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13 Jun 09 - 01:08 PM (#2655649) Subject: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: gnu Oh MY! oh DEAR ME! I was SHOCKED! WASHINGTON - A member of the media accidentally knocked a glass of water across President Barack Obama's desk on Friday. As she was hustling into place, a sound technician working for a non-U.S. media organization hit the glass with the long handle of the boom microphone she was carrying. The mishap splashed water across Obama's famous but mostly empty desk. The whack of the glass against the desk startled Obama, who did not see what happened. He was across the room with Zimbabwe's prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, for the start of their brief comments to the media - an event that is known in White House parlance as, fittingly enough, a pool spray. "Uh oh," Obama said. He asked what got hit and was told it was the water glass. Meanwhile, staff members worked quickly to sop up the spill. "All right," Obama said with a smile. "It's the Resolution Desk. It's only like 100 years old." Alas, the president was off a bit. It is actually the Resolute Desk, made from the timbers of a British ship of the same name. He was fairly close about the age of the desk, famously known for a photo showing John F. Kennedy's son, little John-John, poking his head out of a door. The desk was presented to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and has been used by almost every president ever since. ***************************************************************** Slow news day or what? Geeeeezzze. |
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13 Jun 09 - 01:34 PM (#2655668) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Amos When stories like that fill the airwaves, there's no room for anything impoertant, so we can all go back to sleep, eh? A |
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13 Jun 09 - 01:39 PM (#2655670) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: gnu Well, I suppose you could. I mean, if North Korea lets rip with a nuke, you'll hear it. |
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13 Jun 09 - 01:40 PM (#2655671) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Bee-dubya-ell Resolute Desk |
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13 Jun 09 - 01:49 PM (#2655675) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: gnu It IS quite a piece of art and of history. I can see why Obamba's timbers were shivered. |
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13 Jun 09 - 03:05 PM (#2655706) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Little Hawk There have been some British warships named the "Resolution" (at least one battleship I know of anyway), but this desk was made from the timbers of the "Resolute". I wonder how Bill Clinton would have handled a major spill like this one? |
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13 Jun 09 - 03:07 PM (#2655708) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: gnu Whhhy, vera well, thank youu. |
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13 Jun 09 - 03:07 PM (#2655709) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Peace He'd a cleaned it up with Monica's dress . . . . |
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13 Jun 09 - 03:13 PM (#2655716) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: jeddy i don't understand how he could get the name wrong. we all know what it is called, due to the fact it played a huge part in the film NATIONAL TREASURE, book of .....whatsists.. secrets? doh |
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13 Jun 09 - 03:21 PM (#2655727) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Don Firth I wonder, when does Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Newt Gingrich want the impeachment proceedings to start? Don Firth |
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13 Jun 09 - 03:35 PM (#2655740) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: gnu Obama ain't got no time ta watch movies. He is dealing with yer crises in real time. He's gotta watch that there Imadinnerjacket and make sure he don't try to tell any more jokes. He's gotta watch them Ill fellers in North Korea what's getting rich on plutonium. He's gotta watch them Canucks what's tarring the sands of the times. He's gotta watch them Chinese drivers waht can't not get tangled up with a nuclear destroyer... they ain't got no sonar of their own? Imagine. It's a wonder he didn't get his pants wet when that there water was spilt. |
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13 Jun 09 - 03:44 PM (#2655746) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Amos Flawless handling of a crisis. |
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13 Jun 09 - 05:28 PM (#2655792) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: gnu Even better if her teacher was a history teacher. |
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13 Jun 09 - 07:29 PM (#2655850) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Bobert Glad it wasn't the Revolution Desk... That baby is alot older... |
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13 Jun 09 - 07:47 PM (#2655858) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: kendall This guy is so human! |
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13 Jun 09 - 07:55 PM (#2655861) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Rapparee Sir John Franklin wouldn't have hesitated with the flogging! Tsk, tsk. Our national leaders are getting soooooooo wussy. |
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13 Jun 09 - 08:00 PM (#2655866) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Little Hawk Flogging? Surely you jest! This merited a beheading or two, I should think. We must make an example of these incompetent underlings! |
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13 Jun 09 - 09:10 PM (#2655887) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Bee-dubya-ell Well, at least if the media decides to blow this up into some sort of scandal, they can't call it "Watergate". |
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13 Jun 09 - 10:06 PM (#2655900) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Rapparee Well, perhaps only a keelhauling.... I shall forgo possible statements about "Resolute" returning to the water, waterboarding, and the water table. But it's hard, lemme tell ya. |
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13 Jun 09 - 11:13 PM (#2655906) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: jeddy beheading? why not hung drawn and quartered? heads on spikes please. keelhauling is that when they drag you behind a ship by ones heels? yes lets do that, but not before the chinese water torture( oops can't say that can i as it has been banned)then maybe the keelhaulling then the hung drawn and quartered then we should chop off her head and parade it around on the spike with a notice saying mess with the resolution and this is what you get maybe abot ott? nah take care and i hope we keep all our heads jade x x |
