O.K.... let me first air a disclaimer that this is not intended to "pick a fight", but it is merely my first thought upon viewing this photo. Don't drink the kool-aid...
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Reminds me of a photo I saw of the crowd around Hitler.
What a feeling it must be to touch a stranger's face and get such a strong reaction, no matter what your profession - rock star, actor, politician. I would love to get inside their heads for a few minutes to see what it's like.
I had a relative die from cancer. If only Obama had been around then, we could have taken her to a rally, and have her cured.
Thou shall not worship false gods! This cracks me up - the picture, not the commandment (is it one of the 10 commandments? LOL!) - that someone can get so emotional over a politician! I mean, come on... he's not a god! I don't think I'd even get that emotional if I were face to face with IL DIVO!!! Well... maybe if I were ALONE with IL DIVO!!! *** hubba hubba *** And it looks to me like all his body guards are in back of him... who's covering the front? That guy, back upper left corner, looks suspicious to me!
It doesn't seem like he even notices her reaction...not unlike most men when it comes to a crying woman.. Not that I'm speaking out of experience or anything. Seriously though, if nothing else this rock star appeal he seems to have has at least boosted intrest in politics.
Reminds me of the photos where Monica Lewinski would randomly be in the background of Clintons photos. Maybe she is his Monica.
Didn't we see this about a month ago?
pat--it's interesting that you would relate this picture to hitler, but leave out the thousands of other people in history who have had fans display enormous amounts of emotion, or even swoon in their presence. i'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that obama is NOT your man. just wondering: are you also in the group of people who believe that he is the antichrist?
Are crowd pictures the only Obama pictures there are? He is poplular we know that. History lesson... Warren G. Harding won the presidency with over 60% of the popular vote only to admit during his presidency that he was probably not fit to be President. He is known as one of the worst Presidents we have ever had. Popular doesn't necessarily me qualified. Did hell freeze over and no one told me? It is snowing in Texas AGAIN!!
Looks like she is in severe pain and he is applying the healing touch. Ever so slightly biased media will have converted him into the new messiah before the primaries end.
I agree with Mr. Sturgill. Very few people would get that kind of reaction from me. For one thing, my personal space would not allow for a stranger (celebrity or not) to touch my face. I think it would be much healthier for our political system if we treated our candidates less as celebrities and more as public servants.
He may have been trying to comfort her.
Mt: There has been a Kool-Aid shortage since Bush's appointment to the Presidency seven years ago. Haven't you heard? We're the Mocha-Latte crowd. :)
What the heck is she crying about?
Obama -- The NEW Oprah....lol Crying because of his touch??? Get a grip, lady! MT: I laughed so hard I spit.... :) I was thinking...hmmm is it braces gone wild???
Right on, Pat. What exactly does she worship about Obama?!?! He's improper and too young and inexperienced for the job
MT and Pat--Great stuff. Keep them coming. :0) ERL
Anyone who would get *that* emotional over being in the presence of a politician has serious issues. The picture itself is pretty much a waste here.
Is she making her "O face"? The woman to her right seems to be greatly amused by her. The little dude to her left seems to be more impressed with the security people. The man in the back, right side, in the tan suede jacket, looks like Jay Leno 15 years ago.
I do believe it's been a long time since there's been a politician that has affected people that way.
it looks like the picture was doctored.
What's worse? 1. No new pictures for days. 2. No new posts for days. 3. A barrage of new boring pictures and no new posts for days. It's like Japanese water torture.
Yeah Pat, that looks like a typical Nazi crowd. Were you born stupid or is this the result of some injury?
Maybe he's very charismatic.Some people think he's going to be like the next Marthin Luther King. The picture showed some emotions because it's a honor to meet someone who's going to make some changes soon. Go Obama!
So sad watching people put faith in a man as though he is the answer to alltheir problems.
Whether or not he's qualified; this whole messianic thing is kind of creepy; just like the utube video where people chant "O-bam-AH" over and over over again-it reminded me a old hitler footage. This pic just adds to it-it is like christ is reaching out to cure this woman and she is overcome from it. I agree about the cool-aid
Here's a little shark joke NEOSHO sent me. Thought I would share. • What happens when you cross a great white shark with a cow? I don't know... but I wouldn't want to milk it. Thanks girl. Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea...
Silver and Gold have I none, what I do have I give to you. Get up off your bed and vote Democratic preferably.
I think the only emotion I would be showing is disgust. The man won't even recognize an American flag so how the heck does think he should be president. Wake-up America! He is not the right choice and niether is Hilary Clinton.
Too much humanity for me. If I somehow mistakenly get into a crowd like that, I get busy looking for an Exit sign.
Well... I guess they didn't like my comment! I kinda figured it might not get posted, as I did mention something about worshiping a god... this might not make it either. I'm beginning to feel left out, as several of my posts arn't getting posted! And I just don't know why!!! Maybe I should just start over and use a different name... IDK! (Now I'm sounding like Margaret's post about posts... LOL!)
