Women 'falling for Obama'

[jefferson_dem]

Women 'falling for Obama'
12/02/2008 12:02 - (SA)

College Park, Maryland - You can see it in their flushed-face smiles and hear it in their screams. They say the phenomenon is difficult to describe, but once they experience it they tell their friends, sisters, mothers and daughters, and they come back for more if they can.

"He's very charismatic. It was a 'you-had-to-be-there' kind of experience," said Lolita Breckenridge, 37, after hearing Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama address a packed rally at the University of Maryland on Monday.

A dedicated supporter, she brought two of her friends to hear the Illinois senator deliver one of his much-talked-about speeches.

"Not too much of the speech was new to me," she admitted. "But hearing him live..." she trailed off, shaking her head and grinning.

When Obama addressed the crowd of 16 000 on the eve of primaries which he is tipped to win in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC, he carried himself with his habitual worldly confidence, interspersed talk of foreign policy with recollections of his childhood and even poked political fun at his Republican adversaries.

He did not flinch when women screamed as he was in mid-sentence, and even broke off once to answer a female's cry of "I love you Obama!" with a reassuring: "I love you back."

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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2269063,00.html

[Horse with no Name]

1. Oh great

Last go-round we had a President folks wanted to have a beer with, now we got one that folks want to fuck.
I guess we haven't learned any lessons here.:eyes:

[NYCGirl]

3. And you don't think being attractive helped Bill Clinton?

:eyes:

[Horse with no Name]

4. It's never hurt ANY candidate

But this is more like Beatlemania than a Presidential election.

[NYCGirl]

7. I remember articles about women having sex dreams about Bill Clinton.

So it's the DEGREE you have a problem with?

[Horse with no Name]

11. Be obtuse all you want

You know that this is totally different--the only thing missing is women throwing panties but I bet that will happen too.

[NYCGirl]

16. It's not totally different. JFK turned women on, too. Hardly a drawback.

(BTW, I always thought Gore was much sexier than Bubba. And much smarter.)

[CTyankee]

25. I actually DID have a few dreams about John Kerry.

And I must say I thoroughly enjoyed them!

[Drunken Irishman]

69. He kinda looks like a horse, so was he, uhm, you know, (blank) like one?

[CTyankee]

71. Ah, you want me to reveal my innermost secrets, as revealed in my

dream life. Let's just say he was magnificent...

[CTyankee]

72. He was magnificent! n/t

[Libby2]

85. lmao

[JTFrog]

68. Yes this IS totally different. With Bill's reputation, women figured

their dreams had a chance to come true.

[calico1]

28. Yep. Beatlemania.

I'm sure a lot of people in politics are considered attractive. I always thought Gore was a handsome man. Still do. But I didn't fantazise about him or weep at his speeches. The behavior on the part of SOME of Obama's supporters is bizarre and creepy.

[Donnachaidh]

34. BINGO.

creepy -- and SAD. :puke:

[hedgehog]

38. John Lennon

Part of Beatlemania was a fad, but is it possible that part was a recognition of a once-in-a-lifetime talent?

[russian33]

5. u took the words out of my mouth

[Raejeanowl]

12. Mine, Too

But it's not a cult.

[Cassandra]

9. I'm not sure fucking is the point.

I think it's more towards intimacy. Admittedly, Hillary is not a personality type you want to cozy up to, at least in her public persona.
I think we're in for some difficult times as a nation and the opposite of "Yes, we can" is "No, we can't". The ability to inspire and empathize isn't everything but FDR wouldn't have accomplished much without those qualities.

[aquarius dawning]

14. that's OK. I'm a white male and I would love to make sweet love to Hillary.

She's Bill's girl though so I'll have to tell her no if the chance comes up.

[formernaderite]

18. i'm thinking you should go for it

the pair don't strike me as that territorial about these things.

[aquarius dawning]

21. I've considered that actually.

maybe I could become one of her "staff members".

[BeyondGeography]

49. Or you could show her your superdelegate

They're the hot thing right now.

[aquarius dawning]

50. I personally wouldn't mind seeing her going up and down on my political poll.

[crispini]

78. SNORT!

:spray:

[blogslut]

17. Jealous

:)

[Renew Deal]

32. Americans are nuts. They want to drink with a recovering alchoholic and screw a married guy.

I can assure you. I do not want to have sex with Obama.

:patriot:

[Cha]

86. Or they could, like me..just love 'im

cause he's talkin' our language and we've had The Decider for the last 8 years. Obama is taking us right along with them for this fantastic, amazing journey known as Democracy.

[Adelante]

2. What a silly article

It's good Obama is breaking through to this voting group, but ...

[rocktivity]

6. First the New York Times accuses Obama of exaggerating his drug use

because they can't find collaborators, and now he's a cuddly teen idol. Let the trivializing begin...

