Instead of Fainting, Now They're Falling Asleep

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Remember the good old days?  Back during the Dem primaries? When Barack Obama was such an electrifying orator that women were regularly fainting at his rallies?  Ah, how times have changed.  Instead of knocking them out with his other-worldly aura, Obama's now . . . putting them to sleep.

Check out the woman in the lower-right hand corner of the video to your right, from CNN today during a live broadcast of Obama on the stump in Virginia.  No, I didn't catch her in mid-blink. 

As you'll see in the video, as Obama expounded on the horrors of the Bush economy, the woman falls into, then struggles out of, the arms of Morpheus.  (Watch video full-screen for best viewing.)

Could this be part of Obama's plan to reduce health-care costs?  Save millions on all those expensive sleeping-pill prescriptions. Just have the country tune into a cable channel playing a continuous loop of his speeches.

On a day when he's falling behind McCain in the polls, will the MSM report on how Obama has voters . . . falling asleep?

A close up still shot:


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Of course not!

That was pretty funny, though. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Karl Rove must be behind

Karl Rove must be behind this...I bet this is Pres. Bush's fault!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Perhaps she was savoring

Perhaps she was savoring the moment???

She forgot to paint eyes on the back of eyelids like the rest of the crowd?

"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain

Mark, that's hilarious! I

Mark, that's hilarious!

I wonder if he noticed her when he turned that way...maybe he nudged her with his foot and that's what jerked her awake....LOL!

Thanks, mb: nothing gets by

Thanks, mb: nothing gets by NewsBusters ;-)

Obama may want to rethink

Obama may want to rethink his burqa-in-the-audience-ban...

...at least we wouldn't be able to tell if they nodded off. 

 Mark, The spin from the

 Mark,

The spin from the MSM,  "He makes his supporters feel so safe and relaxed that they can finally rest.  Not like Bush who keeps the liberals up at night wringing their hands off"

 

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference.
The MARINES don't have that problem."
President Ronald Reagan - 1985

"It's 1 PM.  Somewhere, a

"It's 1 PM.  Somewhere, a phone is ringing. But you can't hear it, because you fell asleep listening to an Obama speech."

After hearing more of his orating it appears the "fainting"

could have been spin. They were just people who fell asleep and fell over. That seems to be the more likely scenario now anyway.

I can't believe how the media hyped him as some sort of great orator. After seeing the debates with Hillary and this last one with McCain, I think he is an incredibly boring speaker and he also has plenty of gaffs.

Yep

My thoughts exactly Dee.

You are all wrong!

That woman is trying to psychically communicate with Obama for the numbers to the Mega Million jackpot!

"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."

Wake rested and refreshed...

Can't sleep? Next time, try Obaminex®.  

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

A different MSM spin

I think since he was talking about people in America who are working hard, the MSM will say the sleeping lady is someone who is working so hard, she can't stay awake. 

See what the Bush economic policies do to the average American? It's so bad that even in the midst of such an inspirational speaker, they have to catch a quick nap to recover from all this hard work.

I did not know Morpheus was

I did not know Morpheus was such a racist hatemonger!

 

Cold stare

When Obama's looked at her with his cold superior stare, she felt it in her soul and woke up in a cold sweat. She saw true evil the type only seen in nightmares.

Oh this is too

Oh this is too funny.

Obama writers must be losing their "magic" touch.  Obama's speeches are normally interesting, entertaining and enthralling -granted filled with empty and vague verbiage.  I don't blame Obama, I blame his speech writers.  C'mon, boys, get crackin'!  76 days to election.  The best or worst is yet to come. 

-------------------------------------------------------------
Take it easy!  We're not making a western here.
      ~ Uncle Junior
 
 (The Sopranos)

Well, this wasn't really a

Well, this wasn't really a "speech"....this is a "talk"....

"What's the difference between a talk and a speech"? you ask.

A suit and a teleprompter.

Is this what they had in mind when they said...

Hopes and DREAMS, baby...

Is the banner at the bottom of the screen a reference

to "The Most Holy One's" poll numbers?

 

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

I don't see...

Obama: "I don't see people whining..."

But people do see others falling asleep as Obama whines!

Falling asleep at a

Falling asleep at a political speech? Who could do such a thing? Certainly not anyone with any self-respect right? Or was Obama just that boring?

I don't know but either way it reminds me of an elderly gentleman I know that fell asleep at the State of the Union address. Oh what was his name again? Mc something. Mc Mc Mc...oh wait, it was John McCain.

Never mind.

with most of the other old guys...

Gingerman,

He was partying late at night with the rest of the old guys. Viagra does that to you...take it from me, I'm stocked up for the GOP shindig in the twin cities! I plan to be sleeping through most of the speeches while getting enough rest for the wee hours of the morning! YaHOOO!

Ubercon

" Barack my son, when your

" Barack my son, when your children start falling asleep at your sermons maybe its time you traded your halo in for a copy of Halo 3."

-Jesus

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

...or bring in Rev. Wright

...or bring in Rev. Wright as a warm-up speaker....

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

It also looks

It also looks like the lady in the next row with the pink top on is also drifting off to sleep, but snaps out of it. That is who I thought was being pointed out!

I once fell asleep at a speech by Gerald Ford at Notre Dame when I was in High School, but that probably does not come as a surprise to anyone who ever heard him speak.

Hmmmmmmmmmm....

Could be all that free beer and sausage that made them sleepy. 

What?  Not for American audiences?

Never mind.