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Barack Obama: Isn’t This Awkward

LEADER OF “FREE” WORLD GETS SILENT TREATMENT ABROAD It used to be every word that fell from the mouth of U.S. President Barack Obama was viewed as pure gold … deserving of enraptured attention and thunderous applause. Those days are long gone … Obama – whose National Security Agency (NSA)…

LEADER OF “FREE” WORLD GETS SILENT TREATMENT ABROAD

It used to be every word that fell from the mouth of U.S. President Barack Obama was viewed as pure gold … deserving of enraptured attention and thunderous applause.

Those days are long gone …

Obama – whose National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on foreign countries (in addition to his own country) – is no longer the global sensation he once was. In fact when the leader of the (cough) “free” world wrapped a speech in Holland this week, nobody clapped.

Well … one guy clapped.

Take a listen …

(Click to play)

Yeah …

That’s not polite or perfunctory applause, people. That’s no applause.

Obama should be happy, though. After all he should have been struck by lightning after claiming his administration has been guided by the “core values that America has always believed in … privacy, rule of law, individual rights.”

Ha!

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47 comments

shifty henry March 26, 2014 at 5:23 pm

“he should have been struck by lightning ”

—- hmmm, can God still do that?

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Torch March 26, 2014 at 9:21 pm

Which God?

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euwe max March 26, 2014 at 9:49 pm

Teshub (Hurrian mythology)
Adad, Ishkur, Marduk (Babylonian-Assyrian mythology)
Hadad (Levantine mythology)
Tarhunt (Hittite/Luwian mythology)
Zeus (Greek Mythology)
Brontes (Greek mythology)
Jupiter, Summanus (Roman mythology)
Taranis (Pan-Celtic); Ambisagrus, Loucetios (Gaulish mythology)
Þunraz (Germanic mythology; Anglo-Saxon Þunor, German Donar, Norse Þórr)
Thor (Norse mythology)
Perun (Slavic mythology)
Perk?nas (Baltic mythology)
Perëndi (Albanian mythology)
Gebeleizis (Dacian mythology)
Zibelthiurdos (Thracian mythology)
Ukko or Perkele (Finnish mythology)
Horagalles (Sami mythology)
Indra, Parjanya (Hindu mythology)
Aplu (Etruscan mythology)
Atämshkai (Moksha mythology)
Lei Gong (Chinese mythology)
Ajisukitakahikone, Raijin (Raiden-sama, Kaminari-sama), Tenjin (kami) (Japanese mythology)
Susanoo (Japanese mythology)
Thunderbird (Native American mythology)
Xolotl (Aztec mythology)
Chaac (Maya mythology)
Apocatequil (Incan mythology)
Cocijo (Zapotec mythology)
Aktzin (Totonac mythology)
Haokah (Lakota mythology)
Tupã (Guaraní mythology)
Set (Egyptian mythology)
Shango (Yorùbá religion)
Oya (goddess of hurricanes, consort of Shango in Yorùbá religion)
Azaka-Tonnerre (West African Vodun/Haitian Vodou)
Mulungu
Xevioso (alternately: Xewioso, Heviosso. Thunder god of the So region)
Sango (Nigerian mythology)
Amadioha (Igbo, Nigeria)
Haikili (Polynesian mythology)
T?whaki (Polynesian mythology)
Kaha’i (Polynesian mythology)
Te Uira (Polynesian mythology)
Nan Sapwe (Pohnpeian mythology)
Mamaragan (Aboriginal mythology)
Whaitiri (M?ori mythology)

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shifty henry March 26, 2014 at 10:08 pm

Damn, Max, there’s one for each week of the year….

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Smirks March 27, 2014 at 8:39 am Reply
euwe max March 27, 2014 at 2:16 pm

Don’t get all technical on me there, buddy… I’ll sic Perun on you!

..and that will mean a thousand fleas, each with the face of Dennis Rodman will alight on your face and take a dump of Taco Bueno Burrito stuffing, and then an army of blind ants will blast it off your face with tiny little lightning bolts!

