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  • Latest on Swampland

    Pete Souza / The White House via Getty Images

    Political Picures of the Week, May 18-25

    TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.

    Obama Administration Blocks Global Health Fund To Fight Disease In Developing NationsHuffPost Politics

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    The Phony War: Obama and Romney Are Debating Character, Not Policy

    More than five months from Election Day, the back-and-forth about Mitt Romney’s record at Bain already feels played out. Unfortunately, there’s good reason to expect the campaign continues in this vein indefinitely. Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney are terribly interested in dwelling on policy platforms. Romney’s plan to slash spending and keep taxes low on the wealthy isn’t especially popular, at least not at any level of detail beyond a blithe promise to shrink the deficit. Meanwhile, Obama’s signature first-term achievements, like health care, the stimulus and Wall Street reform, are all unpopular or tricky to sell. (The Dodd-Frank bill is the most popular of these, but hyping it means offending wealthy donors.) So what we’re getting instead is a superficial duel about character–and, worse, one that’s based on the largely false premise that the better man can better “manage” the economy back to health.

  • http://forgottenlord.livejournal.com forgottenlord

    Obama’s found his prize fighter

  • http://forgottenlord.livejournal.com forgottenlord

    BTW: who is that?

  • sacredh

    Janet Napoliatano after her makeover?

  • kristiia

    I love that pic. It was Lahood and Obama joking about Lahood being Obama’s blocker when he was on his way to kick the House Republican’s ass at their Baltimore retreat.

  • sacredh

    Rosie O’Donnel trying to look girly?

  • FlownOver

    None shall pass!

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    When partisan bickering erupted into a food fight, at lunch today President Obama narrowly misses being hit by a five pound lobster.Due to his agility, the secret service says that this was far less of a threat than when Bush choked on a pretzel several years ago.

  • sacredh

    Ray, you’re a fighter. You can do this. Now get in the ring and kick some ass!

  • 53_3

    Great left!
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    Good job. Now. Lets just loosen you up a bit so you can get back in there. There’s only 139 to go…

  • sacredh

    Did you see all of the puncture marks on Bush’s face when Laura was trying to teach him to eat with a fork?

  • 53_3

    Ok Ray, you take the one on the left and the one on the right and I’ll go for help!

  • sacredh

    Hey 53_3, where have you been?

  • Paul-no not that one

    Fitty’s back? Nice news to wind down the week.

  • 53_3

    I’ve been off to a long, loooooooong vacation in pre-reconciliation land, Sacred.
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    Now, since POTUS has won not just one, but two umpteen-on-one beat downs, and publicly handing John McCain his own personal “back of the bus” message yesterday, I’m feeling a bit reinvigorated.

  • kevin

    “Come on, Ray! You’re a lean … mean … FIGHTING MACHINE!”

  • sacredh

    LaHood: Stay behind me Mr. President. John Boehner is coming and he looks even crazier than usual.

    Obama: That’s just his “tan” that makes him look strange.

    LaHood: There isn’t a sun in this universe that could produce a tan that color.

  • 53_3

    Thanks! PNNTO.
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    Been up to my nostrils in work. I still am.
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    But I miss you guys, and this is one place I can stick my head in without having to smell that smell…

  • centfan

    A formation and stance Knute Rockne would approve of. All they need is the leather helmets…

  • FlownOver

    Get it? Because LaHood’s a Republican, and…
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    …oknevermind.

  • 53_3

    I’m just surprised that it isn’t KT supplying this particular 1,000 words moment. What happened? Did Micheal actually get a job he’s qualified for?

  • Katy Steinmetz

    “Obama operates a life-size robot resembling Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood in order to perform the fabled self-fist-bump, a known and feared sign of aggression among Washington politicians.”

  • shepherdwong

    “Fake right and then go left…it’s our only chance.”