Quit posting posts about me posting posts about not posting my posts, ok? If you're gonna post a post, post a post that gets posted that is your own post about your posts, not about a post that got posted by a poster that didn't get posted. Forgodsake! (this post sponsored by... Kellogg's)
He's not special enough to be the anti-christ.
Okay, it did get posted... sorry, editors... I either overlooked it or it was just posted! Won't complain anymore...
He's just showing off his "school of hard knocks" smarts, i.e. smoothly picking her "black diamond" earring so his campaign treasurer can fence it. BO knows what the Horatio Alger story is really about.
Seriously, this doesn't freak people out? it's like she's just been touched by Jesus-I don't like it one bit. Boy are you Obamaphiles going to be disappointed when you find out he doesn't walk on water.
Hey, I know---let's put Obama in the big plastic bubble!! Yes we did get a little snow here in north TX--8-9 inches in 4 hours!! It took me 4 hours to get home, my usual drive time is 45 minutes. It is melting this morning but I called in to work anyway, living in a rural area I just don't trust the bridges and hills. We were watching the weather this morning and my granddaughter reminded me "you can't believe anything they tell you on the news". Ahh--I have trained her well, LOL.
For all the Obama haters out there. Today, My wife and I are volunteering the whole afternoon to knock on doors to be sure the "Monster" Hillary doesn't win Wyoming. After picking our son up from school, he's 11 and excited to see Obama, we are driving to Laramie to listen to this inspiring man. Hopefully, we will be standing behind Barack Hussein Obama, holding our signs right side up (Hillary supporters can't seem to get this right) and cheering ernestly for our next President. Tomorrow, we will caucus for Senator Obama and hopefully hand him a majority of the "overwhelming" twelve delegates that Wyoming has to offer. Hillary makes me ill. McCain makes me sad. Barack gives me hope for America. And I pity any idiot who ever has the balls to compare my family to the Nazis to my face.
omg. wthck? I'm sick of this guy, and you know what? When I can vote, I'm voting him out.
the photo has a range of emotions on the various faces, from over-whelmingly emotional, to happy (lady in front of Obama) to sad (the lady behind the emotional lady) to indfferent, but that's just my opinion :) Margaret: hahaa, too funny (about the posts)
LunchBox--Holy crap, that was funny. Thanks. Tony--I'll compare the similarities, but I am going to have a hard time figuring out which face I should tell it to since you seem to have two of them. One that sells second rate novels and tries to be charming(heavy on the tries), or the other face, that makes threats of violence to people. Please enlighten me Oh Great Pompous One. LOL
i don't get it. he is charismatic, but people he does not acknowledge the flag. how can a potential president not acknowledge the flag of a nation he wants to run. did i just fall off the stupid truck? too many men and women gave their lives for this flag and nation for the hopeful president to turn his back from it. if i had to choose him or hillary, it would be hillary. i say go mccain!:>)
LunchBox...great comment! Holy crap, people! Are you kidding me? Are these people so enraptured by this guy (who has no real platform, by the way) that they cry if he just touches them?!?! That's just pathetic. Stand on your OWN merits, people believe in yourselves and stop being sheep. No one, and I mean NO one is worthy of that kind of senseless adoration, especially someone who speaks only in platitudes, generallities, and feel-good phrases. Does anybody really know what this guy's politics actually are? By the way, Margaret...LOL!
So Margaret--are you going postal? :)
Tony, I hope you and your family have a great, safe time. You are fortunate to be close enough to take your son and share the "process" with him. I would say don't drink the kool-aid, but I know you already have :-)
Someone please tell me what's so great about this man? What exactly does he stand for? I have yet to find anyone of his dead eyed koolaid drinking followers who can give me a coherent answer. They simply want Obama and they don't care about anything else. All this talk of "change". He doesn't have any answers except "hope". What the hell? My family can't eat "hope". I can't pay my rent with "hope". Screw you Obama.
dana---we *know* obama doesn't walk on water. we are HOPEFUL, not IGNORANT. there is a difference. CH---yet another misinformed comment. obama and the american flag....research it. j/dana---as i mentioned before, it is a bit unfair to liken the picture to the power of jesus without also mentioning the hundreds of other historical figures who have had their fans get **seriously worked up** over being in the presence of someone they deem great. the beatles. elvis. countless other bands and their members. mlk jr. jfk jr. the dahli lama. mother teresa. princess diana. sports figures, and even donald trump. the list is long. this woman who is visibly moved, this man who is showing her a bit of compassion....take out who he is, and ask yourself....what is the matter with that? answer: nothing. nothing at all. it just doesn't make sense to those who 1) don't get starstruck and 2) don't like obama.
Oh, people...listen to yourselves! Support your candidate like Tony is doing and don't trash talk someone elses. If you don't like Obama...don't vote for him. If you want Bill Clinton back...vote for Hillary. If you want to continue just as we are...vote for McCain.
That's right TwiT, she'll never suspect him of plucking her black diamond earring. She'll go the rest of her life thinking she dropped it on the floor.
