President Obama carried out his annual YouTube interview on Friday and revealed what he carried around with him each and every day inside his pockets. While normally what’s in a person’s pockets might be self-explanatory (i.e.,. phone, wallet, etc.) the president is no ordinary person. And the items he carries around aren’t ordinary, either. There’s also an in-depth explanation for each one of them.
Here’s Obama in his own words:
“I stick these in my pocket to remind me of all the people I’ve met along the way and the stories they’ve told me. So, this is what I had in my pocket today: this is rosary beads Pope Francis gave me that obviously means alot to me cause I so admire him and it makes me think about peace and promoting understanding and ethical behavior. This is a little Buddha that a Buddhist monk gave me. This is a lucky poker chip that’s metal that this biker gave me. This is a Hindu statuette of the monkey God Hanuman that a woman gave me. And, I’ve got a coptic cross; this is from Ethipia. So, I’ve got a whole bunch of this stuff but the reason I showed you these is because I carry them around all the time.”
Now take note that the very first thing that the President showed the interviewer was a rosary given to him by Pope Francis, and the last thing was a Coptic cross.
However nobody cares about that, or the poker chip, what gets the attention of the Right Wing is the little monkey statue. Because to them that is that proves what they have suspected all along.
I love that man. Fuck you GOP.
ReplyDeleteHe is the COOLEST EVER!!
DeleteThe GOP? Fuck ALL of them up the A$$. Regardless if they like it or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-D1g_m2ryU
Delete*sigh*
AHA! So the "secret Muslim" thing was just a ruse to hide the fact that he's really a secret Hindu!!!!1! INPEECH!!!1!!1!eleven
DeleteSeriously though, I'm actually surprised the GOP isn't subpoenaing the President's pocket lint to see if they can link it to Benghazi...
Good thing he didn't mention the mini Koran !
ReplyDelete@2:13 PM Good thing that you are too stupid to comment here. The Palins carry a mini Bible that has never been opened. Good thing that Bristol doesn't carry a mini Virgin Mary statue
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DeleteGood thing that you are too stupid to recognize sarcasm here.
He's done worrying about them, it's plain. Cruise right on to the finish line, saying and doing as he pleases. And he's earned it.
ReplyDeleteBarack lost considerable momentum that first year reaching out for compromise and bipartisanship with the GOP, and that's understandable, given what an optimistic guy he is at heart. Hillz won't play that shit; even if she hadn't witnessed what lack of good it did for Obama, she already knows better.
President Obama doesn't have to run for office again and has nothing to lose from here on out. He knows he has the support of the majority of Americans in his decision making.
DeleteHe also is aware of the fact most Americans dislike Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. And, he knows he has nothing to worry about from either of them.
Kick them in their white asses, President Obama! The majority of 'mixed' Americans (and white ones!) will enjoy watching.
Hanuman basically stands for altruism. So of course any self respecting, ahem, I mean selfish repuglican wouldn't know the symbolism of the monkey god.
ReplyDeleteemeryg, thank you. I didn't know that. I'd be unlikely to carry it in my pocket due to ignorance more than worries about being a Christian. I think all of the things in Mr. Obama's pocket speak of his love for people.
DeleteElizabeth 44
I would carry Ganesh because I like elephants. Have no idea what he stands for.
DeleteWell, those items are definitely better than wadded up tissues, lint, an empty condom wrapper and a tin of Copenhagen.
ReplyDeleteBless him, he can eat crackers in my bed any time. That's just a figure of speech, Michelle, you lucky woman.
Intelligence, compassion and a great sense of humor...what a combination!
DeleteOh yeah, he can sing AND dance too!
Plus, pretty darn handsome!Not that I'm shallow or anything.
DeleteJennifer K
Conservatives are so dumb that they don't realize that the Hindu religion is a completely different religion than Muslim. What idiots.
ReplyDeleteBut it is practiced by brown people so that's all they need to know.
DeleteR-wingers really are nothing more than ignorant and frightened little children.
ReplyDeleteAt least with children there is hope that they may become educated and mature at some point.
DeleteNo such hope for right wingers.
I love and totally respect President Obama. He must just shake his head at the idiocy of the Republican party - especially those running in the clown car.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump and Ted Cruz are horrid representatives of their party and due to their party not being able to stop them - their party is in shambles.
Trump is an idiot - a bully - an egomaniac - anti blacks and other minorities - has no clue about government and how it works - is not prepared to run for the office of POTUS much less be elected, serve and represent America!
