>>>>I'm surprised there's been no comment but Barak didn't do himself any favours at the 9/11 + 7 ceremony, where he clumsily chucked his flower on the heap while McCain carefully placed his. It looked as if Barak wasn't all there.
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>>>What exactly do you mean?
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>>By "...wasn't all there."? It's an idiom for "was there in body but not in spirit", "vague", "not playing with a full deck".
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>>>BTW, in Jewish tradition people don't bring flowers to the graves.
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>>So is Barak Jewish and therefore that would excuse his gaffe? A president can't afford to be unaware of proper decorum, esp. at so solemn and important an occasion.
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>I haven't seen anything about this episode, can you give a link?
Here's one of, I suspect, many:
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2008/09/did_obama_diss.php
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
