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March 02, 2012

The Fainting Again
— LauraW

You gotta be kidding me.

Check out the other links in the item. Over and over again, the same thing. What is the object of this stagecraft? Are we supposed to be impressed with his calm demeanor in the face of obvious theater?

Posted by: LauraW at 01:34 PM | Comments (198)
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1 Are you phucking kidding me!?! Is he really going to try and pull that off again?

There are only two types of people who would be legitimately fainting at an Obama rally in 2012:

1. Those unemployed for so long that they can no longer afford food;

2. Journalists

Posted by: Edward M. Kennedy at March 02, 2012 01:36 PM (/AHDz)

2 Stupid sock puppets...

Posted by: Kensington at March 02, 2012 01:36 PM (/AHDz)

3 How is this a positive? Only makes him look long-winded.

Posted by: logprof at March 02, 2012 01:37 PM (ykSKg)

4 They're like those fainting sheep.

Posted by: Jimmah at March 02, 2012 01:38 PM (Gbec2)

5 Maybe her brain seized up, giving her convulsions. I'm sure my brain would have froze with all the stupid coming from the podium.......

Posted by: myYbj at March 02, 2012 01:38 PM (myYbj)

6 did I miss the stop of the rising of the oceans while I was unconsious?

Posted by: the Butcher at March 02, 2012 01:39 PM (8g9qq)

7 They run around a while, faint, get up and keep running, faint. They'll be OK.

Posted by: Jimmah at March 02, 2012 01:39 PM (Gbec2)

Gotta lock up the "some people will believe anything" vote. Then get the "the guys on Mythbusters like him vote" and then the "some lipsync queen I just paid money to on iTunes says Obama's who she'll vote for" vote.

You know...

Posted by: M. Murcek at March 02, 2012 01:39 PM (ToZXn)

9 I faint several times a week because of Obama. Every time I go to fill my gas tank.

Posted by: pajama momma at March 02, 2012 01:41 PM (whUPK)

"....What is the object of this stagecraft?

To draw attention to the awesomeness of 'The One'. ....To show that Barky is sooo awesome that people faint in his presence.

Posted by: wheatie at March 02, 2012 01:41 PM (UOOK1)

11 This retail politics BS works.

It really works.

This is the only thing I remember about a Bill Clinton speech I attended in 1996 (not as a supporter, let me add).

They know what they are doing.

If you are intelligent, it's suspicious the first time and annoying every subsequent time. They are taking your stupidity for granted.

Posted by: Dustin at March 02, 2012 01:41 PM (wcT+8)

12 @4....I've seen those fainting goats. ....There are sheep that faint too?

Posted by: wheatie at March 02, 2012 01:42 PM (UOOK1)

13 Its more like proof positive that the bulk of those with poor blood flow to the brain seem to go to his rallies.

Posted by: Jimmah at March 02, 2012 01:42 PM (Gbec2)

14 Stop the presses, the nomination process is over... Ted Nugent has endorsed Romney. Not that I am a huge Romney fan but as this point.. fuck I would vote for a packet of sweet and low over Obama.

Posted by: Drew in MO at March 02, 2012 01:42 PM (BDGkt)

15 All of the liberal double-think finally came to a head and proved too much for the poor soul.

Posted by: T at March 02, 2012 01:43 PM (jtVFx)

16

Where is our, uh, EMS folks?

Posted by: Obama the Genius at March 02, 2012 01:43 PM (sWycd)

17 Pretty fuckin cornball all right.

Posted by: Elmer Gantry at March 02, 2012 01:44 PM (w41GQ)

18 Did the blog ever post that video of the dude falling asleep during a Biden speech? Obama / Biden 2012: If you're unconscious, it doesn't hurt as bad.

Posted by: El Kabong at March 02, 2012 01:44 PM (99eo4)

19 Fainting with damned praise?

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 02, 2012 01:44 PM (uIz80)

20 >>Those unemployed for so long that they can no longer afford food;

What? President Food Stamps has got them covered.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 02, 2012 01:44 PM (/kI1Q)

21 See? If she'd had a condom, none of this woulda happened.

Posted by: catmman at March 02, 2012 01:45 PM (C8XlI)

22 Every time Obama says "folks" I think "queer as folk..." Eeeeesh....

Posted by: M. Murcek at March 02, 2012 01:46 PM (ToZXn)

23 yeah that is what happens when you trade your food stamps for mad dog.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 02, 2012 01:46 PM (Z9EHQ)

24 What's with this feinting crap? I told you that I don't bluff!

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at March 02, 2012 01:46 PM (ggRof)

@14....

Ted Nugent endorsed Rick Perry, right after Perry got in the race.

Nugent is a staunch defender of 2ndA rights. ....So, I'm hoping this means that after his discussion with Romney, Romney promised to uphold our 2ndA rights.....and that the Nuge can hunt him down like a dog if he's lying about it.

Posted by: wheatie at March 02, 2012 01:47 PM (UOOK1)

26 you know fluke could save a lot of money if she would just start swallowing; fewer condoms, lower food costs, it might also help with that acne.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 02, 2012 01:47 PM (Z9EHQ)

27 he sucks so bad that there's no oxygen left for anyone else

Posted by: joe in houston at March 02, 2012 01:47 PM (MnSla)

28 Why does everyone get so exited over someone farting during an Obama speech?

Posted by: Roseanne Roseannadanna at March 02, 2012 01:48 PM (nzrDg)

29 Oh, and mass psychogenic illness.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 02, 2012 01:48 PM (/kI1Q)

30 Excited even.....Never mind.

Posted by: Roseanne Roseannadanna at March 02, 2012 01:49 PM (nzrDg)

31 hey, that could be a new drink, the fluke - a mouthful and a mad dog chaser.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 02, 2012 01:49 PM (Z9EHQ)

32 >>>How is this a positive? Only makes him look long-winded.

