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1,000 Words: Senior Class Picture

I found this one on the White House Flickr page:

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  • 1

    I can't resist a basketball analogy

    And now your United States Government Line-up

    Starting at Point Guard: Rahm "Take no Prisoners" Emmanuel, Small Forward: Hillary "Rod-em Sock-em" Clinton, Power Forward; Joe "Amtrack Literally Scranton" Biden, Shooting Guard: Robert "Kansas twang" Gates, and at center, the kung fu fly swatter himself Barack "Hope and Change" Obama

    On the Reserve list:

    Tim " Tax this" Geithner
    Peter " I can take your wife" Orzag
    Eric " The Prober" Holder
    Arnie " Dunk-I-Can- Duncan
    Kathleen " Swine flu's worst nightmare" Sebeilus
    Steven "You are so dumb you don't even know what the atomic number of carbon is" Chu

  • 2

    …thanks, KT! But is this instead the freshman class? Besides the Chief, who are the frat / sorority leaders and who are the pledges, thinking of course, “…he can't do that to our pledges.” “That's right; only we can do that to our pledges.”
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    Biden: Psst, Sir. You're covering part of my right shoulder.
    Obama: Bite me.
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    Talk about serendipity: this pic was taken immediately before Sarah Palin rushed up behind Obama with split-finger “bunny ears” behind his head.
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    If you squint hard, you'll see Hillary's left hand clenched in Fist of Death as she mutters, “shoulda been me, shoulda been me….”
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    Kathleen Sebelius borrowed this elegant, flattering outfit from… Rudy Giuliani …and has to return it to him afterwards. Shoes and earrings too.

  • 4

    Rush Limbaugh counted 17 communists and 11 Moslem terrorists in this photo.

  • 5

    Suprised Kathleen "germaphobe" Sebelius isn't wearing a surgical mask.

  • 6

    I think the back row is standing on the crates of dead fish rahmbo is about the send when the health care bill passes-something sinister about his smile

  • 7

    Obama's thinking--I had the election--why did I pick Joe?
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    OT, when youre a Dem and you;ve lost Slate, well . . .

    http://www.slate.com/id/2228872/?GT1=38001

  • 8

    Photographer: Everyone, if you're trying to resist the urge to flip the bird, just clasp your hands together...

  • 9

    Obama and Biden are posing with their respective dodgeball teams. Brooks and KT insisted that they NOT wear their uniforms for this TIME photo.

  • 10

    "The Socialist People's Party Representatives"!!!
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    No other words are necessary to describe this picture.
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    How many tax cheats are on this picture? Have they figured that out yet?

    • 10.1

      Rusty the Wonder Nazi:
      "Obama is a RACIST!"
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      Reasonable individual:
      "How, I see only three Black faces?!"
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      Rusty the Wonder Nazi:
      "He HATES Blacks! He's white, you know! He's RACIST!"
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      Reasonable (and now clearly baffled) individual:
      "If he hated Blacks, then why are there three there?" Wouldn't he have none?
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      Rusty the Wonder Nazi:
      "He HATES Whites! He's Black, you know! He's a RACIST!"

  • 11

    Photo was found at your local Post Office

    • 11.1

      When I saw the subject, I expected the thread to be littered with childish insults from the wingnuts. But I'm favorably surprised by freeinpa's. This is actually pretty funny. Well played sir.
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      Now back to pummeling freeinpa in another thread.

  • 12

    Obama has such a big grin in this picture! Wow, you would never guess the massive hurdles he is facing in every imaginable area—economy, health, wars, Blue foggy democrats, Palin etc. etc..

    Well, there is a lesson in this picture-- "smile at the massive problems which face you" (just kidding) :)

    Nice Picture though :)

    LM

    http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/

  • 13

    [...] White House photo via Time. [...]

  • 14

    Hey, Reagan is hardly cold in his grave and what do we have!

    The country goes to them, eh, feminism!
    What do you know - we may as well soon have twenty Indians in there and an Indian in there White House!
    White House!.
    GOP, We want our country back!
    Here comes RNC to the rescue - MASCULINISM!

    --------------------off topic

    So, we were treated to hours of those "No-Israel-No-USA" talking heads - in Israel's fifth column in USA referred to as USA's MSM - proposing that rabid, baseless, vituperation spat at our POTUS BHO has nothing to do with racism: That such is American democracy at its best.

    And those "No-Israel-No-USA" talking heads - in Israel's fifth column in USA referred to as USA's MSM - would cower us into loudly proclaiming that sharp criticism of Israel, its leaders, any Jew or its looting of our till of starving and sick tax-payers is a clear actionable evidence of criminal racism.

    Un-Americanism at its clearest.

    With patriots like these why does USA need traitors!

  • 15

    This photo was taken immediately before everyone broke out in song and dance to the Black Eyed Peas' “My Humps” (Hillary and Kathleen do an awesome Fergie impersonation).

  • 16

    [...] V-sign gesture? Hi, Are there other names for a V-sign gesture? --- On this Time page ( 1,000 Words: Senior Class Picture - Swampland - TIME.com ), [...]

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