After teasing you with a photo of Obama and a post about Medvedev’s Twitter account, it’s time we finally acknowledge the BIG POLITICS NEWS of the day: President Obama took Russian President Medvedev to Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington for lunch. You of course remember the top political story of last year, Obama taking Biden to the same place. (Obama must have a punch card for a free burger from there or something). After the jump: HOTT DEETS on what kind of burgers they ordered. You simply must click through!
The U.S. president had a cheeseburger with cheddar cheese, onion, lettuce, tomato and pickles. His Russian counterpart had a cheeseburger with cheddar, onion, jalapenos and mushrooms. Obama drank ice tea, Medvedev sipped a Coke, and they split fries.
Both leaders were in a shirt sleeves on a sweltering summer day. Other customers were seen enjoying their own meals and largely leaving the presidents alone.
(This version CORRECTS ADDS details on burgers ordered by Obam and Medvedev; corrects that Obama and Biden ate at Ray’s last year, STED last month.)
Thanks AP! It’s so cool to know you get to call Obama by his nickname, “Obam.” And that commoners were there! Eating their own meals, just like heads of state do! How populist of you.
We would parse those burger ingredients for any clues as to the future of the world hegemonic order, but Putin was under their table actually eating Medvedev’s burger and seemed angry about what his puppet ordered for him. But we can safely say, with the news that Obama and Medvedev were sharing fries, that they are officially BFF. [AP]
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If they had stayed on the DC side, they could have gotten gay-married and that could have been their wedding reception (with wedding attendees enjoying their own meals and largely leaving the lover-presidents alone). Of course, bigamy is still illegal in all fifty states and the district of columbia, and presumably Russia as well. but in Russia, their love match would not be recognized.
Sted, AP? According to my Firefox spellchecker, that’s not a word (neither is Obama, but it’s bad with names and out of date). Really, typing out full words is not that hard; the AP doesn’t need to turn into Variety.
Oh, and that Blingee is many times funnier than the RedState Oval Office photoshop.
Jack Bauer is probably FUMING over this!
Then David Axelrod explained that the song “Like a Virgin” is about this little f*ck machine who finds this guy who’s so big she feels something she hasn’t felt in a long time — pain. Then they all get up and knock over the diamond exchange.
Vlad Putin has great taste in burgers
In Russia the burger eats….ah, fuck it.
Clearly the burger stand is an elitist restaurant serviced by the whitest and most enslaved Christians to be rounded up by Obama’s Mujaheddin Police
No vodka shots?
splitting an order of fries = ghey
That blingee is giving me a capitalist migraine.
But did Meds tweet about it, after? Possibly including details of his ensuing bowel movement and so forth.
What do the jalapenos mean? Seriously, WHAT DO THEY MEAN??
Hairy Putin and the Half-Blood Prez
But what kind of condiments did Barry use? Did he order good ole ketchup or commie elitist French Dijon? Christopher Mathews and Maureen Dowd want to know!
Why was Justin Bieber there? God I hate myself for even knowing that name.
Medvedev ordered a burger with jalapenos – oh my god, he’s just just a Russian communist, he’s a Russian communist Mexican illegal immigrant! So Trotsky, I guess.
[re=606097]populucious[/re]: They mean Obama is soft on illegal immigration! He wants to throw open the border and let all the criminals in and THEN we’ll all be in the hot sauce!
[re=606101]JMP[/re]: The jalapenos mean that the real man Russkie could break that beanpole Obama in half like a twig.
Hahaa nice Blingee, Stuef. The king is very much amused.
[re=606097]populucious[/re]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKK37G-ZWvk
At least Putin didn’t rear his ugly head.
Jalapenos and vodka make you strong like bull.
Sweat like one, too.
Jalepenos! BREAKING NEWS: MEXICO IS THE NEW RUSSIAN EXCLUSIVE PROOF FILM AT 11 build a fence now.
Medvedev and Obama Go To White Castle
In Soviet Union burger fix you!
I imagine Obama constantly apologizing to world leaders about how he’d love to take them to a fantastic upscale place, but Americans are just too fat, stupid, and poor to tolerate that.
Don’t let your meat loaf.
[re=606124]Capricatony[/re]: I dunno, man, you can find fancy-pants food just about anywhere, but outside of the poor facsimiles McDonald’s produces, it’s hard to get good old fashioned down-home American middle-class cuisine outside of North America.
Кто делить фрит, тот будет жыть!
[re=606128]Mad Brahms[/re]: Is this good news or bad news for teh “small people”?
Wait a minute….they SPLIT the FRIES?!?!?
GAY!
[re=606111]mumblyjoe[/re]: How do you know? Who’s to say where Putin has put his ugly, throbbing gristle of a head. Sarah Palin Was Right!
ялапенос <- Jalapenos in Russian
[re=606131]Zorg[/re]: Who share Frith, he will zhyt.
