The complaint that Barack Obama has had an easy ride from the press is not unwarranted. (It's not a slam dunk charge, either, considering all the hysterical rumormongering surrounding Obama's middle name HUSSEIN and his supposed MUSLIM religion.)
But now that Obama's the clear front runner, it's time to start picking him apart the way Hillary's been dissected. So where do we start? Well he has a mole on his face, near his nose. That's something.
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Obama's Mole: Keep, Remove or Hide?
Posted Feb 29th 2008 3:45PM by Mo Rocca
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 8)
1. Let the mole run on its own record, and hide the rest of Obama.
Bill J at 5:20PM on Feb 29th 2008
2. Gee whiz Mo,
I feel like a disenfranchised voter...
The polls are closed before I even had a chance.
Rocca the Mole '08
"Ask yourself... what would Fred Savage do?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzCLHGn4K8U
FINN at 5:29PM on Feb 29th 2008
3. Hah, hah, hah! Like your topic for this blog. However, bear in mind that Abraham Lincoln, too, had such a mole, or wart. In fact, Obama bears a likeness to Abraham Lincoln, physically, and in the sense that it's Lincoln who conjures the "Anyone [born] in America can grow up to be president of the United States" belief, or at least the slogan.
McCaine wasn't born here, I now read. Hmmmmm.
If you have PhotoShop or a similar graphics package, superimpose Obama's face over a portrait of Lincoln, preferably with the top hat. The eyes also have it, along with the mole. Maybe Barack Obama is the reincarnation of Abe as Mulatto, for all the karmic reasons imaginable regarding those assorted dark past (no pun intended) sentiments toward slavery and abolitionist efforts (but history does not report Lincoln to have been an abolitionist, nor strongly on the record as an abolitionist supporter, I more recently read).
Oh, well. In any event, the image, all around, works for Obama. He's the image kids who need to dream, have to look up to. Barack Obama is the new Abraham Lincoln. What everyone who wants to see that dream come true shudders at, is history repeating itself... Should the dream come true, who would be the new John Wilkes Booth? :-O
Ariel at 5:35PM on Feb 29th 2008
4. Dear Mo,
MOLE!?!!!
Oh how embarrassing!!! Here I sent him ALL this literature on LYME disease..!!!!
also,
how come you let everyone from "Sweet Valley High" post first!!!!?
also some more,
why didn't you tell us you got married to Mrs. David Letterman!!??
TSK!!!
fine...fine...I know you are busy....sniff!
ah, Clem at 5:50PM on Feb 29th 2008
5. Honestly, did anyone notice the mole?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqOyOEXx6rc
Obama's is not sprouting big, wiry hairs or flapping in the breeze, so I'm fine with it.
mo-NEEK-a at 6:25PM on Feb 29th 2008
6. Mo, would you have asked Ms. Monroe to remove her mole???
Patty at 6:30PM on Feb 29th 2008
7. 19. EXCUSE ME, MAYBE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD...THERE'S A WAR GOING ON!!!DUH. AND OUR MEN AND WOMEN ARE DYING DAILY!!!! WELL MAYBE YOURE JUST TRYING TO GET FOLKS MINDS OFF OF THE WAR..BUT A MOLE ON SOMEONES' FACE..COME ON!!! IF IT DOESN'T BOTHER HIM,AND HE'S HEALTHLY...LET IT GO....IT GAVE LINCOLN CHARACTER
dyahnjhe at 3:12PM on Apr 30th 2007
******
First of all there is no need to shout. Unless of course you are using caps to help all of us, see better without our glasses.
Secondly, oh please.... this is just a silly blog.
Thirdly, and this without a doubt is more IMPORTANT!! Take your anger (Anger that I tottally share with you!!!!) about this damn war and direct it at the idiot we have to call presidents. This is all his doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patty at 6:30PM on Feb 29th 2008
8. Man, where's Clif Kuplen when you need him?
gabrielle at 7:08PM on Feb 29th 2008
9.
I was just about to ask, where's Gabs when you need her!?
:)
ah, Clem at 7:13PM on Feb 29th 2008
10. WHERE'S SUPER GIZA! LOOK IN THE SKY, IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A FINN! IT'S SUPPER GIZA! Now with the power of three PYRAMIDS!
Blayze at 7:58PM on Feb 29th 2008
11. Aw Mo
You eloped to Roccuba!....Sheesh! always a bride but never a bridesmaid - sob!
To keep or not to keep - that is the question..
Whether 'tis nobler in the press to suffer
The knives and needles of outrageous removal
Or to take arms against a sea of warts
And by opposing remove them?...To look..to see
No more....perchance to dream - ay, there's no mole!
DameBuddyBoo at 8:11PM on Feb 29th 2008
12. Sorry, but I'm getting a little disoriented...
This blog post feels just like last night's episode of LOST...
Is this comment going to post in the future?
Or am I just responding to something in the past?
How can Patty reply to a comment that is 10 months old??? Is the person still online to read it???
Somebody help me... Did we just time travel???
Giza, where are you when we need you brotha?
Rocca the Time Warp!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfx8Nc6VKnI
FINN at 8:14PM on Feb 29th 2008
13.
Blayze: Super Giza? You Sphinx So!!!? :)
Dame BuddyBooWooWoo! Will you sign my playbill!!?
sigh...........
ah, Clem at 8:14PM on Feb 29th 2008
14. Don't crowd, don't crowd.....
I think Mo needs a little song to end his day....in keeping with his "springy" scenery..I hired a wedding singer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teI0XKw-pEI&feature=related
DameBuddyBoo at 8:25PM on Feb 29th 2008
15.
So, I read that on Leap Day a woman may ask a man to marry her. If he refuses he must buy her a red petticoat.
Mo, will you marry me?
(silk!)
Will, Will you marry me?
(Satin!)
Doug, will you marry me?
(Dacron???)
oh, and keep the mole-I have one in the same place
(it tells me to burn things)
Andrea at 8:31PM on Feb 29th 2008