Video: President welcomes new pope to White House
posted at 3:00 pm on November 10, 2008 by Allahpundit
A tale of two approval ratings, mirror images of each other. Thus did the photo op come to pass, and thus were the airwaves filled with talking-head chatter about the miracle of orderly transfers of power.
Obama voter though he be, Hitchens is still clutching his naive skepticism that America’s enemies can’t simply be charmed out of their belligerence. Atheists.
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Pope? Why are you demoting The One?
DerKrieger on November 10, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Was planning a brilliant retort, but lost it due to the succinctness of yours!
kybowexar on November 10, 2008 at 3:03 PM
I’m surprised Obama didn’t have a leash around Chimpy McBushitler’s neck. You know, because he is such an animal, right?
PBoilermaker on November 10, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Blue ties; both.
carbon_footprint on November 10, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Where’s Oprah? Shouldn’t she be there, too? I mean, she’s unleashed now and she needs to see her new bedroom at the White House. Oh, wait – maybe Michelle will move over to make room.
savvydude on November 10, 2008 at 3:05 PM
Let the healing begin……..
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 10, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Oprah? Tin foil in Twix sets off detectors.
marklmail on November 10, 2008 at 3:06 PM
This is Off-topic, so move along and pardon the interruption of your viewing pleasure.
PBoilermaker
Got a question – are you on campus?
Reason I ask is because I am – and it would be (to quote AP) just freaky-deaky to know a fellow poster so close by.
kybowexar on November 10, 2008 at 3:07 PM
gosh Im going to miss having President Bush in there.
ousoonerfan15 on November 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
So disillusioned… I thought for sure Obama was going to slap handcuffs on the world’s biggest terrorist and make an executive arrest! Oh sob.
In other news, change.gov has been taken down and “retooled.”
saint kansas on November 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Mtching suits… matching ties… matching dresses…
Now I’m scared.
Romeo13 on November 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM
My favorite moment was Laura checking her watch. Seriously. Like she was making a note of the time when all the class would leach out of the White House.
FinallyRight on November 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM
70% approval rating?! Holy christ.
lodge on November 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Ebony and ivory
CFL on November 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Yep. Change.gov has got to be retooled. It actually showed what his plans are.
kingsjester on November 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Man, that Michelle is an amazon.
surrounded on November 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Michelle – harpie in chief. The woman is going to be intolerable if she continues her pre-election sermonizing, chastising, and lecturing.
DerKrieger on November 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM
And in other news…
Maxim names “Quantum of Solace” Olga Kurylenko “Sexiest Bond Girl Evah!”
Mr_Magoo on November 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Benedict Arnold once wore a blue coat. Some would call him a patriot, though mostly they live across the pond.
Limerick on November 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM
The Breitbart report noted that Obama presumptuously put his hand on the back of the president as they were moving towards the Oval office. Usually that’s a gesture by the host to direct the guest into an unfamiliar, i.e., the host’s, house.
Obama thinks he owns the place already.
Wethal on November 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM
“Together in perfect harmony”
Mr_Magoo on November 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Did Michelle snub President Bush? It sure looked like it to me.
Sue on November 10, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Like the black-and-white cookie. “Look to the cookie” says Jerry Seinfeld in one of his episodes. (Later he pukes.)
Mr_Magoo on November 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM
You realize that if Obama wasn’t an elected official, he wouldn’t be granted a security clearance?
marklmail on November 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Sorry, I graduated in ’00 and now live in the Volunteer State.
Good to see another Boilermaker, though.
PBoilermaker on November 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM
It isn’t hard to have high approval ratings when you promise that the world’s problems will disappear at a rate exactly parallel to the speed at which you can rise to power.
…
Considering the extent to which he’ll be forced to under-deliver on his campaign promises, I’d say his approval rating will be there with Bush’s in no time.
fiscallyconservative on November 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
After the meeting, the Obamas were off to the Hope and Change tatoo parlor to get matching “Obamanation” tats.
Mr_Magoo on November 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Michelle is such a statuesque figure. Also I love Obama and Michelle’s chemistry, it’s clear they are very much in love. American’s should be happy to see a truly functional and relatively young marriage in the whitehouse. Those two still have that spark :)
DeathToMediaHacks on November 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
too bad this ‘photo op’ didn’t take place 2 weeks ago… would have made for compelling attack ads about Obama palling around with GWB
gatorboy on November 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
So, Laura Bush gave the First Dude-Elect Michelle Obama the grand tour today? Seems to me this must not have sat well for Michelle. She’s an angry woman with a metric ton of grievances to settle. I’d love to have heard her inner monologue during the tour. She’ll be the Jezebel-in-Chief and will make Hillary look like Florence Henderson. Mark me: she’ll embarrass Barak within the first 100 days with a statement or action.
sladenyv on November 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
This is one case where Palin really did cost a vote but only to show the hypocricy of Hitchens. He voted against everything else he stands for because Palin was an Evangelical. Laura Ingram’s interview took away any other rationalization he could dream up.