Tony Good work. You have move fast, act like you're in a hurry. You knock on the door, stick a pamphlet in the guy's face and tell him "Hey vote Obama and have a nice day." You get a short rap going and keep moving. If you stop to listen to the guy's opinion, you're never going to hit all the places you want.
What a rally! What an inspiration! It must be sad to be as pessimistic as some of you are.
Okay, What a mess! Ed - Take my shoe off now! Oregon - It's time to let someone else play in the jumpy. And you had better not track grape jello into the house. NEOSHO - Stop playing 'You be shark, I be seal' with the guests. You might break a tooth. Tony - Nevermind, you just be you. Earl - You were sitting on the beer cap removal thingy all night. SL - Where you at, cher? Don't make me call the troopers. And Kev. Well. That was quite the peep show....ERL ....and who where the &*@#! did the belly dancer come from? And stop signing that darned bullfrog song. It's getting old.
Wow, I have been reading these posts for about 2 wks now and I've really enjoyed most of them. The reason I'm posting now is TonyinCheyenne. Usually I get a good laugh from his wit, but he needs to get a grip. Im not an idiot, but I'm not an Obama supporter either. I thought the editors wouldn't allow an attack on people who post. Don't be hatin' as my students would say.
Right on TonyInCheyenne! It can be an emotional thing to meet a prospective leader of the free world whether it be Obama, Clinton or McCain. And believe it or not there is a huge amount of Obama supporters right here in Texas! I wish you well in your caucus.
Barbara; popular doesn't always make a good president. Look at GW! Everyone said "he's the guy we can have a beer with." A lot of good that does the poor and uninsured in this country.
As Obama touches the face of the unsuspecting victim, his thoughts are on the sneeze that produced the goober he so wanted to get rid of!
Obama faces the demon head-on, and thinks "Lord, don't let this mamba bite me"!
Way to go Tony! You do all the work on the campaign and I'll just sit back in my la-z-boy and watch it on the news!
Gee Tony...all that support for Obama...You're greeeaaat! So the crowd that gathered is all your family; and what a diverse group of siblings you sired. Must be all of the Mocha Latte's :o)~
president Bush, the most real president we have had in years, better than the Jerry Springer side show Hilary/Obama democratic race, they act like children seeing who can say the most bad things about each other instead of worring about the country they wish to represent.
Krista, I'll get your shoe off as soon I get this garter belt off. I knew it was too small for me. Now it's stuck.
Tony IC: Surely either will be an improvement oven the Great Divider. Hopefully, we will have both, with HC on top!
Kevin: (This is the charming me)Thanks for the plug on my novel. :) (This is the violent me)There is one particular scene in the novel that reminds me of a meeting between you and I. It takes place in an abandoned church in Chiapas, Mexico. It's a great scene! Chapter 37! tWIT: Hillary on top...I'm not even going to touch that one.:) Margaret??? Anndee, Katy, Pixie: You guys rock!
As ChristaSilverdale said, we really don't have much information from Obama other than "change" and "hope". I would love to know what that means to him and how he plans to achieve them. What scares me is that he is practically worshipped. Few Americans these days can think for themselves. They will follow anyone who tells them a good story and promises them something for nothing. It is really sad. Tony, I don't support your candidate, but I appreciate your willingness to work and support him. That says a lot. BTW, you do know there are more candidates than Obama, Clinton and McCain, right? Ron Paul has not dropped out, despite what the mainstream news media are telling us. (Now That's who REALLY decides our elections!!!)
I wonder how many of these people will actually show up to vote?
Gabby: A couple of things. First, in 2004, 140 people showed up to the Democratic Caucus in Cheyenne to vote. Today, over 1500 showed up and voted. Laramie County went for Obama 62%. So, to answer your second question, I would say most. Now, your other post! If by some amazing act of God, Ron Paul became our next President in 2009, I would laugh, clap my hands and say "Hallelujah!" I like Ron Paul.
Pessimistic? Only at the thought of what Hussein might do to this country if given the chance.
Tony--LOL.....I doubt very seriously that you could get out of a wet paper bag, let alone man handle me. You are as they say in Texas "All Hat, and No Cattle". And I don't have any qualms at all about plugging your novel. I have enough people that subscribe to this blog that have already told me your work is second rate at best. If I can plug your novel and show more folks how big of hack you really are, then sure, go buy Tony's work. Just remember that I told you so when you do. LOL
Tony, if they're gonna lob meatbals, I'm takin' my bat and goin' home.
Krista...I think Ed looks good in your shoes...LOOKING GOOD ED. And I am still in the jumpie thingie waiting for someone to join me. No grape Jello, I promise.
Oh look it's that guy who purports hope and change but yet he doesn't say how. Hmmmm. Sound like somebody if full of it. America if this guy wins our years are numbered. We should put my 12 year old cousin in charge for that matter. He has an IQ of 178 and knows more about the world than Obama has been told about.
