by Damozel | Hee. Apparently Hawaii is an elitist place to vacation, even if your grandmother lives there and you want to visit your grandmother. (Crooks and Liars) He should have gone instead to someplace down market like Myrtle Beach---a place I know well and which I can attest is indeed a fun-filled down-market paradise---even though his grandmother doesn't live there.
Who cares where Obama goes on vacation except for the wanking elites? Are they bothered by the fact that McCain takes off every weekend and goes to one of his eight homes? Of course that’s not elitist at all, is it, Cokie? (John Amato)
I know one thing. This photo of him.is hott..
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Family Unity is so cool, isn’t it? I mean all of us visit grandma every decade or so without the wife and kids, right? After all, why would any grandma want to see her own great-grandchildren and her grandson’s wife? It’s just not done, right? There’s no family dysfunction going on here at all, nothing to see here folks. It’s all Perfectly Normal. I haven’t seen this reported in the MSM. His special press corps must be surfing or something.
Obama — escorted by Secret Service and accompanied by a few campaign staff and a pool of reporters and camera crews — arrived at about 4:10 p.m. yesterday and spent an hour with his 85-year-old maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who helped raise him. He was not accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and two daughters.
I guess he didn’t want to leave his signature anywhere either.
One woman who lives in the building had two books authored by Obama in hand and watched as the elevator doors closed. She waited patiently outside the elevator.
She was refused.
Posted by: Danny | August 11, 2008 at 11:43 AM
BTW - who're are you trying to kid?! That photo is not and I repeat NOT HOT. But I guess you are intitled to your opinion even though you have horrible taste in what is hot and not hot.
This is HOT!
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lenny-kravitz.org/images/lenny-kravits-12.jpg&imgrefurl=http://lenny-kravitz.org/pic-400-lenny-kravitz-song.aspx&h=600&w=380&sz=36&hl=en&start=71&tbnid=IVY0kYTK2TBJPM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=86&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkravits%26start%3D60%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
THIS GUY IS NOT HOT! HE IS GROSSLY A SMOKER. AND CAN'T SPEAK WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER
http://www.reason.com/UserFiles/Image/jsullum/obama_smoking.png
Posted by: Danny | August 11, 2008 at 11:53 AM
Sorry, Danny, I just don't see what you're getting at. Yes, it IS perfectly understandable that he visited his grandmother. It's quite possible that she wanted to see him alone.
It's quite possible that his family is dysfunctional. So? Whose isn't?
I'm afraid I don't feel inclined to rely on the allegations of Obama's increasingly deranged bug-eyed opponents concerning his intentions. But if I DID, it still doesn't bother me.
And of course everyone has different ideas about who is or is not hot. Whether Obama is good-looking or not is a question on which reasonable people can disagree. I like his ears. And I don't see what his being a smoker has to do with it.
Your mileage may vary.
Posted by: Damozel | August 11, 2008 at 11:24 PM