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13 Jun 09 - 11:58 PM (#2655913) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Little Hawk Keelhauling was a process whereby a sailor was tied to a long rope and then passed under the entire keel of the ship from bow to stern as the ship was sailing along. He was then hauled out of the water at the stern end and brought back onboard to see if he was still alive. Very few men survived the experience, so it was considered tantamount to capital punishment...only meted out for a very serious infraction of the rules. |
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14 Jun 09 - 08:47 PM (#2656490) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Don(Wyziwyg)T And of course, if the sailor survived, he would serve as a constant reminder to the others, having been dragged barechested through the barnacles on the ship's hull. Don T. |
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14 Jun 09 - 08:53 PM (#2656496) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Ref Just a gentle reminder that flogging and keel-hauling were banned in the British Royal Navy well before Franklin's expedition. |
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14 Jun 09 - 09:15 PM (#2656511) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Rapparee Well, keelhauling someone at the White House, which sits on dry ground, would put a whole new dimension to it. |
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14 Jun 09 - 09:57 PM (#2656554) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Amos Surely they have a frog-pond or some such? A |
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17 Jun 09 - 11:18 AM (#2658600) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: heric According to today's news, Obama swatted a fly yesterday. |
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17 Jun 09 - 11:36 AM (#2658615) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Bee-dubya-ell Swatted a fly? Oh, Christ! An action that will probably give rise to calls for his impeachment from the most unholy of all imaginable alliances... PETA and Rush Limbaugh! |
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17 Jun 09 - 11:58 AM (#2658627) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Art Thieme Limbaugher cheese in PETA bread! ...would smell as sweet.) Alas, "If elections could actually change anything, they'd be illegal!"----- Utah Phillips Art |
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17 Jun 09 - 12:47 PM (#2658657) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Charley Noble And so the world as we know it churns on! Anyone for scones? Charley Noble |
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17 Jun 09 - 01:06 PM (#2658674) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Bobert Yeah, I just picked up today's edition of "The Fly Times" and there on the cover is a big picture of Obama with a bold headline that reads "Genocide"... Hey, wouldn't he have had to kill more than one fly for it to fall into the genocide category??? Murderer would have been more accurate... Unless, of course, someone has pictorial evidence that Obama has a history of fly murder... B~ |
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17 Jun 09 - 02:09 PM (#2658726) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Skivee Since it's possible for one fly to lay a gazillion eggs, the President is right up there with Hitler, Stalin. and the KFC folks in terms of raw slaughter. Did you see the glint in his eye? I'm sorry I ever voted for the man. |
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17 Jun 09 - 03:29 PM (#2658784) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Rapparee Seven With One Blow!! With a flyswatter, I mean. Not...never mind. |
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17 Jun 09 - 10:09 PM (#2659069) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Bee-dubya-ell It was a male fly, Skivee. It'd take a miracle for it to lay one egg, let alone a gazillion. |
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17 Jun 09 - 10:23 PM (#2659075) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: gnu I thought it was a joke! JAYSUS H! It was just on the TV news. He killed a fly!! And there is outrage??? Is this shit being made up to suck us in to supporting... oh... not gonna go there. I gotta see if I can get some meds to help me wade through the bullshit. |
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17 Jun 09 - 10:32 PM (#2659083) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Bee-dubya-ell Well, I guess the media will christen this little scandal "Flygate". Or is that what they called the Bill & Monica thing? |
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18 Jun 09 - 10:28 AM (#2659384) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Charley Noble Well, it's a good thing that Obama did not swallow that fly, or we'd be composing a commemorative ditty. I actually enjoy seeing such a news story on CNN, assuming the rest of the world is really not generating relevant news. Bee-dubya-ell- How do you know it was a male fly, and are you certain it is actually dead? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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18 Jun 09 - 11:53 AM (#2659422) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Ebbie Letterman had the story on his show too. The President is sitting there talking, kills the fly and then this HUGE monster fly swoops in and carries the president off. Very well done. And on NBC, with a most bemused look on his face, Brian Williams recounted the story. Evidently, PETA had responded with something like: 'President Obama is not a Buddhist, he is a human being. We have far to go before we have evolved...' Something like that. It bums me out that these organizations - that I would LIKE to support - are so just plain dumb. "Pets are People too" pfuuiii! |
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18 Jun 09 - 12:07 PM (#2659427) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: Rifleman (inactive) "Slow news day or what? Geeeeezzze." seems it was important enough to start a thread...slow thread day or what? Geeeeezzze. |
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18 Jun 09 - 12:17 PM (#2659434) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: gnu This IS the BS section. Who pissed in your cornflakes? |
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18 Jun 09 - 12:57 PM (#2659468) Subject: RE: BS: Obama loses it during crisis! From: PoppaGator I gotta really look up to Obama now. I am very rarely able to snatch a flie out of the air opn the first try ~ he made it look easy, and VERY cool. Has PETA just lost the last shred of credibility they might have had with everyone except high school girls? |