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You Decide – Is This What a Feminist Looks Like?

July 10, 2009

by The New AgendacloseAuthor: The New Agenda Name: agenda
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Hat tip to JP for sharing this photo which was the most emailed photo on Yahoo yesterday:
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So guilty or not guilty?

Hat tip to Bella Donna for this video clip by ABC that seems to clear Obama:

You decide.

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  • Karen said:

    There are two or three other articles posted on WordPress. When are they going to be scheduled for the blog?

    July 10, 2009 at 4:05 pm
  • JeanLouise said:

    I think the jury is still out on this one. It doesn’t matter. We already know that Obama is a sexist. We don’t need any more evidence.

    July 10, 2009 at 4:12 pm
  • Amy Siskind said:

    Karen – your piece is going up first thing in the morning.

    July 10, 2009 at 5:28 pm
  • Bella Donna said:

    I’m a little bit out on it, but I thought that the “dudez” at ABC were very quick to defend him, while cracking up about the whole thing.

    It sounded like a frat party in the newsroom, if you ask me.

    July 10, 2009 at 5:49 pm
  • Kathy in CA said:

    To me, this does look like he is being a gentleman and helping a lady down the stair. I think GMA got it right THIS time.

    July 10, 2009 at 6:46 pm
  • bruce nahin said:

    Whenever Obama is caught on tape he offers another explanation. Remember his bow to the king of Saudi Arabia- no that was only a height discrepancy issue, this time he is looking at the stairs in front of him by looking to his side at the woman as she passes by. Clearly his head is turned and continues to turn as she walks by. If he was worrying about his footing he’d be looking at his feet or forward. Yep that Harvard Degree sure helped out here

    July 10, 2009 at 6:49 pm
  • anne said:

    Pretty funny clip.

    July 10, 2009 at 7:57 pm
  • Amy Siskind said:

    Looks innocent as charged to me.

    Shows how mischaracterized photos can make things.

    July 10, 2009 at 8:12 pm
  • mamabroad said:

    I cannot see how the video footage lines up with the photo. Sarkosy comes from the left when Obama is looking down but the photo shows them admiring from the right.

    July 10, 2009 at 8:18 pm
  • mamabroad said:

    So, to me, while the video looks totally innocent, it doesn’t prove anything.

    July 10, 2009 at 8:19 pm
  • goesh said:

    By the still, he is looking at her butt, by the video he is looking at the footing of the woman about to step down. I don’t like the guy and his politics and Liberalism but he is not so stupid to be in front of cameras as President of the USA and be staring at some woman’s butt. Foot fetish maybe? lol On the other hand, people look at each other…….don’t they?

    July 10, 2009 at 11:17 pm
  • Sis said:

    It isn’t that he got caught looking (watch the eyelids) but that they are so careful to defend him, protect him and lie for him. While they take gleeful part in the ravening of Palin just because she’s a woman.

    Has there been any pundit talking about how Obama promised the pope he would LIMIT ABORTIONS? Nothing? How can that be. Isn’t it the gravest of atrocities that Palin would do the same?

    July 11, 2009 at 2:20 am
  • Sis said:

    Balloon: “Here miss, let me help you help me.”

    July 11, 2009 at 2:22 am
  • donna darko said:

    Nice to see you here, Sis! They were both ogling her. Clearly.

    Matches his behavior with FOCA:

    Abortion Law ‘Not Highest Legislative Priority’ for Obama

    “The Freedom of Choice Act is not the highest legislative priority,” Obama told reporters at a prime time news conference marking his 100th day in office. “I believe that women should have the right to choose. But I think that the most important thing we can do to ramp down some of the anger surrounding this issue us to focus on those areas that we can agree on.

    That stance conflicts with a promise Obama made on the campaign trail.

    In July 2007, Obama told the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, “Well, the first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do.”

    July 11, 2009 at 3:47 am
  • Kiuku said:

    In the video he is looking at her butt. It is just quicker and less obvious than captured in the still. Just look at the other guy snickering and following Obama’s lead. He actually continues to stare at it. Sick

    July 11, 2009 at 7:31 am
  • bruce nahin said:

    Does the Freedom of Choice act” limit abortions”..Obama speaks out of both sides of his mouth depending on to whom he speaks- and both he and Sarkozy were ogling,if he was offering to help, it was just to stare more- sick- and the left feminists love him

    July 11, 2009 at 4:45 pm
  • Puma for Life said:

    Waiting to hear Letterman make a lewd joke about this….probably be waiting a long time or the lewd joke will be about the young woman.

    July 11, 2009 at 8:49 pm
  • Juliette said:

    How many Ivytards does it take to see that Obama’s eyes never re-directed to the woman he helped down the stairs. Only his hand went to her, whilw his eyes stayed on the 16 years old girls butt.
    Obama and Sarkozy should co-star in a Burger King commercial.

    July 12, 2009 at 12:40 am
  • Anian said:

    And what Michelle says?? If she cannot control her own home…I think remember that she said something like that, doesn’t she?

    July 12, 2009 at 4:00 pm

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