TONY!!!!! How is Kev supposed to rebutt if you do that?!!! Chapter 37
She is not crying, the camera caught her expression as she was about to say something. The reason all the people love him is we all have been beaten down by life as it is today, no one paying attention to the interests of the people, killing in our streets, job loss, home loss, loss of our children to war, lose of our children to poverty and depression, he has brought some hope and that means more then anything, even if he does not deliver he has brought a renewed vision of what we lost,and want back, so stop being so negative, you sound bitter, old and stale! Now lets see how negative you can be on this, comon, don't be shy............I can tell none of you were alive to be around when JFK was voted in, I voted my first time then, he is just like JFK and I really do fear for his safety.........
This has been the most amusing to date-- Ed----know how you feel----been know to get on all fours and crawl to the exit just to get out of the crowd (that is the southern way) MT,LB,Fred---at your best and Adolph--welcome Twit----have a bone to pick with you---call me a member of the coffee club again--- (even if you spell it with K's)--you want be able to put your feet on the keyboards--son--when I get my trike license--you better not be on the road---ED---was that nice enough? though you did have some funny comments tonight---I grant you that---
Freedom has its price. I am reading the ugly side here. This is very disturbing.
Krista--I think "church key" is the term you're seeking (the beer cap removal thingy), although I like your version better! lol
Tony, name calling and threats won't help anyone see your point, it just makes "you" look like the fool.
Barbara ... it's been Raining in Maine...what gives with the weather? I like Fruit Punch Kool-aid...lol
I"ve got a great idea. On election day instead of voting just head over to your favorite bar and get drunk!!
something tells me that any soldier who lost their life would not have said they were doing it for the flag... just a hunch
Twit bayaga only threatens to run over people if she likes them.
Tony: 1. I meant how many of the weeping, adoring people in the picture would actually vote. I'm glad you had a great turnout! I would rather someone vote for the guy I don't than not vote at all. Too many people let too few of us make the decisions for everyone. 2. Ron Paul can't win if nobody votes for him because they think he can't win!
Tony--LOL.....I doubt very seriously that you could get out of a wet paper bag, let alone man handle me. You are as they say in Texas "All Hat, and No Cattle". And I don't have any qualms at all about plugging your novel. I have enough people that subscribe to this blog that have already told me your work is second rate at best. If I can plug your novel and show more folks how big of a hack you really are, then sure, go buy Tony's work. Just remember that I told you so when you do. LOL
I don't usually add comments to stuff like this, but there are some really SICK people out there !!
- Maybe somebody will faint....................like on the Sunday church channels on TV
It's relatively harmless when hysteria surrounds a prefab entertainment act. But in theory campaigning is not an entertainment act. Perhaps the woman who is hyperemotional about the face of this year's machine is one of the latent voters brought out by the Oprah factor. I feel a sense of relief that she appears to be the only person in the crowd to be expressing such an inappropriate response. Looks of scrutiny or admiration would be fine, but a critical mass of voters smitten by charisma rather than platform could be hazardous. Imagine the daytime TV ads of the future: (simple plaintive music bed intro) Betsy Warner of Miltown, Pennsylvania tells us how her candidate makes her feel..."I just get a good feeling when I look at him. He touches what's important to my life in the heartland and I know in my heart that I can feel confident sharing that my country is in good hands again...."
Kevin: I have "enough people who subscribe to this blog" who think you are a lonely guy who couldn't keep his wife at home. Now you are skulking this site looking for the next Mrs. BedfordTX. Pretty sad if you ask me.
Mickey - Thanks. It is very possible that, at the time I typed that, I was drunk.
KOOL-AID,Hitler,Anti-christ, what's next? It is amazing how many negative adjectives that white america can align to a black man, yet when they see their YT prez dancing a gig, controlling foreign oil, projecting america in 3 wars, earning a trillion dollar debt, then he simply made a MISTAKE? Give the AWAKE a BREAK! I wonder what you good ol' boys are going to say IF McCain wins, and everything you have is CONFISCATED b/c when the FEDS pull their loans, and your home is considered "imminent domain"? Don't get MAD b/c OBAMA is an accomplished man, with odds stacked against him, and you could not pass 12th grade math to get a H.S. diploma!
Do "enough people who subscribe to this blog" think the thing between Kev and Tony has gone from a difference of opinion to small minded personal attacks? I'm new. Are we expected to take sides and drive one out? I hope not. I enjoy both when they are not talking to each other.
Tony and Kevin Take it easy. Even in multiple-martial arts, there is a rule against hitting-below-the-belt.
There are several comments in this blog attacking the comments of others...how did they get approved? What is appropriate language? Come on MSNBC practice what you preach, and "x" some of these vial comments that are disrespectful to your black audience (kool-aid,anti-christ,hitler)... How can you say those comments are VALID one's YET, your disclaimer above says the exact OPPOSITE of what you are allowing to post!
Baba-you've been reading some ancient blogs; haven't used the KK slur for ages. Ram would be honored to have you run over his foot with your trike. XOXOX Ed-I'm with yourself and Baba..crowd- aversive. TIC and KBT-Why don't you guys just kiss and make up? Save your acrimony for people who can't fight back. Stunned, Ray et al-PB is a candid, vs PC blog so it gives you a closer approximation of the real world, which is more like a jungle than a paradise. Get real and learn to love it!
