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To: ManyMoose who wrote (479153)	3/28/2012 2:02:01 PM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793939

My bad. I have been informed that "punching above your weight" is not an insult, but a compliment, sort of. It means you punch as HARD as weight classes above yours. Shows you how much I like boxing. I liked it when Joe Palooka always won. I was a kid then.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (479153)	3/28/2012 7:35:21 PM
From: Thehammer	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793939

I didn't know what it meant either, but apparently it's a boxing term. If I understand it, Obama is saying "You're a lightweight but you sometimes land a punch on a heavyweight." ergo: punching above your weight Obama is a lightweight punching below his class, He has basically said the exact same thing to scores of smaller countries. The greater insult is that ay least he could have come up with some original words for each of them. It did not go unnoticed. His teleprompter must have been stuck on replay....