BTW, Michelle Obama is one tall woman. She’s taller than Barack even.
msmveritas on November 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
ah I cannot wait until the media and the nation goes sour on this man.
blatantblue on November 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Love TN – left Germantown (Memphis area) in 2006 for Little Rock.
DerKrieger on November 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
So if Barry telling G-Dubs of his plans to rip out the bowling alley and put in a basketball court?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Dumb and Dumberer.
chunderroad on November 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Still off-topic
No apologies necessary. Glad you are doing good in Tennessee.
kybowexar on November 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM
The pic on Drudge reminds me of another Seinfeld episode – the one when Kramer took Elaine’s photo for her Christmas card. Is Michelle braless?
Brat on November 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM
And she had a more pleasant personality.
kingsjester on November 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM
The ties are the same colour!
The suits are the same!
They’ve been cloned!!Ha ha.
canopfor on November 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
And the dictatorship begins…
The Rock on November 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Hershey Hugs
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Er, uh and Strateegery
Mr_Magoo on November 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
How touching. Who wants to bet that Obama asked him, “So, the job isn’t really THAT hard, right? Right?”
changer1701 on November 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
I can’t wait either, let’s remember that this is as good as it gets, only one way for the Democrats to go and that is down. Wait until the obama infighting…
Firebird on November 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM
I can’t believe this is happening…………….
Seven Percent Solution on November 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM
The racist, radical, crooked hospital administrator just snubbed the sitting President. Class.
marklmail on November 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM
There are a LOT of Purdue alums down here. Kind of weird seeing all of the “P” window decals in traffic.
PBoilermaker on November 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Sue, I was wondering the same exact thing. I had to go back and view it three times. Because of the camera angle and the top of the limo, you can’t tell, but I see the President’s arm shaking something, so whether its just air or what, I do not know…. but if there’s snubbing it’s not on the President’s part
ToddonCapeCod on November 10, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Michelle is such a statuesque figure. Also I love Obama and Michelle’s chemistry, it’s clear they are very much in love. American’s should be happy to see a truly functional and relatively young marriage in the whitehouse. Those two still have that spark :)
DeathToMediaHacks on November 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Oh, now that you point it out DTMH, I’m a convert! Wow, I never realized how amazing this couple is!
/sarc
max1 on November 10, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Raaaaaciiiiisssst!
txsurveyor on November 10, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Michelle is such a statuesque figure. Also I love Obama and Michelle’s chemistry, it’s clear they are very much in love. American’s should be happy to see a truly functional and relatively young marriage in the whitehouse. Those two still have that spark :)
DeathToMediaHacks on November 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Also, I really could care less what you love…
and who the hell are you to tell American’s (sic) what they should do?
max1 on November 10, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Cleopatra and Anthony.
Livia and Augustus.
Josephine and Napoleon.
Fine looking couples. Fine. Really a cut above the rest.
Limerick on November 10, 2008 at 3:25 PM
I can imagine. I have to admit, I’m not an alum. I work for the University. (Well, when I am not chatting on Hot Air or surfing NRO…)
kybowexar on November 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM
As much as I am finding all of this disturbing, I have to remember back to how thrilled I was to get rid of the Clintons.
I should be a tad more generous with the Obama fans than I am. But they are making it so difficult.
myrenovations on November 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM
There goes the neighborhood..
DaveC on November 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Liberals are bad losers and even worse winners. They have no class.
BTW, the market doesn’t seem to like the Obama magic.
joepub on November 10, 2008 at 3:28 PM
I beg to disagree. I think this shows an absence of class and manners as had been shown throughout the Obama campaign. Making fun of Nancy Reagan for something HRC did is yet another example.
Doppleganker on November 10, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Hey, Limerick…you forgot:
Adolph and Eva
Bonnie and Clyde
kingsjester on November 10, 2008 at 3:28 PM
true story: overheard while standing in line at coffee shop election morning (liberal NY East Village):
Customer:
“Large iced coffee please…”
Server (young, overweight A-American woman, pours coffee, hands cup to customer]:
Customer:(while holding small cup)
“That’s a large??”
