Rodent Scurries By as Obama Lauds Wall Street Vote

NYTimes ^ | May 20th 2010

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Rodent Scurries By as Obama Lauds Wall Street Vote May 20, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the midst of his battle with the titans of Wall Street, President Barack Obama was nearly upstaged by a rodent. Obama had just begun a Rose Garden statement lauding the end of a Senate filibuster on his financial overhaul when some kind of rodent dashed out of the bushes to his right, just outside the Oval Office.

As photographers snapped away in the sun-drenched garden, the critter scurried straight past the gray podium with the presidential seal and made a bee-line for another set of bushes to Obama's left. It's not clear if the president could even see the streaker, but he didn't show any reaction. And he concluded his statement minutes later, returning to his office without answering a few shouted questions on other topics.

Once he was safely inside the Oval Office, a fierce debate erupted among the photographers and reporters who'd witnessed the dash. Was it a rat or a mouse? Or maybe a mole, or some other kind of related creature.

Before long, experts had joined the fray.

''I would partially rule out rat,'' said Russell Link, a wildlife biologist who works for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. ''That's due to the lack of a tail that is typically equal to body length.''

After viewing a photograph of the surprising scurry, Link said, ''My suspicion is it's a vole, commonly called a 'meadow mouse' out our way.''

[Touch Not the Cat]

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bttt

[Grizzled Bear]

Beware the ides of mouse?

[hal ogen]

The guy is always surrounded by dimocRATS.

[Tzimisce]

Ah the symbolism....

[ColdOne]

I wonder if it had its papers?

[Paige]

First bees now rats? The White House is a slum now?

[McGavin999]

So, where are the pictures. Why haven’t we seen them?

[hsalaw]

Typical stupid lib press: they’re more interested in whether it was a rat or a vole than they are in the fact that the Obozo is the biggest rat of all.

[twhitak]

some kind of rodent dashed out of the bushes to his right

Bush's fault!!!

[RummyChick]

are his lips getting bluer

[Erik Latranyi]

Proof that God has a sense of humor!

[demkicker]

Check out Drudge - he has a very good pic.

[LRS]

Rats. Rats. Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red blood! All these will I give you if you will obey me.

[steamroller]

I think it was Eric Holder.he actually looks like he escaped from the Island of Dr.Moreau(the ratman).

[OldDeckHand]

'I wonder if it had its papers?"

I wonder if it's registered to vote, yet.

[Joe 6-pack]

The Lord of the Flies is now also King Rat...

[MHGinTN]

Are lips colored like his a trait of Indonesians? I don’t think that trait is typical of Kenyans or oxi and afro mixes, is it?

[RummyChick]

I have seen earlier pictures where they didn’t look like that when he was younger

[the Real fifi]

I blame Michelle’s garden and bee hive.

[RummyChick]

Someone needs to shrink his head and put it on a rat. There was a pic today photoshopped to have multiple rats all around Obama

[dr_who]

You mean he didn’t run over to it and snuff it out like he did that fly?

[txhurl]

Wasn’t there some other rat scurrying past him last week or so?

Vermin know fellow vermin, and are comfortable with them.

[RummyChick]

Yes, there is a video of a rat but I don’t think he was at the podium, yet.

[MHGinTN]

Perhaps his0₂ blood level is low. One can only hope ... for change ... in the Oval Office.

[rfp1234]

"I Poopz in the Organik White Hauz Veggyz".

[ErnBatavia]

That’s what happens when your lungs can’t process sufficient oxygen...it’s that smoking thing of his.

[ColdOne]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/photos/3/3c64e8bf-d6d4-42e3-8853-b1509c1e94eb.html?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

PHOTO AT LINK^^^^

[RummyChick]

[Paved Paradise]

Birds of a feather...

[beethovenfan]

What state was the rodent from?

[savedbygrace]

Mole.

[GnuHere]

There are rodents around the WH, besides Bambi and Moosechelle? Maybe they need a good mousing barn cat instead of Bo the water dog. Poor Bo. At least he doesn’t know he’s a prop...

[McGavin999]

Oh! That’s Nancy Pelosi, I’m surprised nobody recognized her.

[Sivad]

Rodents in the Rose Garden.

Mother used to say, “You can’t tell
the players without a program.”

[Past Your Eyes]

Looks more like a vole.

[two23]

The White House is infested with Rats?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

the bushes to his right

Keep out the Bushes.

[ColdOne]

. At least he doesn’t know he’s a prop... LOL!

[RummyChick]

[Stymee]

It is actually James O’Keef operating a new toy remote control! It is an electronic mole. Video and audio has been recorded throughout the White House. Remember the phase, :if I was a fly on the wall? well this is a mouse under His bed, in the desk of the Oval office and in her garden. Oh the treasure that has been collected!

[Miss Didi]

OBAMA DOESN'T TAKE QUESTIONS FROM THE RAT, EITHER

[j_guru]

looks like the dims are fleeing the ship

[Dallas59]

Hard to tell the difference...except the right one is more intelligent....

[Gargantua]

Vole. Too big for a mole, and too quick.

[Grig]

Next frogs, locusts, their wine turns to blood, fire and brimstone fall from the sky....

[savedbygrace]

You’re probably right. I just blew up the photo and at 200%, I can see that it’s not a mole.

[Right Wing Assault]

Looks more like a vole.

I agree. It doesn't seem to have a rat tail.

[ChiMark]

It’s Section 8 White House Housing.

[AAABEST]

Gosh, how did the douchey jackass in those pics ever get to be President of the United States?