns!”

Or “Leader removes suit coat while working!”

America has plenty of stupid hangups for some people obsess over…

@tb:
This reinforces my theory that conservatives didn’t hate Clinton for having an extramartial afair, but for having an extramartial afair with a woman they percieved as “ugly”. I guess if Obama really *did* rape Carla Sarkozy, they’d welcome him as one of their own.

How soon before Fox demands his resignation?  And can we get Ken Starr in here for an investigation ASAP?

Sebastien:
I wonder if the tightierighties would have had the same negative reaction to her looks had Monica Lewinsky appeared the same but was standing by her GOP husband as he confessed to some scandal.

And can we get Ken Starr in here for an investigation ASAP?

Sure, as soon as those strange noises from the bathroom cease and Starr emerges looking flush and ostentatiously holding a copy of the Federal Reports.

To think; if he whistled at her, Lindsay Graham would want him lynched.

Ms Kate, to answer your question, HONK HONK was not a goose.
Sirkowski references this

If you are not in the know, those are characters from the Nicktoon “Doug.” Skeeter, the guy who says “HONK HONK” makes that noise all the time, typically as punctuation. The joke is he punctuates his sentences like that even when he’s not being goofy.

In this, a joke is like a frog. You can understand it by disecting it, but it will be quite dead at that point.

This ridiculous episode reminded me of a very sad thing I read about the overload of media attention that Princess Diana faced every single day.  She told an interviewer that it was the little stuff that got to her--for example, if she needed a new bra, she could never just pop out to the shops, the way she used to pre-Charles; no, she had to either send someone else out, which meant they’d bring back an array of bras that were guaranteed to not fit, or not work with the dress she was planning on wearing, or she’d have to arrange to have a store open early, just for her, and have a huge security detail present so she could try on and buy her bra.  She also lamented not being able to go to the grocery shop and lazily browse through the yogurts, deciding which one she felt like having for tea (something I do all the time--lazily browse the grocery store, I mean--and totally take for granted).  No, if there was something she wanted on a whim, she’d have to make insane amounts of arrangements with minders and security to do so, and make sure she was fully made-up and well-dressed because there were always cameras and video tracking her every move.

I think I was sitting on my bed at the time, wearing a ratty old leotard and jeans--which I’d worn to pick up groceries earlier--and no make-up, as I watched the interview.  I had never considered how awful it would be to thoroughly scrutinized every single waking moment of my life spent outside my room.  Even if I did have beautiful jewelry and had got to dance with John Travolta.

Ah, I remember Doug.. though I personally thought the Honk was referring to a clown for some reason.

As for the first picture it seems to me Obama isn’t even looking. If he is, it may be because he dress sticks out so much. I personally would have my eyes drawn to a red garment in a sea of muted tones too. There is no malicious intent behind it: I think it’s a normal reaction to go “hey what’s that?”

Mnemosyne, NaCl? Absurdly nerdly.

YouTube Dick Cheney checks out Cate Edwards ass

The ten or so regular commenters at Althouse are some sick sons-of-bitches.

Reader, she’s marrying one.

It doesn’t matter where you get your appetite, so long as you come home for dinner.

Well Dan, I have to say that if my husband came home wanting “dinner” after spending the day oggling other women to get up his “appetite”, he wouldn’t be my husband for long.  In fact, he wouldn’t be my husband at all, since he wouldn’t be so crass in the first place.

To think; if he whistled at her, Lindsay Graham would want him lynched.

At least he’d wait for the whistle.  I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that Jeff Sessions wants him lynched just on general principle.

sacundim:  Thanks for the photography lesson.  I’d heard of these effects, but didn’t know much about them.