  • 53_3

    At least his eyes still worked afterward.
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    After all, you have to have sharp vision and have quick reflexes to avoid a shoe thrown from 20 feet away…

  • Paul-no not that one

    Well you know Fitty, Swampland is like a soap opera or Judge Parker; you can observe everyday or skip a few weeks and not miss a beat.
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  • sacredh

    ssshhhhh….if both MS and KT supply us with captioning contests I can cut back on my meds. Except on weekends. Or days that end in a “y”.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Better than mine!
    I like that.

  • sacredh

    Pnnto: 53_3 missed brucemajors and that was a red letter day for the Swamp. That was more fun than $2 hookers.

  • 53_3

    The lack of backbones among those I pinned my hopes on was beginning to get to me.
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    I had visions of ordering the noodles in my soup to stand up straight and at rigid attention along the rim of my bowl.
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    It was a no go…

  • 53_3

    But how does KT feel about this? This is her territory.
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    She must be ready to b—–slap Mike over this…

  • sacredh

    Obama operates a life sized dummy of Ray LaHood and judging from the look on his face, the hand up his ass isn’t going over too well.

    My apologies to Katy and patrick. I claim inspiration from your captions.

  • 53_3

    Rosie O’Donnell trying to look grisly.

  • 53_3

    Ok. I’ll bite.
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    Who was brucemajors?

  • sacredh

    ^ hahahahahaha. Pretty good.

  • Paul-no not that one

    sacredh-bruce WAS great but the “retired actor” who left Hollywood because of the lefties was gold.

  • 53_3

    That’s what a month or two away from slogging in the shirt gets you.
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    Refreshed!

  • 53_3

    Ok. sniff
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    Be like that! sniff

  • kevin

    OT, but too funny. Meet the Press has announced its guest for this week:
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    This Sunday: Exclusive! Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
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    What an exclusive! McCain has only been on the Sunday talk shows 20 times in the past year! Wow, what a get!

  • sacredh

    Feb 18. A Presidential Campaign Sppech at CPAC. You have to read the entire thread 53_3, it’s a classic.
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    Pnnto, yeah. Anytime someobody worries about my soul here in the swamp I have to shower and douche to get back to normal.

  • grape_crush

    “Conga line!…No?…How ’bout the Locomotion?”

  • sacredh

    OK Ray, here comes Senator Snowe. She’s been sayin’ bad things about your mama. She’s the one that ran over your dog. She’s the one that took your wife away from you. She’s the one that put the valium in your viagra bottle. She’s the one you want. Now go show her what bipartisanship really means!

  • 53_3

    Oh wow. Did a stopover in the basement to peek.
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    Damn. What a shew

  • Ivy_B

    kevin, did you doubt that the most favored guest would not be given a chance to b slap Obama around – with a more in sorrow than anger tone, of course. After all, he still does have a campaign – I hope Hayworth in AZ fries his tail in the primary, and then the Dem wins in the general. I used to understand that they liked having him on because he was so maveriky (TM) and had some amusing things to say. Now he’s just a cranky old man.

  • nflfoghorn

    If you mention the macarena I’ll kill you.

  • 53_3

    Obama, thinking:
    Damn. I’ve tried everything else, so why not sell a little “service” this time. All I need is a few votes from the “wide stance” guys on the other side of the aisle…
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    Pass the word, Ray.
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    Vote ‘yes’ on HCR, and get a personal back rub by none other than the POTUS himself!

  • sacredh

    Told ya! Btw…I hit my 4th deer Sunday night. (shakes head and laughs). Be back in an hour or so.

  • 53_3

    See you sacred.
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    BTW, have you ever considered that there may be more to this deer-killing-with-automobile-thing than you think?
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    FYI, heard from Santa’s OGs and you are in serious trouble. His doggs are saying you won’t make it to next xmas.
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    Also, there’s an agent here from the USFWS that wants to talk to you. What do you want me to tell her?

  • Paul-no not that one

    I think Merkel had a funnier look on her face when Bush did that to her.

  • Paul-no not that one

    Maybe they are going for a new record, Kevin.
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    “Meet the Press” posted its lowest ratings since David Gregory became moderator this past week, with the show airing Sunday, Feb. 1 averaging just 3.9 million viewers.

