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HOORAY 4 AMERICA

Happy First Week of the Obama Administration!

At last.
What, exactly, has White House photographer Pete Souza captured in this shot? Maybe it’s after the last of the 10 dances at 10 inaugural balls. White tie, who even approved that? Anyway, here is your new president, handsome and smiling some 12 hours after he took the (first) oath of office.


1:27 AM on Mon January 26 2009
By Ken Layne
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  1. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:30 am, January 26th, 2009

    This is the shot right before the hero comes in and destroys the serial-rapist-killer man in the photo, correct?

  2. He looks as happy as a dog with two dicks.

  3. SayItWithWookies says at 1:43 am, January 26th, 2009

    The person who cannot smile urbanely even when the world is falling apart is no better than the person who can do nothing else.
    Nobody’s going to fault Obama for dressing up — this isn’t Jesus marching into Jerusalem, you know. I’m just glad to have a president who can smile urbanely at all, so I don’t have to look at that witless smirk anymore.

  4. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:49 am, January 26th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: Why the fuck would we elect a muslin if he wasn’t going to take jerusalem back? Wookies? I have respected you in the past. But this anti-Iranian patriotism is hurting the cause. I’m telling Dean.

  5. AWOcoholic says at 1:51 am, January 26th, 2009

    A post at 1:27 am on a Sunday night? WTF, Ken?

    A rundown of Obama’s week one accompleshmints:
    http://www.yeahokthen.com/2009/01/obama-worst-black-president-ever.html

  6. SayItWithWookies says at 1:58 am, January 26th, 2009

    shortsshortsshorts: He’s got George Mitchell on the case. And they were never getting Jerusalem back anyway. Good thing is, after eight years of Dumbass, they’ll be happy with a lot less.

  7. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:58 am, January 26th, 2009

    AWOcoholic: Ya bit he did it all as a citizen of the U.K. so it doesn’t count, right? Oh fuck it do we have to respect the fucking President now? Oh bloody hell. You’d think a little 3-on-3 would suffice.

  8. What do I like about being the President of the United States? That I can fart on a elevator and nobody leaves at the next floor. See, watch…

  9. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:09 am, January 26th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: Hahahaha that was awesome. The State Department should use that (They need suggestions now, knows?)

  10. chascates says at 2:49 am, January 26th, 2009

    Today’s NY Times says DC’s bar Gibson is really cool BUT it’s a good idea to make a reservation so the doorman will let you in!!??!!

    Does DC have anything resembling dive bars?

  11. What the camera did not capture was, of course, Rahm Emanuel on his knees on the floor. Also.

  12. hobospacejungle says at 3:44 am, January 26th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: “He’s got George Michael on the case.”

    Problem solved then.

  13. Naked Bunny with a Whip says at 5:53 am, January 26th, 2009

    That’s fine, but I’m still hoping for nude Obama photos. Don’t care if it’s Barack or Michelle. Or Malia and Sasha for that matter.

  14. Doktor Avalanche says at 7:20 am, January 26th, 2009

    That, my fellow Wonketteers, is a shit-eatin’ grin.

  15. Numbat Dundee says at 8:06 am, January 26th, 2009

    Am I the only one who thinks he’s about to rip that face of and reveal a writhing, tentacled alien overlord beneath? The grin sort of says that to me somehow. I’m not sure WHY it says that to me. I have not experienced anyone removing their face in that way - and, not being American, have not been anally probed by an alien. We have to do that ourselves in Australia.

  16. sarcasticusername says at 9:16 am, January 26th, 2009

    with a goofy ass grin like that, somebody knew he was about to get laid…that or he and michelle just did it in the oval office.

  17. emilytroutman says at 9:32 am, January 26th, 2009

    Wow, such salacious comments. Makes me feel old fashioned for thinking he’s just happy. Guy became leader of the free world. It’s a gorgeous pic. Thanks for sharing.

    http://emilytroutman.blogspot.com

  18. actor212 says at 9:32 am, January 26th, 2009

    He looks like he just got sumsin-sumsin from an intern.

