Barack Obama Rodeo Clown "Disrespectful," Says Missouri Lt. Governor

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A rodeo clown donning a Barack Obama mask at the state fair in Missouri caused a bit of a fuss.

From the AP:

A clown wearing a President Obama mask appeared at a Missouri State Fair rodeo this weekend and the announcer asked the enthusiastic spectators if they wanted to see "Obama run down by a bull."

The antics led the state's second highest-ranking official, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, to denounce the performance in a tweet Sunday. He said it was "disrespectful" to the president.

It's disrespectful, which is not a word you'd use to describe, say, the president airlifting his dog to join him on vacation while claiming reductions in spending growth would cripple the country. Respect the office!

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Comments

[Andrew S.]

I agree. How dare they disparage rodeo clowns like that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Imagine how the bull felt when he saw it was just a mask.

[creech]

The mask should have been worn by the guy who goes around the ring shoveling up the bull and horseshit.

[Finrod]

We have a winner.

[Alan Vanneman]

Your "airlift" gibe pretends that the President had a helicopter tasked to carry "Bo" all by himself. If you bother to look at the picture, you'll see that Bo made the trip with a lot of other luggage, plus a few human beings. Considering that Obama is, basically, a war criminal, whining about the fact that the damn dog got a ride on a helicopter is pretty lame.

[wareagle]

funny how I never hear of leftards who still clamor for trials of Bush and his administration including Obama on the list of defendants. Why is that?

[Jeff]

To his credit, the ultimate leftard Bill Ayers wants Obama tried as a war criminal.

[Neoliberal Kochtopus]

I'll agree if Ayers goes first.

[Apatheist ?_??]

He could have put the dog in a kennel like the rest of us.

[Ed]

Or on top of the car? 😮

[Live Free or Diet]

Oh, just tie his leash to the bumper. He could use the exercise. Americans never walk anymore.

[Brett L]

"Poor little fella. He probably kept up for a mile or two."

[Francisco d Anconia]

"I'll head on back to clean up the remains."

[Knarf Yenrab (prev. An0nB0t)]

Hey guys, I don't know if you've heard, but this Alan guy has a blog, and he'd really like it if you guys visit it. Just this once, and be sure to disable your adblock while you're there.

Oh, and he really thinks you should only talk about the things that he thinks are important and shouldn't ever treat politics like it's some sort of pathetic comedy rather than the super-serious drama that it really is.

[Apatheist ?_??]

You spelled his name wrong.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

It's spelled D I C K H O L E.

[Knarf Yenrab (prev. An0nB0t)]

I have yet to encounter even a single anus I would defile by comparing it to Alan.

[Neoliberal Kochtopus]

You are the worst character ever, Alan Vanneman.

[Mike M.]

"Not one dime left to cut."

[R C Dean]

This, of course, begs the question of why the taxpayers should be funding the helicopter airlift of any luggage or extraneous personnel.

A normal family could probably get their luggage, including the mutt if they insist, on whatever hauls them out to their vacation. If not, time to do some prioritizing.

[Silly ol' Bear]

What IDIOT leaves the family pet behind on a vacation if they want it to come along? Oops, silly me, I forgot to pack the dog! NEXT. Don't think I ever packed a dog on a helicopter to visit me at my vacation house. I tend to take it in the car with me. Of course, that's logic, of which the prez is sorely lacking. You NEVER leave an animal behind if you love it unless it is impossible to take and then you make sure it is well taken care of by others. The president? What a maroon!

[Hyperion]

It's about time for Shreek to show up to defend the air lifting of the royal pooch.

But, I see he's been beaten to his own job.

[kinnath]

. . . the president airlifting his dog to join him on vacation while claiming reductions in spending growth would cripple the country.

Man, I so miss tricky Dick at this point. They could dig up is rotting corpse and put it it a chair behind the desk in the oval office, and I would respect it more that Barry.

[Andrew S.]

