Video: Michelle Obama Rolls Eyes After Speaker John Boehner's Joke

There is not one single "eyeroll" from Michelle Obama in this video. What we see is her twice exhibiting the kind of body language that one exhibits while they're eating (that is, after all, what they were there to do) to first acknowledge whatever Boehner is saying (when she looks left), and then to evidence finding it funny or cute or whatever it was she found it as she's chewing and looking forward. There wasn't an eyeroll anywhere to be seen. An actual eyeroll actually requires that one's eyes actually roll; and upward, to boot, toward the ceiling, which Mrs. Obama never did.

SEE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ1m39K4Tgw

And even if she did roll her eyes at Boehner (which she didn't, but I'm just sayin'), she should apologize for it only after he explains what ill will he was wishing on her husband during this:

SEE: http://bit.ly/TcULgk

This alleged eyeroll video, tellingly disrespectfully labeled, "Michelle Obama Too Busy Shovelling Food In Her Mouth - Eyerolls Boehner," is, it's worthy of note, coming from the decidely Republican side of things; and is featured on the notoriously-Right-winged Drudge Report. Republicans -- particularly of the (Insani)Tea Party variety -- have tried to deny President Obama the validity of his November 2012 election victory at every turn, and are downright pouting about it, as this video and its characterization does. It is the very definition of "sour grapes;" and has now become shamefully embarrassing.

For example, according to Republican former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum on this past Sunday's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" on ABC, Obama is a "sore winner," and apparently needs to apologize for his victory.

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STEPHANOPOULOS: And, you know, Rick Santorum, House Republicans certainly seem to feel some of the pressure on those issues this week. They announced at the end of the week that they’re not going to hold up this debt limit, seek a three-month extension on the debt limit to give some breathing space for negotiations. You know, you heard David Plouffe right there say that is a cave by House Republicans.

SANTORUM: I mean, listen to that language. I mean, Republicans extend an olive branch. “Ah, they’re caving. Ah, we got them.” That’s not how a leader acts. Governor didn’t get things done in Michigan because every time she won she rubbed it in their nose. That’s the problem with this administration. They don’t — they’re not very gracious winners.

And I always said, you know, there’s one thing worse than a sore loser, and that’s a sore winner. And the president’s a sore winner.

[CROSSTALK]

SANTORUM: ...Republicans understand that. And this president could get immigration done. He could get something done on deficits and entitlements, but he’s got to move his people to do that, instead of forcing Republicans always to come his way. And that’s the problem.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTXYii8UcB0

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First, Republicans were (and remain, of course) unhappy that Obama won; now, they're upset that he's acting like it. Santorum, et al, apparently want the President to be contrite about it; or, perhaps they'd like him to follow twenty paces behind Republicans, keeping his eyes lowered, and doing an old negro dance & shuffle.

SEE: http://bit.ly/XVvhBO

In the end, that's what it's all about, you know: racism. Abjectly so. Santorum, while running for president in 2012, was one of the leading racist voices of the Republican party, along with Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul. Though they've at least wised-up enough to know that they must leave to the days of George Wallace open references to black Americans using such adjectives as lazy, shiftless and unproductive, they nevertheless pander to the conservative, white, racist notion that assets are stolen from white Americans and redistributed to blacks in the form of "entitlements" like welfare, food stamps, housing assistance and health care; and they now attribute such redistribution to Obama. Such as Santorum and Gingrich knew that so many ignorant white Republican voters are racist that they felt comfortable pandering to that voting bloc, despite subsequent accusations of racism and bigotry by such as the NAACP and others, by publicly expressing their bigotry in the form of Gingrich's offer to explain "why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps;" or Santorum's somewhat more direct prejudice in his inflammatory, "I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them other people’s money." And let's not forget that the presidental nominee of Santorum and Gingrich's party, Mitt Romney, believed, through his Mormon faith, as Mormons believe, that the "'black race' was cursed by God as a punishment until it was socially unacceptable."

