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    When President Obama endorsed gay marriage earlier this month, the media grappled with two basic political questions: Was his personal “evolution” a case of  a politician transparently following a national trend toward accepting same-sex unions (accelerated, perhaps, by his chatty number two), and would it hurt his re-election chances by alienating socially conservative voters like black churchgoers? Sure, there was a recognition that it marked a gratifying moment for gay marriage advocates—as well as some grumbling about the President’s view that it remains a state issue, not a federal one. But by and large, there were few suggestions that one man, even the President, would shift public opinion on the issue or affect public policy. Based on a new Public Policy Polling survey out of Maryland, it seems this possibility was underestimated.

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    Cherokee Zero

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  • apr2563

    Is George looking at me? Is he looking at me?

  • gadsbys

    I’ll be right with you Mr President just as soon as I take care of this hanknail.

  • gadsbys

    hangnail

  • hernandezusa

    He really wanted to use his middle finger.

  • earljr1

    People just don’t understand me, George. Yeah, I know, I have repeatedly lied to them, there are no jobs, I’m trying to screw up their health care and my administration is clueless…but, that being said, WHY don’t they like and trust me?

  • sacredh

    Clooney (to himself): Do I have to actually suck my finger before he takes the hint?

  • sacredh

    Clooney: Nose, finger, mouth. Booger be gone.

  • chupkar

    George thinks, “Hmmm. He really does have a nice smile.”

  • Ivy_B

    Clever comments are not my forte, but thanks for the picture MS! Next I would appreciate an invitation from George to join him at Lake Como. ktnxbai

  • sacredh

    Clooney: Good God in Heaven! If he doesn’t hurry up and give me Kagan’s phone number I’m going to ask for my check back.

  • sacredh

    Clooney (to himself): I wonder if he’d get mad if I pulled a Farve on him?

  • sacredh

    Clooney: I’ve got more progressive in my little finger than he has in his whole body.

  • apr2563

    Ivy, I want George to invite ME.

  • sacredh

    Clooney: I can’t believe the cheapskate served me mac ‘n’ cheese for lunch.

  • sacredh

    Somebody can have my invite. I have to work. George….stop pestering me!

  • sacredh

    Clooney (to himself): Don’t turn around Barack. Don’t turn around. Michele’s at the window with her top pulled up and her boobs pressed against the glass.

  • freeinpa

    Men Who Stare at Goats!

  • shepherdwong

    To his SS detail: would you tell Clooney to stop staring at me, it’s not going to work anyway.

  • shepherdwong

    Now see, you could have made that funny…if you weren’t a dumbsh!t.

  • sacredh

    Clooney: Maybe it was a mistake to compare this election cycle to my movie “The Perfect Storm”.

  • sacredh

    Clooney sniffs his finger because his previous meeting was with Christine O’Donnel.

  • http://jcapan.wordpress.com jcapan

    Clooney to self: Man, reciting epic bullsh!t with such straight face–this guy should be in Hollywood.

  • sacredh

    I’ll quit on that note.

  • nflfoghorn

    I’m not a doctor but I played one on TV.

  • deconstructiva

    I thought earl wrote that…

  • nflfoghorn

    Earl was dreaming he was Dr. Ross!

  • nflfoghorn

    Maybe you can get my Aunt Rosemary to sing at the next correspondents’ dinner.

  • nflfoghorn

    Holy smokes – ‘she dead or alive?

  • deconstructiva

    …except Christine had put super glue “down there” to keep her jewel box locked shut until “the big day” – either her wedding day or election day (presuming she’d win). George had a hard time explaining to Obama why his lips were sealed, literally (since hers were).

  • nflfoghorn

    Lewinsky was unavailable and George’s sexting…fell limp. ;)

  • deconstructiva

    Alas, RIP (2002), sigh.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Jokes, Earl, not political attacks, please.

  • deconstructiva

    Proof that someone else besides the commentariat actually reads this blog (and once in a rare while the swamp reporters too, but I digress): while Obama prattles on and on and on about whatever, Clooney tacitly points to Michael Scherer to take his Blackberry out of his pocket to protect his nether regions…
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    …or is he pointing to Christine O’Donnell to put her Blackberry back in her pocket… since it’s set on vibrate and he’s about to robocall her?

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Hey freakinpa, at least they aren’t like you in the category of Men who have relationships with sheep.
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    Weren’t you the one who told us that your first girlfriend spent the entire night in the back of your car asking to go back to her Maaaaaaah Maaaaaaah.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Clooney: Barack, if the Republicans aren’t planning to take the house to impeach you and Biden, why is John Beohner standing there to my right with his home decorator?

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Clooney: If Sarah Palin is the one doing her reality show instead of seeking the presidency, why is her camera crew right over there?

  • nflfoghorn

    Dang. Then holy smokes only applies to BO. Last I heard he had Miss Prissy’s Jamaican priest over to bless the Marlboros.

  • deconstructiva

    (continuing sacred’s #18 thread) Clooney’s private tete-a-tete with O’Donnell did yield more than sealed lips and a sticky finger: he learned some witchcraft spells. He’s about to twitch his nose and turn Obama into a real progressive.
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    I still wonder if O’Donnell is reaching for the center to win over swing voters….

