It was June 3rd, 2008 when Barack and Michelle took part in something destined to be call “the fist bump heard ’round the world.”
Conservative reporters, commentators, pundits, and comment thread trolls attributed all sorts of nefarious meanings to the simple act. Clearly, it was some kind of sign of the future first couple’s radical Black Panther-esque militancy. Or was it a Terrorist Fist Jab™ asked a FAUX News infotainer? She then brings on a “body language expert” to get to the bottom of it:
But my favorite comes from a FAUX affiliate in Detroit whose expert found much to be admired in the Obamas doing “a lot of touching, kissing, even fisting with one another…” (skip to 1:50):
So…happy Fist Bump Day to all friends of HA.
Oh…and try to take a little time today for fisting your friends.
This is news? Lmfao…..
Slow day indoctrinating the kids today darwhyle?
re 1: You sound like Whittaker Chambers in the pumpkin patch.
Go ahead and Google it.
If I cared, I might google it…..but since I don’t care, I won’t be doing the googley…..
Bartertown,
“This is news?”
Huh????
This is a BLOG. This isn’t a goddamn newspaper, ya fucking dolt!
re 3: “
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Well, then, I’ll quote an author that you might find challenging:
“No brain, no pain….” Stephen King
Never really was a Stephen King fan…much prefer non-fiction.
A much more apt quote would be:
“I’m Winston Wolf….I solve problems”
6: “much prefer non-fiction.”
Lord, that’s funny.
@7
so says the guy with Lenin on his nightstand.
8:
Che Guevara, actually.
well thank god he’s dead…one less communist is a good thing..
why do communists always revere murderers and thugs?
its a bloodbath wherever they go…
Maxie,
Why do wingnuts equate being on the left with being a communist? It really shows how limited the wingnut capacity to think is. I think the contemporary conservative hatred of democracy and need for order brings that ideology much closer to communism than is contemporary liberalism.
@4 Actually HA is a sort of newspaper, by default, because Seattle doesn’t have one.
Heh. “non-fictions” like the USA importing Iranian oil.
@11 Jethro Troll spewed:
or not.
facts don’t matter wherever trolls go…
I wonder if the asshat troll ever went to BC to see a Canucks game – that’d be tantamount to aiding and abetting a Marxist state.
They have socialized health insurance up there! Which intelligent people know is just another word for gasp! Medicare for all!
If [w]”e are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy.”, Canada with its socialized medicine is a communist menace on our border and an imminent threat to the freedom and security of every red blooded non-fist-bumping Murkin. But I’m still going to root for the Canucks.
Canada has managed their debt and deficit, which Obama has absolutely failed worse than any president to do. 3.7 Trillion in 2 years is an absolute disgusting record.
Canada is laughing at America on this issue
https://snt138.mail.live.com/default.aspx?id=64855&wa=wsignin1.0
If you Libs do not realize the economic mess this deficit is causing, you are either:
1. Blind
2. Ignorant
3. Terminally Ill
4. All of the above
LD,
Broken records go in the trash, especially when the music on them never mattered anyway. Your perpetual crap about Obama and deficits just makes you look foolish. Go to one of your wingnut sites where everyone with their blank Randian eyes nods in unison as you spew.
re 6: To solve problems, you need accurate information — something you seem not to be into so much.
re 18: “If you Libs do not realize the economic mess this
30 years of Republican misruledeficit is causing….
re 11: Why do reformed communists always become right wing nuts?
Because they are totalitarians first and political animals second.
21,
Amen, bro, is there any doubt about it?
@18
You do realize that Canada is MORE liberal than the US don’t you?
You do realize that they have higher taxes, socialized, medicine, greater government regulation, a larger welfare state, and a higher % of recent immigrants in their population, don’t you?
Hell, they even have higher percentages of people that ride the bus and bicycles to work. Bicycles!
Canada is everything righties like you have argued against and what the lefties on here have been arguing for. Thanks for point out that we’ve been correct all along.
Canada has no massive debt or deficit, they are not bankrupt. I am a dual Canadian / American citizen, I know one hell of a lot about the two cultures. They are laughing at our debt. I don’t mind their socialism, because they took on their debt and handled it.