:eyes:
rocknation

[boricua79]

8. oh no they didn't go there...

Cult meme over...move over...it's time for "women having black mandingo fantasies" as the new meme.

Lookout...he's a big, bad, black, cultist, Muslim, who knows how to charm the ladies.

SHAFT! Shut your mouth!

:rofl:

[jefferson_dem]

15. Dude!

:spray:

[my2sense]

37. ROFLMBO

Mandingo.....I'd not heard that in a while....thanks for the joke. You are on point - folks are getting desperate.

[OzarkDem]

61. More Urkel than Mandingo

I don't see the sex appeal.

[loveangelc]

65. lmao

[cloudythescribbler]

10. Perspective -- this is NOTHING compared to the reaction RFK inspired

People here who talk about things like "cult" (the new c-word) plainly lack a sense of history. In 1968, RFK was like the kind of rock star of the 60s (eg Beatles) that had masses of people screaming and LITERALLY, in one celebrated instance, stealing the shoes off his feet. His campaign (which was electorally unstoppable had the 'family thing' not been done to him) was nothing short of a craze.

It is a little like the ENORMOUS protestation that was raised in the wake of a slightly pinker than medium "red meat" speech by Howard Dean that was touted over the internet, in this age of cool detachment, as his "scream". If you thought that was outre, you should have heard speeches by Ted Kennedy and Mario Cuomo to the Democratic Convention in 1984 (I was there -- in SF). They filled the huge auditorium with their enormous voices. Dean and Obama are merely mild echoes of mainstream politics past, for those with a sense of history.

[livetohike]

40. I never had a chance to see RFK live

I was in high school in 1968, but I remember the appeal as if it was yesterday :-).

[cloudythescribbler]

48. I never did either -- I wuz younger than u!

[DemGa]

13. Well at least it's not a cult of personality...nt

[LostinVA]

19. ...

:spray:

[BlackVelvet04]

20. It's an embarrassment sharing a gender with these

stupid, juvenile women.

[NJSecularist]

23. Speak for yourself

As a man, I find them very well educated. :)

[LostinVA]

26. Voting for someone because you think they're hot is not being "very well educated"

But I don't think you give women too much credit, and I'm not talking about Hillary.

[jefferson_dem]

27. Definitely strong and smart enough to know who the better candidate is.

:)

[aquarius dawning]

29. Right. Women voting for Obama because they want to fuck him. Pure unadulterated genius.

[ieoeja]

43. Or do women want to fuck him because they are voting for him? n/t

[BlackVelvet04]

51. You don't share a gender with them....duh. n/t

[BenDavid]

22. I would venture to say that many and I mean many that say

folks have never seen anything like this since JFK...well excuse me if I call you on this. You all are too afraid to say you have not seen anything like this since Clinton/Gore 92. That's okay but be truthful with thine own self.

[CTyankee]

33. Heh. I remember the "briefs or boxers" question....n/t

[jefferson_dem]

35. The Big Dawg calls.

[OneMoreDemocrat]

24. How long did they look around before finding someone named 'Lolita'....

to quote.


Funny.

[krabigirl]

30. yikes

[NashVegas]

31. Obama's a Very Good Looking Man

If you like them with very youthful appearance.

[Eurobabe]

39. Nah, I like mine MUFUGLY like McCain n/t

[WinkyDink]

42. I don't find him so. Tiny ears.

[boricua79]

47. so you're an ear girl, huh?

You know...they used to call me Dumbo in college...maybe we should grab a drink sometime.

:) :sarcasm:

[BlackVelvet04]

54. In what friggin' universe is Obama a very good looking man???

He's string bean skinny with huge ears. Is that a new standard for women finding a man very good looking?

[aquarius dawning]

66. He reminds me of a Ross Perot with color almost.

[NashVegas]

67. Oh Hush

I think he looks good.

Though sometimes, in a Fred Astaire kind of way

[femrap]

88. Sorry....he's no Fred Astaire....

Geez. Please. Fred looked nothing like BO. NOTHING. Fred had a thin face. I love Fred's look and find BO not to my liking at all.

They're both skinny and that's about it.

[Triana]

36. A female Pres candidate who was attractive/a sexual turn-on would be labelled ...

.... a slut by a lot of people, and she'd LOSE based on that - she'd not be taken seriously.

Funny a male candidate/pres can be considered a turn-on and that's OK and he's still taken seriously - but if a female one was - well it'd be a totally different story due to our double standards re: such things.

InterSTINK.

Just a thought. You may return to your regular breathless aggrandizing.