[Flustered server, reluctant to admit her mistake, finally notes:
"Oh, no... sorry, do you want another?"
Customer:
"No, that's alright, I'll drink this one..."
[Server, as if to excuse herself...]
“I haven’t voted yet…’
oh well, THAT explains it, the server’s “I haven’t voted yet” was somehow intended by her to explain (and excuse) her inability to do her job correctly….
we’re through the looking glass here people…
max1 on November 10, 2008 at 3:32 PM
….A new day has dawned, the birds chirp louder, the flowers smell sweeter, the sun shines brighter….My wallet screams louder, my 401K is on life support….A new day has dawned.
Heaven help us.
HornetSting on November 10, 2008 at 3:35 PM
I’m from Indiana. Obviously lots older than you two however. :)
Oink on November 10, 2008 at 3:35 PM
How much tact could a Chicago community organizer have?
IMO, BO is simply low-rent.
Oink on November 10, 2008 at 3:37 PM
http://blogspot.pocpuma.com/2008/11/09/mccain-supporter-arrested-at-obama-rally–why-we-must-not-go-away.aspx
reshas1 on November 10, 2008 at 3:37 PM
This seems timely:
“But when they said, ‘Give us a king to lead us,’ this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. And the Lord told him: ‘Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.’
Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, ‘This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the Lord will not answer you in that day.’
But the people refused to listen to Samuel. ‘No!’ they said. ‘We want a king over us.’”
~1 Samuel 8:6-19
Send_Me on November 10, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Glad to see they called each other ahead of time to plan their matching wardrobes.
Grafted on November 10, 2008 at 3:38 PM
The believer in public education and Mrs. Believer will be sending their daughters to public school in DC, right? I think there is a school 2 blocks away from the White House.
Oh, what. What?
Hypocr…..
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 10, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Bush…the man we were programmed to hate….
Obama…the man we were programmed to love….
…the conventional wisdom, a man-made madness, once again unwise….
…I wonder what either is actually like….
…don’t have much use for either of ‘em, but I’m still curious….
Puritan1648 on November 10, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Well, yeah. He hasn’t done a damn thing, so there’s not much to disapprove of besides what he says, and that changes almost daily.
aero on November 10, 2008 at 3:40 PM
At least Michelle will not have to have the place sanitized like Mrs Bush had to do after the Clinton’s
driver on November 10, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Just for fun ask your friendly neighborhood Obama supporter what they thought of Obama meeting Bush today. My guess:
Obama sure is charismatic even when coming to show the devil that his reign on earth is at an end.
Can someone photoshop a painting or stain-glass window of the angel Michael defeating Lucifer?
shick on November 10, 2008 at 3:42 PM
I take it you are going on his (or her) graduation year, but what pray tell makes you think you are older than me? Granted, my frequent formatting screw-ups here on HA does belie the genius of my wit (laugh); but it does not mean I am a youth.
Actually, I’m closing the deal on 45 in February.
What part of Indiana do you hail from, Oink? (Actually, I’m a Texan beguiled here by a beautiful woman. She not even native either, she’s from just over the border in Illinois.)
kybowexar on November 10, 2008 at 3:43 PM
I would apologize for being off-topic again, but hey, that screencap said it all!
kybowexar on November 10, 2008 at 3:44 PM
The stories of Bushes sexcapades are going to be reported on tonight by Carl Cameron
joepub on November 10, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Priceless
driver on November 10, 2008 at 3:46 PM
No surprise there.
Hey, why does WaPo and CNN have the slogan “Transition to Power” for the Obama Presidency? Shouldn’t it be “Transition OF Power” or are we meant to think there is no one in power right now and the O is the power of all and one and only powers?
Brat on November 10, 2008 at 3:47 PM
Just an observation…
The man on the right served his country and has an MBA.
The man on the left was a Community organizer and has a law degree.
‘Nuff said.
kingsjester on November 10, 2008 at 3:47 PM
All of this graciousness is making be throw up in my mouth.
sheesh on November 10, 2008 at 3:48 PM
In a word…
Feh
J.J. Sefton on November 10, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Apt comment – apt screenname
kybowexar on November 10, 2008 at 3:49 PM
It stings.
sheesh on November 10, 2008 at 3:50 PM
My God, that he/she obam bam is married too is one ugly transformer.
dinkyjackson on November 10, 2008 at 3:50 PM
I’ve asked this before will the O take the oath of office using his full name and will it be on the bible or the uhh you know?????
driver on November 10, 2008 at 3:53 PM
I will admit one thing. What in blazes happened to Michelle’s fashion sense? Remember that awesome elongated sleeves? Remember the black and white print dress? Remember the stunning purple number with the black belt? Remember the cute collars and her love of off white and grey? Now she’s all about blood red, and gross body hugging one pieces and that black widow dress from election night. Michelle, in the words of Tim Gunn, make it work!