You cannot spend twice what you take in without horific results
We are seeing that now.
@24 Giving tax breaks to millionaires while boosting war spending by a couple trillion or so just doesn’t float in the accounting department, does it?
21, 22 – If anyone wonders where all the 1960s draft-doding, dope-smoking, hippies went after they abandoned their communes … they’re all Republicans now.
@24. ld spews:
Canada has no massive debt or deficit, they are not bankrupt. I am a dual Canadian / American citizen, I know one hell of a lot about the two cultures. They are laughing at our debt. I don’t mind their socialism, because they took on their debt and handled it.
You cannot spend twice what you take in without horific (sic) results
We are seeing that now.
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Canada flirted with the abyss then turned away in time by electing a Conservative government. We elected a gang of America-hating, Christian-hating Democrats who will say and do almost anything to be elected regardless of the consequences to the economy. It’s hardly surprising that Canada’s economy puts ours to shame even with its more socialist model.
@24
Canada has a paygo system. A system which both Democrats and Republican’s have embraced at different times and was (sort of) enacted here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.....ct_of_1990
You’ll note that it went completely out the window in 2002 in the orgy of post 9/11 war profiteering. It has been re-embraced in bits and pieces by both parties since then.
We can not have a paygo system in America until allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, shrink defense spending and corporate welfare, and bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. My question to you is: in which of the previous things that I’ve listed is Obama the problem?
27. I agree, hence it is why I now have dual citizenship. All of my time and earnings in social security are transferable up there, and I can watch this place go into financial ruin. Downgraded credit ratings, skyrocketing obligations, and an asleep at the wheel president bumping a jig instead of solving his own damn fiscal crisis.
@27
Most of Canada’s conservatives are to the left of America’s Democrats. Even under the conservatives they have a larger welfare state, tighter work place and environmental regulations, and more oversight of their finical markets (and thanks to that oversight theirs didn’t crash like ours did). Canada also has a far weaker federal government than the United States does and most of the provincial governments would be fairly liberal when compared to most American state governments.
Canada, also, has decimalized weed, no issues when come to abortion, and nationwide gay marriage.
Conservative my ass…
Canada has no massive debt or deficit.
Every man, woman and child in Canada owes almost $17,000.
This may not seem like much to some but Canada’s economy is only one-tenth the size of the U.S.
U.S. per capita debt is currently about 47,000.
Japan’s is $80,000.
Funny the LD(iot) doesn’t mind socialism as long as it’s paid for.
We don’t have Medicare for all and yet we’re not as well off. Canada doesn’t have a single law on the books restricting abortion and they seem to be better off. Someone mentioned that teabagger cultists across the country are trying to pass some 500 laws regulating abortion.
Not too hard to figure out which country has its priorities straight.
Makes a lot of sense this LD(iot). What would make more sense is if he was paid to spout this repetitive crap of his.
@31
I’m totally PWD (bourbon and cokes are the shiz), but I’ll give this a shot.
I’m one of the folks on the left that believes that our debit is a big problem. Money has value because it’s scarce and if it’s all tied up in debit that’s less money for people to have and to use for things that they need and want, that’s less money available for schools, less money available to find the cure for cancer or to build bike paths. You can print more money, but again, money is valuable because it’s rare, when you make it less rare you make it less valuable. You want your money to be really fucking valuable, you want people to be willing to work extra jobs to get it or to extra schooling to get it and you want people to save it. People wont save something that has little value.
So, we want to have as little debit as possible and we want to have money be a very valuable thing that people want to save.
On the debit issue we need to go back to my post @28.
Obama’s not the problem here. He wants to do the things that need to get done to get rid of our debit. Also, our lovely trolls LD and Americafirst have endorsed Canadian style socialism as long as it’s paid for.
The second part saving and such, is mostly an issue because Republicans wont let us fix the first part of the problem. I’m sure that Obama and I will never see eye to eye on the second part, but we’re a fuck of a lot closer than the Republicans are to me.