It says so more about the person objecting to items in your President's pockets, than it does about the man carrying them. What a man he is; I'd write off your gun-obsessed, religious terrorist country if it were not for him.
ReplyDeleteHe represents the best side of Americans; you are blessed to have him represent your country. I pray to all the gods that the people who love him and what he stands for will prevail in November, to carry on his work.
The world is watching what you do. Your democracy is at stake.
@2:55 -- Absolutely correct! Thanks for expressing what I feel.
DeleteIt's a damn shame he did whip out his Real Donald Trump Voodoo Doll. All kidding aside, I'm a non believer and my house and garden hold objects that reflect a lot of religious symbolism. And no one blows a fuse, nor finds an ulterior motive. They're just symbols, no better nor worse than "In God We Trust" on our money, and we all know where some of that ends up.....in peoples nostrils, g strings and for "services rendered" etc. etc. It's the dirtiest stuff on earth.
ReplyDeleteThese trinkets mean something to him because of the memories they hold, not because he's a coptic christian or polytheistic believer.
I found it ironic the interviewer had a tchachke-gasm over a metal poker chip.
They also mean something to him because of the people who gave them to him.
DeleteI think its a shame they keep letting all of these conservatives on twitter marry their siblings.
ReplyDeleteI asked Todd to empty his pockets on night after he came home late from Anchorage! You wouldn't believe what I found it! Unflippinbelievable the whole thing!
ReplyDeleteLet me guess, a wash cloth and a condom?
DeleteHey Tawd have you been hanging out with hookers again?
Perhaps work on your girly voice, Tawd. If experts can keep your "wife's" face young, they can certainly take yours down a few notches. Postage.
DeleteThree - two - one. Cue the Palin crazy ladies, one or both of them.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think it's neat that President Obama carries such pieces in his pocket. And he remembers where they came from. What a super human being our president is! I also thought the little interview was neat.
Beaglemom
And that he keeps all the items given him in a big bowl. Can you imagine any GOP candidate doing that? I suspect they have disdain for those who support them. Palin surely thinks of her "supporters" as chumps -- which they are.
DeleteAs a poster-child Narcissist, Sarah, would you agree you have no empathy?
We have the very best POTUS!
ReplyDeleteo/t
ReplyDeleteposted at end of last Palin thread, but I'm gobsmacked.
Tristan?
https://goo.gl/9vaaKM
Ben Barber baby daddy?
http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/941-bristol-palins-ex-boyfriend-speaks-out
Sorry, but the first link says the content is unavailable. Can you share what it is?
DeleteWow they do look related!!! Is the timing right?
DeleteSomeone keeps trying to post Facebook screen captures that don't work unless you are friends with the Facebook person.
DeleteThat being said, they posted like 7 photos earlier today, not sure if on this thread, but the two I could look at one was Trig and the other was Kayla, Track's kid. None was an unidentified 5 -year old. If there is a Tri-Stan, then they've kept her under the radar and hidden from photos for nearly her entire 5 years of life. I don't think any Palins are smart or careful enough to do that. Barstool did appear preggers on DWTS and in Haiti afterwards, but that baby must to have been farmed out to another family somewhere because Palins can't stop photographing everything they do in their lives and that baby would have shown up somewhere.
What a humble wonderful man.
ReplyDeleteIt reminded me of the song "What a Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1bVMW2XVNI
One thing we know Bristol would never pull from her pocket is a condom.
ReplyDeleteShe'd pull out a bullet but never a condom.
Pathetic.
Or a diaphragm.
DeleteLook, it's a given that anything, ANYTHING, president Obama does will be attacked by Republican ankle-biters. He could cure cancer, achieve world peace, invent a power source that reverses Climate Change, and Republicans would complain that he took too long to do it.
ReplyDeleteI am beginning to seriously doubt that Republicans are our friends -- at least not those of us who are not in the wealthy 2% class of this nation.
Seriously, the Capitol bldg could be on fire and Obama could save every single Repub by carrying him/her out one by one, and they'd still not give him any credit.
DeleteYou guys are right, it's that bad with them. How sick are these people? Wow.
DeleteYou would think as adults they could disagree with his politics, but still respect the person and the office of the president.
DeleteBut no, they act like undisciplined children and sore losers.
Meanwhile, $carah carries the first dollar she ever stole, a condom with a hole in it (in case Brissie runs out) and a baggie with a rainbow assortment of pills in it.