DeathToMediaHacks on November 10, 2008 at 3:54 PM
I couldn’t respond to Death toMedia hack’s comments due to my severe regurgitation and projectile evacuation of my lunch. The copious amounts of 23% alcohol based mouth cleansing…. still can’t get that taste out… nauseous couple, simply nauseous.
MNDavenotPC on November 10, 2008 at 3:54 PM
Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein.
Murphy9 on November 10, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Heartbreaking to watch…if you think bush has been attacked the last 8 years your kidding yourselves…he will be ripped way worse as people try to build Obama up.
There will be all kinds of re-writing and nuance going on.
tomas on November 10, 2008 at 3:56 PM
At 4:06.. the hosting arm again.. Bush is quicker this time and gets his arm up higher than BO’s..
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DeathTMH..
Blackwell.. the worst dressed dude.. is dead now.. Michelle can wear what she wants with out worry of showing up on some worst dressed list somewhere.
DaveC on November 10, 2008 at 3:57 PM
In Conway. :)
Ozark_sky on November 10, 2008 at 3:58 PM
DeathToMediaHacks on November 10, 2008 at 3:54 PM
We’re all concerned about the transfer of power of the most important political office in the Free World to the most liberal Senator in Congress and you’re concerned with fashion sense?
You didn’t play “Johnny” in the movie “Airplane” did you?
kingsjester on November 10, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Probably true, but then again, the obamedia will just ignore it.
Mulligan on November 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Yeah, heartbreaking. The horrors of democracy…..
Grow Fins on November 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Funny.. Michelle O is wearing the Power Red made famous by none other than Nancy Reagan..
DaveC on November 10, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Maybe its time to start a Right Wing Hippee-like movement, kind of like the Left did during the 60’s. New slogan ideas:
Do not trust any Left Wing elitist!
Power to the Hard Working and Successful!
Truth and Integrity over Lies and Slime!
Down with the “Filtered Man’s Thinkers” of the Left.
What if they had Money Redistribution and nobody came?
Instead of “Banning the Bra” we would “Ban Thugocracy, Environmental Wackos & Liberal Propaganda.”
Instead of Drugs Sex and Rock ‘n Roll it would be Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Instead of tie-dyed shirts we will have Levi jackets; instead of rusty VW mini-vans we will have clean SUV’s. We will even shower every day….
We will be planning our own Million Man March on Washington, DC to protest the upcoming plans of the new administration to “Sock-it-to the Wealthy” with their “Steal from the Hard-Working” programs. Their “Potato in Every Pot and Hand in Every Pocket” plan is just going too far. Instead of the ceremonial burning of the American Flag we will be burning the works of Karl Marx instead. Everyone is encouraged to bring a copy for the burning. For those having difficulty locating a copy of the Communist Manifesto they might try their local library; I understand that each library has at least 15 or 20 that were placed their by the DNC. Just remember to bring back the ashes so you wont be charged for losing a book. You will have reduced it to its lowest common denominator so there should be no charges. See you in Washington….
DL13 on November 10, 2008 at 4:01 PM
The bar is set so low can you say do the limbo oh how low can we go?
driver on November 10, 2008 at 4:02 PM
It is clear that you are very much in love.
Michelle and Barry share that spark of Marxism and blame whitey for everything.
The statuesque Michelle may be very tall but she is a small minded and racist shrew that has made a nice living from affirmative action america which until now she so depised.
I guess it is how you look at it.
DeweyWins on November 10, 2008 at 4:02 PM
kingsjester: If the economy can do this under the watchful eye of an MBA and Alan Greenspan’s protege, just think of what it’ll do under the watchful eye of a lawyer and his Chicago political machine
mobsterscroniesadvisors?fiscallyconservative on November 10, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Michelle needs to ditch the high hair and get some flats, she’s taller than everyone including O.
jeanie on November 10, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Which ones the chimp?
Bevan on November 10, 2008 at 4:04 PM
(Pardon my punctuation.)
fiscallyconservative on November 10, 2008 at 4:04 PM
The new pope and James Brown in drag.
dragondrop on November 10, 2008 at 4:04 PM
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