Look at all the president’s men having so much fun on their Fantasy Lacrosse League while poor people talk about their troubles, with Obama!
The official White House Flickr caption for this Pete Souza picture goes like this: “President Barack Obama answers questions about the economy from local families as, from left, Senior Advisor David Axelrod, Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton, Director of Speechwriting Jon Favreau, and Trip Director Marvin Nicholson wait in a hallway of the Southhampton Recreation Association in Richmond, Va.”
We guess it’s too much to ask that they might look up from their fucking Blackberry emails for long enough to at least pretend to pay attention to the “local families,” when the White House photographer is snapping pictures right in front of them. [White House Flickr]
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I think that's a little harsh. Your caption (and probably the one the administration would have much preferred) could just have easily have been "Obama Staffers Continue to Work as President Answers Questions." I bet you they're not playing Brick Breaker…
The White House photographer could have at least pretended to give them some privacy during their sexy-sexy-sexting four-way. And now that I have seen the face of sexting, I can state unequivocally that I DO NOT WANT!!1!
Hey, those babies don't snatch themselves y'know.
Four White Guys and a Funeral.
Imagine if Aaron Sorkin were writing West Wing now:
Adviser 1: Clickity-clickity-click, clickity click.
Adviser 2: Clickity click–click clickity.
Adviser 3: Click . . .
Advisor 1: Clickity-clickity-clickity!
The President: Click? CLICK.
Instead of: walk up the hall, take a piece of paper; walk down the hall, give someone a piece of paper. Talk talk talk…
I work for a Fortune 500 company and I believe that this is what executive decision making passes for nowadays and the reason the policies coming out said process are increasingly myopic.
Brickbreaker
Boulevard of Blackberry Dreams.
The Onion was right: the American people need a lobbyist.
At least Favreau is keeping his fingers on his Blackberry and not on Hillary.
Looks to me that Favreau's hands are behind his back. If he's texting he's doing it very subtly with his left foot. In truth, I think he's watching an in-the-closet-ghey Teatard Nazi spider walking across the floor and Favreau is going to show his soul, or at least Florsheim's, and squish that sucker flat.
Either that, or Favreau's just cold contemplating whether to leave the phrases "Yes we can!" and "Fired up, ready to go!" in a speech he recently wrote aimed at convincing ex-girlfriends Ali Campoverdi and Rashida Jones to both join him for one last Lincoln Bedroom liaison dangereuse.
Yeah, I guess I imagined the BB… just like he's imagining fondling the matronly chest of a certain SecState. Mommy issues.
They're checking out Wonkette but are too chickenshit to post here.
AXELROD (57p)
Am not.
Yeah, so what happened to AngryBlakGuy…?
He was talking to the peoples out between yonder doors.
You can't guide the responsible policy of a nation via tweets. This is not like running a High School, this is a country of 250 million people.
Have you ever been to an LA high school? They are pretty overcrowded.
"Yo, Dave, can you water my carrot crop for me? You're a peach."
Give 'em a break. The "Ms Pacman" app for Blackberry just came out, like, yesterday.
A new trailer for the next Twilight movie must have been released.
"better check my facebook . . . wait, do I have three kids or two?"
It's hard to know since Soros can order his minions at cps to devour them for no reason at any time.
Clearly they are reading the latest article posted on Wonkette.
"Man, aren't there ANY chicks on ChatRoulette?"
Interesting tidbit: three of them are sexting Brett Favre.
They are trying to figure out if he was exaggerting about the size from the picture. Hard to tell on a small screen.
aah the myspace-angled dickpic…
So it's true what they say about white boys….
Just out of the frame: Gibbs rolling his eyes and making a jack-off motion
They're consulting the McCain Blogette for tips on how to be better liberal Republicans.
Hang On a minute: The 3rd guy from the left – the young one. He's not texting or sexting or whatever, he's TAKING A NAP! (& by God, he is doing it while STANDING UP!)
I say: Promote that 'outside of the box' thinking guy. A true Maverick! He knows that, even in this 21st century administration, checking his facetwit account will only get him so far. He needs to keep up with the sleepless Obamatron – by snatching his quick little winks wherever & whenever he can. That's some old school shit, my friends.
I am pretty sure they are checking Snooki's facebook page, and they are complaining about the judges are treating the Situation on DWTS.
OT but Sara Benincasa is no longer listed with the A-Team authors on the sidebar. She's just one of the "See All Authors". (sniff sniff.) I assume she's busy running for MN 6th CD and will be back with more hijinks C-SPAN3 was too chickenshit to broadcast from the House floor.
The "A-Team Authors" list is just the people who wrote the last 10 posts. It changes daily. When lazy Sara B turns in her next post, she will appear in the list again!
They are davening during the High Holy Days after the traditional blowing of the Rahm's horn (get your minds out of the gutter! Okay, don't) and the holiday greeting, "Next year in Chicago City Hall!"
The 21st Century version of Navel Gazing.
It was a much funnier picture when the clock said 4:20.
If they had iPhones at least they could be playing Angry Birds!
Four Guys Checking MONSTER.COM!
Needz moar reindeer dildos.
Why the agro? They're outside the room, purposely being excluded from the discussion, I'm assuming Obama wanted to be just him and the people. Who cares if they're watching Bristol on DWTS. Lame.
