Caption contest!; Update: Poll added!
posted at 12:36 pm on July 7, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
I just can’t resist on this photograph. Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev meet for the first time in Moscow, and Obama offers his unclenched hand. The look on Medvedev’s face says … well, that’s what you need to tell us! Put your caption ideas in the comments section, and later this evening I’ll add a poll with either the most recurring captions or my favorites.
Update: Here’s the poll, as promised. I had to finally just stop adding entries; there’s a lot of brilliance in the comments section, though, so read through them all. This is at least a representative list. Enjoy!
Also, I failed to link back to Drudge Report, where I got this photo; thanks for the reminders in the comments section, and my apologies to Matt Drudge for the oversight.
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Med: “Geez, I wish this guy would shut up. I’ve gotta take a massive dump.”
WordsMatter on July 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM
^^Winner(s)
On a side note, did you know that placing your hand on the back of another or clasping while shaking hands is not only a sign of appeasement but can also be interpreted as manipulative or rather, the person clasping can be considered a manipulative person…but whatevs…
TightAggressive on July 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Not right now,
LumberghBarack, I’m kinda busy. In fact, look, I’m gonna have to ask you to just go ahead and come back another time.VTWaldrup on July 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Talk to the hand…
RedSoxNation on July 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Obama: “Jean-Claude Van Damme! It’s awesome to meet you!”
cannonball on July 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Look at me dammit!!!
Hammerhead on July 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM
“Da. It is great pleasure to finally meet the star of Webster.”
LibTired on July 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Barry: “And here we are in the land where they speak Sovietunionish”
crazy_legs on July 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Medvedev: “Of course I’m circumcised….why do you ask?”
Spiritk9 on July 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM
OMG…my favorite!
SouthernGent on July 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Med: “If he asks me to say ‘nuclear wessel’ one more time, I swear, I’ll deck him.”
Daggett on July 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM
I was led to believe there would be teleprompters…
Vashta.Nerada on July 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Med: “Don’t look at the ears… Don’t do it…”
Hammerhead on July 7, 2009 at 1:06 PM
President Medvedev failed to take into account the long arms of President Obama when attempting to keep him at arm’s length.
R Square on July 7, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Maybe they forgot Medvedev’s teleprompter and he couldn’t move or speak.
Shy Guy on July 7, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Medvedev wins the smug-down.
forest on July 7, 2009 at 1:06 PM
No, really. Pull my finger.
MikeA on July 7, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Hahaha
ladyingray on July 7, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Med: If I don’t see him…he isn’t really there…
ladyingray on July 7, 2009 at 1:07 PM
+100
WordsMatter on July 7, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Without his telepromter to rely on, Obama shakes the hand of a cardboard cutout of Medvedev.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on July 7, 2009 at 1:07 PM
ok Mr. President, if you’d just lean forward a bit, i’ll be able to get my nose a bit further up your…
cpr on July 7, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Medvedev: “Damn! Obama has great biceps! Oh, wait, that’s Michelle out there.”
Most of the people I know who saw Michelle’s Russian fashion pix thought that he had better legs though.
jeanie on July 7, 2009 at 1:07 PM
“Hey, come on, can’t I get some concessions for the people back home? A smile, at least?”
“I still don’t see the part where you are giving up something you actually want.”
Count to 10 on July 7, 2009 at 1:07 PM
“We should have shut down that Ayers camp”
faraway on July 7, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Meanwhile, elsewhere:
DarkCurrent on July 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Agreed!
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM
“I hope you washed that hand”.
PappaMac on July 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Obama: What’s it gonna take to get you in this fine GM automobile today? Here. I’m gonna write a number on this slip of paper…”
Cuffy Meigs on July 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Medvedev thinking: “Gawd I wish he’d back off…I can only….hold…my breath….so….long…..”
Spiritk9 on July 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM
“Med: “I can’t believe we lost the Cold War to these guys.””
HEH.
Buckaroo on July 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Very funny Vladimir, now where’s the real American President?
elduende on July 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM
“Thank you, America! For handing us this glorious Cold War victory!