The largely (Insani)Tea Party led Republican Congress's solution has been two fold:

First its unconscionable legislative agenda which targeted the poor with Draconian spending cuts to housing, food, and healthcare programs while pretending that it was legitimate deficit reduction in the name of fiscal responsibility. Never mind that, in the case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), for example, most participants are white; and most of those are children and seniors. More SNAP recipients, in fact, have jobs which provide a primary income source. The problem is that only around 15% of said incomes are over the federal poverty level. Gingrich, in particular, has portrayed such poor Americans as lazy, drug abusers who use welfare to do things like "take trips to Hawaii," a pejorative he only added to his repertoire after Obama became president and began making such trips to him home state.

And, second, is the Republican party's resistance both for its own sake, and to the death, to absolutely anything that Obama puts forth. What Mr. Santorum conveniently left out of his outrageously misleading assessment on ABC's "This Week" last Sunday morning is that President Obama tried to compromise with Republicans for the entire duration of his first term, only to be rebuffed at every turn. Worse, to further evidence the Right's guerrilla tactical intransigence just for its own sake, Republicans weren't satisfied to simply reject anything and everything the president offered-up for over three years; in addition, they refused to support even their own proposals which Obama deigned to compromise and endorse. Such is the shameful and embarrassing behavior of children; however, because it's not children we're talking about, here, and because the stakes are so high, the selfish acts of these horrible, bullying, largely (Insani)Tea Party Republicans who are willing to take down the country if they have to, just to win (or, worse, just to make a point) are having scorched-earth repercussions on an America that's being held hostage by their unconscionable antics, and just wishes they'd act as persons of good both will and faith and get down to the business of being a responsible and productive legislative branch with the country's best interests at heart.

There was a time when the number one Google search result on the word "Santorum" was a website which provided, as the word's first definition, "[t]he frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex;" and as its second, "Senator Rick Santorum."

Ahhh, those were the days.

Long a AAA, USAC, IRL and FIA fan, I have decried, for years, NASCAR automobile racing events as the purview of gun-toting, tobacco-chewing, drawl-inflected, sister-screwing, gay-hating, racist, gun-rack-and-Confederate-flag-in-the-rear-window, beer-swilling, (did I say "racist?"), pig-headed, Republican-voting, hillbilly-bully-Danica-Patrick-loving, racist rednecks. At a NASCAR event during President Obama's first term, the vile fans in the stands booed First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden's wife, Jill, as they served as co-grand marshals of the event, there to honor military troops and veterans, and their families. Incendiary radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh claimed that -- and, seriously, you might want to sit down for this -- the boos weren't because the crowd was racist; but, rather, because Mrs. Obama was "uppity," a term long understood by pretty much everyone (though only seen as negatively racistly so by white liberals and blacks) to mean a black person who's living above his/her "rightful" status instead of in subservience to whites. Even Margaret Mitchell understood that over 60 years ago.

And so now we have that very same racist mindset at work in a video, Internet-viralized by the nefarious Drudge Report, which alleges to (but doesn't, actually) show the black Democrat First Lady rolling her eyes at the while Republican Speaker of the House during the inaugural luncheon, which video bears the intentionally-incitingly-loaded title, "Michelle Obama Too Busy Shovelling Food In Her Mouth - Eyerolls Boehner." Even on this special day for the Obamas, and the rest of America; even on this emotional day during which even Speaker Boehner was moved by it all to tears, the vitriolic and immature Right seizes on even contrived opportunities to take a swipe at the nigger in the whitehouse.

Yes, I just used the "n" word, even though I'm white and supposedly not allowed, because just as Denzel Washington's lawyer character explained to the judge in the movie "Philidelphia," after he used a string of some of the most pernicious possible pejoratives for being gay...

SEE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub4e7n6Fxsk

...leaving out, perhaps, only the likes of "fudge packer"...

SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_slang

...and then explained himself thusly...

SEE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIqXkwxzUB4

...what this is all REALLY about is conservative, Republican, white America's hatred, its loathing, its fear of African Americans; and how that climate of hatred and fear has translated into its outrageous disrespect and unrelenting refusal to give one inch, just for refusal's sake, to the African American who was inaugurated yesterday to a vexing-to-them second term in the White House.

