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- OBAMA’S FIRST VICTIMS? Prehistoric klansman Robert Byrd and/or Liberal Lion Ted Kennedy collapsed during the Congressional Lunch with the new president! Yikes. The lunch goes on. Be careful in there, everybody. UPDATE: Both of them! UPDATE II: No, just Teddy. [Politico]
Oh, missed it! Damn MSNBC.
It is going to be weird to see the Young Obama deal with the gerontocracy on the hill. It’s a shame Strom didn’t linger long enough to see this day.
Poor Teddy.
It’s the Lion.
Oh no. Teddy’s had a medical emergency. Damn, I’m not gonna lie: I was hoping it was the hooded Byrd.
Fuck.
Not Ted Kennedy! Not today of ALL days!
Not-so-instant-karma gonna getcha.
They should have converted to Islam while they had the chance.
Hopey just spoke about TK at the luncheon, saying he is not so happy now with this bad news. Seeing TK earlier on TV he didn’t look well, like he wasn’t all there. So sad.
I was hoping it was Dick Cheney, that he had been wheeled back by mistake and that his baboon heart had burst like an overcooked vienna sausage at all the Hope® and Change™.
He had a seizure! Damn!
No es bueno.
Oh, stupid. It wasn’t Byrd? DAMN. Not that I wish anyone ill, except I do.
I’m sure someone at Freep will have a theory about this within, oh, 15 minutes ago.
Jesus, what? Are they just falling on top of each other? Can someone drop a piano on Burris while in the ensuing chaos?
Geez, if something bad were going to have to happen to an old guy in a wheelchair, why couldn’t it be Cheney?
Mr Blifil: Win!
Holy crap, Byrd did have some trouble, too.
Byrd and Teddy! Attention whores much. You’re ruining the wedding!
Damn, Matthews just dropped the Chappaquidick bomb. Stay classy, Matthews. Funny, though, it was just what I was thinking.
“Bobby Byrd is quite old and probably should have retired a couple years ago. I can’t say enough good about Ted Kennedy as a senator. I wish him well. I wish them both well.” Oh Tweety bird, you are the master of backhanded complimentary reportage.
Wikipedia predicting the future … or are they??????:
“Kennedy suffered a seizure at a luncheon following the Barack Obama Presidential inauguration on January 20, 2009. He was removed in a wheelchair, and died shortly after.”
Purple Tide: yum.
Yikes, a twofer. Obama must learn to use his powers for good.
Oh no- there is Coryn!
He thinks it is a terrible tradegy about Byrd. Screw Kennedy.
what attention whores. they just couldn’t let obama have his day, could they….
Min: Professor Xavier warned him he had to gain control of his Hope, or he would hurt those he cared for/former Klan members, but Obama swore up and down he was ready. How was he to know??
Byrd collapsed after trying to pull the white cloth off the table so he could put a scare into Obama by wearing it around the hall.
They tried to warn us of Hussein’s evilness. We just didn’t want to listen
I think Chris Matthews is having a seizure on air with his pointless rambling
Damn, those dinner plates were meant for Hatch and Cornyn!
Somehow, some way, I blame droopy dog Lieberman. His rat stink probably overpowered frail Sens. Kennedy & Byrd. For shame, Ind. (CT).
Obama’s new plan to solve the Social Security crisis: bump off everyone over 80 at the luncheon. For dinner he is solving the energy crisis by siphoning the gas out of the cars of each Member of Congress.
Dana Bash = Jar Jar Binks
But somehow alluring.
Colander: He must eventually acknowledge that, with great Hope, comes great responsibility.
Don’t eat the pheasant! The taste is unpleasant!
Damn, that poetry lady was right.
Maybe Barry is just trying to get more black guys appointed to the Senate. He probably feels pretty bummed that Roland Burris is the only other brother he has to talk to.
oh Ted Kennedy we love you get up.
AnnieGetYourFun: LOL @ U. Klassy!
Byrd seems to be fine (he didn’t collapse) and Hatch says that Kennedy was conscious when they took him to the ambulance. No snark, the tumor might be back.
“Attention, the brown acid that is circulating is not good.”
Who decided that Death by Chocolate was a good idea for dessert?? Sorry, bad taste. But someone had to say it.
Scarab: I’m sure she’s a fine person, swell reporter, real pro, but ugh! She looks like the result of an unholy coupling by John Kerry and Ann Coulter.
WagTehGod: They’ve since upgraded his condition to ‘undetermined’. Which is — good?
pepe: Chris Matthews never knows when to shut up. Somebody needs to tell him it’s not always about him.
It’s very cold, lots of excitement, AND eating at a public event is a dangerous mixture for elderly people much less those who are ailing or have cancer.
My secret wish: Teddy and Byrd didn’t want Dick Darth Deadeye’s wheelchair show to go unanswered. As in, “You ‘pulled’ a muscle? Up yours asshat.”
“I haven’t seen anything like this since that Anita Bryant Concert”
Robert Byrd?
Ohhh whyyy do the good die young?!