Tony and Kevin, don't make me bust out my nunchucks. I'll get to whoopin' up on both of ya'll. Neutral corners, if you please. Stay.
It used to be Tony vs KevinJordanMarkInTheCloset. This is child's play compared to the good-ol-days. Soul: This is how these guys work. They turned Bill Clinton's BJ into a national disaster, John Kerry's war medals into band-aids, and now Barrack Obama's middle name into some hidden terrorist agenda. These guys are a cancer on this nation and they are effectively killing it.
Tony--LOL I have just proven my point about what kind of guy you really are. I also lost a grandfather not too long ago. Why don't you go ahead and show the people how big of man you are by making fun of that as well.
Twit---there you go again--calling me ancient---random access memory my foot---and the trike--will be a yellow hog---(well as soon as I can talk the hubby into it) the thought of a hit and run with you as my first victim makes my day----it is better than the hit and runs on this blog----and ED---do not tell my secretes---you are having enough troubles of your own----I just knew you wore garters to hold those black silk stockings up----- Earl---I am riding my camel---I will meet you---set em' up---I will buy the first round----forgot about the clutter in the garage---after a few rounds---who cares!!!!
Queen---Whoopin' I knew you had some southern in you---
maybe someone next to her just passed wind!!!
Soulflower, Please tell me what your "gift" is. Is it ESP, telepathy? How could you possibly know which of us is black and which is white by our comments. (All of which have nothing to do with race.) Are you implying that all whites are against Obama? If so, please look again at the photo above and tell me if that is the case. Don't pull the race card. We all know the deck is stacked. Kevin, Tony, don't make me stop this car! Please stop hitting below the belt. Personal insults are uncalled for. Play nice.
Krista--drunk on something other than beer, i'd guess, since earl was sitting on the churchkey! i'll take a scotch!
Tony..Kevin..Be nice!!..Your comments have always been held in high regards around here!For everyones sake just kiss and make up?(lol) bayaga..Sounds great to me!!I have a question..After a few will the camel turn into a mean drunk? (lol) Krista..Don"t feel bad..I"ve gotten bombed before and posted some truly prolific comments - To the wrong photo!!(lol)
I'm not sure what you people see but it reminds me of drawings you would see at church of Jesus when he walked on earth. To be honest I don't want to see someone that emotional over a world leader beacause in my religion the only person it could be is the Anti-christ...Jus my thought
There is absolutely no way that he would be touching her face without even looking her way. This is an obvious coincidental milisecond where her face (with some admitted emotion) lined up with his outreached hand, looking like something that it is not. If not, then somebody in the media is photo-shopping this to make for negative PR of the guy who is going to turn this country around.
All you people who want to dis Obama and make up stuff about him, like him not respecting the flag and all that BS, I have an idea. Instead of spewing all your hatred and ignorance, why don't you try reading his book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, and then get back to us with some intelligent comments. Or is that just going to tax your little pea brains way too much? It's just a whole lot easier to spew hatred and ignorance, isn't it.
twit---both with HC on top I myself like the Horatio Alger story -----the dime story novels at least had a moral to the story-----I have a collection of dime story novels ----but of course it only takes 3 of anything for me to consider it a collection---just ask duckie and my dawgs about my clutter
This fella is extremely over-rated! Anyway, doesn't that woman right in from of him look like something out of "The Exorcist"?
You know? I can't believe how vicious some people - and you know who you are - are getting; people I really like. It makes me sad... so if you see less and less of me, maybe you'll know why! I think I'll just read...
SL- I agree. I'll read with you.
Tony...Kevin: DON'T MAKE ME PULL THIS CAR OVER...
Baba-You'll feel much better if you treat yourself to a nice pedicure.
Amylossjojo fe fi a fofo, please dont get to where you dont come around, you are a great person and I would miss you, it will calm down in here soon. Read all you want but check into your myspace every now and again so we can 'hang'. I sent you an e-mail in your space, maybe it will help a bit. Lunchbox; I think you have to choice start pulling over to the curb. Bayaga...NOT TALKING TO YOU....NO DAWGS ALLOWED IN DUCK TERRITORY....
Let me say this last comment on this picture... before I "just read": I think PamInOhio may have it right... the more I look at the picture, the more it looks like that's a photo-shopped right shoulder and arm. His back seems to be too straight to be bending that shoulder and arm back like that, to reach the woman!!!! The colors don't look right either. Hmmmm... has anyone else really looked at it blown up? Will check it out when I get home from work today... But I still am very disappointed in the bickering going on; attacking each other so personally!
Could someone please educate me on how the term "kool-aid" is a racial slur? I was under the impression that it was a reference to Jim Jones and his followers.
Truth is, as with anything that happens repeatedly, you get used to it and the job becomes to seem NOT used to it and still interested. He is one human being with tens, hundreds or thousands wanting his personal attention. It makes sense that you would learn to do what you can and make it through the situation. It is the same for all famous people. When they cannot handle it...they disappear.