I don't think that it is a positive.

I think one mistake that people often make is to think that a political team such as Obama's must be all-knowing. That they are playing a game of 3 dimensional chess.

I think it is easy to assume that things like laziness, arrogance, or other simple error sources can not creep into their planning.

In this case, I think that arrogance makes Obama and his team think that this stuff will work. And I think we will see a lot of this same error throughout his campaign.

A lot of people went along for this the first time, but I really don't think that will work now. He isn't as much of a "blank canvas" as he was in 2008. (He was virtually unknown at the time). Also, I think most independents are close to thinking that they were duped by this guy.

Posted by: Obama the Genius at March 02, 2012 01:50 PM (sWycd)

33 Because the media is so left that leaves us with aLOT of low hanging fruit/truths that would really disillusion democrats who are unaware that their party has been taken over by the authoritarian left.

I don't believe Republicans are somehow above lying or verbally exploiting molehills to mountains... its just that they dont need to because there is a shit-ton of the lefts real mountains of lies/scandals/corruption/abuses that the media has been aggressively hiding.

I was never far left when I was younger.. at my low point I did once brag that my small town had the vagina monologues.. not that at the time I wanted to see them or had any delusions about radical angry feminists.... I just liked the my little city felt like the wide open future instead of the old cold repressed past.

Not long after that I ran into a string of psychopath radical gays and eco-fascist hypocrits all who came at me as some sort of far right winger... while at the same the left chose to view 9/11 through the lens of denial... and Daily Show and CNN couldn't stop lying about Iraq... well at that point I started going to Fox News and other things because I wanted to hear the other side of the story.

Eventually the empty calories of Sean Hannity and Fox News in general while sweet at first left me ultimately unfulfilled.. That's when I got into the much more satisfying and healthy world of political principles, unintended consequences weighed against good intentions, and the Founders original vision.

Posted by: Shiggz RocketSurgeon at March 02, 2012 01:50 PM (RfvTE)

34 /sock off

Posted by: dan-O at March 02, 2012 01:50 PM (sWycd)

35 Sorry wrong tab.. that was meant for last post.

Posted by: Shiggz RocketSurgeon at March 02, 2012 01:50 PM (RfvTE)

36 tinfoil hat on*   This is just more proof that Barry is using hypnotic gestures and suggestions in his speeches *tinfoil hat off.

The one thing about that supposed hypnotic suggestions theory that 'fit' for me back in 2008 was "well maybe that would explain how people could say he was a good speaker" cuz I sure never here it when I listen to him on radio/internet.   I thought he sounded very obviously like someone just reading the lines from the prompters.

Now living under all the destruction he has managed to inflict on us I just can't stand to listen to him at all.   I can tell myself I should try "learn the mind of the enemy" but I never manage to force myself to do it.

Posted by: Palerider at March 02, 2012 01:50 PM (dkExz)

37 When I see walking/ talking stuttering clustfuckery, I faint too.

Posted by: Learflyer at March 02, 2012 01:51 PM (5P+zk)

38 If our Soccer Mom neighbor is any indication of American shallowness, yes, this is will play well. We're fucking doomed.

Posted by: EIB at March 02, 2012 01:51 PM (EL+OC)

39 Obama's probably always an hour late ... so people standing in a crowd might actually faint.

Of course Obama would say "she'll be all right" if she'd had a heart attack ... so that makes it seem staged. Could he really take the chance of saying that, then she turns out NOT to be "all right".

So it could easily be a ruse, where he finally gets to act like he's in command, saving the fair maiden.

Posted by: Illini bill at March 02, 2012 01:52 PM (BFMU6)

40 see what happens when yous don't take your birth control?

Posted by: sandra Fluke, a political slut at March 02, 2012 01:52 PM (W6iIX)

41 Mark Levin is the one I was worried about.

Posted by: Jimmah at March 02, 2012 01:52 PM (Gbec2)

19Fainting with damned praise?

Well, I got it, and I think is was pretty clever. Good work.

Posted by: sherlock at March 02, 2012 01:54 PM (8ra42)

43
Who could have foreseen the day that America was lead by a man of African decent and that the great unwashed would faint at his presence.

Posted by: sTevo at March 02, 2012 01:54 PM (VMcEw)

44 Gullible Warming

Posted by: Dang at March 02, 2012 01:54 PM (BbX1b)

45 I have to ask, will Halos also become fashionable this election season? Shouldn't they get some new shticks?

Posted by: willow at March 02, 2012 01:54 PM (TomZ9)

46 This is an obvious setup for the official launch of the Obama/Bieber ticket.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 02, 2012 01:55 PM (+lsX1)

47 Act II will be throwing panties on the stage.

Posted by: John W. at March 02, 2012 01:56 PM (SzYcc)

48 If you have been reading Ulsterman, you know the "I want to be cool again" has been his focus for awhile. Why the "spontaneous" singing and other stuff has been happening. The reporting of this while republicans are busy defending birth control charges reminds me of an old reporters explanation from 2000.

That while W Bush was bowling pineapples down the plane aisles with reporters, Gore was busy explaining his "Internet" comment.

