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COLUMNISTS
TODAY'S STORIES
26.10.2008
Photo of the Day


 America, 2008.

--Michael Crowley

Posted: Sunday, October 26, 2008 12:37 PM with 18 comment(s)

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WoodyBombay said:

Laura Ingraham is digging into that kid's background RIGHT NOW. Sure, he's pallin' around with Obama now, terrorist-fist-jabbing to his heart's content, but he'll be radioactive by nightfall.

October 26, 2008 1:19 PM

a_long said:

As in "Morning in" America, 2008.

Also:

Joe Raedle, Getty Images

Oct. 22, Chantilly, VA

October 26, 2008 1:29 PM

timteeter said:

OMG!  The indoctrination of America's youth now begins in grade school--and *right in the American heartland!*

Sarah Palin, we need you more than ever . . .

October 26, 2008 1:33 PM

williamyard said:

What's the big deal? The Terrorist fist-bumping yet another albino Negro midget? Tell me something I don't already know.

Let me guess: the albino Negro midget's father came from "Kenya"--as in the People's Republic of Kenya.

How many times has the albino Negro midget registered to vote? Four? Six? It's anybody's guess.

Ten-to-one he's connected with all that offshore money pouring into the Obama campaign.

Methinks the midget won't be so keen on fist-bumping the Terrorist once he finds out his taxes are doubling so William Ayers can have convicted Negro felons teach highschoolers how to perform forced abortions on their Christian mothers under portraits of Malcolm X and Timothy Leary.

I've tried to point all this out, time and time again, but the MSM has ignored me. Meanwhile, CBS infiltrates Sarah Palin's campaign staff and her favorability ratings start tanking. And you won't hear CBS reporting on Obama's plans to pardon Charles Manson, now, will you? Coincidence?

I read this morning that Ahmadenijad has taken ill...just a little over a week before the U.S. election. How conveeeenient.

Tampa Bay hides the "Devil" in its name, Nate Silver predicts they'll win 200 games, meanwhile every Beltway "expert" is now quoting Fivethirtyeight, and the "Rays" are in the World Series.

Connect the fucking dots, people.

October 26, 2008 1:39 PM

jobeek2 said:

Awesome!

October 26, 2008 1:51 PM

jobeek2 said:

Hey, where did William Yard's brilliant comment go?

October 26, 2008 1:52 PM

jobeek2 said:

Oh, um, it's right there now. Sorry...

October 26, 2008 1:53 PM

Rhubarbs said:

Holy crap: Obama reads the Wall Street Journal?

That's a great picture. One of the things that sold me on Obama, from a personally-comfortable-with-him point of view, was that I saw him at an early rally, and he absolutely lit up at the end when there were kids around. Guy loves children, in an enthusiastic-dad sort of way. Which as a former little league coach, I respect. Also, it's a trait often missing in really ambitious politicians. Paul Wellstone was like that, too, and my old Republican congressman Jim Ramstad. But mostly the really ambitious politicians visibly don't much like children, including their own.

October 26, 2008 2:14 PM

williamyard said:

Rhubarbs wrote: "Holy crap: Obama reads the Wall Street Journal?"

Actually, only the outside cover of what Obama is holding is the folded front page of WSJ. Directly inside is the first section of the People's Daily.

Directily inside the People's Daily is what appears to be a hardbound copy of the Koran.

Inside the Koran's cover, however, is a dog-eared copy of Borges' "Labyrinths." Within, a small mirror is being used as a bookmark. The mirror is currently at the end of the story, "The Garden of Forking Paths."

I'm M.C. Escher and I approved of this message.

October 26, 2008 2:49 PM

ironyroad said:

Also, another thing that the liberal MSM of course ignores is that the picture clearly shows that Obama is wearing bell-bottoms.  This is solid evidence, if we needed any more, that our friend Hussein is a tool of the Bill Ayers-terrorism-counterculture-weathermen-ACORN-homosexual conspiracy that is planning to take down the U.S. from inside.

And the Secret Service guy standing at the car is -- why am I not surprised? -- black!  And they try to tell us that Obama's campaign isn't racist.

October 26, 2008 3:47 PM

blackton said:

Black secret service agent, black car, black candidate hitting a small, white child who is grimmacing in terror. What next America? The negrofication of America has begun.

Seriously, that is a really sweet picture, even by itself devoid of any campaign context, it is sweet. As a father of a kindergartner, and two preschoolers seeing it is really nice.

October 26, 2008 4:56 PM

guptatomic1 said:

heartwarming

October 26, 2008 7:05 PM

cspencef said:

Requisite joke:  Obama's next book will be a children's story, but he hasn't decided whether which title to give it: "The Littlest Terrorist" or "The Littlest Socialist"...

Actual reaction: Awwww.....

October 26, 2008 8:27 PM

icarusr said:

The really sad thing is that I have no doubt - none whatsoever - that there are nutcases out there who would take this picture and make something out of it.  I would not even be surprise if a Republican Chairwoman of Fuckcity, Middleofnowhere "Republican Woman's Sorority" write a circular linking the sex ed ad with this pic.

Other than that, if there ever is a poster to be made of Obama's presidential campaign, this is it.

October 26, 2008 10:59 PM

Robert Powell said:

I thought the best part was The Wall Street Journal.

October 27, 2008 3:54 AM

Wandreycer1 said:

I like Reggie Love in the background sporting the gold tie and Serious Biz sunglasses.

October 27, 2008 11:47 AM

The Stump said:

As a commenter notes, yesterday's very popular photo of the day was taken by Joe Raedle of Getty

October 27, 2008 12:01 PM

Fishpeddler said:

"Black secret service agent, black car, black candidate hitting a small, white child who is grimmacing in terror. What next America?"

This made me laugh out loud (and have to admit to co-workers that I'm not really reviewing case law on a file).

"Paul Wellstone was like that, too, and my old Republican congressman Jim Ramstad. "

Hey, Rhubarbs, that's my old congressman too!  I even did a bit of door-to-door campaigning for him for extra credit in high-school.  (Hey, don't hold it against me -- I was apparently a sucker for all those "Congratulations on being named All-Conference" letters he sent.  Ah, impressionable youth.)

October 27, 2008 1:10 PM