"That's easy for you to say. You haven't got 50 pairs of short pants hanging in your closet."
Ray: "Kool-Aid" is a racial slur because some overly sensitive boob said it was...as long as you're a white guy. This person has likely gained all of their "black koolaid" stereotype info from movies like "Friday".
Ray, I thought I had misread that comment initially, but I guess not. I have no idea what the correlation cound be between kool-aid and racism. That is just another example of someone who thinks they know the score, and has no knowledge of history.
oregon... I know your comment was for Amylosjojo... but you're right. Things will calm down... besides, I can't "just read"... I'm hooked... I have to comment sometimes!!! I'll just stay out of the arguments!
Is that Whoopie in the center?
"Reminds me of a photo I saw of the crowd around Hitler." I find it shocking that the MSNBC editors would "approve" a comment like this to appear on a company website.
Oh my goodness..... I drink kool-aid.... maybe I'm black too! HUMMMMM..
I drink Dr. Pepper. What does that make me?
I thought the kool-aid thing was a reference to Jim Jones, too.
Krista--I think that makes you a Pepper (I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, they're a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?) Rats, now I can't get the silly song out of my head!
NEOSHO - It is a reference to Jim Jones. There was a special about him on the History Channel. Big reason I avoid party politics, organized religion and team sports.
I dring green tea... hmmm... wonder what that makes me!!!
Krista... I think that makes you a Pepper. I love easy questions.
RobinB! Agreed!!!! Sad thing is people like this have a vote!
I'm not a Republican, I belong to no party.. Where is the substance behind the oratory? This adoration is scary! Kool-Aid is a direct reference to Jones.
Mickey and Barb, You are both showing your age by that "pepper" reference, but then again, so am I for recognizing it. I can still see that cute guy dancing in the commercial. Didn't he release an album about that time too? What was his name??? (Getting old... I got CRS disease.)
SL-I don't know--at 500%, the folds of his jacket seem correctly placed, and the shadows also seem right. I think the photo is the real deal
Kool Aid = Jim Jones. It's not racial -you are correct Ray, Neosho etc.. Phil got it right with the hyperemotional woman, nothing more nothing less. People tend to get too emotional even for quasi-celebs. MT sounds like an experienced politician with all of the "posts" - is a new candidate afoot?
But Rogenz...how many out there were asking, "Who's Jim Jones?" I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper, She's a Pepper, He's a Pepper... Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too? You knew that was coming...
YAYY!!! I'm famous!
This is an obamination. He is not God.
That's an Obama Nation. Who said he was God?
I think I know why the Kool-Aid reference was deemed as being racial. I heard a joke about a nice black family being on family fued and the question at the buzzer was to name a popular flavor of kool-aid, and the man answered, "Red."
What the heck is Whoopie doing with Obama?
No, he's not god. Obama exists.
I find it really funny how people are reacting to this photograh. Comparing Obama to Hitler? Wow. Okay then. Your reaction to this photo is odd. How about you react to the fact that George W. Bush publicly stated that god "told him" to go to war with Iraq. The man actually said this. In public. React to that, that's the kind of thinking that flirts with facism, not some fan who clearly really likes Obama. You could have some fan of Weird Al Yankovic illicit the same reaction. Who cares.
Margaret, When your time is up on this earth, what do you think will happen? I don't want you to take this the wrong way, I am genuinely curious. I have grown up with emensly different beliefs, and would like to better understand what it is like to live a life with no faith.
Good one Margaret!!!
Pat, I get your point concerning the parallel between Hitler's meteoric rise to power and Obama's, also the cultish following. However, I don't think Obama's going to have black people goose-stepping down main street America. Notice the placement of the calm black people in the photo, and the Obama-hogging white folk crying insane happy tears. Interesting.
Hey, Jerod I was referring to his speeches. Now I sound like Mrs. Clinton. Can I retract my opinion? (although I do admire her sense of humor)
Gee, Red Kool-Aid is my favorite flavor too!
That was some good reading... Kevin, good stuff. Why doesn't anyone see that Tony is dumb and angry about being dumb? haha-I like the comment he made about you being a man keeping your wife happy...thats Tony, the good ol Lib who cannot seem to argue with wit. I wonder if he used that one when going door to door.
Initally I thought Kool-aid was derogatroy as well -- I knew I would get it if I just kept reading -- Jim Jones, ohhhh, now I get it. I really don't know where it came from but it is a sterotype of black people (red kool-aid being a favorite drink). I believe that is why some have taken offense.
Wow! Obama the Messiah? Looks that way in the picture. Should be a preacher! Oh! yeah he is a preacher with great orator. Now, looks like Messiah and preacher are merging. He should not go into politics. Not a good fit. Perhaps, if he becames the president of the U.S. he can hypnotize leaders around the world as he has that skill alright!
Kool-aid or Jim Jones aside, the cultish following I've observed from some of his supporters is frightening.
I am not at all "cultish". I have faith in God...I have charity to my fellow man and I would d@mn sure like to have some hope.