Nixon won't be President again until the year 3000. Maybe we could dig up Eisenhower instead.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!"

[Francisco d Anconia]

The idiots at CNN are going ape-shit over racist rednecks.

God, I am fucking sick to death of race baiting.

[Hyperion]

They have to do something to deflect attention from the embarrassment that is their messiah.

It's all they have.

They're all just pining for their new and improved messiah, the Hildebeast, now. Until then, embarrassment deflection is their full time job.

[Brandon]

Like it won't be a full time job under Hillary "Look how much we let you keep!" Clinton?

[some guy]

I can't remember, but did they think it was racist when some other rodeo put out a dummy wearing a Bush mask? I'm sure they did, because they are models are consistency.

[Francisco d Anconia]

It's only racist to poke fun of black presidents.

[DesigNate]

Silly some guy, you can't be racist against white people. Especially white people that went to Yale and Harvard.

[a better weapon]

It's obviously racism.

No president was ever mocked with mass-produced caricature masks before Barack Obama. Not once.

[Silly ol' Bear]

Ummm, let me think. Nixon, Clinton, Bush, Carter...nawww...never...I REALLY suggest you do a bit of research before making asinine comments.

[pmains]

SoB is quite the detective.

[Mike M.]

If his approval ratings keep heading for the toilet the way they have been lately, you're going to hear the racism shit more and more. It's the only thing these motherfuckers have left.

[Knarf Yenrab (prev. An0nB0t)]

GR continues to remind us that the worse things get for BHO in his lame-duck, legacy-killing second term (is there any other kind?), the blacker he's going to get.

At this rate, we'll have Al Sharpton in office come midterms.

[ThatSkepticGuy]

"It's the only thing these motherfuckers have left."

"Have left" implies that there was once a point in time where they didn't have to hide behind deflections of baseless racism accusations.

[Finrod]

It's so ingrained in them that they do it even when they don't need to.

[Loki]

But this happened in Mizzurah, MIZZURAH!!! And at a rodeo no less. The only people who ever go to rodeos in MIZZURAH!!!! are racist, ingnorant, redneck bitter clingers. /elitist left-tard douche

[The Late P Brooks]

But what if the dog had to take a shit? You cannot expect His Excellency and His court, astride Unicorn One, to be subjected to the all-too-earthly stink of dog poop. Let the Marines sacrifice for their liege lord.

[Spoonman.]

Did this guy bristle at the

F
The President

stickers in 2004? Because those were disrespectful, but they sure were funny.

(Apparently those weren't such a big deal in places where there weren't so many W The President stickers as in Dallas.)

[Neoliberal Kochtopus]

No, but he did embarrassingly harass a stripper in an (unrequited) love quest:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/l.....32a84.html

[Spoonman.]

Internet wins!

[SugarFree]

My favorite part is how he wandered into a "pantless" bar by mistake and just happened to run into the stripper he harassed years before.

Oh, shit... That's the storyline of "Tangled Up In Blue"!

[Brett L]

Firings will continue until morale improves.

[Brett L]

Whoops. Wrong thread.

[some guy]

Yeah, getting fired definitely does not apply to anything in government.

[wareagle]

yet a movie depicting the fictional assassination of Bush was hailed as art.

[ThatSkepticGuy]

What movie was this?

[Careless]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/

[The Late P Brooks]

Considering that Obama is, basically, a war criminal, whining about the fact that the damn dog got a ride on a helicopter is pretty lame.

Didn't we get enough "Stop othering my priorities!" whining yesterday?

[pmains]

Thank you. Laundry Listing is the most tedious of fallacies. "Why are we talking about X when we should be talking about Y?" Because the internet is a big place, and not every article can be about your favorite hobby horse.

[Mad Scientist]

We can't have clowns running around pointing out that the president is a clown!

[kinnath]

No fighting in the War Room

[kinnath]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/beh.....books.html

So where is SugarFree?

