This jock-inspired, fraternity gesture is simply an offensive act.

I find hand gestures of this sort to be as offensive as 'Heil,...', the one- five finger salute, the V for 'Peace', or the middle-finger jab.

The hand gesture always has more than one meaning, some acceptable, and most, not. It is always unpunctuated. It is never vocabulary neutral.

For Obama, who must continuously, revise and extend his remarks concerning his original statement, reminds me of almost any conversation with a Black American. They never say what they mean, and they almost never mean what they say. " ya' know what I mean ...", "What I mean is ...", "What I meant was ..." "'Ya know ..."

But the offensive "fist-bump" needs no explanation. It is a statement of silly solidarity with another "clan" member. A secret handshake, so to speak. It is as offensive as flowered Peaceniks showing the V-sign at a Medal of Honor veteran's Arlington burial. It is inappropriate and stupid.

It offends my white heritage as much as a Union Jack on a pick-up truck offends an African-American.

I do not, personally, go out of my way to offend African-Americans. Why do Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama think they can avoid criticism and routinely denigrate white America?

SHUT UP! Are you really complaining about a fist bump?! LMAO!!!

This has got to be an attempt at satire.

Any real white racist would know that the flag of the Confederacy is the Southern Cross or the Cross of St. Andrews and not the Union Jack. I guess Rich isn't too knowledgeable about his proud "white heritage".

Of course the white racists I've known were some of the most ignorant folks I've met, so perhaps it's not so far fetched.

Yikes! dippa, don't you appreciate clever satire? The tipoff is the complaint about the "V" gesture for peace. This gesture was famously popularized by Winston Churchill to signify victory.

pwoxby;

I didn't get it and I don't consider myself a dippa. Is that what we used to call dip?

Dunno. Maybe you should address your query to dippa. :)

Oh. I didn't see dippa's message. I am a dip!

Satire??? Then, I didn't get it either. Oh well, off to bed then with little ole me!!

thats funny

i think you can tell he is being satirical because he trys to connect frat jock boys to black culture, which are pretty far apart. No ones that silly

Satire, I would say not. But he misspoke about the Union Jack on pickup trucks offending Black people. I think what he meant to say is that the Union Jack on top of minis offend Black people because they are the only people tall enough to see the top of the cars and since it looks so similar to the Flag of the Confederacy since it is too red and white and blue but with no stars since the British lost all their colonies. Just think about it, if they were to see the Union Jack when they still had India, Bahamas, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Suez, etc. it could look a lot like the Confederate flag, well if the British did that star things with counting colonies. Can you imagine what that flag looked like with like 87 stars? Wow, that would really be offensive. And on top of a Mini Cooper.

You not really offends me, the flag of France. Get your own damn colors. Plus, if you hold it sideways, they could use it to sneak in to other countries. "Oh, It's okay, they're not French, they're Dutch." By the time the country figures out what had happened, the French have already been making fun of their cultural endeavors and the whole place smells of unfiltered cigarettes.

Damn Dutch. I mean French.

Dumbest. Post. I've. Ever. Read.

And that's really saying a lot.

Maybe this is a joke?

If not, it is truly the most idiotic thing I think I've ever seen written in one place, by one person.

You are offended by a hand gesture that 99.998% of human being on this planet find innocuous?

Wow. . . Just. Wow.

You Repubs are really reaching.

Are you really that scared of Obama?

You can't even take him to task on the issues or the usual laundry list of weak attacks. Now you've got to invent something to be offended about.

I guess I should be happy that Republicans are so perplexed about how to deal with Obama, that they can't even think straight anymore.

Rich05 -

Do you have children or attend sporting events? It's done all the time - no offensive intended - just a greeting and sign of support.

Indeed, however Obama is black and doesn't have a "european name" so the close minded bigots choose to interpret every little action he does as some sort of proof he's an evil al quida member.