i am so confused, here…

so - wasn’t Althouse just a few months ago gossiping with her readers about (transript: what they *really* said)
“Obama went on vacation! not just that, but to a beach! and not just to a beach, but he wore SWIMTRUNKS!”
“ooooooooooh, he wore swimtrunks!”
“oh, he totally did! and he had actual defined and visible muscles!”
“NO! *gasp* Obama exercises?!”
“oh! *clutches pearls* a man who exercises can only be ONE THING”
“NO! you can’t mean...!”
“yes - yes, Barrack Hussein O(s)bama - he’s...”
“you have to say it!”
“it’s just so difficult and painful to see the POTUS like this!”
“*sob* it’s hard for us, too! but we *must* stay strong and we *must* tell the truth for all the world to hear”
“I know, i know, it’s my DUTY, as Ann Althouse, to let the world know of this devistating TRUTH, but, *SOBSOB* - how can i say it? i can’t bring myself to say it!”
“Ann, you *MUST* be the strong one! the country NEEDS you to be *strong* and state the truth!”
“you’re right *gasp* you’re right *lays on her fainting couch* yes. YES. YES! i will be strong, and i will say it!”
“YES ANN! yes, be strong and give the world TRUTH!”
“TRUTH - The TRUTH is that Barrack Hussein O(s)bama went on vacation, in Hawai’i, on a *beach*, wearing SWIMTRUNK, which showed definitive *MUSCLE TONE and if you add all that you - “
“*GASPSOFHORROR*”
“you add all that up -”
“*panting* YES ANN, ADD IT UP!”
“Add it up - and our POTUS - *SOBSOBSOBSOB*”
“you can say it Ann, you are strong enough! we have faith in you!”
“Our POTUS - he’s *whiiiine*, he’s -”
“Almost there Ann, you can do it! say it! say it! say it!”
“He’s *tears, blinding tears* oh GOD he’s *sniffle* -”
“SAY IT ANN, SAY IT ANN!”
“*SNUFFLE* add it up, and it’s so obvious and true, he’s, he’s *clutches HEART* *reclines further on fainting couch* *GASPS!* HE’S *METROSEXUAL*
“yes! he’s Metro - huh, what? what’s a “metrosexual”? a person who likes having sex on the Metro? how would he know, he’s from Chicago, they don’t that the “Metro there!”
“*elbow to face* no, you lame-brain, he’s Metrosexual, ya know, city slicker liberal elitist sex!”
“dude, he uses hair products. and LOTION. isn’t that right, Ann?”
“I’m afraid that it is, dear readers - our POTUS - he styles his hair, he buy fashionable clothing, he moisturizes!. and, to cap the injury of him taking care with his appearence, we add the insult to the injury - “
“there’s MORE>!”
“oh, there it, and it’s a sad, sad day for us all. the POTUS - he, there’s no way to be gentle and i already mentioned it in passing, but now - now is when it’s gonna *hurt*”
We’re Strong American’s, Ann, we can take it - we can Take It Like A Man!”
“Brace yourselves then - i already told you, painful as it was, that Barrack Hussein O(s)bama is Metrosexual - and also that he exercises - he WORKS OUT!
*gasps* *crys* *screams* *sobs*
“And, worst of all -”
“oh, Ann - are we REALLY READY to hear more truth!”
("dude, seriously, what’s a “metrosexual”? a guy who has sex in the city” “no, but a Metrosexual might *watch* Sex in the City!” - “NO! you can’t be serious! are you saying that the guy who is POTUS isn’t *JUST* a secrect Muslim Terrorist, but *also* watches SJP!? how EVIL!")
“Oh, worst off all, he works out and he <i>looks better than the average American!

seriously, they spent *forever* saying he might-as-well be *GAY*, but now ne’s checking out women? Ann Althouse give me whiplash…

ooooooooh! i have a broken tag, damnit :(

Oh, good fuck...Why can’t the Rethuglicans just die a dignified death? Witnessing their agonizing implosion is truly painful. This is all they can come up with?

It looks more like he was checking out her tits, which I doubt. But even if he were checking her out in any way, I could give a flying fuck. In my world, it’s weirder when red-blooded people of any sexual persuasion don’t animate in some way when an object of their sexual attraction appears in their view. I’ll nudge my husband and give him clock directions when a sexy woman comes into my view and he does the same for me when a sexy man is on the horizon. I adore my husband and find him to be incredibly sexy, but what a dreadful bore it would be to feel forced to limit my fantasies to only thoughts of him. Or to feel like he should be limited to solely sexual thoughts of me - what a buttload of pressure!

He has an extensive pron collection, in print and now in digital. He inadvertently left out his print collection a few months into our relationship and then became stammeringly, red-faced embarrassed and promised to destroy them, but I convinced him not to. For his 40th birthday, I took him to a strip club. The way I see it, those pics, stripteases and naughty movies save me a lot of work. Why ever would I want to dissuade him from perusing them?

The open-mindedness of our fantasy world is pretty mainstream, actually. I can only imagine the pearl-clutching that would ensue amongst the Althouse set if they had an inkling of the many married couples who swing or are involved in polyamorous relationships. They might actually stroke out (wouldn’t that be nice!).

“stroke out”
hehehehaha!

you didn’t *mean* it that way, but… lol