Posted by: Shiggz RocketSurgeon at March 02, 2012 01:56 PM (RfvTE)

49 I hope they brought Doctors Coats so someone could help in her time of need.

Posted by: willow at March 02, 2012 01:56 PM (TomZ9)

50 I bet Obama wins the Royal Rumble at WrestleMania this year.

Posted by: garrett at March 02, 2012 01:56 PM (ibeYP)

51 @4 and 12 The are nicked named Stiffy Goats. Search "stiffy goats Randall's animals" on YouTube. Funny stuff.

Posted by: Riding Through The Desert On A Sock With No Name at March 02, 2012 01:57 PM (hlXEB)

52
Is this the happy hour thread where the Fluke Girls hang out?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2012 01:59 PM (r+9M6)

53 "stiffy goats'

I'm listening...

Posted by: Mohammed at March 02, 2012 01:59 PM (BbX1b)

54 I can only hope that at one rally there will be massive projectile vomiting and debilitating diarrhea from the Norwalk Virus aka Norovirus that impacts cruises, schools and nursing homes. I would pay to witness his response to that little emergency.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky loves Rubio at March 02, 2012 01:59 PM (baL2B)

55 Can you faint from stupid?

Posted by: tdpwells at March 02, 2012 02:02 PM (7vA7k)

56 so, is santorum going to choose howard dean as his running mate if he gets the nomination?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 02, 2012 02:03 PM (Z9EHQ)

57 I faint all the time at incompetent motherfuckers who want to destroy this country.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 02, 2012 02:03 PM (lVGED)

58 Where did every one go?

Posted by: fluffy at March 02, 2012 02:03 PM (4pSIn)

59 Obama is the only one who can conjure up the moistiest panties.

Posted by: Fritz at March 02, 2012 02:03 PM (FDEjy)

60 If you faint you get to vote twice. Look for a lot more of this.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 02, 2012 02:03 PM (Usk3+)

61 Bullshit flag on the 1 yard line.

Posted by: Vic at March 02, 2012 02:03 PM (YdQQY)

62 They're skeered. Yes indeedy.

Posted by: Mister Christopher at March 02, 2012 02:04 PM (cjGZv)

63 "I Fainted At An Obama Rally And All I Got Was This Lousy SEIU T-Shirt"

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 02, 2012 02:04 PM (hiMsy)

64 "Let me through, I'm a doctor! She looks like a lesbian. I just hope she's receiving government subsidized birth control. Now take her into this room where she and I can have some privacy. Does this door lock?"

Posted by: Dr. Pervy Rape at March 02, 2012 02:05 PM (BbX1b)

65 Fainting + Fluke + JFK...something emerging here...

Posted by: Cricket at March 02, 2012 02:05 PM (ktqBU)

66 perhaps she fainted because she was just told how much she would have to bundle at her next function for Obama.

Posted by: willow at March 02, 2012 02:06 PM (TomZ9)

67 Who'd be dumb enough to fall for this?

Posted by: Andy at March 02, 2012 02:07 PM (VqHC3)

68 Poser.

Posted by: Stiffy Goat at March 02, 2012 02:08 PM (BbX1b)

69 College kids fainting- probably from to much drugs and booze--fuck em. Let them put on a Uniform and go to Afghanistan and then I'll be impressed.

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:09 PM (CSwaT)

70 Who'd be dumb enough to fall for this?

Posted by: Andy at March 02, 2012 06:07 PM (VqHC3)

At last count, about 52% of the voting population.

Posted by: Tami at March 02, 2012 02:10 PM (X6akg)

Who'd be dumb enough to fall for this?

Have we met?

Posted by: Peggy Joseph at March 02, 2012 02:11 PM (ibeYP)

72 Meh. None of this shit is gonna work. I stopped at a local place on my way home from work for a late lunch and a couple of Guinesses. There were probably about ten people there, shooting the shit around the bar and the SCOAMFs name came up. Informal, unscientific survey, I know, but to a person they all agreed that the SCOAMF sucks.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 02, 2012 02:12 PM (zxrQh)

@35

No biggie. Well said. Whatever you were responding to...

Posted by: Some guy you don't know in Wisconsin at March 02, 2012 02:12 PM (QK1XT)

74 All these fainting coeds and chicks throwing their underwear on the stage reminds me of when Bob Barr ran for president.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 02, 2012 02:12 PM (+lsX1)

75 The Obama thug-o-matic is desperately wanting to re-create the fever and mania that swept his skinny ass into office in '08. The theater is just that. Why do I get visions of those fake televangelists facing a "parishoner" (notice the quotes) who needs to be healed, only to have the fake televangelist thrust them backwards by the palm of the hand to the forehead. These are dubious vapors.

Bring on the Greek columns!

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 02, 2012 02:12 PM (F+Xfj)

76 Just an aside: Gas is well over $4 for regular here in CT, BUT, and this is strange it is almost 15 cents cheaper on Base. It is not usually that big a difference?

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:13 PM (CSwaT)

77 Come on man, some idiot passed out from standing too long. It happens. No one claimed it was due to infatuation. I can't get the rage going against this.

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 02:13 PM (j/wD+)

78 Must have seen a pre-view of Breitbarts new video on her smartphone .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 02, 2012 02:13 PM (npr0X)

79 Informal, unscientific survey, I know, but to a person they all agreed that the SCOAMF sucks. Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 02, 2012 06:12 PM (zxrQh) Well maybe that sign on the front door of the bar has something to do with it: "Liberals Shot on Site"

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:14 PM (CSwaT)

80 I wonder how much they pay those people.

Posted by: Laura Castellano at March 02, 2012 02:14 PM (fuw6p)

81 Informal, unscientific survey, I know, but to a person they all agreed that the SCOAMF sucks. Posted by: Wyatt's Torch

You must have been at Applebee'sÂ®, you hayseed.