SouthernLady...I agree with you. I hate personal attacks. By the way, I love a good pot of tea, too. TenRen teas are the best. Check out their website!
Isn't this the same touch that started Bill Clinton's media blitz...where is Monica now?
A vote for oabam is a vote for the fall of AMERICA!(the end)Oh and by the way, he didn't know his rev.wright ever said those words, but he only went to that church for 20 years and a good friend! and you want him for president of AMERICA!you know he thinks the way rev. wright thinks, but he just lies out of it and people believe him!
To all those that think Obama is the end of the Empire, er, America our candidacy lot is either a. brightest hope in 200+ years or b. statistically frightening. A really old Vietnam Vet, a woman on the brink, and a media-made Messianic black man. This is like finding upside down geo-strata.
i.e., they each have an equal opportunity to revolutionize politics or start selling off our country one state at a time.
Jerod - I like Ron Paul too.
I doubt that her facial expression is just from Obama touching her, it's probably more like this: Woman speakng in a whiney almost crying tone: "Oh Obama! You've JUST got to win, you HAVE to win, just because you're black!"
Still amazes me, why the American people can vote for an 'Wont salute the flag', Anti-Gun candidate. What is wrong with this counrty
RoDog, That's because he is trying to convince the country that he will single-handedly answer everyone's prayers, and give them everything they want. just remember: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
Krista, I was all about Ron Paul, too. Then it hit me - he's a politician from Texas! Just cuz he hates the IRS doesn't make him any different than any other politician. Try looking up some of his racist comments. Shocked the hell outta me, too. Jonesey, no kidding. Whether he's the best candidate or not, there is no surmounting the race issue, good intentions or bad. U.S. used to enslave the black folk, 200+ years later the first black man is running for president. I just pray he doesn't get JFK'd. He seems to be a very good change, even with the cult following. RoDog, I don't salute the flag either. The pledge of allegiance is full of false truths. "Give to caesar what's caesar's, and God what's God's".
While understanding that Obama had no control over Wright's comments I still had sense enough to go and check out this church and see what it was about...I wasn't impressed. here is their own "about" We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community Either he is behind Wright's comments and did know OR he really had no idea, he'd only went there for 20 years? Either way doesn't support him being the best candidate for presidency of the USA. If he picks a racist religious church like that for his own family, that he loves dearly, I REALLY don't want to have to trust him with making important decisions for mine!
gotalife, you gotta be kidding. That's your proof of racism from this man? That he calls racism "the long night"? That he speaks truth about our country's global evils in a black church that is unashamedly black in a region of our country historically tied to out'n out racism against blacks? Is this really from 1 quote and edited soundbites or do you have more?
LilNugget- I couldn't help but notice your post to Margaret and your question regarding what her beliefs of life after death are... It’s interesting that she hasn't blogged since your question. It’s sad that people are so free to discuss politics and other things that in the grand scheme of things don't amount up to much, just another rat race people just being people. But, once a person poses a question about life after death and what REALLY is in store for them after they have woven their life’s tapestry be it mostly good works or evil, people then shy away and become hesitant in voicing their opinions that just a second ago they were causing a stir in their said opinions... I don't know what is worse having two feet but nothing to stand on or kneeling last minute in hopes in finding a God to save them... Jordan- Door to door or street bum to street bum? -HA!
Jordan... is that really you?
Sorry, Candace. I never read nugget's post. Hang on. I'll be right back.
Ok, Candace. I'll address you first, since you're so eager. And excuse me for not going 20 pictures back, but I have a life. Ok. You really should know better than to accuse me of being hesitant to voice my opinion. Everyone else knows better. What will happen when I die. Well, being Agnostic means I have the courage to admit that I don't know everything. What will happen when I die? The first thing that will happen is the most lasting thing that will happen, Candace, and it's the very thing that I bet will elude you. When I die, and for a very long time thereafter, I will be missed by many people. I will be honored by my children and by their children. The things I've accomplished will be admired, the jokes I've told will be enjoyed and my mistakes will learned from and (unfortunately) possibly repeated. This is the most tangible thing that will happen, and this is the only important part of life. My body will decay and turn to plant food. Will some fantastic creator lift my soul and declare me fit or unfit for some heaven? No. In my opinion, there is no grand creator, sitting up in heaven, watching us. How could there be? If a god exists, then he sucks, and he's an absentee landlord. I prefer to believe that there isn't a god, rather than the god we have is a lazy jerkoff. However, Candace, I don't begrudge you your faith. In fact, I'm glad you have it, glad you take comfort from it, and glad it sustains you. Any other questions, pumpkin, or are we done here?
Holy s**t. This oughta be good....
"Are you there Margaret, It's me, God." Nope-----no one's home! Good luck with that.
OMG..I'm cryin' over here! this is better than SpikeTV! you people are more fun than a freakin' barrel of monkeys!
You're sooooooo right this is better than T.V. LilNUGGET & MARGARET ARE cracking me up! I needed some laughter after working a 12 hr day! Ha Ha!!!!
