Comedians making fun of Obama for not knowing how to use an umbrella in 3… 2 …. oh wait…
Oh well now I can’t laugh at him for this. I’ve been in too many umbrella mishaps. It’s like when he nearly walked into a window at the White House because it looked a lot like a french door; everyone laughed at him but I couldn’t, as I had just done the same damn thing the other day at the local library, which had these wicked stealth windows in the side of the building nearest the street that look a whole lot like doors — but they weren’t, the actual entrance was hidden in the parking lot around the back.
If only Obama’s missteps were confined to things like umbrellas and windows.
I’m wondering if this test could have been given before handing him the keys to air force one.
This is a cheap shot. I’m sure he was in the process of transferring the ‘brolly handle over the top bar of the gate. Heck, he’s walking with his wife and is trying to be courteous and all we get is hate 24/7.
Cheap shot? No, that is how you sell newspapers and increase page views at your web site.
It may be a cliche to point this out, but worth doing so anyway: if this had been Bush with the umbrella, we’d still be hearing “Stupid Bush with his umbrella” jokes.
Check out the Drudge Report right now (Aug 30 8am Central time)…his headline photo compares Obama riding a bike with a safety helmet to Putin hunting whales with a crossbow
Is this an example of that super special Obama intelligence we were told about during the campaign?
As for the rest of the country being in the best of hands (example MCXXXII), there’s this from today’s Avweb:
John And Martha King Held At Police Gunpoint (Really)
Aviation’s most prominent husband and wife team is calling on government agencies to keep their databases up to date and warning pilots and aircraft owners they could be next to be surrounded by heavily armed police, handcuffed and detained because of a bit of miscommunication. John and Martha King say there’s a lesson to be learned after they spent about 30 scary minutes in the custody of Santa Barbara, Calif., police at the Santa Barbara Airport Saturday. Authorities thought their leased Cessna 172 was a Cessna 150 that had been stolen eight years previously in Texas. The 172, which is owned by Cessna Aircraft, was assigned the N-number of the stolen 150 in 2009, years after the FAA had cancelled that registration on the 150. Apparently no one told the El Paso Intelligence Center, an arm of the Drug Enforcement Agency, and other government departments that keeps tabs on, among other things, flights of stolen aircraft. When the Kings filed IFR for their flight from San Diego to meet friends in Santa Barbara, the local police were alerted to intercept the aircraft when it landed. As Martha King told us in the accompanying podcast, what followed was, in her opinion, unnecessarily dangerous and uncomfortable.
King says they were approached by police prepared for the worst, with guns drawn and others taking cover behind the doors of the four police cars that responded. Although anyone who has met the Kings would describe them as anything but threatening in appearance and demeanor, the police took no chances and maintained their aggressive stance through the ordeal. “I would have thought at that point when they got us out it would have ratcheted down quite a bit because I don’t think we exactly look like your typical airplane thief,” she said. The Kings were not hurt and the airplane was not damaged. The police did not apologize but did justify their actions by saying it was a report that had to be checked out, King said. The Kings said they went public with their experience in hopes that law enforcement agencies will double-check stolen aircraft reports and to warn pilots that there’s a chance their N-number could come up under similar circumstances.
I might consider this a cheap shot, but I’ll know for certain if people are still talking about it after his Presidency such as the left still talks about President Bush choking on a chip/pretzel/or whatever hope they had that he might die. That was/is 24/7 hate.
Yeah, Larryj, I saw that about the Kings. I hope they sue the shorts off the Santa Barbara police. Not even an apology from those goons, who have been watching too many episodes of Miami Vice or some other H’wood crap. As if an airplane thief would want to land at Santa Barbara. What are the landing fees there these days, $20? Yeah, a thief is gonna land there. Sure.
Jerks.
I can hardly wait for the picture of him trying to carry a 2 x 4 through a door opening. Woo woo woo woo woo nyuk, nyuk…
For me, his signature move is the hand action as he deplanes from Air Force One. Dorky-looking, and he does it every time. I suppose it would be un-lightworker-ish to touch the railing.
