News of this has been circling the internet for a few days now, but Buzzfeed just ran video:

Here’s what the deaf student in the video wrote about his experience on Twitter, according to Buzzfeed:

The moment I will never forget was when he looked at me. He gave me a chance to talk to him. It was like he was waiting for me to say something. I took the moment and signed “I am proud of you,” and his response was “Thank u” in sign language back! Oh my gosh! I was like wow! He understood me after I said I was proud of him. It was so amazing…I was just speechless. Right after he thanked me, he smiled at another deaf lady who signed “I love you.” When I shook his hand it did not feel like he was superior to me. He was just a humble man. I am just impressed by him and know that he will have my vote and he will win second term without a doubt. Yeah, I feel safe to have him for another term.

I can’t wait to see how conservatives try to shit all over this video when the rest of the world is busy swooning.

8 replies on ““Thank You,” He Signed”

  1. Only Paul Constant could turn a truly meaningful moment like this into snarky partisan bullshit. You are really an embarrassment to people who share your politics.

  2. This was a classy move. So was phoning that “slut” from Georgetown and apologizing for Rush Limbaugh, even though he didn’t have to. Obama is an intelligent, articulate man, with a lovely wife he evidently genuinely loves and a couple of impressive children. However, and you knew this was coming, “swooning” over this, his adorable “terrorist fist bump,” or his beer summit, instead of holding him accountable for his continuation and expansion of the worst aspects of the Bush administration is no different than Repugnantcunts voting for Bush or some other ignoramus because he seems like “one of us,” a “regular guy,” who is “folksy,” and “someone you’ld like to have a beer with.” The real problem is that most, if not all, of the alternatives are so very, very much worse. Maybe I would swoon if my reproductive freedoms and marital status weren’t at risk. I try my damnedest to empathize and advocate for the disenfranchised and, you fucking know what? People in countries occupied by the US military and contractors are disenfranchised. People who are targeted for drone assassination without due process are disenfranchised. People who are arrested and held indefinitely with no charges or trials are disenfranchised. People who are victimized by domestic surveillance are disenfranchised. People who have their earnings confiscated from them to line the pockets of politicians and corporate goons are disenfranchised. Obama needs to be held accountable for torture, extraordinary rendition, warrantless wiretaps, corporate bailouts, unauthorized invasions, ongoing wars, drone assassinations, etc. etc. etc. Yes, he’s a suave, charming motherfucker. Maybe he even means well. He is not doing the right things though, even if you think the bullshit health care bill and the repeal of DODT are good things that he can take credit for. I enjoyed this glimpse of his humanity. If this is all he’s got though, maybe he should save some of it for when he is signing bills and executive orders, and wiping his ass on the Constitution.

  4. Honestly, he was thanking everyone indiscriminately. I love me some Obama, but I think he just recognized he was being signed to, not what the words being signed to him were.

  5. “…when the rest of the world is busy swooning.”

    Swooning..? Or huddled over their children praying that the drone’s flying overhead or the special forces team won’t massacre their whole family during the night.

    Paul, your disconnect from reality is troubling. How did you get into politics, but sucking off Democrats professionally? Obama is a mass-murder.

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