Why are umbrellas such a big deal today?

[MrScorpio]

I have to admit that I haven't turned my TV on because it's my show day and I've been too busy doing show stuff.

But isn't it fucking ridiculous that the entire world is going ape because of the President's interaction with a god damned umbrella?

This is the ONLY post that I'm doing about this shit, because I'm afraid that anymore attention to it will dumb down our freaking IQs.

Doesn't America have to end a war or close some overseas prisons or some such shit?

I'm testy because I've been up all night and I'm still working on this thing.

Forgive me if this post is too much.

[winter is coming]

1. Umbrellas are big because you can spend only so much time discussing guns and pit bulls.

[JI7]

2. their problem is that it's Obama and others who look like him

who should be holding the umbrella for certain people.

[derby378]

3. I'm in the same boat - but Sarah Palin is apparently to blame

Other than that, I have no real interest in pursuing it. It's all just more "Get Obama."

[Tx4obama]

9. See the links in Comment #8

[zerosumgame0005]

4. Just today's

"SQUIRREL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" to the repthugs

[RevStPatrick]

5. From what I gathered from a wing-nut on Facebook...

Male Marines are not allowed to ever hold an umbrella.
Female Marines can, but not males.

Obama should not have asked the Marine to hold the umbrella for him, and/or the Marine should have refused. Or something. Benghazi!

[Trajan]

6. During the President's recent news conference ...

Two Marines who were part of the President's White House retinue were called upon to hold umbrellas over the President while he spoke ...

Like everything else, the GOP see this as just another scandal ...

[CBGLuthier]

7. Yes, of course it is fucking ridiculous.

Just think we only have about three more years of this shit to look forward to. Someday history may laugh at these fools but for now it sure is a slog wading through the bottomless hate.

[BlueStreak]

12. Is Sarah dying in three years? I missed that news.

Because as long as that woman is alive, she will be talking crazy.

[Tx4obama]

8. See the links below

Obama breaches Marine umbrella protocol
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/obama-breaches-marine-umbrella-protocol/

Sarah Palin used the umbrella issue today for the beginning and end of her facebook post, below
Here: https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10151616666133588

And here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022855447

and Comment #23, here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022855378#post23

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Because the average republican doesn't know how one works

That's my theory.

[krispos42]

11. Wait wait wait wait wait...

...so THIS is the latest ginned-up outrage?