This pretty picture shows Michelle and Barack Obama in silhouette, as Washington is bombed by the Independence Day socialist aliens from the planet Hawaii. After a holiday weekend of the desperately unhappy and angry Sarah Palin threatening everyone with lawsuits on Twitter and Facebook, Pete Souza’s picture of a happy couple enjoying the Fourth is like ulcer medicine. And, if you can imagine, it was a WHOLE DIFFERENT WORLD before Palin’s public meltdown. We just read about it in Paul Slansky’s TIME index.
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The Shark God is shooting those fireworks straight out of his eyes, just to make his lady happy.
for the first time in my life i’m actually proud of my country
OH COME ON, pete souza!!
am i the only person who feels like barry could maintain a minimum approval rating of 55% for the entirety of his two terms as long as the administration keeps releasing photos like this? adorable children, amazing lady-pilots in the oval, islamosocialist water-dogs, a middle aged married couple holding hands?? stop doing this to america!
So, the Obamas will watch a Beckian attack on DC, but will they Nuke Iran?
Now that the threat of Alaskan secession is receding, those fireworks really meant something this year. Thanks for a photo that might warm the hearts even of the bitter cynics who read Wonkette.
Ah Ken, thanks for quoting the only patriotic song not written by Woody Guthrie that’s actually worth a damn. You make me homesick for Echo Park…
This picture is faker than my teenage daughter’s breasts. I guess it must be nice to have a professional photographer just follow you around, making images (and layering them together in photoshop). And this picture so perfectly captures the leisure class in action. I don’t remember the last time I had the spare time to hold my wife’s hand, and in any case that’s some pre-pubescent crap. Here in Real America, Orange Co., CA, I work 16 hour days, doing penis implants. I’ve done these procedures on people as old as 86 and (I secretly suspect) as young as 15, but I’ve never had a need for socialist Medicaid or Medicare money.
Leonard Derek, PhD.
“That big explosion I’m calling ‘AIG.’ And the little one I’ll name ‘Chrysler.’”
The true meaning of starbursts. Fuck you Rich Lowry.
And that sweet? They’re bombing most of the world, and yet they hold on to each other. Yippee, fascist titans!
Where’s America’s birth certificate? I heard they found it in Britian a few weeks back, but who in the hell knows if it’s authentic.
Picture Title (alternate): The Revenge of King George III.
Wow. The Obama’s really are Black.
Aww, alright…fuck the snark. What [re=356360]hobospacejunkie[/re]: and Ken said x10: This pic delivers starburst-borne ulcer medicine, in spades.
(Sorry. Force of habit.)
A picture of hope. Tinged with apprehension.
McCain, Meghan
• desire of to be played by Hilary Duff in a movie — not that a movie about is currently being planned, since really not all that much has been done by — or, if Duff isn’t available or interested, by “anyone who’s blond”
Bruce Vilanch, you’re wanted on the set.
“Wonkette, if you have the good fortune of not knowing, is a left-liberal site that manages to consider itself cheeky and iconoclastic while endorsing only the most exquisitely conventional, establishment-approved opinions. If you’re not located somewhere along that fantastic spectrum of genius that ranges from Chuck Schumer to Arlen Specter, Wonkette will expose you to the world as the misanthropic imbecile you obviously are….. The Wonkette kids are like the popular group in high school that wanted to belong to the fashionable causes, since that’s what the other popular kids did, but made sure they weren’t too ostentatious in their devotion to those causes. We can’t be too different, you understand. Just cool. Just different enough to be able to sneer at the rest of mankind and its stupid, unenlightened opinions, but not so different that we won’t get invited to cocktail parties at the homes of people who matter.
Now imagine those people running a website, and you’ve got Wonkette.”
http://www.takimag.com/site/article/establishment_chic/
i clicked on the link. Apparently this guy has a boehner for Michelle Bachmann.
[re=356386]wonksucketh[/re]: is this kinda like how when primus fans say ‘PRIMUS SUCKS!’, they really mean, ‘PRIMUS IS AWESOME!’ ?
[re=356386]wonksucketh[/re]: Gosh, that is so right-on. Actually, not- I am different and no one who matters invites me anywhere. I mostly sneer at stupid Americans- of which there are so many- I figure most of them have no excuse -living here.
The “fireworks” were actually sparks from the burning of Obama’s original Kenyan/Indonesian birth certificate. A Hawaiian birth certificate rose from the ashes like a phoenix.
I think Pete Souza has a little crush on someone.
Actually–sorry to tell you–they were *facing* the camera, but that dumbass White House photog forgot to turn on the flash again. You don’t think they cared about some boring old fireworks, do you?
There–I feel better now. Let my snark flag droop a bit last night…too much rum-and-cabernet.
Pete Souza is a one-man, digital PR phenom. Kudos, Mr. Photog.
Though I have to admit that it may be ‘shopped a bit… then again, what is not these days?
Michelle looks like teevee’s Batman (Adam West era) in that photo.
Are they watching the fireworks or is that the spectacularific explosion of Palin’s career? It’s so hard to tell.
God bless John Doe for the best holiday-named song ever.
[re=356386]wonksucketh[/re]: The Wonkette kids are like the popular group in high school that wanted to belong to the fashionable causes, since that’s what the other popular kids did, but made sure they weren’t too ostentatious in their devotion to those causes. We can’t be too different, you understand. Just cool. Just different enough to be able to sneer at the rest of mankind and its stupid, unenlightened opinions, but not so different that we won’t get invited to cocktail parties at the homes of people who matter.
Blah blah blah … Hey, someone’s calling us cool! High-fives, everyone!
[re=356411]finallyhappy[/re]: I’m still trying to decide what school has fashionable causes and cocktail parties. Mine had locker fires and security guards. I suspect this person has never been near an actual school.
I’m starting to turn on Pete Souza. That picture is way, way too classy for anything that has ever happened in Washington. Where’s Rahm Emmanuel threatening Bernie Sanders with a meat cleaver?
[re=356386]wonksucketh[/re]: I have a feeling that link goes to a site where you have to rate that dude’s Top 100 Cleveland Steamers. While I have to decline, I am impressed at the ability to cut, paste and link while having one’s face encased in Saran Wrap.
[re=356525]Tra[/re]:
fashionable causes = locker fires
cocktail parties = security guards
[re=356349]NewSpence[/re]: I double super second that emotion. Will the last American band to get played on the radio please bring the flag?
[re=356520]Tra[/re]: Yeah, I always knew we Wonketteers were cool, I just wanted to hear if from someone who is envious of us and our cool ways. I’m going to crack open a Mountain Dew and a fresh bag of Cheetos to celebrate.
Since you’re always asking, the birth certificate is in the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/01078/discovering.html
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