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   Obama finally has an answer for the phenomenon of people fainting at his speeches: "It means I've been talking too long"

02 Aug 2012 03:07 PM   |   1051 clicks   |   Huffington Post
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ManateeGag    [TotalFark]  
what would Romney's response have been? "Fall down. Go Boom! Bad!"

02 Aug 2012 12:36 PM
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Coolfusis     
ManateeGag: what would Romney's response have been? "Fall down. Go Boom! Bad!"

Odds are? He'd make a stupid joke about her being overcome by the power of his speech.

02 Aug 2012 12:57 PM
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cameroncrazy1984     
To be fair, the teleprompter said so he didn't really come up with that one on his own.

02 Aug 2012 01:01 PM
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I_C_Weener    [TotalFark]  
I was told that it was my imagination that people fainted at his speeches...or that it must be the heat...even in March. There is no way this is an article validating that people faint at his speeches in greater numbers than other politicians. If so, then this man is a menace to those of us that want to remain upright and unfainted.

02 Aug 2012 01:30 PM
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TheBeastOfYuccaFlats    [TotalFark]  
The man is a master of off-the-cuff responses and self-effacing humor. Mittens is doomed.

02 Aug 2012 01:58 PM
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Lando Lincoln    [TotalFark]  
Romney doesn't have this problem since the people that attend his rallies aren't packed in like sardines.

02 Aug 2012 02:50 PM
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Sargun     
cameroncrazy1984: To be fair, the teleprompter said so he didn't really come up with that one on his own.

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02 Aug 2012 03:12 PM
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The Jami Turman Fan Club     
Geez, if they were fainting at Obama talking for too long, I can't wait until Bill Clinton makes a speech at the convention. People may die of starvation.

02 Aug 2012 03:14 PM
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sendtodave     
This make sense. I always thought that the Beatles sang too long.

02 Aug 2012 03:14 PM
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Mr_Fabulous     
ManateeGag: what would Romney's response have been? "Fall down. Go Boom! Bad!"

Followed by a maniacal, non-sequitur shouting of "Who let the dogs out!!!!!"

02 Aug 2012 03:15 PM
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beta_plus     
OK, that's just funny.

/Obama always struck me as a good guy as a person
//too bad about his foreign, domestic, and social policies and almost every action as POTUS

02 Aug 2012 03:15 PM
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Masterstuff     
TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: The man is a master of off-the-cuff responses and self-effacing humor. Mittens is doomed.

He's not doomed. There is plenty of time to create an expansion pack.

Or maybe he can pay for DLC.

/Should I buy Mitt Romney Humor Pack
/or Mitt Romney: Katy Perry Special Edition

02 Aug 2012 03:16 PM
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HeartBurnKid     
Mr_Fabulous: ManateeGag: what would Romney's response have been? "Fall down. Go Boom! Bad!"

Followed by a maniacal, non-sequitur shouting of "Who let the dogs out!!!!!"


He'd try to rouse them with a bit of Sweet Home Alabama, as sang by the dude from the band Alabama.

02 Aug 2012 03:17 PM
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WizardofToast    [TotalFark]  
I've never even heard of someone faint from fanaticism. Fear and dehydration maybe, but not getting really happy over the President making a speech.

02 Aug 2012 03:21 PM
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TrollingForColumbine    [TotalFark]  
beta_plus: OK, that's just funny.

/Obama always struck me as a good guy as a person
//too bad about his foreign, domestic, and social policies and almost every action as POTUS


yeah. shame that.

02 Aug 2012 03:21 PM
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Pincy     
Lando Lincoln: Romney doesn't have this problem since the people that attend his rallies aren't packed in like sardines.

Actually, he does have this problem, sort of, the people aren't fainting though, they are just falling asleep.

02 Aug 2012 03:22 PM
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Shrugging Atlas     
ManateeGag: what would Romney's response have been?

"People attend my speeches?"

02 Aug 2012 03:24 PM
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Mikey1969     
And the reason they faint at Romney speeches?

Because they can't believe what just came out of his mouth... It's shock, plain and simple.

02 Aug 2012 03:25 PM
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TrollingForColumbine    [TotalFark]  
Shrugging Atlas: ManateeGag: what would Romney's response have been?

"People attend my speeches?"


