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GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 5:06 pm
by elklindo69
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional aide who recently criticized President Barack Obama's teenage daughters on social media told NBC News on Monday that she would resign
Elizabeth Lauten, communications director for Republican Representative Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, had said via a Facebook post that Obama's daughters, Malia, 16, and Sasha, 13, needed to show "a little class," complaining they appeared to look uninterested last week during an appearance with their father at a White House pre-Thanksgiving ceremony at which he had "pardoned" a turkey.
Her post unleashed a backlash on social media, prompting Lauten to later apologize on Facebook for her comments.
"I was taken aback that there was a political operative on Capitol Hill who did use the occasion of the Thanksgiving-themed event to criticize members of the presidential family," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Monday.
Earnest said that Lauten's subsequent apology was "an appropriate thing for her to do."
Children of presidents have generally been off limits for criticism in Washington.
"Act like being in the White House matters to you," Lauten said in the Facebook post last week.
She also took a shot at the president and his wife, saying the Obama girls did not have good role models.
On Monday, Lauten told NBC News that her resignation from Fincher's staff was "in the works."
No one in Fincher's office was available to confirm Lauten's plans.
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 7:30 pm
by RealJustme
So what did she do wrong, what's the rest of the story?
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 9:45 pm
by sillydaddy
The GOP thing to do is publicly announce that she is a valued employee and that although the Obama Administration believes "it's the appropriate thing to do"....her resignation will not be accepted.
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 6:41 pm
by johnforbes
Kids are off limits to criticism...unless, of course, they are the children of some Republican like Palin, at which point the media trashes them relentlessly.
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:14 pm
by elklindo69
It's one thing to crash a party and act like white trash.
It's another thing to be judgmental about two innocent girls.
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:15 pm
by elklindo69
RealJustme wrote:So what did she do wrong, what's the rest of the story?
I suspect that you don't have children?
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:01 pm
by RealJustme
I suspect that you don't have children?
So if someone were to blog that my child looked bored and dressed like she was going to a disco, that person should lose their career? That's North Korea elitist shit!
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:25 pm
by sillydaddy
It may not be over. There's still the chance she could end up dead. Remember Joan Rivers.
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:05 am
by tvd
Fucking unbelievable bullshit political correctness strikes again.
PC has killed this country. Sticks and stones.....
Fucking unbelievable. And she apologized? Bullshit. Never in a million years.
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 6:29 pm
by elklindo69
RealJustme wrote:I suspect that you don't have children?
So if someone were to blog that my child looked bored and dressed like she was going to a disco, that person should lose their career? That's North Korea elitist shit!
One of the first things you learn about child rearing is not to be judgmental. It's especially ticky tacky to criticize teenage girls for wearing attire that is completely appropriate.
Yes...teenage girls do get bored. It's called being rebellious and quite normal, unless you live in North Korea. Where you will get skewered over the coals by a hypocritical conservative. For just being...a teenager.
:roll:
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 6:56 pm
by johnforbes
Elkindope is merely a hypocrite.
Palin's kids were routinely trashed on TV.
Meanwhile, Democrat spawn are deemed sacred.
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 7:10 pm
by elklindo69
johnforbes wrote:Elkindope is merely a hypocrite.
Palin's kids were routinely trashed on TV.
Meanwhile, Democrat spawn are deemed sacred.
Palin's kids were trashed because they are red neck lowlives.
Obama's kids were trashed solely for being normal good kids...
Forbestardo idiocy strikes again!!!
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 7:13 pm
by RealJustme
Palin's kids were trashed because they are red neck lowlives.
Obama's kids were trashed solely for being normal good kids
How were Obama teen age daughter's trashed?
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 7:19 pm
by elklindo69
RealJustme wrote:Palin's kids were trashed because they are red neck lowlives.
Obama's kids were trashed solely for being normal good kids
How were Obama teen age daughter's trashed?
When you have kids you'll know the answer...
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 9:17 pm
by Grog
I love the Palins. Hillbillies, such as the Palins, prove the intellectual and genetic inferiority of conservatives, especially Tea Partiers.
Re: GOP bully bites the dust...
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:43 am
by johnforbes
Obama was pampered, growing up attending the most expensive private school in Hawaii.
He idled away his youth puffing pot.
Obama's kids have grown up in a public mansion, with limos and jets.
Despite that, they will get affirmative action just as Obama and Moochelle did.