…President Bush choking on a chip/pretzel/or whatever hope they had that he might die….
Well there you go, I have no memory of whatsoever of incident you’re referring to. However, I do remember watching live as candidate GW Bush wiped his glasses on Maria Pope’s coat tail before he went on Late Night With David Letterman…
I thought that clip would be replayed everywhere and deny him the nomination (I was rooting for McCain then) but surprisingly, few people seemed to understand the damning character implications that this off-camera act caught, for all to see…
I guess it was just me.
Sorry for the garbled first sentence, it’s late here…
I have no memory of whatsoever of incident you’re referring to.
Sorry, didn’t know you were ignorant. Here you go. Glad you can remember your hate from 2000. Cling to it. Hold on to it.
Brian Dunn Says:
August 30th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
I can hardly wait for the picture of him trying to carry a 2 x 4 through a door opening. Woo woo woo woo woo nyuk, nyuk…
In Obambi’s defense, he’s probably more used to having staff walk behind him carrying the umbrella than carrying one himself, as with the kings of old times.
In Obambi’s defense, he’s probably more used to having staff walk behind him carrying the umbrella than carrying one himself, as with the kings of old times.
Bennett, you don’t remember the pretzel incident? It was huge, mostly because he’d supposedly been drinking a non-alcoholic beer, and the BDS crowd went around saying he was still a secret lush that that explained everything, etc.
I don’t see what the big deal is about the coat tail thing. I watched it and I just don’t understand what is so awful. It’s not like he was wiping his butt. Since he’s doing it in front of everyone he probably asked the woman if he could borrow the corner of her jacket thing — it looks nice and soft like a microfiber glass cloth. (I wear glasses and it’s really annoying when you have something smeared on them. You reach for anything to clean them off.)
Comedians making fun of Obama for not knowing how to use an umbrella in 3… 2 …. oh wait…
Oh well now I can’t laugh at him for this. I’ve been in too many umbrella mishaps. It’s like when he nearly walked into a window at the White House because it looked a lot like a french door; everyone laughed at him but I couldn’t, as I had just done the same damn thing the other day at the local library, which had these wicked stealth windows in the side of the building nearest the street that look a whole lot like doors — but they weren’t, the actual entrance was hidden in the parking lot around the back.
If only Obama’s missteps were confined to things like umbrellas and windows.
I’m wondering if this test could have been given before handing him the keys to air force one.
This is a cheap shot. I’m sure he was in the process of transferring the ‘brolly handle over the top bar of the gate. Heck, he’s walking with his wife and is trying to be courteous and all we get is hate 24/7.
Cheap shot? No, that is how you sell newspapers and increase page views at your web site.
It may be a cliche to point this out, but worth doing so anyway: if this had been Bush with the umbrella, we’d still be hearing “Stupid Bush with his umbrella” jokes.
Check out the Drudge Report right now (Aug 30 8am Central time)…his headline photo compares Obama riding a bike with a safety helmet to Putin hunting whales with a crossbow
Is this an example of that super special Obama intelligence we were told about during the campaign?
As for the rest of the country being in the best of hands (example MCXXXII), there’s this from today’s Avweb:
John And Martha King Held At Police Gunpoint (Really)
Aviation’s most prominent husband and wife team is calling on government agencies to keep their databases up to date and warning pilots and aircraft owners they could be next to be surrounded by heavily armed police, handcuffed and detained because of a bit of miscommunication. John and Martha King say there’s a lesson to be learned after they spent about 30 scary minutes in the custody of Santa Barbara, Calif., police at the Santa Barbara Airport Saturday. Authorities thought their leased Cessna 172 was a Cessna 150 that had been stolen eight years previously in Texas. The 172, which is owned by Cessna Aircraft, was assigned the N-number of the stolen 150 in 2009, years after the FAA had cancelled that registration on the 150. Apparently no one told the El Paso Intelligence Center, an arm of the Drug Enforcement Agency, and other government departments that keeps tabs on, among other things, flights of stolen aircraft. When the Kings filed IFR for their flight from San Diego to meet friends in Santa Barbara, the local police were alerted to intercept the aircraft when it landed. As Martha King told us in the accompanying podcast, what followed was, in her opinion, unnecessarily dangerous and uncomfortable.