Posted by: Smug Assed Liberal at March 02, 2012 02:14 PM (BbX1b)

82 Just an aside: Gas is well over $4 for regular here in CT, BUT, and this is strange it is almost 15 cents cheaper on Base. It is not usually that big a difference?

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 06:13 PM (CSwaT)

I paid $4.13 for regular yesterday in Stamford.

Posted by: Tami at March 02, 2012 02:14 PM (X6akg)

83 Women passing out from sexual extasy is just a burden some of us must bear.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 02, 2012 02:15 PM (NVu2l)

84 Heh. Nevergiveup, are you in Groton?

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 02, 2012 02:15 PM (zxrQh)

passed out from standing too long.

Because that happens.

Posted by: garrett at March 02, 2012 02:16 PM (ibeYP)

Come on man, some idiot passed out from standing too long. It happens. No one claimed it was due to infatuation. I can't get the rage going against this.

It does happen, but why is the press covering it?

Posted by: fluffy at March 02, 2012 02:16 PM (4pSIn)

87 I paid $4.13 for regular yesterday in Stamford. Posted by: Tami at March 02, 2012 06:14 PM (X6akg) Unless they just have not change the sign, it says regular is still $3.89 on Base. Still more than NJ but much better than in CT on the outside

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:16 PM (CSwaT)

88 At last count, about 52% of the voting population. Posted by: Tami at March 02, 2012 06:10 PM (X6akg) 52.9% Though take solace, only 69,456,897 people voted for him out of 305,000,000 so Obama only has a good 22.7% of the American populace to thank for voting him in.

Posted by: CAC at March 02, 2012 02:17 PM (GSvpU)

89 Nevergiveup, are you in Groton? Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 02, 2012 06:15 PM (zxrQh) Yes

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:17 PM (CSwaT)

90 Help me
I think I'm falling
In love again
When I get that crazy feeling, I know
I'm in trouble again
I'm in trouble
'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler
And a sweet-taIking-ladies man

Posted by: Joni and the Vapors at March 02, 2012 02:17 PM (1ZF7c)

91 I'm across the river in Waterford. I'll be playing at Shennecossett this weekend.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 02, 2012 02:18 PM (zxrQh)

92 Stiffy Goat don't give a shit.

Posted by: Stiffy Goat at March 02, 2012 02:18 PM (BbX1b)

I guess you were never in the military. I have seen people collapse from standing too long. IT HAPPENS

You guys give the left ammo by seeing deeper motives in crap like this. People are saying Obama had Bretbeirt killed to stop the video tapes from coming out. Not EVERYTHING is a plant.

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 02:19 PM (j/wD+)

94 I'm across the river in Waterford. I'll be playing at Shennecossett this weekend. Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 02, 2012 06:18 PM (zxrQh) I'm on duty all weekend.

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:20 PM (CSwaT)

95 I might have to cultivate The Vapors. I feel sure I can make it work for me as I love getting my way.

Posted by: Pecos at March 02, 2012 02:20 PM (2Gb0y)

96 Not EVERYTHING is a plant. Posted by: Pete

But everything that matters is.

Posted by: The Forest - The Beautiful Life Giving Rain Forest at March 02, 2012 02:20 PM (BbX1b)

97 OK...I'll start a diversion...you grab thier wallets.

Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 02:21 PM (b7L99)

98 Come on man, some idiot passed out from standing too long. It happens. No one claimed it was due to infatuation. I can't get the rage going against this. Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 06:13 PM

Grocery store checkers and bank clerks were dropping like flies in town today.

Posted by: huerfano at March 02, 2012 02:21 PM (fIuC0)

"It does happen, but why is the press covering it?"

They cover tons of stupid shit, they are the press after all. Is anyone claiming Obama's greatness caused the fainting?

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 02:22 PM (j/wD+)

100 You guys give the left ammo by seeing deeper motives in crap like this. People are saying Obama had Bretbeirt killed to stop the video tapes from coming out. Not EVERYTHING is a plant.

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 06:19 PM (j/wD+)

Name me one other president or presidential candidate that had people fainting at their speeches or campaign stops that the press reported on.....repeatedly.

Posted by: Tami at March 02, 2012 02:22 PM (X6akg)

101

@67

"Who'd be dumb enough to fall for this?"

You do realize that that Barack Obama and Kim Kardashian each has over ten million followers on twitter? Same with Lady GaGa, Brittany spears, Katy Perry and Justin Beiber... any one of these people ( I truely cannot imagine the mentality of someone who would follow these people on twitter) that are over 18 following these celebrities could cancel out your vote this November... and likely will.

How's that for a big bad helping of DOOM to brighten your day.

Posted by: Some guy you don't know in Wisconsin at March 02, 2012 02:22 PM (QK1XT)

102 Not EVERYTHING is a plant.

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 06:19 PM (j/wD+)

When an entire presidency is a scripted stage show, one goes with the probability.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 02, 2012 02:22 PM (NVu2l)

103 Not EVERYTHING is a plant.

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 06:19 PM (j/wD+)

Algae infection.

Posted by: I Chu, Scientist at large at March 02, 2012 02:22 PM (1ZF7c)

104 OK...I'll start a diversion...you grab thier wallets. Posted by: Say What?

Check the wallets for condoms...