[Recursion]

76. Segolene Royale seemed to do well by it, if not quite well enough

Now she was a sexy Presidential candidate. I think Sarkozy married Bruni just to try to get some sex appeal into the French government. And the PM of Ukraine is quite attractive too. I think in general we don't have very attractive politicians, male or female -- as we used to say on Capitol hill, DC is Hollywood for ugly people.

[WinkyDink]

41. Oh, good. We're going to nominate a rock star. Personally, I'd prefer Ricky Martin.

[ieoeja]

45. Obama did just win his second Grammy.

Seriously. He has won two Grammys for spoken word albums.

[OzarkDem]

59. I nominate George Clooney

much better looking and a better actor, too.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

79. we could have George Clooney as vice president!

so we could look at him more!

[loveangelc]

44. back off bitchez :p

[LostinVA]

55. Such insight!

:eyes:

[loveangelc]

60. i know!!!

[Irishonly]

46. LOL

Women falling for a candidate has happened for as long as I can remember. My reason for liking Kennedy as a child was because he was cute. I was only in 2nd grade so I think I can be forgiven.

As an adult I wish people would vote on the issues but in 2000 one of the biggest factors seemed to be that people wanted to have a beer with Bush-thank you MSM:puke: I have cut down watching the pundits but I really don't recall any real discussion of the issues-maybe a few but most of it has been about how likable a candidate is. Not everyone voting is a political junkie but I wonder how many John or Jane Doe citizens can talk about any issues with the exception of bloggers.

Your post reminds me of 1980. I was car pooling and one of the riders commented she was voting for ray gun. The rest of us were horrified but I managed to ask her why. I was expecting to hear hostage, energy or something. What I heard was that ray gun could manage "those" people. There was a collective huh and she said she was referring to movie stars (her words-not mine). Falling for a candidate at least makes a minute more sense.

[RoadRage]

52. I'd rather have a president that women WANT to screw.. then one married to the guy who actually DID.

[Skidmore]

53. Oh, please wait while I locate my smelling salts!

I'm about to have an attack of the vapours! Lord, have mercy. I'm not capable of selecting a presidential candidate unless it is one of the fair sex, to be sure. I can't possibly make a rational choice about a male candidate. Oh, no I can't.


Where's my fan? It's getting warm in here!

Oh, me! Oh, my!

[jackson_dem]

56. This just reinforces the cult meme

Novel idea: how about voting based on the merits?

[Drunken Irishman]

70. Well I guess Bill Clinton was part of the same cult, too.

Because I remember my mom, grandma and aunts always talking about how "sexy" they found him prior to the 1992 election. Hell, my aunt even had one of those lifesize cardboard cutouts of Clinton.

And what about the love women had for JFK? That was kinda cultish, too, I guess, eh?

I'm sure back in the day, the women fawned over Andrew Jackson. His sharp features, his wavy gray hair...drool!

[femrap]

57. It's embarrassing....

our culture of 'american idol.'

Maybe we're just way past due for a new band similar to The Beatles?

BO does nothing for me...rather plastic, shallow, and vague.

I had no idea that citizens could be so easily manipulated...don't you get the feeling that BO is laughing has ass off at how easy it is to fool people?

[calico1]

64. You get that feeling too, huh? n/t

[Tesha]

74. See my post #73 below... (NT)

[Blue_In_AK]

84. Yup.

Hope I'm wrong, but I'm bothered.

[Laurab]

58. My mom shook JFK's hand and didn't wash it for a week.

She thought he was gorgeous - she didn't necessarily want to "fuck" him. The fact that Obama is not difficult on the eyes is not a bad thing. It had nothing to do with my voting for him, but I will say, he's a hell of a lot easier to watch and/or listen to than most candidates.

Finding a candidate attractive DOESN'T mean that's why you're voting for them - in fact, it's a ridiculous assumption, and an insult to most of the women who support Obama.

[Mags]

62. This one and 5 more in my family aren't falling for him

[Mags]

63. This one and 5 more in my family aren't falling for him

we are using our heads, not some silly feeling.

[Tesha]

73. He's a Barack Star!

[intaglio]

75. I had a dream about Hillary once -

but it was nothing like the dream I had about Jodie Foster, Rachel Maddow and Cate Blanchett, in fact it was more of a nightmare. In fact it was a nightmare.

[Blue_In_AK]

77. Well, good, a candidate who makes women swoon.

:shakes head in disbelief: This is going to save our republic for sure.

[incapsulated]

80. dupe *sigh*

[incapsulated]

81. and another dupe

[incapsulated]

82. Tell me again this isn't the American Idol candidate

Problem is, you can be voted off that show when people get tired of you.

He better hope the swooning will last another 9 months.

[THUNDER HANDS]

83. i'm sure somewhere, someone finds Hillary attractive too

I think she's good looking for her age.

[goodhue]

87. men too

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