Or so Google’s translation thingy assures me.
Gotta love the Biebs… they should have gone to Five Guys though, Ray’s isn’t anywhere near as good imo.
First off, Blingee WIN.
Second, they shared fries not because they are BFFs but because their under-the-table puppet masters will whip them with the cat-O-9s if they ingest more than 25 grams of fat in a single sitting. Popularity is highly dependent on maintaining a girlish figure, afterall.
I want to be President just so I can introduce the world to the awesomeness that is putting potato chips on your burger. Seriously, it makes it like 50x better. Try it, America.
[re=606151]Jefferson Davis Hogg[/re]: I hope you are kidding- Five Guys – now just a big chain- doesn’t compare to Rays. BUT splitting an order of fries- what are they – teenage girls? Did they drink diet iced tea and diet soda too and then go back to the the White House and throw up lunch?
Medvedev: Remember Afghanistan?
Obama: I hope not.
[re=606153]CivicHoliday[/re]: They could be watching their cholesterol too. Statists, Statins, Stalinists!
Aww. You got Justin Bieber on your blingee? I tried to put him on mine, but his face was huge. It took up about half the picture and I couldn’t figure out how to make it smaller, so I didn’t use it.
Today, we are all 14-year-old girls.
Since no one looked at my blingee the other day, I will post it again. I’m an attention whore.
http://bln.gs/b/1vdwdw
Best Blingee, ever? Just maybe. I wonder if they went all awkward and Lady of the Tramp when they both reached for the same fry. Can’t you just hear the swell of violins as they realize that they are what each other has been searching for, for always?
I don’t know whether to fap or swoon.
Did he ask for that socialist french surrender sauce again? Commence the impeachment!
Jesus, is this what epileptics experience? Jack, a tip: long articles with lots of words chase away idiots; an entire front page full of 400-frame, full-screen Blingees and embedded video clips not only chases away the literate, it detracts from the, ah, TONE of the site. Or establishes a new one, maybe.
Is there a pithy “tl;dr” equivalent to “I’mma filter a bitch’s images unless they’re jpegs within the body of a story (this spares avatars as well)”? There is not — but why? The Way is unclear… I must seek guidance from the Master.
It’s so cool to know you get to call Obama by his nickname, “Obam.”
Obama’s Secret Service Code name is “Renegade”.
Five Guys sucks ass. Give me a Whataburger any day.
How much time did you actually spend on this specific Blingee?
[re=606165]HedonismBot[/re]: Did anyone look this time? How do you tell?
[re=606165]HedonismBot[/re]: There are little magnifying glass buttons. One with +, one with a – Click on the thing you want to embiggen or enlittlen, and then on the buttons until you are satisfied with the size. Use the hand button to move things around. Blingee is an awful program, designed for 11 year-olds and aging wonketteers, so trial an error may be your best bet.
[re=606183]x111e7thst[/re]: Honor system.
I did…
[re=606165]HedonismBot[/re]: Aww, don’t feel bad. I just looked at your blingee. It’s a very nice, very scary blingee. I even voted, and don’t say I didn’t.
[re=606124]Capricatony[/re]: I imagine Obama constantly apologizing to world leaders about how he’d love to take them to a fantastic upscale place, but Americans are just too fat, stupid, and poor to tolerate that.
Drudge Sirens: “Putin on the Ritz!”
[re=606073]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Why does everyone just assume that Barry will be Mr. Black? Fuck you guys, nobody gets to be Mr. Black.
[re=606183]x111e7thst[/re]: [re=606186]Jim89048[/re]: [re=606192]Katydid[/re]: Oh sure. A few months ago I spent many, many posts trying to get traction for a “Palin Has Hookworms” meme and, not getting that, I simply got annoying.
Now, dude makes a blingee (oh, it’s lovely and I definitely voted too) and gets attention lavished like dijon on a hamburger. I feel like committing Wonkette seppuku by writing “Frist!” on a new post.
[re=606168]nappyduggs[/re]: Though I did just notice one problem with the Blingee. Obama is a White Sox fan; he would not wear a Yankees cap.
[re=606199]JMP[/re]:
Maybe he’s just testin’ the Chi-town machine, to see if they’ll go for his kneecaps. Or, maybe he’s like the rest of us Chicago sports fans, too ashamed to wear the regalia anywhere but in Chicago.
Go Cubbies!!!!!!!1!1111!! (they won’t)
[re=606183]x111e7thst[/re]: [re=606185]the problem child[/re]: [re=606192]Katydid[/re]: [re=606197]user-of-owls[/re]: Aww! Y’all are the best friends (?) a 14-year-old girl could ask for!
[re=606100]Whiskeybaby[/re]: He is in charge of modern love, such as that between heads of state.
[re=606153]CivicHoliday[/re]: True. But all good leaders are fat.
