Discussion: Obama 'I Won' Swipe At State Of The Union Angers Republicans

rhallnj · January 21, 2015, 12:00pm

Poor, sensitive little things. Always so ready to be irked.

poindexter · January 21, 2015, 12:34pm

So let me get this straight: You rudely applaud when the president says it’s his last campaign, implicitly saying you’ll be glad when he’s gone, and then you cry like beyotches when he turns your rudeness around around on you? As former Rep. Bachmannstein would say, that’s some real choots-paw.
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maxaroo · January 21, 2015, 12:42pm

“I’ve run my last campaign,” Obama said toward the end of the nationally televised address. Republicans in the chamber applauded derisively, which prompted the president to ad-lib a zinger which wasn’t in his prepared remarks: “I know because I won both of them.”

Not to rain on the parade, but his opponents were John McCain and Mitt Romney. It’s like being proud of beating the '62 Mets. That said, I’m glad Obama rubbed their faces in it. I’ve been waiting for six years for him to tell the GOP to shove it.

krusher · January 21, 2015, 12:52pm

Awww, did dere widdle fee-fees get hurt? Tsk, tsk. What a bunch of whiny-assed titty babies.

dickweed · January 21, 2015, 1:17pm

It was all ok when they made fun of him not going to be around after 2016 but when he threw it back in their face they get their panties in a wad. So typical…

cookie · January 21, 2015, 1:21pm

If you don’t want to be zinged, don’t heckle the guy with the mic.

bradbennett · January 21, 2015, 1:23pm

It’s the conservative way…

hellslittlestangel · January 21, 2015, 1:25pm

Fuck 'em if they can’t take a joke.

debbie · January 21, 2015, 1:31pm

Of course, the GOP doesn’t stop to think the president might not have gone with the ad lib if some of their members hadn’t applauded. As usual, what’s hurts the GOP is the GOP.

counter_coulter · January 21, 2015, 1:45pm

In typical bully fashion, you’ve got Republicans crying: “Waahhh! Quite fighting back!!”

victorabrahamsen · January 21, 2015, 2:26pm

Dear GOP,

Don’t start nothin’, won’t be nothin’.

Thanks.

desertdace · January 21, 2015, 2:45pm

This is why Republicans hate Obama so much – because the black man in the White House won’t tolerate their disrespect. How dare he?

us_resident · January 21, 2015, 2:49pm

Then he would fall off and the R’s would call everyone who laughed traitors.

scavok · January 21, 2015, 3:31pm

That swipe may not have been in the prepared remarks but I am sure it was planned from the outset in case Republicans decided to be asshats… um… themselves.

So what the Republicans are really upset about is not realizing that Obama’s speechwriters are smarter than they are.

halcyan · January 21, 2015, 3:41pm

Yet, dear Joni Ernst couldn’t help but repeatedly say, “The Republican Majority that YOU elected!” What are those crickets I hear in protest?

johnrm · January 21, 2015, 3:43pm

Wait a sec.breaks in education…taxes and health care are displays of anger…fucking really?

established_1781 · January 21, 2015, 3:54pm

So let me get this straight-

Republican partisans at a formal government event act out in a churlish, derisive manner and promptly get reminded of who is who in the chamber in the most public way possible. And now their feelings are hurt.

Simply amazing.

cincypix · January 21, 2015, 3:55pm

State dinners Boehner has attended during the Obama presidency: zero.

mombiethezombie · January 21, 2015, 4:14pm

Did the reporters ask the Republicans why they were so rude as to clap in the first place?

littlesky · January 21, 2015, 4:15pm

Why, underneath Tom Cole’s complaint, do I hear this subtext: “Now don’t go getting uppity, boy!”