Margaret, apparently you having your said “life” is debatable. Clearly I don’t know better, but I thank you for humoring me in responding to me. Your fore-telling of the future sounds very vague and composed of well nothing. I will pose a question to you. Margaret, I will not argue with you that when you die your body lies in the grounds and decays that’s a given, but what about ‘thought’ the ability to think and have abstract ideas like the scenario that you just demonstrated. Intelligence is a source of matter, of energy and the wisdom that we gain in this life where does that go if there isn’t an after life? For matter cannot be created nor destroyed, that’s science. It has to go somewhere, so does your intelligence just leave your body and hang out with other intelligences? And you have just stated mistakes you have made in life, we can label those as bad choices, the opposite of good choices so with that we can be safe to say that the degree of intelligences that die and pass on will have different levels of bad choices and good choices and so where do those all go? It can’t all go to the same place if there are different levels… I have not once mentioned anything about religion, just stating facts. I do have my beliefs and I do find comfort in them… Take a swing at those questions, honey.
Boy howdy! I think I will just tip my hat and ease on down to the next photo
Margaret, I absolutly know you got this handled, but I am here in the ring with ya ready to go if you need me.
No thanks, sugar pants. I got this.
Candace, dear Candace. I will attempt to provide my answers despite the heinous punctuation and other writing errors contained in your diatribe. I notice you don't mention anything substantive about the aforementioned absentee landlord, but then I didn't expect you would. So, let's just move this feel-good movie along, shall we? You state that thought is made up of matter. Incorrect. Thought is less unsubstantial than mist, and therefore is not matter. Thought possesses no energy, no matter. Thought and ideas require a brain for generation, it's true, but when that brain dies, as it does after the heart stops providing blood and oxygen to it, the thoughts contained therein (no matter how preposterous) die with it, vague and ethereal, but quickly nonetheless. We can compare those thoughts to the oxygen provided by trees. The oxygen is a wonderful thing, we all agree. But, once that tree dies, so goes the oxygen once provided by it. Sure, the oxygen might drift along a while, like the good deeds of a now-dead person, but before long, the tree is gone, the oxygen it provided is gone, and all we're left with is the food it leaves for the soil, and even that, too, is gone in time. Unless the thoughts of that brain are translated by pen and paper, to something concrete, the thoughts of the brain go POOF and are gone forever. Taking it a step further, unless that thought is read from the paper and then acted upon in a physical sense, the thought is as good as dead anyway. Thought contains no matter, nor does wisdom, which is why so few people can acquire it (present company intended).
Margaret, sweet Margaret, why move this feel good movie along when I have just started? Forgive me, but I disagree with your statement of thought not being energy and therefore cannot be matter… but you are very wrong on that account. Brain waves are measured in EEG (Electroencephalography [Big word stick with me] that is the electrical activity that it produces) now Invariant Mass is a mathematical combination of a particle’s energy, bodies of matter are able to change but are not able to disappear. Now the amount of EEG that is produced (Due to intelligence, present company) can be measured to all sorts of levels. But the fact remains that thought, is energy a body of mass and will always be. Your antonym lesson was noted but wasn’t needed. I didn’t mention the above ‘Landlord’ for your benefit more than mine a fish cannot argue with a bird on how to fly… But if you feel like flying than by all means lets bring God and religion into this subject. I was using science to prove a point and still have proved that point where as you have proved nothing just the fact that I have poor grammar skills (Nice work) always going back to the same tactics you used with others in the past, eh?
Sigh. Ok, so you believe and I don't, and you won't change my mind any more than I'll change yours. Done. Ok, so if something can be measured, than it exists separately, on its own? So, by that "logic," I can weigh myself and then die. My weight, that wonderful number, will continue to exist? One hundred thirty six will just float around and have a life of its own? I would ask if your god would admit my 136 into heaven, but we already agreed not to go there, so... moving onward. My weight is generated by energy (sometimes, by a lack thereof), and is caused by mass. My weight can be measured, just not during the holidays. Your arguement is that a measurable thing continues life, or at least contains it. A thought is not measurable, even if a brainwave temporarily can be. A brainwave is not a thought. A brainwave is the result of an electric stimulus, and once that stimulus is removed via death or bad debate skills, the brainwave ends. Nothing further remains. So, to answer your original question, death ends life. To believe otherwise would require a religious belief that clearly one of us possesses and one of us does not. Unfortunately or fortunately, you cannot prove your point without croaking yourself, and when you die, I doubt you'll come floating over to my house, to knock on my window and shout "HAH!" But if you do, I hereby vow to immediately log onto this site and proclaim your victory in this discussion. In the meantime and in between time, you've proved nothing. On a side note, and this is not intended to be argumentative, but I wonder if you believe in ghosts since you used the phrase "after life."
Margaret and Candace, I'm here to add my two cents and then I will quickly run from the room with my hat in my hand..ok readyy..here goes. Ok, so if something can be measured, than it exists separately, on its own? The answer is....NO my wiener needs to stay attached to exist. I'm running like Hell now to the next photo=====================>
Bull, LOL, that right there just made my day, thank you.... I totally agree with
