The Cool POTUS

[n_huffhines]

What is cool? Classic liberal political discourse right here.

When Barack Obama appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon the other night, he walked on stage and gave Fallon a quick pound hug, that handshake/one-arm hug that we cool guys do these days to express a sentiment something like, "It is good to see you again, my friend; we know and like each other, but are not so intimate, nor have been apart so long, that a full two-arm hug is warranted." When I watched it, the first thought that came into my head was, "Mitt Romney has never done that with another man in his life." Which is fine, of course—Romney is 65 years old, and the pound hug really only came along only about 10 or 15 years or so ago. And let's face it, even if he was a lot younger, it's just not his style.

Mitt Romney is many things, but "cool" is not one of them. Barack Obama, on the other hand, is pretty cool.

So once again, we have to wage a campaign of the cool kids versus the squares. This all started in the 1960s, when people like Rove and Romney watched their contemporaries smoking grass, listening to music with electric guitars, and dancing wildly about with adventurous girls in sheer peasant blouses, and thought to themselves, "Gosh darn it, I hate those guys!"

Ironic since Obama has targeted marijuana prohibition more than any executive.

The Cool Kids Versus the Squares, Yet Again

[EvanStalcup1990]

Yeap according to billy, because he is so cool, he is gona vote for him. I guess its better excuse than not voting for him so other people can't call you a racists.

[Scotty's Flat Top]

Originally Posted by n_huffhines

What is cool? Classic liberal political discourse right here.



Ironic since Obama has targeted marijuana prohibition more than any executive.

The Cool Kids Versus the Squares, Yet Again

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[utvolpj]

President Obama is on Jimmy Fallon right now! I don't know much about his politics but he just seems so cool. Has to be the coolest President we have ever had. I'm a centrist but I'm pretty sure I'm going to vote for Obama this time because I mean he's going to win anyways and plus I want to be able to tell my African-American friends that I voted for him. I don't see how you can't like this guy! And he smokes which I still seriously find to be glamorous when powerful, good looking, or famous people do it.

[GoBigOrangeUT]

So much butthurt in this thread. It is wonderful.

[hohenfelsvol]

Originally Posted by utvolpj

President Obama is on Jimmy Fallon right now! I don't know much about his politics but he just seems so cool. Has to be the coolest President we have ever had. I'm a centrist but I'm pretty sure I'm going to vote for Obama this time because I mean he's going to win anyways and plus I want to be able to tell my African-American friends that I voted for him. I don't see how you can't like this guy! And he smokes which I still seriously find to be glamorous when powerful, good looking, or famous people do it.

Is that you Billy C?

[n_huffhines]

Originally Posted by GoBigOrangeUT

So much butthurt in this thread. It is wonderful.

You get pleasure out of that?

[GoBigOrangeUT]

Originally Posted by n_huffhines

You get pleasure out of that?

I get pleasure out of conservatives squirming at the notion of Obama actually appealing to people. Do I personally think his slow jam on Fallon makes him the best POTUS ever? Of course not. But you guys take one persons opinion of it and get bent out of shape. That makes me laugh.

[Nerd-Vol]

Originally Posted by GoBigOrangeUT

I get pleasure out of conservatives squirming at the notion of Obama actually appealing to people. Do I personally think his slow jam on Fallon makes him the best POTUS ever? Of course not. But you guys take one persons opinion of it and get bent out of shape. That makes me laugh.

Why haven't I met you before?

[n_huffhines]

Originally Posted by GoBigOrangeUT

I get pleasure out of conservatives squirming at the notion of Obama actually appealing to people. Do I personally think his slow jam on Fallon makes him the best POTUS ever? Of course not. But you guys take one persons opinion of it and get bent out of shape. That makes me laugh.

It's the same reason you get bent out of shape when you think Rush, or Palin says something ignorant. It's because what they say is indicative of a voting population that doesn't care about stuff that matters.

I'm not a conservative. I'm somebody who thinks the POTUS is not cool, specifically because he's taken over conservatives' idiotic war on drugs.

[volinbham]

whole issue is trivial - cool; not cool who the hell cares when it comes to running the country.

[T-TownVol]

Originally Posted by volinbham

whole issue is trivial - cool; not cool who the hell cares when it comes to running the country.

Billy C

[dreVol]

how is he going to explain to his daughters that he appeared on a show whose band played an antagonistic and misogynistic song directed at Michelle Bachman when she was a guest?

I thought he was concerned about civility in discourse when talking about women.

[T-TownVol]

Originally Posted by dreVol

how is he going to explain to his daughters that he appeared on a show whose band played an antagonistic and misogynistic song directed at Michelle Bachman when she was a guest?

I thought he was concerned about civility in discourse when talking about women.

only when he is in front of us geezers

[golfballs]

I don't know what people are smoking. Obama is definitely not cool.

Hes a huge nerd, IMO