A First Couple that actually
A First Couple that actually acts like a couple. Change is good.
(Barack and Michelle Obama)
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OMIGOD. Gag me.
Ball gag or will a simple scarf do?
With a spoon, of course.
Do you not speak Valley?
Howzabout a spork?
I’d favour a garrotte.
WhatEVAH, Frenchie
Lets see what the latest White House interns look like before we make such bold statements!
What does this post mean? I (as is my habit) don’t get it.
“… and if I swallow anything evil, put put finger down my throat…”
The adulation of the New Boss continues… sigh.
The Who, FTW!
At least he’s not McSame as the Old Boss…
Pretty darn close…
Bullcookies. He’s an arrogant amateur. Sound familiar?
Hey, ummm, porkulus… could I umm, could I have a loan?
X14… Someone gag me please……
<3
Hmmm…. a “mooning” icon?
lul is not a nice word, in Dutch
I’m actually confused by this one. W & Laura didn’t act like a couple? In what way? Did I miss something? More importantly, why should I care?
Yeah, for the past several days all the lols have either been outdated or not making any sense whatsoever. WTF PK?
I don’t remember old GWB and LB being QUITE that nauseous in public…
I used to love it when she’d refer to him as “the President” in casual conversation. Like, “The President and I like Thin Mints the best out of all the Girl Scout Cookies.” We know you’re being respectful, but you’re married to him Laura, you can call him George. It always made me wonder if George insisted on her saying it at other times as well, if you know what I mean.
Only when wearing that platinum wig and singing Happy Birthday …
A wholesome performance we all enjoyed…
GW & Laura did flaunt their couple status on a few occations… but it always looked staged… like people posing in front of the camera :p
http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2005/weekinphotos/050131/gwbush.jpg
Laura acted like a subordinate. WBush treated her like one.
It’s nice to see adults acting as equals.
Laura acted like a stereotypical First Lady, unlike Clinton who acted like the co-president. It’s all in how you want to portray yourself, and Laura chose her own path. She didn’t want to undermine.
Laura acted like a stereotypical stepford wife who was incapable of a single original thought. (I know she was educated and a librarian, but that’s not how she acted). Even Barbara Bush had more spunk and more style. And I’m simple amused at people who are bothered by intelligent women who speak their minds.
No, she acted like a lady. Haven’t you ever met one before?
Are you saying Barbara Bush wasn’t a lady, because she didn’t
fade into the wallpaper?
Behold, a lady.
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Polled by Gallup as one of the most popular first ladies,[1] during her eight years as first lady Laura Bush was involved in topics of both national and global concern. She continued to advance her trademark interests of education and literacy by establishing the annual National Book Festival in 2001 and encouraged education on a worldwide scale. She also advanced women’s causes through The Heart Truth and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. She represented the United States during her foreign trips, which tended to focus on HIV/AIDS and malaria awareness.
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Source Wickipedia
While I see the argument that you’re making, I don’t understand how that a) demonstrates Laura Bush being ladylike (A quantifiable definition of “ladylike” might help, too, though), and b) excludes other first ladies from being defined as such.
a) Lady: A well-mannered and considerate woman with high standards of proper behavior. This includes, IMHO, the ability, desire and werewithal to pursue one’s own agenda without detracting from and/or publicy and in a hostile manner disagreeing with the agenda of others. There are ways of changing the world without being the center of attention.
b) I didn’t exclude any other first lady as being a lady. Others did.
*Wikipedia
I voted for the president. Not the person said president is currently boning. They have no power, nor should they. (This statement includes first ladies and first husbands with no gender bias)
Isn’t there, however, an ‘image’ or a ’stigma’ the President and First Spouse are expected by the American public to uphold? They are the spokespeople of the country for the rest of the world. They have a reached a celebrity status unlike any President and Spouse in recent history. We expect them (whether appropriate or not) to behave in a certain manner in order to represent the unspoken values and ideals of the nation…
*shrugs* I always just thought Laura avoided the limelight, so to speak, because she seems like a very quiet-natured person. I don’t see anything wrong with that; she’s not the politician in the family and some people are more shy and quiet by their own nature. Why should she have to be something she’s not?