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 02, 2012 02:23 PM (BbX1b)

105 I guess you were never in the military. I have seen people collapse from standing too long. IT HAPPENS You guys give the left ammo by seeing deeper motives in crap like this. People are saying Obama had Bretbeirt killed to stop the video tapes from coming out. Not EVERYTHING is a plant. Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 06:19 PM (j/wD+) People faint in formation because they are standing at attention or parade rest and not moving for long periods of time, and most of the fainting occurs in the heat also. And nobody is serious about obama killing Breitbart- get a grip

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:23 PM (CSwaT)

106 Yeah Pete. I remember being on my feet for 16 to 20 hours a day when I was a commercial fisherman. Passed out all the fucking time.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 02, 2012 02:23 PM (zxrQh)

107 Mitt Romney doesn't want to set his hair on fire. Obama wakes up every morning with a can of Aqua Net and a blowtorch.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at March 02, 2012 02:23 PM (azHfB)

108 14 Stop the presses, the nomination process is over... Ted Nugent has endorsed Romney. Not that I am a huge Romney fan but as this point.. fuck I would vote for a packet of sweet and low over Obama.

Posted by: Drew in MO at March 02, 2012 05:42 PM (BDGkt)

Romney has 113 delegates. There are 208 uncommitted delegates. We have a way to go...

Posted by: The Robot Devil at March 02, 2012 02:24 PM (GaIwz)

109 >> I guess you were never in the military. I have seen people collapse from standing too long. IT HAPPENS Standing at attention, sure. You ever see anybody fall out standing at rest?

Posted by: Andy at March 02, 2012 02:25 PM (yI8kp)

110

After seeing the look on the SCOAMF's mug, it appears to me he knew this was coming: no surprise, no change in expression, no nothing. Too calm.

It looks as scripted as scripted can be. And the sad part is, those of weaker constitution will fall for it, just like they did the last time.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 02, 2012 02:25 PM (d0Tfm)

111 Yeah Pete. I remember being on my feet for 16 to 20 hours a day when I was a commercial fisherman. Passed out all the fucking time. Posted by: Wyatt's Torch

Yeah, but you probably didn't have a President Obama Seal Team Sex Action Figure stuck up your ass. Makes a difference.

Posted by: that dork who paased out at the Obama Presser at March 02, 2012 02:26 PM (BbX1b)

112 OK...if the telepromtor fails...I'll make that sweeping move with my hand, holding mt thumb & forefinger together...faint. Will that give you enough time to reboot?

Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 02:26 PM (b7L99)

113 Standing at attention, sure. You ever see anybody fall out standing at rest? Posted by: Andy at March 02, 2012 06:25 PM (yI8kp) Actually they do. It's the not moving part that makes most people faint.

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:26 PM (CSwaT)

114 Now living under all the destruction he has managed to inflict on us I just can't stand to listen to him at all. I can tell myself I should try "learn the mind of the enemy" but I never manage to force myself to do it.

I know exactly what you mean. I love studying psychopaths. Always want to try to get in their heads to figure out how they think. Jim Jones is one of my favorite subjects to study, but with Obama...it's too close because it's happening to us right now. Maybe in ten years I can go back and do it, but for now, I can barely stand to look at him, and definitely cannot stand to listen to him lie.

Posted by: Laura Castellano at March 02, 2012 02:26 PM (fuw6p)

115 Never lock your knees if you're standing for a long time.

Posted by: Tami at March 02, 2012 02:26 PM (X6akg)

116 Get that guy to a korppsman

Posted by: RWC at March 02, 2012 02:28 PM (PX5TC)

117 GM temporarily halts production of Volt By Keith Laing - 03/02/12 03:39 PM ET General Motors has temporarily suspended production of its Volt electric car, the company announced Friday. GM, which is based in Detroit, announced to employees at one of its facilities that it was halting production of the beleaguered electric car for five weeks and temporarily laying off 1,300 employees. Hey is our illustrious leader talking about this great success today?

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:28 PM (CSwaT)

118 Sheesh ... that was supposed to be parade rest or at ease. I don't think the audience was standing there with knees locked. But apart from that, the point really is the coverage anyway.

Posted by: Andy at March 02, 2012 02:28 PM (yI8kp)

119 Standing at attention, sure. You ever see anybody fall out standing at rest?

Posted by: Andy at March 02, 2012 06:25 PM (yI8kp)

The ones who spent a hard night of drinking and not getting laid were going down, and everyone knew it. Really did not want to stand in front of them, just in case they ate breakfast.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 02, 2012 02:29 PM (NVu2l)

120

Yeah, reporters are as tough as all of you, sure.

And yes, there are people commenting on blogs that are serious about Obama's people killing Bretbeirt.

But, I give up, it was a plant. This brilliant stunt just guaranteed Obama gets relected!

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 02:30 PM (j/wD+)

121

The SCOAMF is actually a Dark Lord of the Sith, with command of the Dark Side of the Force that we can only speculate about.

(B'Boy, now pre-self-denounced for your convenience)

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 02, 2012 02:30 PM (d0Tfm)

122 I hate standing in formation.

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:30 PM (CSwaT)

123 Maybe she was trying to start a "Love-In"

Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 02:30 PM (b7L99)

124 >> Never lock your knees if you're standing for a long time But how can you hold onto the aspirin? :-) *ducks*

Posted by: Andy at March 02, 2012 02:30 PM (yI8kp)

125 GM is 'temporarily' halting production of the Volt in Detroit and 'temporarily' laying off 1,300 workers.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7whjwpu

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston would be forever alone without AoS at March 02, 2012 02:31 PM (ijjAe)

126 Did anyone check her bag lunch?

Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 02:31 PM (b7L99)

127 But how can you hold onto the aspirin? :-)

*ducks*

Posted by: Andy at March 02, 2012 06:30 PM (yI8kp)

WhyIoutta!

