Comments on: TGIF http://goodboysnation.com/2009/07/31/tgif/ A heady and eclectic mix of of the mundane, golf, religion, and politics Tue, 22 May 2012 06:03:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jana http://goodboysnation.com/2009/07/31/tgif/comment-page-1/#comment-695945 Jana Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:12:40 +0000 http://goodboysnation.com/?p=2443#comment-695945 I'd like to see what the pictures were as they left the building, and right afterwards...maybe he was rushing to hug his daughters????? Just looking at things from another point of view that isn't about personal judgement...that's all. I have no idea what the WH press corp allows to go public...Johnson picking his dog by the ears...now there is something I can take issue with because I know the circumstances of that photo. Go have a really cold Turtle beer and just let this one go. I’d like to see what the pictures were as they left the building, and right afterwards…maybe he was rushing to hug his daughters????? Just looking at things from another point of view that isn’t about personal judgement…that’s all. I have no idea what the WH press corp allows to go public…Johnson picking his dog by the ears…now there is something I can take issue with because I know the circumstances of that photo. Go have a really cold Turtle beer and just let this one go.

]]> By: The Great White Shank http://goodboysnation.com/2009/07/31/tgif/comment-page-1/#comment-695916 The Great White Shank Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:24:44 +0000 http://goodboysnation.com/?p=2443#comment-695916 Thanks for your comment, Jana. OK, Ms. "Devil's Advocate", let's play your game. If that were indeed the case, do you not think the WH communications office by now would have saturated the airwaves with a photo of the President graciously assisting his long-time friend in a gesture designed to convince Americans just how warm, friendly, kind, and compassionate a guy the President is? (crickets chirping) I thought so. Y'know, there used to be a disc jokey in Boston, Bill Marlowe, who played Sinatra and the big bands on his programs. He often said you cannot teach taste, class, and appreciation - you either have it or you don't. The class and deportment Officer Crowley displayed shows he has something this President, with all the power he and the office he holds at his disposal, will never have or understand. And you know why? Because it's always about him, no one else. Thanks for your comment, Jana. OK, Ms. “Devil’s Advocate”, let’s play your game. If that were indeed the case, do you not think the WH communications office by now would have saturated the airwaves with a photo of the President graciously assisting his long-time friend in a gesture designed to convince Americans just how warm, friendly, kind, and compassionate a guy the President is?

(crickets chirping)

I thought so.

Y’know, there used to be a disc jokey in Boston, Bill Marlowe, who played Sinatra and the big bands on his programs. He often said you cannot teach taste, class, and appreciation - you either have it or you don’t. The class and deportment Officer Crowley displayed shows he has something this President, with all the power he and the office he holds at his disposal, will never have or understand. And you know why? Because it’s always about him, no one else.

]]> By: Jana http://goodboysnation.com/2009/07/31/tgif/comment-page-1/#comment-695753 Jana Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:08:38 +0000 http://goodboysnation.com/?p=2443#comment-695753 Devil's advocate here..."do we know that he didn't offer to assist and the officer had already initiated assistance and that the professor didn't say, go ahead, I'm fine?" I suppose anyone make anything out of photo when there is no data about the photo/circumstances. This is how judgements can incite what may otherwise be a benign circumstance. Perhaps we all would do better if we removed our judgemental filters and looked at what the other possibilities may be. Just another point of view to ponder. Devil’s advocate here…”do we know that he didn’t offer to assist and the officer had already initiated assistance and that the professor didn’t say, go ahead, I’m fine?”
I suppose anyone make anything out of photo when there is no data about the photo/circumstances. This is how judgements can incite what may otherwise be a benign circumstance. Perhaps we all would do better if we removed our judgemental filters and looked at what the other possibilities may be.
Just another point of view to ponder.

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