Obama Staffer Caught Groping "Clinton"

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Barack Obama's wunderkind speechwriter has joined the long list of folks who don’t seem to understand that the Web is, as the name implies, "world wide."

Photos of Jon Favreau – no, not the writer/actor/director of "Swingers" fame – found their way onto Facebook for a couple of hours earlier today. In one of them, the 27-year-old Favreau, is posed with a hand atop the head of a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton, the other hand groping the senator's right breast.

On Clinton's other side is a young man wearing an "OBAMA STAFF" t-shirt who is giving the secretary of State nominee a smooch and offering her a slug of his beer.

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. That is sooooo wrong on sooooo many levels...

[jrockford]

2. classy but I just don't care. nt

[aquart]

3. On how many other levels is he an idiot?

Because I don't believe it's just the one.

[ogneopasno]

4. Way to go, dumbass. I hope he's done.

[Sidney J Mussburger]

6. Done with what?

[ogneopasno]

9. His job.

[Sidney J Mussburger]

17. I take you were pro Impeachment of President Clinton

Right? You want a speech writer fired for groping a piece of cardboard, so you must've been on the Republican bandwagon to Impeach Clinton for receiving a blowjob from an intern. Am I wrong?

[ogneopasno]

35. Hoo! Thanks for the laugh. I needed that today.

[ogneopasno]

43. I don't want him fired for groping a piece of cardboard.

I want him fired for his huge amount of stupidity and lack of judgment. Grope all you want, dude! But take the two seconds to think about how your actions might look if someone saw them. And then take another five and think, do I want someone taking a picture of that? And then take one minute and ask yourself, "Should I really put this on my facebook page, or not?"

So yeah, you're wrong. It happens.

[glowing]

5. It doesn't actually look like he's groping her breast in that picture..

more like her arm.. and its a freaking cut out.. and they are cutting up.. but probably not the smartest thing to have a picture of; no matter how drunk you may be.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Boys just want to have fun....

[KoKo]

18. 27 years old isn't a boy, though...

[Obamanaut]

31. Despite the term used countless times during the primaries

women Sen. Clinton's age aren't "girls." And a cardboard cutout isn't a real person.

This is only an issue in the sense that "discretion is the better part of valor" especially in the age of internets and digital cameras.

[originalpckelly]

8. Can carboard cut outs be harrassed? Carboard rights?

First cardboard, next blow up dolls. They're coming for your pervy junk dudes!

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. 4th thread today on it

Swampy had a great reply as normal
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[NashVegas]

32. Oh, Boy

If you can't tell the difference between how the people in those photos are interactive with the Bush/Obama/Palin cutouts and this, I'd say that puts you in the future cognitive dissonance sufferers of America group.

[silverojo]

12. It's the fact they're acting like retarded frat boys--that's the issue here

Their actions are a reflection on Obama, and this is sophomoric beyond belief.

[Alcibiades]

11. Fire his ass

Seriously. I was never a big fan of Clinton, but this is beyond the pale. This jackass does not deserve to be anywhere near the West Wing.

[SmileyRose]

13. looks more like an armpit grope to me but

who can blame them for wanting to party with Hillary. She's obviously one heck of a woman and fun to spend time with. Vivacious, talented, intelligent. What's not to turn a guy on?

[KoKo]

14. That's really OTT... Look like Frat Boys making fun of

their Social Studies Teacher... Not Good...

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[Catherine Vincent]

16. Typical trashy behavior. nt

[RC]

19. If that were a cut out of Sarah Palin the response would be way different.

My response in both cases? Yeah and? For most it depends on whose bull, cutout is being gored, groped.

[Catherine Vincent]

20. Not from me.

It doesn't matter which female it was a cut-out of. Now two women doing naughty things to a male cut-out is different (just kidding).

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

39. What I do with my Sarah Palin cut out is my business.

[Bluebear]

21. They WISH they could score with somebody so accomplished.

As it is they have to settle for cardboard. Tsk.

[ContinentalOp]

22. I'm more freaked out by the fact that Obama's speechwriter is named Jon Favreau.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

24. Yeah for the longest time I thought

I didn't know that lame actor wrote great speeches?

[ContinentalOp]

25. Not just a lame actor but also a writer...

and director of movies like Swinger, Elf, and Iron Man.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

28. If he made Iron Man then he is okay I guess n/t

[earth mom]

23. Talk about tacky and low class.

That's some change and hope he's got there-NOT.

[Ichingcarpenter]

27. Hillary is God!!!!

[spiritual_gunfighter]

29. How dare he defile a cardbord version of Hillary!!!!

He should be tarred and feathered in a public square for this horrible crime!!!@!!!!!!!!!

[Jack_DeLeon]

26. ROFLMAO...

nice one.

I dont see it as a big deal.

[Marr]

30. Ceci n'est pas une Clinton.

[NashVegas]

33. I'm Not Supposed to Be Surprised By This, Am I?

To me, this is just a visual representation of what many white males who were campaigning for Obama, all over the leftie blogosphere, behaved.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

34. Haha

Get over yourself, yeah you are right everyone that worked on the Obama campaign including Obama himself is just a big giant sexist pig. I guess that is why she is the Secretary Of State now right?

[MzNov]

36. Smooth Favreau, really really smooth . . . .

although it is funny

[edna lee cobb]

37. Key word in this story?

Beer. Smart people can do rather foolish things under the influence of ethyl alcohol. And Hillary isn't a stick in the mud, so methinks she'd laugh it off.

[backscatter712]

38. Stay classy...

Not exactly what I'd call good taste.

Still, with all the other shit going on in the world, I just can't bring myself to care. Fire him & move on.

[rockymountaindem]

41. Why should he be fired?

Aren't we the party which tries to realize that there can be a separation between peoples' personal lives and beliefs and their professional competence? Obama didn't hire this man to be a morality watchdog or instruct us all about proper posture. He hired this guy to write speeches. If he can do that well, that's what matters. Let's not forget that even someone like FDR himself had extra-marital relationships (such as he could in his condition), Kennedy was not a choir boy, etc. If we're not the kind of people who think that Clinton should have resigned because of personal indiscretions, then why get on this person's case for doing something much, much less serious.

All I think of when I see this picture is "that's crass". It's got nothing to do with whether he's a decent person or whether he can do the job he's been hired to do.

[backscatter712]

42. It's the quickest way to make this story go away.

If Obama keeps him on, various politicos, encouraged by the O'Reillys and Hannitys will screech about it non-stop and make this non-story into a story - they've got to come up with something to attack him with.

It's not even about this speechwriter. He got drunk at a party and got caught on camera in a stupid pose. Big fucking whoop - I've done worse... I'd say publicly fire him, throw him under the bus if we have to - just to show that Obama Does Not Approve (TM). Then rehire him somewhere else within the organization, quietly.

I don't care about punishing him - it's about making this story go away so Obama can get real work done instead of wasting his time with this.

I know, I'm being a Machiavellian bastard...

[Writer]

40. Maybe the young man needs to get laid.