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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:00 PM
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Sen. Obama seen riding a bike with his family while wearing jeans...
According to FNC, this is a major faux pas

Who are these idiots on my TV?
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:02 PM
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1. Jeangate!
:eyes:
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crikkett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:02 PM
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2. Why do you even watch them?
On the TV, unlike DU, they really do go away if you ignore them.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:03 PM
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4. Caught it while channel surfing
Edited on Mon Jun-09-08 01:06 PM by MrScorpio
Besides, it's proof to me that they have absolutely nothing to smear him with, if they have to make up this crap
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:25 PM
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22. I never catch Fox news while channel surfing
Not ever. I don't understand how everybody else does.

You have to actually pause on the channel to hear what they say. Why do you do that?
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:26 PM
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24. Because I want to see the opposition
I'm not much for hiding from shit that I don't like.

It reinforces my disdain
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:45 PM
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36. It's like slowing down for a car accident. n/t
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:38 PM
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28. You can catch a lot of messy things doing that.
I'd be careful, and use protection if I were you. :)
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Waya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:02 PM
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3. OMG - let's publicly.......
....horsewhip him..... Jeans - and no flagpin or Cross.....America is doomed........
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earthlover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:04 PM
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5. I'm sure the working class folks will be offended he wore jeans....
NOT!!!!!

This has to be one of the stupidest things to come from the media.
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:04 PM
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6. OMG! Can he be impeached before actually taking office?
There's more to the story- he's wearing a helmet!!!
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Waya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:07 PM
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11. ......and snazzy shades......
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VWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:39 PM
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29. Look at those elitist sneakers!!!!!111!!!
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:05 PM
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7. Jimmy Carter wore jeans, Ronald Reagan wore jeans.
Bill Clinton wore jeans. Hell, even King W has worn jeans.
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:06 PM
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9. But Chimpy wears tights when riding his bicycle. . . n/t
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:08 PM
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13. lol
I just tried to brush that bug off my screen and the damn thing wouldn't go. Love the avatar.
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CherokeeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:49 PM
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39. Me, too!!!!
I am glad I wasn't the only one who thought that bug was real!!!!!

Btw, Obama looks good...
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-10-08 11:49 PM
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50. So did I!!!
But my daughter told me not to post about it because I would look like an idiot. Well, when three of us do it, it means that its someone else's fault and not ours. ;) :rofl:
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:05 PM
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8. They know his secret!
He's got the "ashy knees"!

:yoiks:
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:06 PM
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10. My guess is he's way ahead of the trend. We're ALL gonna be riding bicycles if gas keeps rocketing.
Good for him for setting a lovely example!
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:08 PM
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12. why are they being elitists?
jeebus I am so sick of them not even being able to follow their own message!
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BrokenSocialScene Donating Member (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:11 PM
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14. what an elitst
derpa derp derp
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:12 PM
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15. You're watching Fox
See a psychiatrist.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:12 PM
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16. Oh god, it's...it's HORRIBLE!!!1!11
He really had jeans on? Oh, the horrors! Jeez, the freepers really have nothing left do they?
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:13 PM
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17. They're just not used to a politican that can actually RIDE a bike.
Edited on Mon Jun-09-08 01:17 PM by CarolinaPeridot
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:14 PM
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18. Had it been me, I'd have worn short pants. . .
one can only wonder their reaction to that -- and me with good-looking legs, too!

Ya gotta wonder, though: They moan and groan the candidates aren't "regular folk," yet when the candidates show that side of their lives, they're castigated as "out of step."
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:14 PM
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19. And to think he almost fooled me into voting for him
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:15 PM
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20. OMG! The preferred garb of the working class! Were they
KameApart jeans?? Designer duds?? I'm sure they were probably Girbaud, or whatever the latest elitist trend in denim is these days :sarcasm:
What I want to know is, how many SS agents does it take to carry his latte??? :crazy:
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:23 PM
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21. Yet Kerry was a geek
when he wore proper riding gear.

