Have you seen more of the tape from that speech? He touches his cheek a dozen times or so. Yet the focus is on this one particular time.

This is like Wright. The man has given by some estimates over 3000 hours of sermons, yet all anyone ever sees are 30 seconds. That’s like judging your entire life based upon less than one particular hour.

Obama touched his cheek repeatedly, sometimes with one finger, sometimes with more. You’re seeing what you want to see because to want a reason to dislike him and you’re too dishonest or lazy to come up with something legitimate.

Well THERE’S yer problem. You watch the evening news.

Stop it. Just stop it, all of you.

Oh, did anyone happen to notice that the President approves of torture and admitted it to ABC earlier this week? No? Anybody?

Too busy checking to make sure the Obamas recycle. Enough. Or too much.

Why shouldn’t the Obama staff assemble a panel of progressive bloggers (including our own host!), tape a Q-and-A session and post it up on the web?

Maybe then we wouldn’t have to suffer through “Do you believe in the flag?” nonsense.

But this is what the Democratic primary has become. For a long time, Hillary was on the receiving end of this type treatment, but to my bitter disappointment, many progressives were cheering as long as this type of silliness was going only to Hillary Clinton. I hope they now see how destructive this could be.

I wish people on our side have listened to Bob Somerby and to Eric Boehlert from the beginning.

I think he was scratching his face, something he had been doing earlier with his pinky. I think it is arguable to the dogwhistlers that the proof he was flipping the bird is in the reaction of the attendees.

Detecting dogwhistles is a stupid game for everyone to be playing.

On the other hand, I don’t know who Liz is, and I don’t know what her problem is, but I think her statements on this “event” are the racist ones, not Obamas, Clintons, or the pundits.

A brother cannot have class at all. That’s basically what these people are saying. How can he take it and throw it back at them with the class, intelligence and snark they only attribute to their own whiteness? How can this negro be a thug without being a nigger? How can he brush it off and still look damn fucking good doing it.

Their racist little minds just don’t get it.

That’s just stupid race card playing that has nothing to do with anything the LA Times or the Chicago Tribune wrote.

Obama, on the other hand, “clearly” “intentionally” “flipped Clinton off” and it can “obviously” be seen that “knew EXACTLY what he was doing”.

At least, that’s what I’m seeing on the blog comments. So it must be true.

It’s that everyone is going batshit insane over this election.