First Lady's Selma Side-Eye

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Neetzan Zimmerman ?@neetzan 13m13 minutes ago
Perfect RT @gwenifill: @dorseyshaw @dariansymone this happened right after he sat down from applauding VRA.

[cilla4progress]

1. LOVE MO!

She's a great lady of American history!!!! A pioneer, a trailblazer. We are blessed for her sacrifices, serving as first lady - the first African-American first lady, in these troubled times.

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2. That fascist appointed the racists who GUTTED the VRA.

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6. Bush vetoed the Voting Rights Act extension five times

...before trading his veto for a release on the filibustered vote on Clarance Thomas for Supreme Court engineered by republican senator John Danforth. That extension allowed court-ordered redistricting to double the number of districts with black majorities.

[Cha]

3. OMG.. No, you didn't, FL MO!

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20. LMAO!!!

[Cha]

21. ROFL!

Stellar

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25. He was there because he signed the last renewal of the VRA. Not only that, Cha, did you miss...

The brief part of the event where she kissed GWB, on the mouth?

He reacted just like a small child, almost in tears, if not actually crying. He looked up at her in awe.

I'm sure he wished Michelle had been his mother instead of that hateful, foul mouthed woman who gave him birth.

The man always struck me as brain damaged, and I don't mean that in a discriminatory way. Many people have been and their personality changes. Some tend to get angry, others weep.

GWB was never up the job of POTUS, and I'm sure he was keenly aware of it.

Just sayin'

[lame54]

32. This song explains it all...

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37. 'Fate made him pathetic.' And a tragedy for millions. Unfortunately, most GOP are examples of:

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate.

This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude.

Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.[1]

As David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University conclude: "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

The fact that many of his supporters rated ability to be POTUS based on who they'd like to have a beer with, and thought his poor academic and business record made him more sympathetic, is what led to what we have today.

That he was foolish enough to think his brother Jeb's trickery in Florida, along with the rest of the cabal, was necessary to win the POTUS as he couldn't win it honestly, says a lot. His alleged glee at the victory showed he set his sights in life pretty low. His swagger and bravado were just overcompensated for what he didn't possess.

I have to admit I fell into that later category in the Wikipedia entry. It's been a long time waking up and I might have done a lot of things differently in life had I not had high expectations for the wisdom of others. Not that I did anything much more than curse whenever any of the Bush administration showed up on television, though...

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4. She's not giving him any expression, she's looking behind him.

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8. you're trying to hard to dismiss this

...obviously not familiar with 'side-eye'.

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13. Not trying hard at anything (this is easy). A) that's not really in her character

it's not who she is. and B), I'm every bit as familiar with the side eye as you are, and I'm VERY familiar with photography. She's not looking at Bush. Deal with it.

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14. uh huh

[Cha]

22. HA! I was just thinking of that when he said ".. not her character.."! mahalo, bt.. FLMO really

doesn't suffer fools too well. Rofl

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30. Her looks...

speak volumes!

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33. I don't agree...

it appears she is looking at him

[elias49]

5. Good grief! Did they have to be next to each other?

What a drag for the First Lady.

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7. You gotta keep your eye on the Devil.

Reminds me of a pic I saved so many years ago.

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9. love that pic

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29. Kids can sense creeps. Most adults can, too. Dubya is v-e-r-y creepy.

Angela Merkel also sensed the approach and touch of Dubya, The Creepy, and nearly jumped out of her chair:

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35. I agree the man was a creep that didn't respect personal boundaries.

His 8 years were so strange, never once did it feel like he was the actual POTUS. Felt more like some cheesy C list actor doing a bad imitation of a president that has no class or brains.

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36. Previously got that same "actor doing a bad imitation" impression from The Great Communicator.

Gerald Ford also seemed to have neurological issues, but he was more like an affable jock who had suffered head injuries. Betty came across as sharp and kind, and she had to be one of the most patient Washington wives.

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38. I was too young to remember anything about Ford, all I know is that he pardoned a criminal.

I LOVED Jimmy Carter as a small child, I thought he was the most decent man I'd ever heard. A true gentleman. Ronald Reagan was a shock to the system. Just the opposite of Carter - arrogant, small minded and like you said...a bad actor trying to pretend to be POTUS.

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10. This begs the caption: "What the f*ck are you doing here?"

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11. ha!

Elon James White ?@elonjames 22m22 minutes ago
"You know we ain't even invite you right?" RT @occupythemob: #Selma50

[Cha]

23. LOL!

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17. Why weren't Clinton's

not there.

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19. been there

...done that.

Democratic party is well represented by our current president and family.

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26. Because signed the last renewal of the VRA, is why he was there. It was mentioned in the video. n/t

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12. Bet he said something disgusting

In other words, he spoke.

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28. Just his being there was disgusting. The benighted thing saw what a real POTUS is. n/t

[Gothmog]

15. I also noticed the side eye

[BrotherIvan]

16. Her expressions are my favorite

She's not a pol and she's trying to be civil to this wanker. Look at the expression on his face--he knows what a fool he is.

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18. »

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27. I'm ready for THAT woman to be the next President of the United States. She says more with a glance

than others do in an entire career.

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31. If you watch the video

of POTUS' speech when all the dignitaries were greeting each other she delivered a couple others that I thought were pretty telling. This "look" is good though.

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34. Take one person we hate, one we love, a picture of them together, and...

...everyone's an expert on body language and knows from that one fraction of a second what's going on in their minds.

She probably doesn't care for him. He probably doesn't care for her. They were near each other. Someone took a picture.

Yet life goes on.

(psst - neither of them remembers nor cares about that moment)