Posted by: Tami at March 02, 2012 02:32 PM (X6akg)

128 And yes, there are people commenting on blogs that are serious about Obama's people killing Bretbeirt. From the grassy knoll right?

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:32 PM (CSwaT)

129 OMG.. really I have no words. I loathe that piece of shit more with every passing day. I could barely watch the video. Oh..look at me.. I'm so fucking cool. God I can't wait to kick his ass out in November.

Posted by: jewells45 at March 02, 2012 02:32 PM (Z71Vg)

130 It's like some tacky corny shit they'd do in North Korea.

Posted by: cackfinger at March 02, 2012 02:32 PM (BtIvK)

131

@128

With a dart gun

Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 02:33 PM (b7L99)

132 GodFather 3 is on AMC. I really hate it. They never should have made number 3

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:33 PM (CSwaT)

133 >> The ones who spent a hard night of drinking and not getting laid were going down, and everyone knew it. That is an amazing thing to see, I have to say. They don't fall like you'd think they would. More like a tree being felled than a sack of taters hitting the ground.

Posted by: Andy at March 02, 2012 02:33 PM (yI8kp)

134 http://tinyurl.com/7mrsvb4

Rush puts Volt Workers Out of a Job

"Think Progress"

no. really

Posted by: I Chu, Scientist at large at March 02, 2012 02:34 PM (1ZF7c)

135

@130

and the difference is?

Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 02:34 PM (b7L99)

136 A competent speaker would keep talking. But not this idiot man-child precedent.

Posted by: Dang at March 02, 2012 02:35 PM (BbX1b)

137 132 GodFather 3 is on AMC. I really hate it. They never should have made number 3

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 06:33 PM (CSwaT)

Or cast Sofia Coppola

Posted by: The Robot Devil at March 02, 2012 02:35 PM (GaIwz)

138 After seeing the look on the SCOAMF's mug, it appears to me he knew this was coming: no surprise, no change in expression, no nothing. Too calm.

Because even after all the practice he's had, Obama is still a shitty actor. And this is pure theater.

Posted by: Laura Castellano at March 02, 2012 02:35 PM (fuw6p)

139 If Sandra Fluke lays down in a room full of Dems, is she still a slut?

Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 02:36 PM (b7L99)

140 Or cast Sofia Coppola Posted by: The Robot Devil at March 02, 2012 06:35 PM (GaIwz) Ya know having 2 daughters I try to be kind to young girls like her, but yeah she sucked

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:36 PM (CSwaT)

141 GodFather 3 is on AMC. I really hate it. They never should have made number 3 Posted by: nevergiveup

Yup. Should have stopped after 2. That sequential version they showed on Bravo or something was great.

Posted by: Dang at March 02, 2012 02:36 PM (BbX1b)

142 Yeah, but why does it seem to happen at SCOAMF rallies? I mean there's tons of political rallies, but the fainting spells seem to be exclusively at his events.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 02, 2012 02:37 PM (zxrQh)

143 Actually Winnona Ryder was cast for the part but had to back out, so Copolla asked his niece. Big deal, it was a small part.

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 02:37 PM (j/wD+)

144 If Sandra Fluke lays down in a room full of Dems, is she still a slut? Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 06:36 PM (b7L99) Most popular girl in the room

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 02, 2012 02:37 PM (CSwaT)

145

@138

Or..he just dosent care about anyone

Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 02:37 PM (b7L99)

146 Hahahaha, he actually asks if they've been waiting a long time.

When's the last time you actually showed up at the appointed hour, SCOAMF?

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 02, 2012 02:39 PM (NrTVO)

147 The thing to remember is when sucking that much cock, breathe through the nose.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 02, 2012 02:39 PM (O/onO)

148 They should just stop letting Chrissie Mathews go to his speeches.

Posted by: Kasper Hauser at March 02, 2012 02:40 PM (tB2tX)

149

Being unemployed & playing here with you Morons, is the highlight of my day.

God I need a life ...or at least a job.

Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 02:40 PM (b7L99)

150 I told the Teamsters I was hungry when they loaded us into the van down at the homeless shelter. They said they would feed us AFTER the speech. That was the deal. Tough negotiators, those Teamsters.

Posted by: The Fainter at March 02, 2012 02:43 PM (oASlp)

151 I'm calling 147 for thread winner. You just cracked up me and Mrs.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at March 02, 2012 02:43 PM (zxrQh)

152 Wait, they're the evil party, *AND* the stupid party? So what the Hell are we now? This is all so confusing.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 02, 2012 02:44 PM (bxiXv)

153 I wonder if the cocoon is that soft and cozy, that they actually think this is how you create the mania of 2008 all over again? It's not because even America's not rich enough to be that dumb ever again.

Posted by: joeindc44 says come on, guys, no tough questions at March 02, 2012 02:45 PM (QxSug)

154

@151.. I second that emotion. I nearly snorted wine out of my nose!

Posted by: jewells45 at March 02, 2012 02:45 PM (Z71Vg)

155 Pete is a plant.

Posted by: (Original, Famous) My Sharia Moor at March 02, 2012 02:46 PM (KZi9D)

156 He's clearly not suffering enough in the polls yet.

If he starts laying hands on to "heal" a "fainter" then I'd be confident he might lose in November

Posted by: Scott J at March 02, 2012 02:47 PM (WAhu6)

157 You know, just last night while trying to go to sleep, I was thinking that JEF probably had something to do with the death of AB.