[PRX]

they make me feel like Dennis Green. they are who we thought they were.

[SugarFree]

"The cocks within me were so rigid now, silk on steel. I knew it wouldn't be long, and when the first tug of a blissful orgasm captured my clit and G-spot I claimed it. 'Ah, yes, yes,' I cried, trying to move but unable to. I was completely wrapped in male muscle, in me and around me, holding me viselike. I was there. My orgasm erupted and through my dreamy, ecstatic haze I realized Liam was about to join me in climax. 'Oh, fuck yes,' Liam shouted in a desperate, snapping voice. 'Fuck, go for it, Quinn. Faster. Fuck her faster.' Immediately Quinn shoved forward, catapulting my pussy and anus into a free fall of pleasure that came in great waves of sublime crescendos. His powerful hips rammed against my butt, over and over, harder and harder. Liam spurted into me, groaning and writhing, his hands gripping at my body as my innards spasmed and convulsed."

[SugarFree]

The cocks within me were so rigid now, silk on steel.

Shouldn't that be "Steel on silk" or "in silk." Is her vagina made of metal?

I knew it wouldn't be long, and when the first tug of a blissful orgasm captured my clit and G-spot I claimed it.

You claimed something that captured a part of you? OK.

I was there.

I should hope so.

My orgasm erupted and through my dreamy, ecstatic haze I realized Liam was about to join me in climax.

Well, he didn't. He didn't ejaculate until three sentences later.

catapulting my pussy and anus into a free fall of pleasure that came in great waves of sublime crescendos

Are you in free fall or are there waves? Were you catapulted into the ocean? Also, "vagina and anus" or "pussy and ass," mixing the crude and the clinical rarely works in a single image.

his hands gripping at my body as my innards spasmed and convulsed

Not a sexy word. Not at all.

[Loki]

Why am I not surprised that they're all fat and/ or fugly ass bitches that no one in their right mind would fuck with a ten foot pole. No matter how much they write about it.

[PRX]

Obama probably thinks he could ride Bushwhacker

[Bardas Phocas]

From the article:
"It wasn't clear if any action will be taken against the performers."

How about sending them to the special camps where the Kulaks and wreckers and other heritics are re-educated?

Also: Mad Magazine, you're on the list, you racist bastards.
http://www.madmagazine.com/blo.....vacy-cover

[kinnath]

I need a poster-sized copy of that cover.

[Finrod]

Ditto that.

[Outlaw]

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/20.....tate-fair/

[Anonymous Coward]

The antics led the state's second highest-ranking official, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, to denounce the performance in a tweet Sunday. He said it was "disrespectful" to the president.

Kinder has a sad that the peasants have committed lese majeste against their king.

[Boomer]

So, a few idiots decided to show their asses at a rodeo this weekend at the Missouri State Fair. Then a couple of politicians decided they could do better:

"Missouri is better than this, and I expect someone to be held accountable."

Senator Claire McCaskill

"I implore @GovJayNixon to hold the people responsible for the other night accountable."

Lt. Gov. Pete Kinder

Why are representatives of the government--people sworn to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution--demanding someone be "held accountable" for exercising a freedom supposedly protected by the document they've sworn to uphold and defend?

[?J?? de ?guila]

How about some prison terms for those "responsible"?

Would that satisfy your lust for "accountability", Claire and Petey?

More evidence of Ugly Nazi Swinery in High Places.

[Aresen]

a) Yes it was disrespectful. Disrespect is an American Art form.

b) Seeing the Lt. Gov. make a fuss about this, I wonder how long before lese majeste becomes a crime in the US.

[?J?? de ?guila]

AG Holder will consult CIA Brennan about this matter.

[Corning]

if the clown had worn a Reagan mask would anyone even blink an eye?

[?J?? de ?guila]

Thank you Lt Guv Kinder for bringing this to the attention of the world. HA HA HA HA "OBOZO The Fucking Rodeo Clown"