"Get this lady some bootstraps"

02 Aug 2012 03:25 PM
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The_Sponge    [TotalFark]  
Obama's speeches are like my uncle's (retired minister) prayers before Thanksgiving dinner. They go on for too long, and the food is getting cold, damn it.

02 Aug 2012 03:25 PM
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dugitman    [TotalFark]  
sendtodave: This make sense. I always thought that the Beatles sang too long.

No. They just used too many notes.

02 Aug 2012 03:26 PM
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TXEric     
WizardofToast: I've never even heard of someone faint from fanaticism. Fear and dehydration maybe, but not getting really happy over the President making a speech.

I get the idea you may be too young to remember "Beatlemania" in the early 60's.

/Not political, but definitely "fanaticism"-induced.

02 Aug 2012 03:32 PM
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El Pachuco     
sendtodave: This make sense. I always thought that the Beatles sang too long.

Two down, two to go.

02 Aug 2012 03:36 PM
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sprawl15     
dugitman: sendtodave: This make sense. I always thought that the Beatles sang too long.

No. They just used too many notes.


na na na na na na na na na heyyyyy Jude
na na na na na na na na na heeeeeyy Jude

The_Sponge: Obama's speeches are like my uncle's (retired minister) prayers before Thanksgiving dinner. They go on for too long, and the food is getting cold, damn it.

I
wouldn't eat anything at a Decemberists concert that I didn't bring with me. Learn to use a thermos.

02 Aug 2012 03:37 PM
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babygoat     
cameroncrazy1984: To be fair, the teleprompter said so he didn't really come up with that one on his own.

Yeah, the teleprompter came up with it.

02 Aug 2012 03:41 PM
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skullkrusher     
perhaps his Death Panel Shouts just need some fine tuning?

/Thu'um

02 Aug 2012 03:41 PM
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Amidala     
ManateeGag: what would Romney's response have been? "Fall down. Go Boom! Bad!"

You're probably not that far off. Romeny says strange things.

02 Aug 2012 03:42 PM
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Agneska     
Reverend Wright taught him a few tricks, especially how to whip up (fake) hysteria in the deluded masses. Obama is acting calmly and funny because he knows that this is a scripted event. What kind of man cracks a joke when somebody faints?

02 Aug 2012 03:46 PM
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WizardofToast    [TotalFark]  
TXEric: WizardofToast: I've never even heard of someone faint from fanaticism. Fear and dehydration maybe, but not getting really happy over the President making a speech.

I get the idea you may be too young to remember "Beatlemania" in the early 60's.

/Not political, but definitely "fanaticism"-induced.


Didn't exist back then but now I see a point.

02 Aug 2012 03:47 PM
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Shrugging Atlas     
Agneska: Reverend Wright taught him a few tricks, especially how to whip up (fake) hysteria in the deluded masses. Obama is acting calmly and funny because he knows that this is a scripted event. What kind of man cracks a joke when somebody faints?

Parody of a right wing troll, or an honest to god cry for help?

Judges, can I get a ruling?

02 Aug 2012 03:48 PM
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olderbudnoweiser    [TotalFark]  
ManateeGag: what would Romney's response have been?

The Rombot 2012 would retroactively shorten his speech.

/"You people must hydrate. Drink something: Wet. Lemon. Good."

02 Aug 2012 03:50 PM
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Pfft!     
Lando Lincoln: Romney doesn't have this problem since the people that attend his rallies aren't packed in like sardines.

And they're mouth breathers, so that probably cools them down.

02 Aug 2012 03:50 PM
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NeoCortex42    [TotalFark]  
Masterstuff: TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: The man is a master of off-the-cuff responses and self-effacing humor. Mittens is doomed.

He's not doomed. There is plenty of time to create an expansion pack.

Or maybe he can pay for DLC.

/Should I buy Mitt Romney Humor Pack
/or Mitt Romney: Katy Perry Special Edition


Horse armor for Rafalca.

02 Aug 2012 03:50 PM
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Epoch_Zero    [TotalFark]  
NeoCortex42: Masterstuff: TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: The man is a master of off-the-cuff responses and self-effacing humor. Mittens is doomed.

He's not doomed. There is plenty of time to create an expansion pack.

