WASHINGTON – In his battle with the titans of Wall Street, President Barack Obama almost got upstaged by a rat.
But he didn't even seem to notice. Assuming that's what it was, scurrying in front of his podium Thursday in a sun-drenched Rose Garden.
Obama had just begun an afternoon statement to reporters lauding the end of a Senate filibuster on his financial overhaul plan when some kind of rodent — opinions differ on which — dashed out of the bushes to his right, just outside the Oval Office.
As photographers snapped away, the critter trundled straight past the gray podium with the presidential seal and made a bee-line for another set of bushes to Obama's left.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The secret service has determined that the 'rat' is really the "spirit of George W Bush" who refuses to leave the white house. Secret service investigators interviewed the rodent, but all the little fella would say is: "This Obama impostor is really a Kenyan and not eligible to be a US President." "I'm still the 'Decider in Chief' and I'll decide when it's time to leave the White House." Secret service agents escorted the mouse to the White House kitchen, where they gave him some French cheese and sent him on his way.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Ya, I see what you mean. What strikes me just AS interesting, there' no teleprompter in the picture (of course, it could be just outside the view of the shot) - tho, even the TOTUS blog has been mysteriously quiet these days
The discoloring of the front step around the rodent looks odd too. I won't be surprised if this comes out as a fake, but isn't that picture supposed to be taken by press?
The discoloring of the front step around the rodent looks odd too. I won't be surprised if this comes out as a fake, but isn't that picture supposed to be taken by press?
Ya, supposedly photographed by most of the press, I haven't seen any retractions
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