Acting as co-president isn’t relegated to recent times. Just look at Eleanor Roosevelt. I don’t think there is a “stereotypical” first lady. Only what we have grown accustomed to them doing in recent history.
Cuz Bill and Hillary treated each other with SUCH respect and loyalty…
I don’t get it either. I can’t remember a shot of them anywhere when they were not holding hands…they remind me of my folks in that way…and honestly, you can tell it is completely unconscious on their parts…
Sigh. Is this BS with them ever going to end? I’m not sure when he has enough time to pretend to run the country ’cause he’s on the cover of every frickin’ magazine I see.
laura reminds me of a stepford wife.. you know.. like a robot with a perma-smile plastered on… she’s scary.
She’s not smiling…that’s pain…
Blech
I can maybe see why this lol illustrates change is good for them, but why is it good for us?
Oh, and ewwwwwww.
You’re not making cents.
Pittypat, you quarter been nicer about that.
Let’s not nickel and dime the issue.
Well euro a fine yen to talk …
I’d pound that pence-ive look right off your face, but you’d think I was just shilling for the opposition.
Ack! Damn you slan for taking my pun and making it better!
I was just shilling out some advice, you know.
OK, but it’ll have to wait til after dinar.
Then it could be a grupee.
I don’t know… something about it just rubles me the wrong way.
You’re just a little too pence, you’ll loosen up.
Or just plain loony.
Gar. Shoulda been spelled “Loonie.” Francly, I should’ve been more careful.
I currency how it matters anyway.
Mark my words, it riel-y does.
Pound for pound, I’d buy that.
Be careful, though, or you’ll come off as a major drachma queen.
Or quite possibly be seen as a Krone!
Whichever — you’ll definitely make your Mark.
Mark her? Damn near guilder!
And now a Joke – Here I sit broken hearted. Paid a penny and only farted.
(Seen on toilet walls in Glasgow during the 50’s and 60s)
At least the last couple have been about politics. This is just GAH!
*retches helplessly*
I give it a month.
Give it tongue, you mean?
Well… If you behave, it might even let you get to second base.
In your dreams, big boy…
I totally agree with the caption. The weirdness between George, Laura and Condi was spooky, and the Bill/ Hillary thing must have been pure hell. I’m happy to think that maybe these guys will focus on their work without distraction. Plus it looks like they really like each other.
George/Laura/Condi OT3? AAAAAAAAAAAAUUGGGGGH!
Brain bleach, STAT!
Paging David Cronenberg! We have a code Yellow, I repeat YELLOW, on Pundit Kitchen… Dave, drop the LSD before you handle this one…
Good for them? That isn’t doing us any good when the DOW is closing below 7K…
hmmm…. “fiddling around” while Rome burns?
‘diddling’ perhaps?
Oh yes. I forgot. Which president took more vacation days than the last four guys combined? Oh yeah…
Considering the state of the economy, and how much works needs to be done (according to the new prez), I’m sure that the Wizards really needed his support.
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And, FTR, working vacations aren’t vacations at all. Even dyed in the wool liberals here have admitted that fact.
If only the SOB had taken more holidays! Fewer working days = fewer opportunities to screw up!
One of the features of the Austrian School… market renormalisation… live it up.
What? Them celebrating the election a full 4 months ago isn’t doing us any good now?
I think its lovely. And as for all you people “retching”, I really have to wonder WHY this picture sickens you so.
Maybe he’s not your choice for president, but honestly, I think they’re a beautiful loving couple.
And I always thought Laura Bush looked like a class act too. Even though I was certainly not a fan of the past administration.
If you showed me a picture of George and Laura slow dancing or hugging, I wouldn’t gag.
What’s your problem?
Because it’s a stupid lol.
If I wanted cute, I’d be at LOLcats.
Who gives a rat’s ass it they’re a happy couple? It’s supposed to be funny, or political, and it’s not.
Wah wah wah. Go make a funny, then.
I know you are but what am I?
Asshat.
Thank you for answering your own question.
My pleasure.
Neverthless, this lol submisison is still sucktastic.