“We seriously thought we had long ago lost….”
FloatingRock on July 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Medvedev: “I can see Alaska from here.”
hoosiermama on July 7, 2009 at 1:09 PM
“He’s a black guy?”
faraway on July 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM
For whatever reason, Med’s look of contempt and body language reminds me of a line from, I believe, an old Steve Martin album: “I fart in your general direction.”
BuckeyeSam on July 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM
“Now this is quality cardboard! Where’d you get this? No wonder it didn’t react to the bow!”
commenter on July 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM
Puppet meets puppet.
ICBM on July 7, 2009 at 1:11 PM
“For the last time, Marx is dead.”
faraway on July 7, 2009 at 1:11 PM
+10
crazy_legs on July 7, 2009 at 1:11 PM
“Thank you, America! For handing us this glorious Cold War victory!
“We seriously thought we had
long agoalready lost….”FIFM
FloatingRock on July 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Oh my gosh. Now that is funny.
DrMagnolias on July 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Obama-
“Sorry, I’ll just go back over here and see how this plays out…”
rogerb on July 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Med: “You’re stepping on my toe!”
WordsMatter on July 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM
“No, really. Who’s your tailor?”
ROCnPhilly on July 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM
*facepalm*
Abby Adams on July 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Med steals Ivan Drago’s line: “I must break you.”
BuckeyeSam on July 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM
“I’ve got more Czars than you do.”
PappaMac on July 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Medvedev: “If we hadn’t sold Alaska, Sarah would belong to me.”
hoosiermama on July 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Thanks Comrade,
Now get off the stage commie and go back to commune back in Amerika.
jdubya on July 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM
If Obama approached me, I would look very much like this.
disa on July 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM
From Monty Python and The Holy Grail
“I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”
progressoverpeace on July 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM
“Yeah, whatever – where’s my Ipod?”
disa on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
BO: “Allow me to apologize again for America.”
hollygolightly on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
“Not enough he sold out his country now this smarmy attention whore is kissing my ass out in public too.”
elduende on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
I brought you a Michael Jackson “Thriller” Lazer Disc for your enjoyment.
Fandango on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Heh.
Barry: “I believe that we can all …”
Dmitry: “…blah, blah, blah…Pravda, watch my eyes…see the boredom? This jerk is just another useful idiot…there will be no slobbering press conferences or I cut you off of the gravy train, understood? I am not even going to make eye contact with this yutz.”
Barry: “…with a goal of…”
Dmitry: “Why won’t this yak stop talking? Nobody is listening to him. Let go of my hand, you bolshevik!”
Barry: “…and end the threat of nuclear war!”
Dmitry: “Yeah, my asski. You can have my SS-18s when you pry them from my cold, dead hands…”
Jaibones on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Don’t worry. We’ll remove that offensive flag right away!
tims472 on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
“Kiss! Kiss!”
jeanie on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
At least you can spell…
ladyingray on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Obama: “It’s great to be back in the Motherland!”
WordsMatter on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
No, no, NO, NO! NYET!
That was the French guard in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, not Steve Martin!
Shirotayama on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
I will have to burn this suit later and cut off my hand so I don’t get infected. If I look at him I may turn to stone. Why is his hand so moist?? Security!
Conservican on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Forget moose and squirrel. Get crazy guy off of me.
Vashta.Nerada on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Puppet meets puppet.
ICBM on July 7, 2009 at 1:11 PM
—–
Med: “Pleased. To. Meet. You.”
Obama: “Likewise.”
Putin: (pulls puppet strings)
mew
acat on July 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Pres Obama – Hey can we hang out….and do things…we can braid each other’s hair….and have sleep over’s…Wow it’s so cool to meet you…I’m such a big fan
Med- Yea whatever. Have your people call mine, and Uh I have to give a speech now. Can you get off the stage?
LincolntheHun on July 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Sorry for the incorrect pop culture reference. I could have sworn I heard it on a Steve Martin album from the late 1970s. My mistake.