Thomas March 26, 2014 at 9:59 pm

You mean when lightning struck St Peter’s Cathedral, twice in one night, when the pope, ahem, abdicated? That One? Yes.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/13/lightning-strikes-st-peters-basilica-the-day-pope-benedict-xvi-resigns/

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shifty henry March 26, 2014 at 10:07 pm

Yeah, Thomas, that could work….

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TontoBubbaGoldstein March 26, 2014 at 10:13 pm

“REPAINT!! AND THIN NO MORE!!”

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Mike at the Beach March 26, 2014 at 10:22 pm

Stop it! Stop! Don’t do it…

shifty henry March 26, 2014 at 11:17 pm

Hmmm, that reminds me of a story about a church (I do know it’s in my archives – (still can’t find the one about the two-headed gorilla that played pro baseball)

EJB March 27, 2014 at 7:14 am

OK, now I’m interested, please find it and share (the gorilla one, if its about the guerrilla I’ve already heard it).

shifty henry March 27, 2014 at 8:52 am

It’s gorilla, but the story is no good unless it is accurate.

shifty henry March 27, 2014 at 1:54 pm

A painter was required to submit this itemized bill in the amount of $6,300 for his repairs on various pictures
in a church.
——————————————————————————————————————————

Corrected and renewed the Ten
Commandments….. (600)

Embellished Pontius Pilate and
put a new ribbon on his bonnet….. (300)

Put a new tail on the rooster of
St. Peter and mended his bill….. (400)

Put a new nose on St. John the
Baptist and straightened his eye….. (200)

Replumed and gilded the left wing of the
Guardian Angel….. (500)

Washed the servant of the High
Priest and put carmine on his cheeks….. (200)

Renewed Heaven, adjusted ten stars,
gilded the sun and cleaned the moon…..(800)

Reanimated the flames of
Purgatory and restored some souls….. (300)

Revived the flames of Hell, put a new tail
on the devil, mended his left hoof and did
several odd jobs for the damned…..(800)

Put new spatter-dashes on the son
of Tobias and dressing on his sack….. (200)

Rebordered the robe of Herod and
readjusted his wig….. (300)

Cleaned the ears of Balaam’s ass,
and shod him….. (200)

Put earrings in the ears of Sarah…..(500)

Put a new stone in David’s sling, enlarged
Goliath’s hand and extended his legs….. (200)

Decorated Noah’s Ark….. (700)

Mended the shirt of the Prodigal Son,
and cleaned the pigs….. (100)

shifty henry March 26, 2014 at 11:14 pm

There are more flower arrangements around him than Dion O’Banion had at his funeral (Chicago, 1924)

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1 clap is better than none March 26, 2014 at 5:25 pm

Obama’s new anthem is Beck’s “I’m a loser baby”

Here’s another supporter of his that went cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIMnIh10po0&index=3&list=FL49IVBQ1uFqOfL9t_wRkgnA

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Truth Wizard March 26, 2014 at 5:31 pm

He was just an “act” … and he still is such. The only difference is, his mask of deception (which keen minds saw behind way back when), is off. Just like that vomit Lindsey Graham .. just like Bobby Harrell, all are rogue bullshit artist.

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Mike at the Beach March 26, 2014 at 5:54 pm

I’m certainly no defender of Emperor BHO, but that had the look and trappings of a media event / presser, not a speech. He only gets cheered by the press corps here in the US, and they do that on the sly (except Chris Matthews and the famous tingly legs).

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shifty henry March 26, 2014 at 6:07 pm

The hand gesture represents jamming his thumb up the assholes of the American citizens – I winced….

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Well-i-am into it March 26, 2014 at 8:49 pm

ROFL…and he thinks THAT would endear him to the public….pervert. Obamacare, bad economy, mounting debt, printing money, joblessness, record incarceration, our of control bureaucracy, crazy secret service drunks, NSA….and more……the thumb motions are hitting the hilt too many times and too fast for American public’s pleasure!!

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anon. March 26, 2014 at 6:28 pm

WORST PRESIDENT EVER!

