Discussion: Obama’s Wild Night Out In Denver Blasted As Bad Optics

system1 · July 9, 2014, 4:12pm

Discussion for article #224841

sooner · July 9, 2014, 5:15pm

Yah, it’s bad form for the President of these United States to be seen doing what most adult human beans do. Terrifyingly unnatural and it scares the beejeebus out of the rural folks and their chilluns.

We must look to Woodrow Wilson or Calvin Coolidge as examples of proper Presidential demeanor in these difficult times.

dr_coyote · July 9, 2014, 5:15pm

Laughable. They’re still flailing, trying to get some ginned-up mud to stick to him. If he was a GOP-er doing these same things, they’d talk approvingly about his “common touch” (hell, they did that with W’s brush-clearing and choking on pretzels, and W is a MORON).

What it’s really about is their toxic hatred for a black man who’s both smarter, more powerful, and more of a “regular guy” than they are.

I’d give five buck to see Mitch McConnell try to shoot pool.

ctvoter · July 9, 2014, 5:16pm

Dear Rep. Cuellar: let me be the first to tell you STFU.

When you start berating the Speaker for not voting on CIR as loudly as you are berating Obama, then maybe we can talk. Otherwise, take your stale “Katrina” comparisons and go home.

Also, pundits? Your reaction to this visit indicates just how deeply in a bubble you are. MOst people are simply going to laugh.

ctvoter · July 9, 2014, 5:17pm

Remember the whole “clinging to their guns and religion” comment? Obama was prescient.

austin_dave · July 9, 2014, 5:18pm

Very wrong. Great pictures. Haters gonna hate.

austin_dave · July 9, 2014, 5:22pm

RWNJs:

Obama is NOT ever allowed to act unilaterally on anything especially in our Uber-exceptional Red States because HITLER/DICTATOR!!
Why doesn’t Obama personally solve the border crisis in my precious Red State?

counter_coulter · July 9, 2014, 5:23pm

“This is great news…for John McCain!” - Mark Halperin (luminary of the “chatter class”)

sufi66 · July 9, 2014, 5:27pm

Consider the source …

sooner · July 9, 2014, 5:28pm

Pool? More likely he’d take that gun he was given and get with Jed Clampett to shoot some golfs!

rudesan · July 9, 2014, 5:29pm

Where were these idiots in 2002?
A day early for TBT, but here goes Bush staying the course:
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1872183_1872185_1872190,00.html

mcbain · July 9, 2014, 5:30pm

I bet Boehner drinks more in an afternoon than Obama drinks in a month.

littlegirlblue · July 9, 2014, 5:30pm

The pundits were all over the tube this a.m., confirming each other’s opinion that it “looked” terrible, POTUS with pool cue laughing, forgetting how bad it looked when a president was under desk looking for WMD. As to presidential demeanor we now know (too much) about Warren Harding and Jerry.

squirreltown · July 9, 2014, 5:31pm

Also he failed to call his pocket on that shot, clearly an impeachable offense.

estamm · July 9, 2014, 5:31pm

Nobody in real 'murka drinks beer and shoots pool.

beef_beal · July 9, 2014, 5:32pm

…And Benghazi or something!

runfastandwin · July 9, 2014, 5:35pm

Really Congressman? What the hell are you drinking, tequila? YOU ARE A DEMOCRAT! Not a wingnut. Sheesh.

Hairfarmer · July 9, 2014, 5:35pm

“Criticism came from the left as well. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)” CUELLAR is NOT ON THE LEFT - he is a RED DOG Bush lover with a D next to his name - Screw that traitor to his party and his race.

austin_dave · July 9, 2014, 5:36pm

Trouble right here in River City.

occamsrazor2 · July 9, 2014, 5:39pm

Pundit implys that someone is expert about the subject under discussion. Few, if any, media types are truly pundits. They should be more properly termed opiners, for that is what they offer.

For the group under discussion in this article, whiny opiners is an appropriate phrase, and it has the added advantage of internal rhyme.