King says they were approached by police prepared for the worst, with guns drawn and others taking cover behind the doors of the four police cars that responded. Although anyone who has met the Kings would describe them as anything but threatening in appearance and demeanor, the police took no chances and maintained their aggressive stance through the ordeal. “I would have thought at that point when they got us out it would have ratcheted down quite a bit because I don’t think we exactly look like your typical airplane thief,” she said. The Kings were not hurt and the airplane was not damaged. The police did not apologize but did justify their actions by saying it was a report that had to be checked out, King said. The Kings said they went public with their experience in hopes that law enforcement agencies will double-check stolen aircraft reports and to warn pilots that there’s a chance their N-number could come up under similar circumstances.
For those of you who aren’t into aviation, here’s their bio. “John and Martha are the only husband and wife to both hold every category and class of FAA pilot and instructor certificates.” They operate King Schools for flight training materials. This example is yet another of government agenices failing to maintain their databases. They’ve created countless databases and whenever there’s a problem, they create new ones. Meanwhile, the old ones still exist but aren’t kept up to date. This has nothing to do with Obama – the problem predates him by several administrations. It has to do with the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats who really run the government.
I might consider this a cheap shot, but I’ll know for certain if people are still talking about it after his Presidency such as the left still talks about President Bush choking on a chip/pretzel/or whatever hope they had that he might die. That was/is 24/7 hate.
Yeah, Larryj, I saw that about the Kings. I hope they sue the shorts off the Santa Barbara police. Not even an apology from those goons, who have been watching too many episodes of Miami Vice or some other H’wood crap. As if an airplane thief would want to land at Santa Barbara. What are the landing fees there these days, $20? Yeah, a thief is gonna land there. Sure.
Jerks.
I can hardly wait for the picture of him trying to carry a 2 x 4 through a door opening. Woo woo woo woo woo nyuk, nyuk…
For me, his signature move is the hand action as he deplanes from Air Force One. Dorky-looking, and he does it every time. I suppose it would be un-lightworker-ish to touch the railing.
…President Bush choking on a chip/pretzel/or whatever hope they had that he might die….
Well there you go, I have no memory of whatsoever of incident you’re referring to. However, I do remember watching live as candidate GW Bush wiped his glasses on Maria Pope’s coat tail before he went on Late Night With David Letterman…
I thought that clip would be replayed everywhere and deny him the nomination (I was rooting for McCain then) but surprisingly, few people seemed to understand the damning character implications that this off-camera act caught, for all to see…
I guess it was just me.
Sorry for the garbled first sentence, it’s late here…
I have no memory of whatsoever of incident you’re referring to.
Sorry, didn’t know you were ignorant. Here you go. Glad you can remember your hate from 2000. Cling to it. Hold on to it.
Brian Dunn Says:
August 30th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
I can hardly wait for the picture of him trying to carry a 2 x 4 through a door opening. Woo woo woo woo woo nyuk, nyuk…
In Obambi’s defense, he’s probably more used to having staff walk behind him carrying the umbrella than carrying one himself, as with the kings of old times.
Yeah, that’s more his style.
Bennett, you don’t remember the pretzel incident? It was huge, mostly because he’d supposedly been drinking a non-alcoholic beer, and the BDS crowd went around saying he was still a secret lush that that explained everything, etc.
I don’t see what the big deal is about the coat tail thing. I watched it and I just don’t understand what is so awful. It’s not like he was wiping his butt. Since he’s doing it in front of everyone he probably asked the woman if he could borrow the corner of her jacket thing — it looks nice and soft like a microfiber glass cloth. (I wear glasses and it’s really annoying when you have something smeared on them. You reach for anything to clean them off.)