BuckeyeSam on July 7, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Are we sure this isn’t RoboMedvedev?
apostic on July 7, 2009 at 1:16 PM
BuckeyeSam on July 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM
Quest for the Holy Grail
LincolntheHun on July 7, 2009 at 1:16 PM
And so then I broke Hilary’s arm by wrenching it sorta like this. After that I told her to stay home and make me a pie. Is that how Putin treats you?
NickelAndDime on July 7, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Medvedev – “I won.”
murty on July 7, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Med: Это холодное
mr.blacksheep on July 7, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Steve Martin had a bit about someone asking if it was okay if he smoked and Martin replying by asking if it was okay if he farted.
progressoverpeace on July 7, 2009 at 1:17 PM
MED: I just farted in your general direction…you are now my bitch!
Liberty or Death on July 7, 2009 at 1:17 PM
“We stopped doing all that Marxism stuff back in the 60s dumkopf”
faraway on July 7, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Medvedev: “Get a load of this insufferable doucebag.”
DaveS on July 7, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Barry: “He’s so lifelike! You can’t even see the speaker wires!”
Vashta.Nerada on July 7, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Putin, hiding behind a flag: “Phew, that was a close one! When Obama patted Med’s shoulder, he almost dislodged a string!”
aero on July 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM
Obama: Is that aloe vera on your hand?
.
Medvedev: No, but you smell like cabbage!
.
Obama: Let me be clearasil with you.
.
Medvedev: I smudge at your general complexion!
.
Obama: As I have always said, you want to be rough?
.
Medvedev: You using golf term cause I putt from the rough.
.
Obama: Can we at least hug for the cameras?
.
Medvedev: Okay but I get to be on top.
Americannodash on July 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM
Med: “I have TOTUS upgrade in pocket”
faraway on July 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM
“You know..I’m kind of a big deal.”
Thunderstorm129 on July 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM
“If he starts licking my hand, I’m calling security, Volodya!”
Misha I on July 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM
LMAO. Winner.
Jaibones on July 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM
Med: His grip is that of a “sissy boy”, too. This guy will be pushover.
ORrighty on July 7, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Medvedev: “Keep the Ipod, we’ll just take Poland.”
Urban Infidel on July 7, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Medvedev: Fool! My wallet is in the other pocket!
44Magnum on July 7, 2009 at 1:21 PM
What No BOW.
Brat4life on July 7, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Dmitry, how far is Lenin’s tomb from the Kremlin ?
runner on July 7, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Medvedev (to himself): “This is going to be a lot easier than I thought.”
Vashta.Nerada on July 7, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Bingo. The other bit is from Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Nasty Frenchmen guarding the castleh: “Your father was a hamster, and your mother smells of Elderberries…”
Jaibones on July 7, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Obama: “You’ll remember me forever!”
Medvedev: “Just like the kid from my childhood whose drink I pee’d in.”
AeroSpear on July 7, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Med: “Does he HAVE to greet me every time with, ‘hey, you’re Russian and I’m takin’ my time’??”
Daggett on July 7, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Obama: “shake hand.. pat shoulder, rub belly, pat head.. OH DAMN!”
44Magnum on July 7, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Isn’t this the pictures that says 1000 words. Unlike the other one though this isn’t photoshopped
Brat4life on July 7, 2009 at 1:22 PM
That was fast. Damn fast
DarkCurrent on July 7, 2009 at 1:22 PM
“Don’t be upset. I’m sure you’ll meet Sarah Palin soon.”
JiangxiDad on July 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Good one!
Don’t know if it’s been said yet, but:
“Where were you when we were going to bury you?”
JetBoy on July 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM
“Yeah, whatever – where’s my Ipod?”
disa on July 7, 2009 at 1:14 PM
I think this is the best so far!
jdubya on July 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM
His grip isn’t that strong. I think I could take him. If I can’t, Vladimir certainly can.
MB4 on July 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Obama: “Hope. Change!” (Thought bubble: Why isn’t he falling to his knees before me in adoration? The magic words have always worked before!)
aero on July 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM
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