  • nflfoghorn

    That’s the only way she’ll be able to view the White House.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Clooney: Now, Barack, Reagan was popular since he was an actor who could look confident even when the economy was sagging and he had no idea what he was talking about. Don’t you think it’s time a few of us gave you acting lessons?

  • deconstructiva

    Clooney and Obama are bidding with hand gestures on US Chamber of Commerce auctioned ad spots. Alas, Glenn Beck is also bidding with gold coins and winning (the USCC will find out Beck’s actually using gold-covered chocolate coins but that’s their problem, oops).

  • earljr1

    Oh, come on, patrick…..my wife thought it was funny!

  • square1

    “Hmmm, if I bite this off…could I be Chief of Staff?”

  • sacredh

    Christine don’t sext. Sorry Machete.
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    OT, but if anyone needs a fun, scary movie that they may not have seen, Big Bad Wolf might be it. Campy, gory, sex and plenty of funny writing. Werewolves gone bad.

  • pbmama

    FTW!! I thought sacredh had this won for sure, but this one’s the best. :-)

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Maybe your wife is as insane as you are.

  • rwbbinla

    Lets both gesture to the left.

  • earljr1

    Typical liberal response, patrick. express a view point different than yours and you start with the name calling. Ho Hum, so what else is new? My wife said to ignore your ignorance and that sounds like pretty good advice. Good night and happy snarking.

  • apr2563

    FTW

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “…I have repeatedly lied to them, there are no jobs, I’m trying to screw up their health care…”
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    Now try and tell me that is not a political attack.
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    Besides, you decided that claiming people are insane is fair game. So, if I dealt with your claim that I and others are insane, then you deal with being called insane and don’t let it get your blood pressure up too high.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “Lets both gesture to the left.” and then govern to the right.

  • freeinpa

    The wonder dummy twins with their usual nothing posts.
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    “Weren’t you the one who told us that your first girlfriend spent the entire night in the back of your car asking to go back to her Maaaaaaah Maaaaah
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    Yeah but eventually I just took your mother back home to the barn!

  • Ivy_B

    Huzzah!

  • gadsbys

    OK, I got it out of my nose. I wonder if i could wipe it on my pants without Obama noticing?

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    That would make us a cross breed between sheep and chicken hawk.
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    Those animals don’t create offspring.

  • kevin

    If she married you, Earl, she must have an amazing sense of humor.

  • kevin

    Obama, Where Art Thou?

  • dunedweller

    . . . 800 BILLION dollars!

  • freeinpa

    That makes you a mutant. Explains a lot

  • apr2563


    George explains with the assist of Louis CK the advantage of being white.
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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/new-rule-if-a-woman-rejec_b_764893.html
    George explains with the assist of Bill Maher why white men prefer Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, Michelle Bachmann, etc.

  • apr2563

    We may have found the answer to Michael Scherer’s obsession with Sarah.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    You’re postings mean you are a moron.
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    You have failed to explain anything at all – ever.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    LOL
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    Apr, if you were my age and near NYC, I’d send you a text of my… no, you wouldn’t like that, I guess.
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    Great comedy.

  • sacredh

    This one gets my vote too.

  • sacredh

    Really OT, but on my way home from work this afternoon I ran into a friend at the store. A couple of months ago I let him borrow my old drill and he burned it up removing a bunch of screws from some wood. I had gotten a new one for my birthday a couple of months before that and told him not to worry about it because it was pretty much junk anyway. He wanted to give me $10 to make himself feel better. He insisted. I told him no but to put $5 in the scratch-off machine and pick me out a $5 ticket. It hit for $100 and he refused to take half.

  • perrywhite1

    “Yup, still stanky.”

  • kbanginmotown

    Heck, sacred, your karma is amazing!
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    I’ll be headed south on I-77 next month to a Thanksgiving family reunion. I’ll be sure to stop for gas in So Oh and play a $5 ticket, hoping that some of that Swamp-luck rubs off…

  • kbanginmotown

    I’m surprised this hasn’t come up in the comments, but, if any of you have seen “Up In the Air”…wouldn’t you be a bit nervous if George Clooney came to visit?
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    “…every person whose taken a chance or started an empire was sitting where you’re sitting…”

  • apr2563

    Great movie. I liked the fact they used real people commenting on being fired.
    Yes, a visit from George would be unnerving for me, but for far less subtle reasons.

  • freeinpa

    “You’re postings mean you are a moron.
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    You have failed to explain anything at all – ever”
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    So says the clueless life loser the Rev Jim. That’s all the explanation needed.

  • Paul-no not that one

    If nothing else that movie taught people how to pack.

  • apr2563
  • Paul-no not that one

    “stuartzechman and nyeve”
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    Just saw that at Atrios. I don’t know who nyeve is but I’m outraged at what appears to be a NY bias!.
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    Kidding.

  • stuartzechman

    LOL
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    What?
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    Just like the Sunday Bobblehead shows, we had both sides fairly represented:
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    Upper West Side and Lower East Side.
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    See?
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    No bias!

  • 53_3

    Damn! My finger stinks…

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