Is she serious?  How one puts a rose on a pile says something about the ability to lead?  Really?  Or does it just say something about the fact that McSame can’t toss anything anymore because his arms are all effed up from POW! and if he tries to toss something, he will come off looking like an inept loser just like Bush did with that first ball toss?

Doesn’t that embarrassing ball toss say something about inability to lead then?  Sheesh.

OMG- check this out:
http://thesuperficial.com/2008/09/anne_hathaway_raffaello_follie.php

Photos of McCain getting on a yacht to hang w/Raphael Follieri and Anne Hathaway.  You know- the guy that just plead guilty to defrauding the VATICAN?  And his movie star girlfriend, who just got all her jewelry confiscated by the FBI?  Yeah….

And yes, I know this site is stupid and sexist, but they kind of lay that right out there for you.  It is called “the superficial- because you’re ugly”, and the superficial writer is totally just that.

I saw this live yesterday - and I *knew* someone would pick up on that. Yes, it’s trivial as hell, but Senator Obama has got to start thinking like the Republicans and not do shit they *can* pick up on. He needs to remember who he is up against and how they twist things and not give them anything to work with.

Malkin says something stupid.  Sun rises in east.  Film at eleven.

Senator Obama has got to start thinking like the Republicans and not do shit they *can* pick up on.

So he should… what?  Simply cease to exist?  Become a recluse?  Jump into the LHC?  O would diving off a bridge be the more “appropriate” option?  Is that too flashy?

There is NOTHING Obama can do to avoid outrageous attacks fro people like Malkin.  NOTHING.  Even dropping out of the race or suspending his campaign or conceding to the Republicans on October 10 would have some dire implication in their eyes. 

Honestly, I think dems should just stop worrying about this stuff and assume it’s going to happen no matter what they do.

Certainly it’s nigh well imbecilic to focus on such minutiae when the larger issues go begging in the election. But having just viewed a snippet of the video, B.H.O. does appear a tad cavalier in his carriage at ground zero. Mostly, it seems he just wants to outthrow McCain, get his flower higher on the stack. I guess that’s an admirable quality ...

I noticed, watching this event live, that John McCain didn’t wear a flag label pin. He didn’t wear one for his nomination acceptance speech, either.

Why does John McCain hate America?

It’s a telling cultural and generational distinction between these two men vying to be commander-in-chief of our nation

Damn it, it published too soon. Anyway, that’s a quote from the article. And the translation is: “Obama is black! And young! And we all know how young black folk are ruining our country.” That is all.

Certainly it’s nigh well imbecilic to focus on such minutiae when the larger issues go begging in the election.

And yet you’re going to insist on doing it anyway.

He needs to remember who he is up against and how they twist things and not give them anything to work with.

Yes, exactly. They’ll twist anything he does, no matter how little he gives them to work with.

If he’d laid his rose down exactly the way McCain did, they’d say he was a copycat and not fit to lead.

If he’d laid his rose down while McCain tossed his, they’d say he was faking his reverence and was not fit to lead.

If they’d both tossed their roses, they’d say Obama didn’t toss his with enough patriotism and was not fit to lead.

If he’d laid his rose down while McCain dropped his pants and dropped a colossal turd in front of everyone, Malkin would complain that Obama was trying to look too aloof by not showing off his vital poop-making prowess.

Anyone who tries to keep from offending Malkin and her hordes should remember that they only thing they can do well is act offended.

For a second there I thought Jesse was quoting Michelle Obama and not Michelle Malkin and I was all WTF, why would Michelle Obama do something so out of character?

It makes me happy that Ms. Obama has now replaced Ms. Malkin as the first political person I think of when I hear the name Michelle. Woohoo!

Not that it matters but…

Michelle Malkin is pissed because Barack Obama tossed his rose on a pile of roses rather than laying it down

huh…you know, at the funerals I’ve seen, family members and close friends usually do the “lay the flower down” thing, often because they need more time to say goodbye or compose themselves or whatever. More distant friends tend to toss the flower gently and move on.

From my perspective, “laying the flower down” at a public memorial would be pretty presumptuous unless you personally knew at least one of the victims.*

I just love how the right wing has no problem pontificating how candidates are supposed to should think and feel and behave, down to the tiniest detail, even when it makes no sense or doesn’t fit “the American people’s” experience.

