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1,000 Words: Peek-A-Boo

By Michael Scherer | @michaelscherer | October 23, 2010 | +

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  • square1

    “I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn’t work.”

  • michaelfury

    “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”

    - Aldous Huxley

    http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/look-into-your-heart/

  • asharaxx

    “Hey check this out, it’s one of those old-timey analog doors. How quaint!”

  • http://2thirdsrocks.wordpress.com 2thirdsrocks

    Um, Hello Mr. Soros, you wanted to see me?

  • freeinpa

    Ah, is this where the Tea Party is?

  • earljr1

    Is that the American public out there asking for accountability? Tell them I am not home.

  • sacredh

    Obama: Can I come in yet?

    Aide: Hillary, quick! Get out of his chair.

  • sacredh

    Obama: Here I come!

    Aide: Sarah, get ready to pop out of the cake when you get the signal.

  • sacredh

    Aide: Monica, get under the desk and when Barack sits down, work your magic.

  • sacredh

    Obama cracks open the door and wonders why W is sitting at his desk in an SS uniform.

  • sacredh

    Flash forward to January 2013:
    .
    Obama: If President Palin thinks I’m giving her the launch codes, she can kiss my ass.

  • sacredh

    Flash forward to January 2013:

    Obama: President O’Donnel, I’m enjoying the dance and the the chanting, but I’m not coming in until you get that pentagram off the floor. Put some clothes on too.

  • sacredh

    Flash forward to January 2011:

    President Obama hesitates before he meets the Tea Party delegation. The white sheets and hoods make him pause.

  • sacredh

    Before meeting with Senator Vitter, President Obama makes sure they’re finished changing his diaper.

  • sacredh

    President Obama listens in as the Tea Party soul singer, Very White, practices for that night’s concert.

  • Paul-no not that one

    Smiling after seeing that there just might be a narrative that isn’t accurate.

  • Paul-no not that one

    “Very White”? Okay that killed me.

  • apr2563

    Shhh. earljr is operating on textee and there are some parts missing. Wait, earljr is calling in a fellow graduate of Beck University. Calling Dr. Beck, calling Dr. Beck.
    .
    Dr. earljr decided to stop operating because Textee has no insurance.

  • liberalmeltdown

    So that’s where all the economic advisers are.

  • liberalmeltdown

    Ah there they are, my relatives from Kenya. Everybody wants a birth certificate.

  • http://jcapan.wordpress.com jcapan

    Obama: That’s where the catfood commission is plotting to dismantle the last vestiges of the New Deal.

  • fhmadvocat

    Geesh!! Can’t a president use the bathroom without someone waiting for him to come out!

  • sacredh

    Obama listens in as an aide says:

    Senator McCain, we don’t know how you keep getting past security, but you’re not the President, you lost the election, Sarah isn’t trying to kill you and I’ll walk on the f**king lawn if I feel like like. Now get out.

  • sacredh

    Oops. That should be “if I feel like it”.

  • herby002

    {singing}

    As we know,
    There are known knowns.
    There are things we know we know.
    We also know
    There are known unknowns.
    That is to say
    We know there are some things
    We do not know.
    But there are also unknown unknowns,
    The ones we don’t know
    We don’t know.

    “Hey Rummie, I thought you were thrown out of here a long time ago… By the way, can I use that tune for Afghanistan?”

  • freekeir

    Yo, anyone seen my ratings?

  • asharaxx

    Picture was taken shortly before the President collapsed to the ground, immediately stood up, and began to stomp across the room like a great, terrible lizard.

  • sacredh

    Obama listens in disbelief as O’Donnel sits at the piano and runs through a song list that includes “I Put A Spell On You”, “That Old Black Magic”, “Season Of The Witch”, “Witchy Woman” and “Devil Woman”. He starts to close the door as she announces that her next number will one of her favorites by The Insane Clown Posse.

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