Posted by: Ronster at March 02, 2012 02:47 PM (T1nDt)

158 From another angle:, what kind of f'n TOOL do you have to be to take time out of your day to stand in a hot room waiting for Obama to give a speech on energy and jobs? With his record of massive fail? Are you kiddin' me?

Posted by: Davey Jones Locker at March 02, 2012 02:49 PM (kqbIK)

159 Shabbat shalom to my Jewish friends.

Posted by: USA at March 02, 2012 02:50 PM (6Cjut)

160 If I'm a plant tell Axelrod to send me my check

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 02:51 PM (j/wD+)

161

Pete is a plant.

Dildo cactus?

Posted by: fluffy at March 02, 2012 02:51 PM (4pSIn)

162 I fainted from dehydration because my employer's health insurance refuses to cover bottled water.

Why do you wingnuts hate water?

Posted by: Fainter at March 02, 2012 02:51 PM (2jQGY)

163

@162

You have a job?

Posted by: Say What? at March 02, 2012 02:52 PM (b7L99)

164 From another angle:, what kind of f'n TOOL do you have to be to take time out of your day to stand in a hot room waiting for Obama to give a speech on energy and jobs? With his record of massive fail?

Are you kiddin' me? Posted by: Davey Jones Locker

We were told there'd be free tee shirts.

Posted by: The idiot mob at March 02, 2012 02:53 PM (BbX1b)

165 "They'll be alright they were probably just standing too long, give 'em a little space."

...

*cue massive attack-teardrop (themes used on House)*

Posted by: Massive Attack at March 02, 2012 02:55 PM (wQ1iq)

166 #149
Try marketing focus groups or paid research at local hospitals/universities (sleep, blood-work tracking, questionnaire b.s.). Craigslist usually has them listed under misc. jobs. Paid in cash most of the time too. Won't mess up your unemployment benefits either.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston would be forever alone without AoS at March 02, 2012 02:55 PM (ijjAe)

167 Too funny.....

Brad Thor ‏ @BradThor

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi penned Â“Death of a DoucheÂ” re: Breitbart. @PatDollard offers Matt's cell (917) 723-6798

Posted by: Tami at March 02, 2012 02:56 PM (X6akg)

168 http://tinyurl.com/82qlyx8

Speaking of tools -- "Anonymous supporters who willingly enlisted their personal computers to launch denial-of-service attacks against the groups' enemies may have unwillingly donated their personal banking information in the process."

heh

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at March 02, 2012 02:57 PM (1ZF7c)

169 O-bah-muhhz lies suck all the oxygen out of the room.

Posted by: Mitt Still Sux. at March 02, 2012 02:58 PM (7L/e5)

170 Takes out Osama, saves fainting people. This guy is a fucking hero!

Posted by: RWC at March 02, 2012 02:59 PM (8jOCh)

171

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 02, 2012 05:44 PM (/kI1Q)

I say "President Dole" now. It polled better in focus groups.

Posted by: Newt Gingrich at March 02, 2012 03:05 PM (QjSgY)

172 Uh, these people are standing for a long period of time, then they begin to "faint". This is the second campaign in which this has happened to His Obamaness, yet the fool has not figured out that CHAIRS are in order. And, the dipshit stands up there saying a person who has just collapsed is just fine. Well, Andrew Breitbart collapsed and he is dead. How does Obama know the difference? What a tool.

Posted by: MathMom at March 02, 2012 03:11 PM (JGVrO)

173 I've seen a few people faint from locking their knees when standing. What screams "fake" to me is how often it happens, that Obama calls it out, and the fact that it is always a young woman.

I'm nervous about the next election. Up here in lefty Seattle-land my co-workers (software engineers) are all saying, "I know Obama isn't the greatest (read

bvious liar and not lefty enough), but I look at the Republicans and I just have to vote Democrat." Ugh, I can't think about it too much.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 02, 2012 03:20 PM (vVmp0)

174 Oh, and to those saying people only faint when in formation, at attention, that hasn't been my experience.

I was at a conference where the speaker was standing at ease, but with his knees locked. He went down hard. He was not ill, hadn't been drinking, and was a young guy with no heart condition. Another time I was waiting for a table at a Cheesecake Factory when a guy standing right by me went down hard. Same thing, knees were locked. When I helped him up he didn't smell of alcohol, and he was young and looked healthy enough, though very pale.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 02, 2012 03:27 PM (vVmp0)

175

@117

Bob Lutz was all pissed off at the Right in the last issue of Forbes. Especially at Rush. Lutz said he--and we--demean the conservative cause with unfair, inaccurate attacks on the Volt. Maybe that's why Rush went from Lutz to Slutz.

Yeah, that was a long way for me to go to work that one in.

And sock off/

Posted by: 66chevelle at March 02, 2012 03:33 PM (QjSgY)

176 Obama should not announce gas prices at his rallies. This will keep people from fainting, unless he announces some grocery prices.

Posted by: KF at March 02, 2012 03:36 PM (Ig7J7)

177 Gutsy call there, the way Obama told the folks to give him room. Gutsy call.

Posted by: Warden at March 02, 2012 03:39 PM (i0NvP)

178 Lordy, Pete, you gotta set everybody straight tonight? We get it: You're one laid-back, smart fella. Unless you're going to set me straight on that, in which case, I stand corrected.

Posted by: 66chevelle at March 02, 2012 03:44 PM (QjSgY)

179 "No, don't!

Leave her alone! LEAVE HER!

Leave her lay where Jesus FLANG her down!!"

