An hilarious animated .GIF clip forwarded to us of Rep. Mike Coffman at Denver International Airport last Thursday:
According to the source of this clip, Rep. Coffman was standing nonchalantly at his gate when the impulse grabbed him to drop and start doing…folks, would you actually call those pushups? There appears to be some debate on this point. It's been suggested to us that Coffman does pushups the way he does immigration reform–kind of a half-assed effort, short of what you'd call "comprehensive."
What does this look like to you? Try to keep your answers rated PG-13, kids read this blog after all.
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My gym coach called that "humping the floor."
Were you in the Marine Corps like Coffman?
Apparently neither was Mike. This is a Marine Corps pushup. Mike's doing something he learned from some Navy friends, looks like.
Keep fuckin' that chicken, Mike!
Sigh, wish I'd read the rules 🙁 Well, chickens are kid friendly, at least.
F*cking the chicken? Stay classy.
Right, like dragging family members into an unrelated discussion.
Stay hypocritical and cowardly.
So, it's "that chicken" not "the chicken," and if you think that an a*terisk is the mark of class, you're a sad little person. Much like the hopefully soon-to-be-former rep engaging in a clearly inappropriate realationship with his departure gate shown above.
Fucking the chicken. Stay factual.
No but I can do standard mens' pushups. Always had good upper body strength for a girl. As I recall, the whole body should be moving together like a plank parallel to the floor, all the way down to just shy of touching the floor to all the way up, arms pretty much fully (but not hyper) extended, not just the upper torso and head part way up and down. I'll check the Marine Corps link provided by Pcat to see how they do it there but since Coffman's wouldn't have gotten credit for complete ones in my old gym class, I seriously doubt I'll find anything that looks like this. Bet in his mind he was doing great pushups and he'll be mortified to view this video.
OK. Checked. Look like the ones I'm familiar with, not like Coffman's.
"I'll get this earned media thing figured out SOME day."
"There's no way to have a G-Rated caption to this video."
Caption this, libs:
Off topic. This thread's about the Coffman video. You want to post about Obama, start your own diary.
This post is about politicians who look sily exercising. Obama is fair game, sorry.
Your reading comprehension skills are as lacking as your IQ.
No, Obama is exercising.
Coffman is humping the carpet, 'cause those ain't push-ups.
A two year old could lift bigger weights than Obama did.
You really don't understand the concept of reps, do you?
Or were you just not as titillated with his workout as you were over all those shirtless Putin photos?
He's the President, not your fantasy eye-candy.
Pretty standard light to moderate weight training combo moves but now I'm confused. First you seem to imply that because Coffman is a Marine, he knows his push ups, we shouldn't giggle and he doesn't look silly. Now you've switched to "Johnny looks silly too" mode which is an admission that, Marine or not, Coffman's pushups do look silly.
You need to decide which you want to convey. Admitting that they both look less than sharp at what they're doing is fine with me. Obama has never been in the military so I'd rate him looking silly doing this kind of stuff as less embarrassing than Coffman, Mr. look at me, I'm a Marine, looking silly doing it. Not that any of it matters. What matters is that Coffman is a lousy Rep. who is too extreme for his district. Obama will still be our President with the power to veto no matter who wins House and Senate.
Well, Modster. Is it that they both look silly or is it that we shouldn't question Coffman's pushup prowess because he was a marine?
This image doesn't even show Coffman's face. Is it really him?
Still defending the indefensible? You're such a loyal, predictable, little puppy dog.
You've gone from he's a marine who knows his pushups to Obama looks just as silly and now to it's probably not even him. Guess that means you do agree it looks silly.
Well, I'm guessing we'd be able to tell by the rug burn on his Johnson.
Like BlueCat, I'm enjoying your transition from "Coffman, Oorah!" to "Those don't even look like Mike's tightly clenched buttocks."
"If I do this long enough, they'll stop asking me about my immigration votes."
I'm putting this in the same column as the "shirtless sheriff". It is repellent. I hope his wife doesn't see this.
Probably too late now. And once seen, it can't be unseen.
Maybe it's not exercise. Could be Rove or a Koch brother was standing just off-screen and Mike was simply demonstrating the required fealty.
"Koch One, Koch Two, Koch Three….."
All hail the TSA! All hail the TSA!
Now thats just plain funny exlurker
In 2013, he was doing pushups for donations – probably this is the same. Though why do them at an airport, next to the screening station, I can't fathom.
He's gonna need to do a lotta mini-pushups to make up $130k deficit in donations:
style over substance
Is that supposed to be a display of style?
It sure as hell ain't substance!
So… no substance , no style. Just WTF?
Apparently, Coffman is a compulsive random exerciser. Sure gives you confidence in his ability to lead CD6, right?
That, and we know that he can repeat himself.
Well now we know what those pushups look like.
As to your second link, it's like a flashback to the stepford candidate rinse and repeat reps on the subject of his real views on birtherism.
Are you SURE the scars on his palms are from doing pushups?
Does that cause scarring too? I thought it was just blindness.
"My god, that carpet smells good!"
Maybe Coffman ought to start giving these out at campaign events:
http://www.dx.com/p/usb-powered-funny-cute-stress-relieving-humping-spot-dog-toy-black-white-187346