You just left yourself wide open. More than being ’sucktastic’ (which sounds like it could be something good) this lol is simply not funny.
In this usage, “sucktastic” = fantastically sucky.
No worries. I know I can be a total asshat.
Why deny; magnify!
It’s saccharine bull excrement…
There again, I may as well try and explain Venturi physics to a house brick…
Thank goodness someone with sense, I agree with your statement entirely!
Which is precisely why this kind of nauseating sh*t makes it to the front page.
GACK! Go back to fuzzeh land.
Stop being an asshole
Why? I can’t help it you’re an idiot!
FORGET THAT. I SUCK COCKS.
Oh, itsn’t this just SWEET!
*dies from a diabetic coma*
*stares at corpse* What? At least it’s more entertaining….
Fun with corpses [link]
i wonder if they ever think about how many past presidents have had sex in their room? i mean, that would creep me out.
True, if he was white no one would give a sh*t about him, but because he’s black and doesn’t fit into the n*gger category, he’s looked at like he’s a saint, but he’s just another president, just less noticeable in dark rooms.
Replace the first ” , ” with ” . ” and start a new paragraph.
you could always TRY learning English first, cracker…
Or you might get a crackerjack English fist …
I leave threats of violence to people who feel less secure than I do…
Where’s Shinobi?
Threats of violins?! I’m sure they were just cymbalic.
Otherwise that’s a total viola-tion.
We seem tuba harping on the puns today …
Snowdays r not so gr8 ackshully. Fun at first, but after a few hours… I just castanet anymore.
All of this shoveling is getting us no tympani.
I won’t get caught in your snare.
Oh but we could be bassoon buddies
and have phoneasax.
(oof, I’m blaming it on the cello shots).
Hmph. Cello shots? That’s your own fault, you know.
You’ll get no symphony from me.
OK where’s that sniper…
*looks for A4H*
Plotting to assassinate the president FAIL!
FBI you want his IP stat!
Who said I was going for the president, the guy who took the picture is more of a threat.
Act like a couple of what?
Show me a lol here. I see no lols. Gimme some lols! I WANT LOLS!!!!!!!1111one!oen!1
Bravo to the 2 of them! It’s not a LOL, but it is the truth.
Ah, finally a LOL everybody, Democrat or Republican, can unite in not liking. Kum ba frickin yah
Hahaha.
awwww yes i concur. warm fuzzies all around.
*yawn*
PDA does NOT equate acting like a couple. In fact, it just equates being tacky.
There’s nothing tacky about it per se.
depends on how affectionate you are… sometimes it can be extremely… umm… ‘tacky’…
Well, yes –there’s a difference between having a kiss or a quick hug in public and having people come back to the table saying “Good lord, did you see that couple over by the restrooms going at it up against the wall?!?”
Oh my god! They touched foreheads! How scandalous!
Won’t SOMEONE think of the children???!!
enough of this already
Agreed. What he does with his wife is none of my damn business, nor do I care in the least. It’s irrelevant. I’m happy for them, as they appear to be happy together, but other than that, I only care what he does when he’s on the clock.
They also enjoy a good fisting, according to CNN.
And who amongst us doesn’t? And in public too.
We all need a hobby…
this is our hobby
Fisting? You speak for yourself…
No, that was MSNBC and it’s just Chris Matthews wishing…
I won’t be surprised when Obama passes an Equal Rights amendment because he is CLEARLY married to a dude.
She’s more of a woman than most could hope to be.
Ann Coulter is more feminine.
Well… ‘cept for the Adam’s Apple, anyhow.
and the bones sticking out like they do in a 12 year old boy that needs to eat pies…
But I dispute it’s an Adam’s Apple… I still think it’s some part of a parasitic twin…
LOL! Here here!
There, there.
Where, where?
Now now.
That says way more about you than I wanted to know.
Nothing says ‘pederasty’ more than having the hots for coulter…
…to Timothy James Curry in a Rob Bottin makeup no less…
…oooohhhh the sparks must fly at night when *twitch* the Missus *untwitch* says “We are all animals, my lady.”…
Wow, hat’s some serious Zombie forearm. The more I stare at it the more it creeps me out, but I can’t look away.
