Michelle Malkin perfectly captures the fawning Obama-love of the magazine industry in her post today about, get this, an actual award for "Best Obama Magazine Cover." Amazing. Here is the explanation for the award, from the award-giver, the Magazine Publishers of America: The smile says it all. Photographer Peter Yang caught up with Barack Obama in Raleigh, North Carolina, just a few days after he had finally nailed down the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Obama was exhausted, excited, relaxed, gracious, open–yet still somehow elusive. Hundreds of photographers have shot Obama over the past couple of years, but no one has quite caught his quiet charisma as Peter Yang did last June.
This is vomit-inducing. "Excited, relaxed, gracious, open, yet elusive"!! The only thing the text didn't say was something about Obama's supposedly great pecs. This puts Chris Matthews' "chill up [his] leg" to shame. It's like a 12 year-old schoolgirl writing in her diary about her first dream boy. Or like an onanistic Harry Hay writing about a man crush.
Rolfe| 10.15.09 @ 1:27PM
Yeah, an American President on the cover of a magazine is vomit inducing.Bleahhhhhh.
Tragic.
Daisy| 10.15.09 @ 8:05PM
Obamavomitorium.
Rolfey/LibReader/Jeremiah; the worn-out kneepad Axelrod troll waxes obsequiously on behalf of his one and only.
Why put a finger down my throat when all I have to do is read one of Rolfey's moronic posts?
Pete| 10.15.09 @ 1:57PM
Sieg Heil, Herr Rolfenfuhrer!
alyeska| 10.16.09 @ 5:21AM
what's with all the nazi salutes on this website. have i stumbled into a skinhead site?
L. Ross| 10.15.09 @ 2:04PM
Rolfe:
You nit. What is vomit inducing is the ass-kissing prose, not the photo. Or do your verbal skills preclude you comprehending what is obvious to the most casual observer.
Tragic.
Oldefarte| 10.15.09 @ 2:04PM
I'd laugh, but I'm too busy CRYING!!!!
gus| 10.15.09 @ 2:16PM
Rolfie, it's not the President of the United States that makes us vomit. It's who the President is, and the LIBTARD tongues up his ass, that induces the dry heaves.
Rolfe| 10.15.09 @ 2:18PM
Ah, too bad old fart,
A nation came this close to turning its' lonely eyes to you. Cry on old fart.
Oldefarte| 10.15.09 @ 2:33PM
My tears will turn to smiles beginning with next year's elections, when the current SHIP OF FOOLS will sink like the Titanic!!!!!
rolfe| 10.15.09 @ 3:26PM
Gosh, you so scary.
Something tells me your smell is worse than your bite. Smelly pile.
Ken in People's Republic of MD| 10.15.09 @ 2:18PM
I was this morning watching a History Channel presentation about the conspiracies behind the Lincoln assassination(for the umpteenth time, I might add). They described Lincoln's assassin as a megalomaniac, someone who says "I" all the time, someone who uses his sublime charm, instead of real substance, to persuade, someone who takes umbrage when disagreed with or when he doesn't get his way, and someone, as an actor, who needs to be in the spotlight and who can't understand why everyone doesn't fall in line and agree with him on virtually every point.
Sound like someone we know??
Rolfe| 10.15.09 @ 2:22PM
OK Gus
And you've a fabulous alternate who won't induce vomoting. Amirite?
Rolfe| 10.15.09 @ 2:30PM
Dear Ken, (for the umpteenth time)
Look away, look away Dixieland!
Rolfe| 10.15.09 @ 2:38PM
Ah, Pete retreats.
You're a charmer, Pete.
DC| 10.15.09 @ 2:47PM
SS Herr von Rolfie: have you ever, ever made an actual point, or stated a fact (corroborated by a source other than Robert Gibbs or People magazine)? You must pleasure yourself greatly by hurling random insults that you find very clever. Like the Maobama slaves, you are beneath self-parody. Shouldn't you be doing something useful, like picketing the NJ school (see below, assuming you can read) in support of that school's administration? Cultish folk like to stick together, after all, and it seems that some parents in NJ aren't bending over and accepting the party line. http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....latestnews
Pete| 10.15.09 @ 2:59PM
JA! Serve ze SchtAte!!!
http://bighollywood.breitbart......ision-set/
Tim| 10.15.09 @ 3:10PM
(Flanders comes over to pick up Rod and Todd)
Flanders: So, did you boys have a good time?
Rod: Yeah, Mr. Simpson was really funny.
Todd: He told us how the world keeps screwing him over
Pete| 10.15.09 @ 3:26PM
Heil Sieg, Herr Rolfenfuhrer! Danke!
Darkmoth| 10.15.09 @ 3:44PM
It's called "charisma". It's one of his political gifts. It's been a while since Reagan so I assume you've forgotten what the word means.
Seriously, there are substantive critiques of his policy, or even his governing style, but when you complain about a natural gift, you just come off looking petty. Obama has no control over the nearly ubiquitous fawning he engenders.
P.S. Bill Clinton, in person, was amazingly charismatic. To the point you had to remind yourself he wasn't *really* your best friend. It's a highly-effective political trait.
DC| 10.15.09 @ 4:02PM
Darkmoth: I don't think you're trying to justify the constant stream of lies, obfuscations, and anti-American filth that spews from the yap of our Dear Leader---But I remind you, "charisma" is not just natural. It is, especially in this age, carefully scripted and cultivated. Maobama and his willing minions do just that: script and cultivate his image to obscure the horrible reality of where he is trying to lead the nation. To say he has no control over this is simply false. He doesn't micromanage it, I'm sure--he has plenty of willing slaves like NBC, ABC, CNN, etc, not to mention dead-eyed wannabe concentration-camp guards like our buddy SS von Rolfie to help him and get the word to the street, so to speak, about Maobama's great glory. For F's sake there's even a Michelle Obama doll you can buy, for $13, grinning in that happy totalitarian fashion, looking for all the world like an orangutan in a dress. Charisma? Farce? Greasy propaganda? It's vile in any case. Or do the lefties out there have secret, voodoo-pierced Laura Bush dolls they can drag out in rebuttal? This is cultish, un-American, and deeply, deeply disturbing.
alyeska| 10.16.09 @ 5:26AM
your language is pretty disturbing. why are you fixated on nazis? that's just nasty!
Big Jim| 10.15.09 @ 4:09PM
They forgot to mention that BO is redolent of oak & berries with a slow, very dry finish.
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alyeska| 10.16.09 @ 5:29AM
yes, he's an insolent little president, with just the hint oak.
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