When will the hand-wringing Democrats stop caring about all these so-called gaffes the right wing conjures up.
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:26 PM
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23. WTF should he be wearing? Spandex?
My dad used to regularly comment, "People are stupid." He was kind of an Archie Bunker type of guy and I was always annoyed when he said that, but I see now that at least with this particular observation he was dead-on correct.

People are stupid.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 02:13 PM
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45. A fire-proof flight suit, a parachute, a Vietnamese dictionary, and the "Dummy Manual for Traitors"
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_hopper_video.htm
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:34 PM
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25. I wear jeans or other pants most of the time when I ride my bike.
I don't want to frighten the children with these scary legs of mine, spider veins and such.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:36 PM
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26. He looks really really good in jeans.
I'm sure the people at FNC are jealous about the fact that they don't look nearly that good. :)
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:36 PM
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27. Barack would look kind of dorky riding a bicycle in a navy blue suit.
What do they expect him to wear?

A pair of ratty shorts, a t-shirt, and smelly sneakers without socks?
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:39 PM
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30. See, there's "fitness riding" and "recreational riding"
And if he was out with his 6- and 9-year old daughters, I doubt Obama was doing the former.
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:40 PM
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31. jeans or terrorist trousers?
:tinfoilhat:
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:41 PM
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32. Obviously, Obama shows he is hopelessly out of date now
by not wearing riding shorts or pants. This really calls into question his thinking and if it is too far behind the times. How can he be the candidate of change if he's wearing jeans while bike riding, an idea from the 70s and 80s?

Next thing you know, he'll be playing football and wearing jeans instead of athletic pants, and pretty soon we'll have to question whether he's in league with the terrorists.
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woodsprite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:42 PM
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33. And *THIS* isn't a fashion faux-pas?
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/fashion-inc/2007/06/22/crocs-the-latest-trend-that-just-wont-die&h=300&w=372&sz=38&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=rbMANsnmfu4bjM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=122&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbush%2Bcrocs%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
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kcass1954 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:48 PM
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38. Are those "official" pResidential seal socks he's wearing?
What a fashion plate!?!?!
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 02:18 PM
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48. Official presidential Garanimals collection.
That way he can dress himself.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 02:08 PM
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43. Silly president--crocks are for kids! n/t
:rofl:
rocknation
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-10-08 11:56 PM
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51. They made fun of Clinton's legs when he was president
because they were big. Why does someone not comment that bushie looks like he has chichen legs in those shorts? Oh my gosh, how stupid can one man look at so many times in so many places?
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:42 PM
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34. are you serious? they actually busted on him for wearing jeans and....
...riding a bike?

is there any youtube video yet?
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:43 PM
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35. When the red phone rings at 3am...
does he have the judgment to know what to wear?
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:45 PM
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37. He also tucks in his SHIRT!!!111!!
Eletiest NURD!!!111111!!!


:grr:
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Goblinmonger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 01:50 PM
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40. Did he fall off and scrape his face
because THAT would be a major faux pas. Just sayin, Fox.
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truth2power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 02:05 PM
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41. Best post!!! ....Oh, and these people have too much time on their hands. eom
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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 02:06 PM
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42. Stop.Watching.That.Shit.
...you will only become dumber the longer you watch...
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 02:09 PM
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44. Let's see how many bicycles VietCong McCain crashes.
Edited on Mon Jun-09-08 02:13 PM by Swamp Rat
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_hopper_video.htm
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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 02:16 PM
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46. I would've been wearing shorts
It was hot out...what is wrong with him? He thinks he has the judgment to be President?
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-09-08 02:16 PM
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47. I can't wait for a picture of McSame tooling around on a three-wheeler.
You *know* he has one.

TRIKES ROOL!
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minnesota_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-10-08 10:42 PM
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49. Obama could outbike Griff Jenkins any day of the week
How funny to have a nerdy right-wing hack criticize Obama for looking nerdy.
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