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From our G8 Photo Essay:

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  • deconstructiva

    KT, I’m pondering quotes and will get right back to ya. However, I wish, I wish, I wish you could have posted – or had been allowed to post – that “drinks” photo of Obama, Berlusconi, the waiter holding champagne, and the huge statue of the naked guy staring down at all of them. *sigh*

  • http://phd9.blogspot.com Paul Dirks

    Then we agree. A world economy built entirely around celebrity photography CAN be self-sustaining…….

  • deconstructiva

    Obama and Sarkozy step back from their tête-à-tête so the media can photograph themselves….
    .
    Sarkozy: Mr. Obama, these photographers are still waiting for Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox to show up. How soon can they get here?
    .
    Obama and Sarkozy tell each other their eBay bids for the huge statue of the naked guy standing in front of them and the photographers.

  • deconstructiva

    Carla Bruni just arrived wearing only Sarah Palin’s towel and red naughty monkey peep-toed high heels….

  • pirate wench (demwoman)

    Don’t shoot you, don’t shoot me, shoot Silvio there, behind that tree!
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    (Pitate-speak weren’t workin’, me hearties!)
    .
    Arrgh!

  • dunedweller

    Photographers focus their lenses on a fly in hopes that President Obama will swat at it.

  • deconstructiva

    Sarah Palin poses with huge statue of the naked guy standing in front of them. You can hear JNS in the background shouting, “Wait, wait, Gov. Palin! I’d like to do our interview over!”
    .
    Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni are done playing nice and are finally fighting / wrestling in front of the table.
    Sarkozy: I knew this was bound to happen. Should we step in?
    Obama: Ha! No way, dude. Let them be. I value my (rear end).
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    Queen Elizabeth and Michelle Obama are swing dancing in front of the cameras.

  • kbanginmotown

    Z:”So hyou say, hyou met Michael Jackson two times? Sacre blu` – Unbelievable!”
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    deconstructiva: Obama to B’sconi: “We got the champagne; check. We got the naked guy statue; check. Now, when Brüno busts in, we both act surprised, right? Check. Let’s do this!”

  • Commenter 2B named later

    “DUDE, what if I take a picture of you while you’re taking a picture of me? Is that…. is that even possible?”

  • deconstructiva

    Ah, yes, Bruno! The possibilities…
    .
    The photographers are distracted by Bruno being comforted by Sarah Palin, “Oh, I totally LOVE your clothes! But like don’t you worry, I can straighten you out. You’ll like girls when I get done with you. My daughter just broke up with her fiance. It’s that darned governement, why don’t they just get of the way and let us live our own lives? Care for dinner at my place? I grill a mean salmon….”

  • cfukara

    Sakorz(seriously): You have good teeth, Mr President.

    Obama(grinning broadly): Yes. it is all in the good diet: Democracy, rule of law, that kind of this.

    Sarkozy(aside): Washed down with a little hapless Pakistani hunted down by the drones.

  • deconstructiva

    Oh, sorry KT, my bad….that was no statue. That was Bruno in body paint! The TIME photographer will need to update the credits, oops.

  • pintortwo

    .
    Sarkozy: …and I shall reyturn when the ‘aconomey is sol-ved.
    .
    Obama: Um…
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    Sarkozy: Yeas, yeas…
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    Obama: …you said “sol-ved”
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    Sarkozy: I kneow that. Of corz’ I kneow what I said, you fuol.

  • jcapan

    Obama: Do you swing?
    Sar-Koz: Oui!

  • kbanginmotown

    pintortwo: Win!

  • deconstructiva

    (inspired by above posts, thx…) Followup to this photo – after the meeting, the Obamas and Sarkozy’s retreat to a mountain spa for R + R. Little do they know that the spa is a nudist colony. When the L’Aquila police arrive, both couples escape in time speeding away in their Cooper Mini’s… but sans clothes. Fearing getting busted for nudity in L’Aquila, they drive back to Rome to hide out in Berlusconi’s pied-a-terre but get caught in a traffic jam. Crowds gather around the two cars and both couples start screaming in embarrassment….

  • pirate wench (demwoman)

    OT – WTF??? Wha’ happened t’ th’ comments whilst I were out? Mos’ recent first…reply t’ this comment…oh wait…

    paragraph breaks???

  • pirate wench (demwoman)

    Nah…another false alarm, me hearties!

  • http://teacherreaderwriter.wordpress.com/ Shakespeare in GA

    “Wait a minute, stop photographing the presidents! Look, over there…Swampland reformatted its website!”

  • sacredh

    Obama: I’m serious! Berlusconi thought Ru Paul was Michelle’s sister and they snuck off upsatirs together!

    Sarozy: When was this?

    Obama: About four hours ago.

  • http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com lawyermommy

    It is amazing to me that we are the greatest country in the world and yet at home, we are unable to contain Cyber Criminality.

    At the summit, it is my guess that on line Predators, Pedolphiles and online Sex criminals who illegally wire tap the phones of innocent citizens and activate their microphones as listening devices was not an issue which was discussed. Yet, the the growth of the web makes this a real and key issue. Laws addressing these specific crimes are desperately needed. Existing laws are at best amorphous and internationally enforcemet is a nightmare.

    On line Thugs like Shay Riley of the “Black Female Interracial Blog” and other online criminals continue undeterred to brutally violate users of the web. This woman has brutalized me for nine years!

    Cyber criminality is a world wide issue and that the White House can be and will be attacked by online Felons, felons like Shay Riley and Akbar Shabazz of the website “Black Women Blow the Trumpet” —is almost certain to happen again, if something is not done to effectively and vigorously police those who have turned the Internet into a cesspool for the commission of unimaginable atrocities.

    I have a voice and have written and spoken about these online Reprobates for so many years yet Shay Riley aka Halima Sal Andersen of the website “Black Womens Interrelationship Circle” under the guise of BLACK POWER continues to send Trojans to my computer, illegally wiretap my calls and commit the most egregious of felonies.

    Tracking me, criminally violating me and sharing with great aplomb in the lingo of online Psychopaths her illegally obtained information.

    Shay Riley aka Evia Moore is free, univestigated and unprosecuted! A travesty of justice.

    Can you therefore imagine what happens to children and other adults who are unable to speak about the atrocities committed against them by these people, Shay Riley and her accomplices Akbar Shabazz of the website http://www.akbarshabazz.com?

    It is not enough to meet about Global warming and other economic issues on which the G8 can collaborate, there must be a decision to effectively train Law enforcement world wide on the new face of 21 century crime and above all provide information to the general Public about the dangers that lurk online.

    Shay Riley of the “Black Female Interracial Blog” is so adroit in her criminality that she decieved the Associated Press in a 2007 interview for an article which sought to highlight the increased number of Interracial Marriages between Black women and white men. Yet despite her claims, her husband is a Black Nigerian male criminal. For fodder, she uses illegal taps of unwitting and innocent law abiding folk.

    Roslyn Holcomb who authored the AP article has never printed a retraction because she like so many other journalists have been unable to penetrate the labyrinth of deceit and subterfuge that is 21st Online Criminality.

    These online criminals trail you from site to site (as in my case) using many numerous aliases as different commenters in an attempt to deflect the authentic and important issues you address.

    I sincerely hope the next G8 Summit will address the viciousness unleashed against innocent users of the web and cellphones.

    People like me who have been relentlessly brutally assaulted by Shay Riley aka Evia Moore aka Lisa Vasquez aka Muslim Bushido aka Felicia of the “Black Female Interracial Marriage Blog” who illegally wiretaps, activates our microphones in these phones to commit acts which in real time would have earned her and her accomplices long jail terms.

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