ReplyDeleteAny talk of pockets always reminds me of that South Park episode with Butters who is dancing tap to the song "I've got something in my front pocket for you...why don't you reach in there and see what it is".
ReplyDelete:-)
Didn't Milton Berle or another comedian of that era get taken off tv for a similar 'something in my pocket' joke?
DeleteI've got a hole in me pocket.
DeleteJust a side note - I am not "religious," but it's interesting to know that Buddhism rates as the finest and most spiritual form of organized religion on the planet. Why? Because it holds no place in it for violence. Think of a day when the world and Christians would be beyond violence.
ReplyDeleteThey are assholes. Pure and simple. Assholes. Inredeemable.
ReplyDeleteTodd carries around a pocketful of condoms, Track carries around a stash of drugs, and Bristol carries around a phone list of Trial Daddies.
ReplyDeleteDidya ever leave some of those copper brillo pads in your pockets when the help did the laundry? Talk about a mess! Then when those lithium batteries are in the dryer with the brillo bits and some lint, it's like a libtard meltdown!
ReplyDeleteIn response to Julz' tweet. No, what a"Christian" in the RWNJ sense would carry is a pocketful of hate, a whole lot of paranoia, some sort of lethal thing, and arrogance and hubris.
ReplyDeleteC4P is thatta way, $carah------------>And no, most progressive liberals are smart enough to check our pockets first, and we put the batteries where they belong, in the device they were bought for. You RWNJ's, not so much. Look where you put your bullets (in yourself or family members) and your semen (in people not your wives, even though you proclaim that is the place for it.) And we won't even begin to describe all the places you leave your stupid.
ReplyDeleteRepublican men should carry sugar-free mint gum on them at all times. They have the worst dental hygiene and breath. But it would never occur to them to worry about how foul smelling they are--they are completely clueless as to various aspects of their hygiene and etiquette that make them such a turnoff.
ReplyDeleteLOL. So true.
DeleteStereotypes are bad. You also don't see a lot of people.
DeleteJeb! carries a fetus Jesus and a pocketful of turtles.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it kind of bugs me that I will be dead and buried and not able to read impartial biographies that will undoubtedly be written about this President for generations to come. I know he's doing a lot for us. I know he's not doing as much as he would like but I also know that Mitch McConnell came out of a meeting of Repugnant leadership and said that the most important thing they could do was make sure he'll be a one-term President. He's had uphill work getting anything done... and I did email the President and ask him to issue an executive order banning the eating of yellow snow, but I never heard back. I can still dream, right?
ReplyDeleteTake comfort in knowing that brief, impartial and highly critical biographies of Mitch "It's Turtles All The Way Down" McConnell will be written long before you're gone.
DeleteIt must just drive Rethuglicans nutz when people continue to admire and support this president. I often wonder if they don't get tired with all the effort they expend in hating. It must be exhausting.
ReplyDeleteI wish he was just a plain old intelligent-minded Atheist, but he can't be, even if he is, in his heart, he has to pander to the lowest common denominator, even as a Democrat, he still has to engage in that offensive day of prayer breakfast and entertain all those televangelist types.
ReplyDeleteMakes me sick, but the smartest person in the world can't be elected to US office unless they at least pretend to be a braindead religious person.
The smarted person would never run for president.
DeleteI think he's probably pretty atheist. I doubt his family attends church aside from special occasions. Most don't. I think for him, the Rev's church was about associations.
DeleteI think that the Obamas are a traditional main-stream Christian family. Over the years there have been lots of photos of the family walking to church on Sunday mornings. Obviously, they are not fundamentalist, in-your-face religionists for which I am extremely grateful.
DeleteBeaglemom
Hindoo Monkey God? That proves it! He IS a secret Muslin, just like (enter name of crazy conservative person) said he is!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't speak naturally. I think for once he's being sincere here, but his manner of speaking is contrived.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama speaks the way a person with a good education would speak. The care with which he chooses his words hints at his legal education and at his awareness of how the press is so ready to pounce on anything that might be ever so slightly off-kilter. It must be difficult always knowing that you have to second guess your own words.
DeleteBeaglemom
President Obama speaks the way a person with a good education would speak. The care with which he chooses his words hints at his legal education and at his awareness of how the press is so ready to pounce on anything that might be ever so slightly off-kilter. It must be difficult always knowing that you have to second guess your own words.
DeleteBeaglemom
LOL.
ReplyDeleteI think they were angry he didn't have anything Islamic in his pockets. The closest thing they could attack was the Hindu Monkey god.