Posted by: Barak doing his best Revrund Wright imitation at March 02, 2012 04:00 PM (bSxwg)

180 147 With him, I'm guessin' one could breath around it

Posted by: dagny loved andrew at March 02, 2012 04:17 PM (u50z0)

181 77 Come on man, some idiot passed out from standing too long. It happens. No one claimed it was due to infatuation. I can't get the rage going against this.

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 06:13 PM (j/wD+)

Second that.

I witnessed a young, healthy teenager pass out from just standing at attention for a half hour or so.

As others have said, I think it's the locking the knees that gets you.

Posted by: Lewis at March 02, 2012 04:18 PM (6TClq)

182 So what's being proven here is that his followers are too stupid to stand? Looks like it. They should go back to wallowing or indiscriminate fucking or whatever it is that they do.

Posted by: dagny loved andrew at March 02, 2012 04:20 PM (u50z0)

183 I'd faint too if I were in the presence of his bullshit.

Posted by: Barry S at March 02, 2012 04:28 PM (fk126)

184

" We get it: You'reone laid-back, smart fella. Unless you're going to set me straight on that, in which case, I stand corrected."

You are 100% correct in your description of me, just don't stand too long, you might faint

Posted by: Pete at March 02, 2012 04:33 PM (j/wD+)

185 Maybe the fainters were Government Motors employees who just found out that they got laid off from their jobs making Volts.

Posted by: Parking Lot Bozo at March 02, 2012 04:45 PM (eQI0M)

186 Just like passin' out in formation . Usually the same guys every time . Remember, don't lock your knees.

Posted by: awkward davies at March 02, 2012 04:47 PM (Jp1VY)

187 A normal reaction would include some kind of facial change, a show of concern. O shows none at all. So either the whole scene is a complete fabrication, or he's so self-absorbed he's completely incapable of reacting to another's plight. New campaign slogan... Obama 2012: Poseur or Narcissist -- You Decide!

Posted by: red speck at March 02, 2012 05:02 PM (9Xu0X)

188 This idol worship bullshit really creeps me out. Fainting? Are you kidding me? I really am starting to think this bastard is the anti-christ.

Posted by: LGoPs at March 02, 2012 05:12 PM (lHn6+)

189 The way to tell if it really is fainting is if you see the head bounce when they hit the floor. That's how the medics could tell if someone was faking when a unit was on parade.

Posted by: LGoPs at March 02, 2012 05:15 PM (lHn6+)

190 I agree with Laura W. I have also been reading Ulsterman, and Obama is obsessed with being cool. This is partially the explanation why he hates so many people, because they make him look like a doofus. Prime example is Netenyahu, who makes Obama look like more of a girly man than he is, if that is possible.

The fainting thing was a feature of almost every Obama rally in 2008. I know of no other candidate who has repeated faintings, or even one, at his appearances. And certainly, if it happened, it isn't covered by the press and noticed and commented on by the candidate.

This could be a coincidence. However, I think they are trying to keep him from going full-blown nutso so are catering to his demands for entertainment and adulation. Watch his schedule. It's all parties, fundraisers with adoring fans, rallies in front of college students who still think he's swell, black schools, Hollywood people performing at the White House, etc. All designed to make him the center of attention and make him feel loved and cool.

So I expect we will see more of this, because it isn't designed to fool us. It's designed to make him feel like he's king of the world. And that is why the press covers it as well. So Axelrod and Company can show him the tapes where he "takes command" and looks COOL.

Posted by: Miss Marple at March 02, 2012 05:18 PM (GoIUi)

191 182 So what's being proven here is that his followers are too stupid to stand? Looks like it. They should go back to wallowing or indiscriminate fucking or whatever it is that they do.

Posted by: dagny loved andrew at March 02, 2012 08:20 PM (u50z0)

Way ahead of you!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke: Cock aficionado at March 02, 2012 05:28 PM (MmrSI)

192 189 kLGoPs has a point. My son fainted in the kitchen, hit his head on the floor, and split it open like a canteloupe leaving a 2" long jagged cut that needed a bunch of staples to close it. The resulting concussion was severe enough that it was 10 days before he could stay awake, and several months before he felt normal. These "faintings" are BS. When I was in chorus in Junior High and High School, we were always warned not to lock our knees or we'd go right off the risers. We lost a few off the back row in my choral experience, but not one a year.

Posted by: MathMom at March 02, 2012 05:49 PM (JGVrO)

193 I ALWAYS thought the faintings at his rallies were Axelrod specials, just like the Greek columns.

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 02, 2012 06:04 PM (1k4dd)

194 That was my school. Everyone said that the gym was over packed and poorly cooled (Even though they canceled evening classes because of snow). My history teacher told us this morning about what he said about getting off oil. I was politely told to shut up by her when I started explaining efficiency of energy sources to the rest of the class. The other students were full of "hope" about alt energy and getting off oil.

Posted by: Mellowlocke at March 02, 2012 07:28 PM (BNT0Y)

195 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2012 07:58 PM (7W3wI)

196 If y'all step back a little, it starts to get pretty clear why you're having trouble seeing what's going on here: http://tinyurl.com/7f6htox

Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at March 03, 2012 12:13 AM (vahvH)

197 93 "...People are saying Obama had Bretbeirt killed to stop the video tapes from coming out. Not EVERYTHING is a plant." Well then, if people are saying it ... but I'm less sure about your second point - cuz, damn, I coulda sworn this was a picture of Mitt's brother Handwarmer Romney: http://tinyurl.com/8779ucp

Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at March 03, 2012 12:25 AM (vahvH)

198 Maybe the bullshit smell can knock you out.

Posted by: Libra at March 03, 2012 05:06 AM (kd8U8)

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