I think they’re just sweet and their girls are just the most natural, unaffected little things. I thought M & O were great together on Inauguration night, even if Michelle did look like a beribboned custard.
Ugh, but can she get a different dress?
When was the last time a PolitiLOL actually made us LOL? Seriously, these “Aww, how cute” ones are trying my patience. The tribute kind are okay, but COME ON.
Oh, come on you whiners. It’s the people that brought you lolcats.
Just deal with the cute. (you can’t tell me at least for a second you didn’t think it was adorable.)
I didn’t think it was adorable even “at least for a second”.
NO.
It’s only ‘cute’ if you’re 40 years older than them…
It actually made me vomit a bit on the inside.
“Cute”.
I don’t care if it’s the people who brought me lolcats. I hate LOLcats. They’re stupid, moronic, and kill my brain. I come to this site to see PolitiLOLs, not Politi-Ka-yoooot!’s. If ICHC wants the money they get from me glancing at the ads every so often, they’ll give me what the site promises. Don’t patronize me.
If you say so…
More lib-masturbation.
More retarded non-sequitur from the ever unamusing Lolnathan…
Still got a sore arse?
Gross
This is really clever and entertaining. -.-
Get a freakin’ room! Good thing I haven’t had breakfast yet or it would be all over my keyboard.
I’d agree with this caption if Slick Willy and Hillary were the previous Prez and Mrs., however, GW and Mrs. Bush were very close. They called each other cute pet names and stuff, for pete’s sake! Maybe the writer of this caption gets his news from the National Enquirer, “GW Caught Cheating With Madeline Albright” etc.
I see there’s a lot of young ladies on this board who have yet to learn to true lesson of feminism-
YOU choose your life.
If Ms. Bush was more subtle in speech than Ms. Obama, it’s her personal choice.
If Ms. Clinton strove to be more hands on than Ms. Bush, it’s her personal choice.
You can shave your legs and still be a feminist.
Be who you really are despite what stereotypists tell you what to be.
But what about armpits? Enquiring minds want to know
Well if you’re sexy enough you can get away with hairy armpits. Just look at those French sexy ladies.
Wouldn’t work for Whatsername Obama though.
I think, with more Astroglide and maybe a stronger hydraulic press, this site might be able to get its head another good inch or two up Obama’s ass.
Ah, more butt hurt bitter whining from a LOSER!!!
Shouldn’t the Astroglide help with the butthurt?
WD40… the fizz is more bracing…
[link]
Oh MAN! Now I’m going to have a hard time making jam and toast tomorrow morning!
I love the class and graciousness that lefists have shown in victory. Clearly, the haunting personal insecurities that drive them to embrace disastrously unworkable but charitable-sounding ideologies have finally been salved, and they can at last progress into a long-arrested adulthood.
“I won.” Inspiring rhetoric indeed!
Yes! That’s almost as inspiring as “I have a mandate!”
You’d be on the button if I was a leftist Asshole… but I’m not… I’m just
tired of butt hurt whining from people who LOST… And since my side ‘lost’
in 1776, I’m an equal opportunity ragger… so suck it up…
just out of curiosity, what happened in 1776?
I’m still amazed that Michelle thought looking like a Black Widow was a good thing for inaguration night. Not the best look for a new first lady.
After Aretha Franklin’s hat, she could have dressed as the Easter bunny and still looked better…
But if you’re going to recreate and Alice Cooper song there are worse that I can think of…
Um. She wore a yellow coat on Inauguration Day and a white ball gown that evening. Neither of which look like a black widow. If you are referring to the dress she wore on Election Night, then I suggest you stop getting your fashion advice from Fox News (which is where the “black widow” comment originated).
Fox may have said it on air first, I don’t know.
I will tell you it’s the very first thing that came to mind when I saw the dress. I don’t know how you could look at that dress and not think it. I also thought the dress was ugly, but people don’t come to me for their fashion advice.
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That said, I don’t really care if they’re naked, in sackcloth and ashes, jeans an t-shirts or expensive clothes.
I was there. And I thought it was a black and red dress. My mind was actually more preoccupied with the events of the evening to be comparing someone to an arachnid.