I bet they're all just texting each other.
Booking flights out of town for November 3rd.
Completely, well almost completely OT, but …
Tim Pawlenty cares what I think!!! Biden? I'd hit that.
Texting my ass.
This is the preferred "I"m extremely busy here" body posture of adult males when asked, "Hey, could you gimme a hand with…
solving this crippling financial crisis or
sponge-bathing grandma.
looking about as hip as any photo containing david axelrod can look.
Now see, if it were me, I'd ALSO take the very few times during my day when my lips aren't firmly planted on my boss' ASS (or wherever) to have some much needed ME time.
they are currently gathered together for their ME time. they are conferring _ which one of them ends up with the prize of YOU.
it ain't like they got a country to run. right?
Completely unrelated, but South Park just had a Skoal Rebel reference on the NASCAR episode.
You know what? User-of-Owls does not have a cell phone and has never had one. If I am lucky, I never will
You know what else? When I tell people this, they almost always express envy.
Believe it or don't, I am also lifelong cell-phone impaired.
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Blessed, not impaired!
I always knew you were no phony.
If it's post-Marconi, you can keep it!
Finally broke down, three years ago. But I rarely use it.
But the looks I get from people when I explain that I don't own a Blackberry or iPhone, just a plain old flip cell phone, is precious.
Looking at grown men who have advanced degrees, are driven enough to work hundred-hour weeks, have spent years honing their skills and are now having to deal with the dichotomy of playing entourage while at the same time having the most important job of their entire lives so far — that must be hell in so many ways. I mean, I have to remind myself every morning that I do in fact like my job, like helping people (however indirectly) and believe in what I do — and that's with the highest level of job satisfaction I've had. The level of immersion, intensity and inanity at the White House must be something like doing a regular job, but on acid while raising 144 emus on your ranch while taking care of your convalescent great-grandmother, two small children, an ornithologist/dancer spouse and an aviary of those rare Phillipine flying mammals whose name I can't remember at the moment. Kolobos or something. Wait — could you repeat the question?
Colugos. Pulling a colugo is when a flying mammal detective turns around as he's leaving your place, sticks his head back in the door and says "Excuse me, I have just one more question" and proceeds to wrangle the one tidbit of information out of you that blows the case wide open.
The second miner just got pulled up out of the mine in Chile. Nightline is covering it live in some sort of refreshing foray into actual news. The fact that this mine drama has gone on so long makes it easy to forget that a huge number of things could've gone wrong (and still can, in fact) and those 33 guys could've ended up dead many times over in the last two months. You know how Ronald Reagan, in the weirdest fucking way, used to say that if earth were attacked by aliens (actually wishing it, now that I think of it) from another planet, how we'd all pull together and realize our common humanity joined us together more than our differences, even if some people were going to hell? Well, I'd like to lock 33 prominent Republicans a mile down in a coppermine for two months. Because I'd order a pizza and sell tickets.
As I post, we are awaiting the 6th to emerge. I keep wondering if this had happened here in the U.S. would we of been so eager to accept help? As I understand it rescuing these men has been a globally coordinated effort. So given our “American exceptionalism ” would we of allowed those ‘foreigners’ to give us help or would we of left our men to languish until we figured out how to catch our ass with both hands?
I'm pretty sure if this happened in US America, our mines would have been designed such that when they fail, they also set the miners on fire.
And should I be pissed that the news anchors keep going on and on about how NASA helped (which honestly I think is cool), and how the monitors came from Texas and some other shit came from Pennsylvania and America this and America that, basically making it sound like those poor miners would have been screwed if us Super American’s hadn’t of swooped in and saved their ass? It wouldn’t piss me off so if they were touting all the input from so many other countries as well, but that part seems to have been omitted. I’m all for American pride, but not at the expense of everyone else. Aw, hell, MSNBC must of just heard me, cuz they just actually acknowledged the Chilean engineers. Well… whoo-hoo, after 4 hours they finally acknowledged someone else deserved some credit.
They'd probably eat each other.
I stopped going out because I got tired of the implications of 20-somethings who seldom look up from their devices, but frequently send texts and whatnot to someone sitting right beside them.
Brett Farves sexting his junk again?
Oh, I know — they're playing Obama Q&A Bingo. I'll bet there is (or used to be) a pic of one of these guys giving a fist pump right after President Obama said "let me be clear" for the fifth time.
if i had a black berry…i'd hammer in the mornin', i'd hammer in the evening – all over this land ~
who the hell snuck inthere and got his great photo, if it is not shopped, kudos. seriously.
meh. i got other things on my mind.
my p rating being low enough to join in the chorus of hallelujah via darcy williams. (they can't get me in the choir)
point being the 3rd miner is out.
i like the cafeteria ~
"how many more times we have 2 listen 2 this sh*t?"
"f'in election b*shit"
"tellin' u they're f*in babies in their"
"u couldn't get me 2 last 2 mins listening to this crap. how does B do it?"
"he don't."
"werd."
Each to his own I guess. I've got my own demons to deal with;
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Enjoy.
It's really not that different. None of them want to actually talk or anything.
It's a short step from Fantasy Football to Fantasy Nation. People will fight over who gets to play Switzerland.
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