*I think the “laying of the wreath” is a completely different animal, because a) you can’t throw wreaths and b) the person laying the wreath is often representating a community or a country, so taking extra time to be “ceremonious” is more appropriate.

My favorite part: to cover up the fact that New York’s own Mayor Blumberg did the *exact same gesture*, she simply paints him as the “clueless NYC mayor” who followed Barack’s lead.

Kudos, MM.  Way to appeal to your readers’ anti-New York sentiments in the midst of demanding respect for the city’s dead. (slow clap)

When those planes hit the towers I knew it would change the way we tossed roses forever. How come Barack Obama didn’t? Unfit to lead.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

(Grrrr, “Bloomberg” not Blumberg.  I’m having a bad day.)

Jews often put a shovelful of dirt onto the casket as it is being lowered into the crowd.  It looks rather cavalier to the observer as it just looks as though they are throwing dirt onto their loved one’s grave without any reverence.  Malkin would have a field day with that, wouldn’t she?

McCain probably doesn’t have the physical ability to toss the flower given the limited movement of his arms.  He’s an older man and it makes much more sense that he would be more contained and measured with his physical movements.  Both of them were entirely appropriate at the service—why the hell wouldn’t they be?  No reason to believe that both of them love America and both of them want to serve their country in the way they know best.  I don’t support McCain on the ISSUES but that has nothing to do with anything.  This is truly a new low tempest-in-a-flowerpot.

I watched the ceremony live while at home sick yesterday.  I said to myself, “Self, someone is going to make a big deal out of the rose tossing thing.” Then, I said, “Naah, they’re stupid but they aren’t that stupid.” Wrong again!

I am enjoying the fact that a few (not a lot, not most, but a few) of Malkin’s own admirers are calling her out for being completely ridiculous.  Not to mention the fact that she falsely claimed that Obama failed to speak to several of the police/firefighters standing there; her readers pointed out to her that Obama had greeted them and then simply had to wait while McCain finished making the rounds.

My god, I forced myself to read the comments over there, and the stupid burns.

Putting aside the idiots who claim that this proves Obama is a Muslim, I am absolutely terrified by the people who claim that McCain’s “more presidential bearing” make him better suited to be our president than Obama.

That is, potentially, the least educated statement I have ever heard. Are we back in the days of Louis and Marie and, well, yeah, they can’t govern, they can’t budget, they don’t care about the plight of the people, but they just LOOK so gosh darn regal and royal and that’s really all that matters, right?

I really don’t give a damn about the “presidential bearing” of the candidates - my president can eat with his hands and wipe them on his coat jacket for all I care, as long as he’s got a good brain, a humble willingness to listen to others, and a realization that his actions affect others, for years to come, and the sincerity to try to do the right thing for all those he affects.

Malkin’s comment about Bloomberg seemed wildly antisemitic to me—either Malkin thinks Jews are unable to think for themselves or she thinks that the way Jews ritually mourn their dead is offensive and should be mocked.  Or probably both.  If Malkin does not immediately refute my point, it’s proof that the charge is irrefutably true.

There is an interesting concession there, though.  The multibillionaire businessman and mayor of the largest city in the United States clearly thought Obama, not McCain, was the leader.  Obama was CEO and mayor of Mike Bloomberg—America’s mayor, the mayor of the town where the terrorists last spoke on American soil.  Clearly that proves he has the executive experience to be president, and also the experience to 9/11 so shut up.

Though it should be noted by Palin’s Theorem—adjacency means experience dealing with (I live next to Trader Joe’s, which is why I know so much about trade issues)—McCain got the same leadership experience standing in rough proximity to Obama.

wow, people are actually taking sugar ray republican seriously? that’s not a concern troll, that’s a parody.

There is NOTHING Obama can do to avoid outrageous attacks fro people like Malkin.  NOTHING.

It’s like abuse victims who think that if they just do everything perfectly, their abusers won’t find an excuse to brutalize them.

Wrong.  Abusers will find any excuse.  In the context of a relationship, you need to just leave and/or go to the authorities.  In politics, you need to fight back.