[re=606165]HedonismBot[/re]: Did you notice there is a Cupid’s arrow shooting out of Medvedev’s finger and into Obama? Yeah, you were too busy criticizing me. Now you feel stupid.
[re=606182]311 truth movement[/re]: Not sure. When you make a Blingee, time seems to stop.
[re=606208]Jack Stuef[/re]: I did notice. That is lovely. Maybe Barry will let Dmitri wear his team jersey for Homecoming!
[re=606178]GreenHalo[/re]: Are you aware of all Wonkette traditions? Just be glad this didn’t trigger an epileptic seizure.
[re=606209]HedonismBot[/re]: Pooty Poot will be so jealous.
[re=606208]Jack Stuef[/re]: How big is your Blingee portfolio (I mean, the one Mr. Layne had to inspect before he let you type at Wonkette)?
[re=606208]Jack Stuef[/re]: Also, did Mr. Layne give you banning privileges? If not .. HA HA Ginger Boy! If so, then you are the Justin Bieber of not-having-red-hairs.
[re=606197]user-of-owls[/re]: Must’ve been when I was in the hospital. I’d have been down with that.
[re=606223]Jim89048[/re]: If you were in the hospital, you must’ve already been down with something. Hope it wasn’t hookworms!
[re=606141]x111e7thst[/re]: Iz old rhyming Russian proverb I just make up: “He who shares the French fried potatoes, he will live.” Iz not rhyming in the Inglish. Now I go to look for moose and squirrel. Bye!
[re=606141]x111e7thst[/re]: Also, “live” is misspelled in Russian. Try putting in жить in your your hot little Google.
[re=606240]Zorg[/re]:
Try putting in жить in your your hot little Google.
That’s how Bristol Palin got her star turn on ABC.
[re=606241]user-of-owls[/re]: You betcha!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/24/rand-pauls-underground-el_n_624535.html
“Republican Senatorial candidate Rand Paul wants to build a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. It’s a rather ho-hum proposition in the larger context of conservative ideas — except that Paul wants that fence to be electric and he wants it built underground…”
—And…in phase two Mexicans will be fitted with shock collars? Easier said than done; Mexicans are getting very good at shooting now. They’re very libertarian in that sense.
[re=606221]facehead[/re]: I did some stuff:
http://georgetownheckler.com/blog/2008/11/21/heather-maginnis-googles-self-on-company-time/
http://georgetownheckler.com/blog/2009/10/30/bosss-current-underling/
But those are obviously early, derivative works. (Also, if you think I’m long-winded now, take a look at that second post there.) ((Also also, that Bieber thing is the kindest thing anyone has ever said about me.))
[re=606243]NYNYNY[/re]: It’s not an electric fence — it’s to keep the New World Order’s NAFTA Superhighway from being tunneled entirely under the United States so as to avoid notice. Glenn Beck’s gonna break this wide open in a few days, just you wait and see. It’s actually an Obama-administration conspiracy to destroy the US economy and blame it on the Libertarians. That’s how devious they are.
[re=606100]Whiskeybaby[/re]: That ugly nose inclusion is the best part of the blingeeeeexstacy feeling the effectasy…
[re=606243]NYNYNY[/re]: Chihuahua! Precávase el perros de guerra!
[re=606247]SayItWithWookies[/re]: After yesterday’s brilliant libertarian diatribe, you are my go-to Wonkette commenter on all things Rand. Thank you kind sir!
[re=606084]desertwind[/re]: That was when Bush & Yeltsin got together.
Putin, er, Medvedev: I said no pickles, dammit, or however you say that in Commiespeak.
[re=606243]NYNYNY[/re]: Who will do the work? Texicans?
Putin is Russian for Poutine, which is French,um Freedom, Fries with gravy and chunks of funky cheese. You can add sausage,too, if you like.
[re=606237]Zorg[/re]: I did wonder if Frith was the retranslation of fries.
[re=606197]user-of-owls[/re]: Does JS wield the banhammer?
[re=606197]user-of-owls[/re]: NOOO! Writing “first”, “frist”, or “these pretzels are making me firsty” is NEVER the answer.
I think she has hookworms too. And/or is an enormous parasite herself.
Bush looked into Putin’s cheeseburger and saw rubber soul.
How come Weigel didn’t credit Wonkette for coining “Paultard”? That’s what he should apologize for.
[re=606068]JMP[/re]: Prehaps he meant STET and then used it incorrectly. Who knows with these kids today and their word typer tv things.
[re=606273]V572625694[/re]: Oops, that comment applied to the previous Weigel topic. Wonkette behaves strangely when you’re overseas. Or maybe I do.
[re=606275]V572625694[/re]: Overseas? YOU CANNOT GET A GOOD BURGER OVERSEAS. ‘Fuck’s wrong wif you?
Scarah could see them eating from her house.
[re=606199]JMP[/re]: Yep, big fail there.
Go Sox, keep the streak going and sweep the bums.
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