  19. IZ IN UR H4LLS OF POW3R ADJUSTIN MA TIE

  20. AWOcoholic: Cool. Low hanging fruit first, then the high hanging fruit.

  21. Darkness says at 9:57 am, January 26th, 2009

    How cute he can tie his own bow tie.

    Eh, Bush probably can too. “Hey, Laura, come get this for me!”

  22. nonbeliever7 says at 10:58 am, January 26th, 2009

    I used to be disgusted.
    Now I try to be amused…

  23. I think I hear Barry White in the background.

  24. Mr Blifil says at 11:25 am, January 26th, 2009

    Something about that picture reminds me of that Agent Maxwell Smart would have looked like had he just got to bang 99.

  25. Mr Blifil says at 11:26 am, January 26th, 2009

    Darkness: Where’s your PROOF? All we can tell from that photo is that he can UNtie the tie. And he probably has some white slave who does that stuff for him, that’s how hardcore he is about reparations.

  26. NotthatLC says at 11:41 am, January 26th, 2009

    Numbat Dundee: Then I for one welcome our new a writhing, tentacled alien overlord. But seriously, what is Alex Balk on? That post gave me a contact high.

  27. Bring Out Your Dead says at 12:19 pm, January 26th, 2009

    So we’ve got Mitchell in Jerusalem, Holbrooke in Islamabad and Cab Calloway in the White House!

  28. bob marvin says at 12:44 pm, January 26th, 2009

    Michelle get up our…our floor is next!

  29. sarahconnor says at 1:05 pm, January 26th, 2009

    hubba hubba… but the photo in the Times of Barry in a supine position, talking phone sex on Blackberry with one hand and downloading porn in the other… HAWT.

  30. DustBowlBlues says at 1:29 pm, January 26th, 2009

    All I know is that he’s had almost a week to heal my Bell’s Palsy and hasn’t come through yet.

    So why is he smiling? The right half of my face isn’t. Which is kind of gross.

  31. DustBowlBlues says at 1:36 pm, January 26th, 2009

    sarahconnor: “Times of Barry”

    What’s the price of a year’s subscription?

  32. That is an ad for Cialis, right?

  33. sarahconnor says at 2:24 pm, January 26th, 2009

    DustBowlBlues: har har har!

    Actually, it’s, like, $500, but got my money worth with that one photog. it BURNS.

    And i do like the black smudges it leaves on my fingers…

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/politics/23berry.html?scp=3&sq=obama%20blackberry&st=cse

  34. the cold war makes me hot says at 2:40 pm, January 26th, 2009

    I’d hit it, but I would never quit it.

  35. SwamTheRiver says at 4:57 pm, January 26th, 2009

    He just saved a lot of money with Geico

  36. the cold war makes me hot says at 5:24 pm, January 26th, 2009
  38. wickedlittledoll says at 7:04 pm, January 26th, 2009
  39. the.switch says at 10:53 pm, January 26th, 2009

    We all know that King Jesus Obama can do no wrong. He is the second coming, the miracle worker, the perfect politician…he is King Jesus Obama. Some of you people need to pour ice water over your heads and realize that King Jesus Obama is a man…not some kind of savior. And I am not some Obama-hating Republican. I voted for Obama. But this whole cult-of-personality that surrounds him, along with the Hollywood/media worship of him, gives me pause. I am hopeful that he will make a great president, but his start seems all style and no substance (Hillary as Secretary of State? The CNN doctor as Surgeon General? Jeeeeeeeez).

  40. the.switch: I think you’re lost, hon. The closet is *that* way.

  41. YellowScientist says at 7:03 am, January 27th, 2009

    the.switch: Awesome! Did HuffPo direct you here? And to DemocralypseNow? How many more you got today?

  42. June Cleaver 2.0 says at 7:36 pm, January 27th, 2009

    My sexy Ward Cleaver. No pajamas tonight!

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