I don’t know how you could look at that dress and not think it.
I thought it looked like an hourglass, in addition to the ugliest dress I’ve ever seen her in. She can’t hit them all out of the park, but what a terrible choice, especially considering the event!
The thought “Didn’t I see that on the clearance rack at T.J. Maxx?” crossed my mind; nothing about arachnids.
Damn she’s fugly.
The baying of pariah dogs is without worth…
The baying of pariah dogs may be without worth, but your taste in women is deplorable.
Unc didn’t say anything about his opinion of her, so we’re only left with the worthless baying of pariah dogs.
god she’s disgusting
I think the pigs are farting…
at least the comments here are funny
because i dont totally think the picture is a joke
so much as someone grasping for reasons to like
obamy
LOLZZ!
The cry of cat at night
No–Caterwauling is more poignant than our karl.
Who are they?
I think that picture comes in the frames you buy at k-mart.
Why, who did you think they were?
Sorry to let you all know but Obarmy can’t really be considered to be the true president of the united states. He is merely the elected head of the party who won. Thanks to the crap way that American Elections happen, you only have 2 parties (OK, you might have a third party, but that never ever wins anything and really only basically is a waste of money for the person who stands on a third party ticket) And in the current state of things with the peoples hatred of both Bush and the Republicans, ANYONE could have won for the democrats, even a gorilla wearing a dress could have won. It was really a no-brainer for Obarmy to win. If he had actually lost then he would have had to consider what to do since no one in the climate that there was then, could have lost. So until he wins a second election he can only really be considered to be the leader of the party that won, not the President. Sad but true. You americans really need to get yourself a more representative democracy. Two parties in a country prove nothing in an election in which the losing side is so hated and despised that it would practically be impossible for the winning party to have lost.
Calm down, and steer your browser back towards the LoLcats.
Spend a little time enjoying their gentle lols, and then maybe we can talk again.
And while I agree that the two-party system can leave a lot to be desired, I also realize that it probably won’t change any time soon.
I don’t think it invalidates elections.
The two party system is not mandated by law, it has happened because of natural forces within the public sphere, not the least of which is apathy.
That being said, Obama won by a few percentage points, same as G.W. Bush. It wasn’t a “landslide” victory with just “anyone” beating the Republicans. It was a duly elected man fighting hard to win a tough election with some of the highest interest we’ve seen in a while.
What is with all the retching/gaging? They’re not even kissing
Are we that afraid of cooties?
gagging**
My opinion, it’s not the photo so much as the “Oooh, awen’t they just the mostest adowable widdle couple EVAH?” caption….
Got it in one.
Eh. I thought the fact that it
-isn’t said in that manner
and
-is somewhat of a valid point (Bushes were very hands off of, well, anything but the hands in public)
Would’ve saved it from that response.
Guess I just don’t think that way. /shrug
No big…although I wasn’t one of the gagging ones, more just “not…really…funny. Huh. Ok.”
The Bushes, true, not much PDA. But, you know, neither were my grandparents, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t a couple or even that they didn’t “act like one” — we all have different levels of what we’re comfortable with in public.
Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with the picture. But that about hits it for why the caption is a retcher.
Sorry, just not funny. Unless it’s supposed to bring to mind the Clintons and their version of “couplehood”, in which case still not funny. Just kind of sappy and sentimental and – squicky.
A couple???
Nope…this is a guy whose wife keeps his balls in her purse. I am sure she beat him into submission years ago.
He is so much her puppet, I am sure she goes sleeveless so she can keep her arm shoved up his ass.
Ya she definitely seems like the one who actually wears the pants in the family
Slobbering love affair…
i say get a room. i dont care what my president has relations with. i want a president that can effectivly run this country. i actually find this very unprofessional on obamas part.
I love it.
Unprofessional my ass.
very funny
Now why do you americans get Change dude (obama) and we get Gordon Brown when we didn’t even freakin’ vote for him?! On the upside it is fun to watch our prime ministers faces melt over the months (srsly! Look at tony blair before he was elected!)
funny =]]]
COOL STORY, BRO.