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euwe max March 26, 2014 at 7:00 pm

I liked the part where a member of the audience threw his shoes at him!

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GrandTango March 26, 2014 at 7:59 pm

Obama is kinda like you..He wishes he were significant enough that someone cared enough about him… to throw a shoe….

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euwe max March 26, 2014 at 8:08 pm

Your idea of significance is Hitler… because people cared enough to kill him.

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rwwllms March 26, 2014 at 10:56 pm

So you’re claiming that obama is Hitler……

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euwe max March 27, 2014 at 12:53 am

Yeah… that’s it… good catch, goober.

OneTrickPony March 27, 2014 at 8:28 am

your original deflection of Obama to Bush…that’s it, goober

euwe max March 27, 2014 at 2:09 pm

Why should I deny myself the weapons of my enemy?

Ha! March 26, 2014 at 8:39 pm

No fair! He’s a Muslim!

:)

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euwe max March 26, 2014 at 8:53 pm

All the more symbolism!

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Smirks March 27, 2014 at 8:41 am

One thing I’ll give Bush credit for is his Matrix-like shoe evasion skills.

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euwe max March 27, 2014 at 2:10 pm

Maybe he’s had plenty of practice. I understand he ran a failed oil related business at one time… When I first saw it, I thought he seemed feisty.. smiling.. expecting, ‘smirking’ even.

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jimlewisowb March 26, 2014 at 7:12 pm

Buck Farack

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JCDavis March 26, 2014 at 7:40 pm

Wow. And he was sleepwalking through his collection of lies. Very sad.

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GrandTango March 26, 2014 at 7:56 pm

What is even MORE amazing: There are still some people surprised that Obama is seen as a strategic idiot and a wimp by most of the world.

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Sandy Burglar March 26, 2014 at 9:12 pm

“This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.” William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, 2008

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Jay Ellington March 27, 2014 at 9:31 am

Wasn’t it the Clinton Camp that originally started the “birther movement”?

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Centrist View March 27, 2014 at 10:12 am

Bill Clinton on Obama: Big Fairy Tale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDx4NZr2u4

@ the 2:00 mark on the video

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DB Cooper March 26, 2014 at 9:16 pm

Obama is a total piece of sh&t; all you Leftists who were getting back at the supposed Right in 2008/12 because of your Bush hatred (and yeah, I ironically hated Bush too as I knew him to be just a Conservative phony); well, how do you like your weak, narcissistic, idiot now?! Because, he’s all YOURS!… and definitely not mine.

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RogueElephant March 27, 2014 at 8:03 am

I have been saying for years, Obummer is only a symptom of a much bigger problem : a country that would elect a Barak Obama in the first place.

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SCBlues March 27, 2014 at 8:31 am

Gee – another Obama-Bashing story on Fits”news” – shocking. Fits”news” is simply Little Fox “News” – all bias all the time. And the only purpose for this story is just to throw some more of that rancid red meat to the yelping minions.

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Smirks March 27, 2014 at 8:43 am

Meh.

Obama deserves to be bashed on a number of things, and the unchecked NSA abuses against the American people is absolutely one of them.

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Scratched Record March 27, 2014 at 10:11 am

You forgot to mention that everyone here is raciss too!

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Smirks March 27, 2014 at 8:37 am Reply
johnq March 27, 2014 at 9:55 am

And yet people hate the GOP so much more they would vote for Obama again if they could if it meant a Romney, Gingrich or Santorum was going to be elected.

The reason people didn’t clap is because they are pissed the US was spying on them in the first place. It isn’t like this was in the US, the speech was given at the Hague in the Netherlands.

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Elfego March 27, 2014 at 10:11 am

This shows the amount of esteem the world holds for Obama and America!

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Mike at the Beach March 31, 2014 at 12:08 am

As many suspected, it *was* a press event, not a speech. Even in the US (where the mainstream media idolizes BHO) they don’t cheer when he’s done…

http://www.politico.com/gallery/2014/03/president-obama-in-europe/001712-024398.html

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