Oh, give it a rest
I saw some traffic coming in from the American Stinker (the blog with Uncle Sam taking a dump in its masthead) and had the displeasure of reading a petulant exercise in wingnut overreach by Jeannie DeAngelis. Here’s the paragraph, the last one, that contained a link to Rumproast:
President Obama left the First Lady to join Joe Biden at the memorial service for victims of the WV mining disaster and told mourning families that while golfing his, “heart ached” over the tragedy. Winding down “middle class” spring break, son of a coal miner’s daughter, Barack Obama, commemorated the twenty-nine “middle class” miners that ” lived—as they died—in pursuit of the American dream” similar to the one only the grief stricken president has the benefit of enjoying.
Compare and contrast:

Linda Davis & Barack Obama
They sat in the second and third rows Sunday, as President Obama called coal miners the embodiment of the American work ethic. A family that has become the face of West Virginia’s grieving by simple, heartbreaking math.
Five men of the Davis family went into the Upper Big Branch mine April 5.
Two came back. [...]
The Davises had already talked to Obama: In the aftermath of the blast, he called family patriarch Charles Davis, 75. It wasn’t like in the movies: There was no secretary on the line, no “please hold for the president of the United States.”
Davis picked up the phone, and there he was.
“He said, ‘This is President Obama,’ ” Davis said. Obama told him that, if Davis or his wife needed him to help with anything, all they had to do was call. Davis remembered that Obama said that if he wasn’t home, “the first lady will take care of it.” [...]
As the service concluded Sunday, a choir broke into song, and Obama took Linda Davis’s arm to lead her out.
“Here,” she said in the parking lot a few minutes afterward, pulling a rectangle of white cloth out of her purse. “He gave me his handkerchief to wipe my tears with.”
I guess Obama made that call from the golf course…
MORE: If you think what Jeannie wrote was bad, check out what the Freepers had to say. WARNING: You won’t need waders, you’ll need a Hazmat suit. [hat tip StrangeAppar8us]
UPDATE: Overall the rightwing blogs seemed to have just ignored the memorial service yesterday, but one of the “adults” we were supposed to listen to during the primaries gurgled up this nonsense:
I will name WaPo the cover of the day as it catches the photo op with the miner’s widow in the right moment: as Obama rushes to disentangle himself from the yucky moment
other papers were more reverential in their choice of photo, but they demonstrate anyway Obama has just as much of a problem as W to pretend that he cares
God, I hate these people.
Posted by Kevin K. on 04/26/10 at 08:30 AM • Permalink
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