Never mind that that African American is the first president since the white Republican Ronald Reagan to be so inaugurated after winning a mandate-conveying 51% of the vote, not once but twice. Never mind that President Obama said during his inauguration speech (and here, so there'll be no mistake about it, is precisely what that was)...

http://b.globe.com/WU64oC

...just about every let's-put-our-differences-aside-and-get-something-done thing that he could think of...

--- BEGIN INAUGURATION SPEECH SNIPPET ---

"That is our generation’s task -- to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American. Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life. It does not mean we all define liberty in exactly the same way or follow the same precise path to happiness. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time. (Applause.)

"For now decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. (Applause.) We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. We must act, knowing that today’s victories will be only partial and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years and 40 years and 400 years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall."

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...and never mind that his over-arching message was something as eloquent and important and meant as this...

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"It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. (Applause.) Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law –- (applause) -- for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. (Applause.) Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. (Applause.) Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity -- (applause) -- until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. (Applause.) Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm."

--- END INAUGURATION SPEECH SNIPPET ---

...the Republicans refuse, for refusal's sake, to give the man -- a black man -- who is their president, too, his simple and earned due. And so they find, among those few things about which they are sorrowfully reduced, to complain that the First Lady rolled her eyes at the Speaker of the House during his telling of a joke at the inaugural luncheon; and, as it turns out, they couldn't get that right, either.

During ABC News's Inauguration Day coverage, former National Security Advisor, former Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired four-star general in the US Army, and 65th Secretary of State Colin Powell -- both a Republican, and a black man -- lamented his party's only 26% favorability rating. "It ought to be telling them something," he said.

Criticizing the Republican Party’s kneejerk reaction of changing its message rather than adapting its policies, Powell said: “The Republican Party ought to be out there not restricting voting by voter ID, but saying we want everybody to vote. It’s a party that has to stop saying, ‘We are going to appeal to you with new messages.’ You need policies — the country is becoming more minority.

“Republicans have to stop buying into things that demonize the president," Powell continued. "I mean, why aren’t Republican leaders shouting out about all this birther nonsense and all these other things? They should speak out. This is the kind of intolerance that I’ve been talking about where these idiot presentations continue to be made and you don’t see the senior leadership of the party say, ‘No, that’s wrong.’ In fact, sometimes by not speaking out, they’re encouraging it. And the base keeps buying the stuff.

“And it’s killing the base of the party," Powell lamented. "So, instead of attacking me or whoever speaks like I do, look in the mirror and realize, ‘How are we going to win the next election?’”

Powell did blame Obama for not reaching out to Congress enough; however, he apparently either doesn't know, or can't admit that it was his party that held a meeting four years ago almost to the day, on Obama’s first inauguration, during which it pledged to derail the President at every turn. Sound familiar?

Out-of-touch Republicans are convinced that if they just re-craft their message, they'll win the next election. But they won't win, anymore, in a nation where what had once been the minority is fast becoming the majority until and unless it actually changes its policies... starting with admitting that its current ones are out-of-step with what Americans want; that every time it is in power, it drives-up the deficit, drives down revenue and threatens America's precious credit rating... and for no good reasons, really, other than to cater to the nutty and extremist (Insani)Tea Party and its birthers, legitimate rapists, self-deporters and unabashed racists. The GOP, then, needs to turn its back on such as the Koch brothers and purge itself of the (Insani)Tea Party and others who are moving the party further and further Right, and well over the crazy cliff.

President Obama would be derelict in his duties if he tried to meet Republicans in the middle of such craziness. Rather, it is the GOP that needs to move to a more realistic place of true responsibility to America and Americans, instead of stoking racist resentments by doing things like trying to disrupt the positive rhythm of their black president's inauguration day with negative spin about First Lady eyerolling that didn't even happen.

To Bill Quinlivan/St. John's University (?).......It is obvious that you know nothing of Speaker Boehner but still display your ignorance and make nasty, unfounded remarks that you can in no way substantiate. Mrs. Obama, at this particular time, in no way looked like the First Lady of the United States and the remark was certainly none of her business I am sure. The President did not seem to be offended by whatever was said. You should try and control your hate a bit - it's not good for your health.