  • pafro

    Is that one of Tom Coburn’s new secret federal health care police preparing to throw a Medicare scammer into a NAFTA concentration camp?

  • grape_crush

    You should really get to know your Cabinet members. Ray LaHood scored in the 98th percentile in protective instincts.”

  • markstev

    Mr. Scherer and Ms. Yan moments before bending over their desks yesterday morning as Public Opinion Strategies co-founder, and McCain chief pollster, Bill McInturff and the Center for Health Transformation founder Newt Gingrich approached with their latest “poll” results and a smile?

  • Ivy_B

    LOL!

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

    shepherd, SZ would probably reverse that:

    “Fake left and then go right…it’s our only chance.”

  • nflfoghorn

    Fitty, RE 1.4: She doesn’t need to try hard.

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

    #15 from shepherdwong upthread: “Fake right and then go left…it’s our only chance.”
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    I think SZ would reverse this, shepherd: “Fake left and then go right…it’s our only chance.”

  • kbanginmotown

    Good one, Katy!

  • kbanginmotown

    Off-screen, Joe Biden approaches Obama with his life-sized Arnold Schwartznegger robot as Death Match 2010 commences…

  • sacredh

    The last three hits have produce only minor damage. I don’t know what to think about this stuff. I’d never hit one until Xmas Eve and now it’s up to four. When I hit the last one I was on my way to work (again) and the guy I’m working with was making fun of my misfortune. He nailed one the very next night and it trashed his hood, front passenger panel and bumper. He’d just bought it off the showroom floor in November. I told him to look on the bright side…his airbag obviously wasn’t working.

  • sacredh

    53_3: Tell her my MIL lives with me. That always gets some sympathy.

  • sacredh

    JUST 3.9 million viewers? Isn’t that about the same as the astronomical numbers that Beck and O’Reilly pull?

  • shepherdwong

    Probably. I think we’d both be projecting the words we’d like to hear.

  • shepherdwong

    “#15 from shepherdwong upthread:”
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    C’mon, now you’re just trying to start something.

  • ohiolib

    Heart attack in 3…2…1…

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

    It’s Friday and I’ve had a glass of wine. Can’t let sacredh have all the fun…

  • lepidusxvi

    In his latest bid to pass Health Care, Obama uses his only Republican friends in a ploy to sneak into the secret lab where the remote control for Dick Cheney is kept.

  • sacredh

    They used one of those variable speed remotes used in fans for his pacemaker. Now Cheney eithers sits there and calmly spews his invective or else whirls around the room screaming insults.

  • shepherdwong

    You make it sound like his pacemaker is attached to his cerebellum instead of his…oh, riiiiight.
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    http://www.memory-key.com/neurology/glossary_brain.htm#cerebellum

  • kbanginmotown

    LaHood: Our President is ****gong****
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    Boehner: Wha’d he say?
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    Cantor: Our President is near…

  • kbanginmotown

    @shepherdwong: To paraphase AMC: Your comment would hurt Cheney’s feelings, if he had any…

  • 53_3

    “You make it sound like his pacemaker is attached to his cerebellum instead of his…oh, riiiiight.”
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    Um, (with delicacy) keep in mind that Cheney rubs his head* all the time.
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    *for the uninformed, I mean the cephalic region, and not the fallic region that is also so typically referred to…

  • 53_3

    We need to send her to clean up Joe Kleins’ most recent blog.
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    Joe seems to have a roach problem…

  • http://sammywv.wordpress.com sammywv

    I don’t have your back, really, I don’t. You have to tell them I do, or I’ll campaign for you.

  • jackmurphy131

    Thats our quarter back using his frontlineman to protect him from the “neo-cons.” can’t you tell.

  • stylesuponstyles

    Grouching Tiger hidden Black Guy

  • sacredh

    Ftw. That was pretty funny.

  • http://glassmannequin.wordpress.com glassmannequin

    “Watch out for his right jab, kid, it’ll get you every time.”

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