Or maybe he can pay for DLC.

/Should I buy Mitt Romney Humor Pack
/or Mitt Romney: Katy Perry Special Edition

+8 Def +4 Spi Horse armor for Rafalca.


FTFY

02 Aug 2012 03:54 PM
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oldfarthenry    [TotalFark]  
Agneska: What kind of man cracks a joke when somebody faints?

One that DOESN'T yell "Praise Jesus!" while scooping money out of the fainter's wallet. A little outside of your zone.

02 Aug 2012 03:55 PM
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skullkrusher     
NeoCortex42: skullkrusher: Jake Havechek: //too bad about his foreign, domestic, and social policies and almost every action as POTUS

Yeah, God forbid he should have a tough time cleaning up the farking shiatty farking mess left by your Republican hero.

It took Clinton at least 3 years to clean up a GOP mess.

what mess did Clinton have to clean up?

Well, there was at least one laundry bill he should have paid.


hehe zinger

02 Aug 2012 04:02 PM
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Nurglitch     
I fainted at a concert once. I hadn't eaten all day, walked to the concert, and remembered to wear my worst pair of boots, the ones that hurt my feet and cut off circulation if I stood in them too long. I'm going to go out there and suggest these idiots brought it on themselves, like my own fool self.

02 Aug 2012 04:03 PM
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Sabyen91     
It is all the X. Dehydrates the body.

02 Aug 2012 04:13 PM
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Hyjamon     
Mr_Fabulous: ManateeGag: what would Romney's response have been? "Fall down. Go Boom! Bad!"

Followed by a maniacal, non-sequitur shouting of "Who let the dogs out!!!!!"


its hard to tell if people faint at Rmoney events since when you faint on a hoveround, you just look like your sitting there asleep in your chair.

02 Aug 2012 04:22 PM
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Magorn    [TotalFark]  
WizardofToast: I've never even heard of someone faint from fanaticism. Fear and dehydration maybe, but not getting really happy over the President making a speech.

Then You ain''t never been to a proper evangelical church service, fainting from religious ecstacy (or as they call it "being slain in the Spirit") is extremely common

02 Aug 2012 04:29 PM
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Pro Zack     
He's right. The time for talk is long over.

02 Aug 2012 04:39 PM
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ExperianScaresCthulhu     
Lando Lincoln: Romney doesn't have this problem since the people that attend his rallies aren't packed in like sardines.

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02 Aug 2012 04:46 PM
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Gyrfalcon    [TotalFark]  
skullkrusher: perhaps his Death Panel Shouts just need some fine tuning?

/Thu'um


That's only going to work if he faces Ulfric Stormcloak in a debate.

Which would be all kinds of awesome, really.

02 Aug 2012 04:47 PM
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TrollingForColumbine    [TotalFark]  
Haven't been drinking enough kool-aid.

/or grape drink thatsracist

02 Aug 2012 05:05 PM
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Cletus C.     
Fainting is far less messy than what happens to his followers here whenever Obama speaks.

02 Aug 2012 05:19 PM
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Martian_Astronomer     
You know who else talked for so long that people passed out? The Apostle Paul, that's who:

On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight. There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "He's alive!" Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted. - Acts 20:7-12

02 Aug 2012 05:22 PM
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Rich Cream     
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02 Aug 2012 06:48 PM
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syzygy whizz    [TotalFark]  
TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: The man is a master of off-the-cuff responses and self-effacing humor. Mittens is doomed.

It's refreshing to find people who don't take themselves seriously...or at least give that impression.
Some folks can be downright tiresome...not to mention drama queens.

What IS the proper terminology for a male-type masculine man-person who has this personality trait anyway?

02 Aug 2012 07:15 PM
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Gyrfalcon    [TotalFark]  
syzygy whizz: TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: The man is a master of off-the-cuff responses and self-effacing humor. Mittens is doomed.

It's refreshing to find people who don't take themselves seriously...or at least give that impression.
Some folks can be downright tiresome...not to mention drama queens.

What IS the proper terminology for a male-type masculine man-person who has this personality trait anyway?


Gay.

02 Aug 2012 07:20 PM
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Kittypie070     
Gee, I wanna get that Obama flag if he wins another 4 years..

02 Aug 2012 11:20 PM
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