WTF? Stop digging. He’s holding an umbrella for god’s sake, and Valerie Jarrett puts her arm around him because they’ve known each forever and are dear friends. “Gestures” reserved only for the spouse? WTH?
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Keep reading. There’s more.
I am disgusted with TPM commenters.
All this talk about Obama being a gentleman and Obama being trustworthy.
Does nobody care that the picture shows Obama enslaving two white women with a government handout?
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It almost seems that you know of instances where this President has not kept intimacy in it’s proper context-- So, in alinement with Mombie’s request, please cite your examples –
?? I see, so the umbrella is really a phallic symbol, and the fact that the two ladies are standing under it really means they are worshiping his “thing”, so of course Michelle should be jealous…got it.
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Don’t forget patriarchal and setting women’s progress back 50 years.
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Just my observation over time, and too many to mention. It could be a cultural thing, but I do squirm watching all the touchy feely physical contact. Hugs, kisses all the time with other women, Feels too intimate to me. What’s left for the spouse. What separates the physical interaction with your spouse from all the others. I just don’t feel comfortable with it, and it’s hard for me to believe that Michelle Obama does. It’s not so much about jealousy, but about a unique intimacy reserved for a spouse, and respecting that special space.
“Patriarchal.” How did I forget that?
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There’s plenty that is left over for the spouse, but those moments are usually private so you shouldn’t know. I’d also caution against assuming someone else can’t be comfortable with something, because you have insecurity about it. Michelle trusts her husband. Not that being considerate is something you should have to clear with your significant other. Honestly I’d be more concerned with having a spouse so needy and insecure that even touching someone else drove them into a tizzy, wondering what was left over for them.
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Geez. I sure hope you don’t live in California.
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Yes, this is clearly a flagrant act of supplication.
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I think you summed it up when you said it might be a cultural thing.
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After reading you going on and on about this, I really can’t tell if you’re just a right wing concern troll or if you’re genuinely this insecure.
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How can that be possible - this sexist president?
And sexism. I bet he even calls them by their first names. How disrespectful
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Oh please, get a life.
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Again, it’s about respect and propriety not being needy and insecure, to expect my husband to not be so touchy feely with other women. I think many women would agree with me. When did shaking hands stop being sufficient.
Sexist asshole isn’t he? And so disrespectful, Just ask Elizabeth and Sherrod
You hit the nail on the head. He is the best most decent President that we have had in my lifetime and I have lived on this earth through 7 others
Gosh, I’m no troll. Several posters have asked me questions based on my original comment, and I responded. But enough already. It’s my culture and upbringing, and it’s okay. You have yours. So we’ll just leave it at that.