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President Obama Told a Joke Today and Nobody Laughed
GAWKER ^ | Jul 18, 2011 10:52 PM | Matt Cherette

Posted on 07/18/2011 9:29:41 PM PDT by Gondring

Poor President Obama just can't catch a break. Earlier today, the president entered the White House Rose Garden to announce that he'd tapped Richard Cordray to head the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But then he told a bad joke about Cordray's past as a Jeopardy! contestant. And nobody laughed. And it was sad.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: cfpb; doofusinchief; richardcordray
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To: chris_bdba

I loved the way the jackass looked America in the eye last Friday and said “Polls show that 80% of Americans WANT tax increases and to raise the debt limit”

It aint playing in Peoria


21 posted on 07/18/2011 9:56:34 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: Gondring

I know how he feels.

Look at #35 on this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2745878/posts


22 posted on 07/18/2011 9:56:46 PM PDT by right way right
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To: paul51

He didn’t do it himself. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd helped


23 posted on 07/18/2011 9:59:59 PM PDT by donmeaker (I)
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To: Gondring

Heard Obama speak to the Shuttle astronauts the other day. He tried to be cute and failed, big time. O started by asking, “Whom am I talking to?” Answer came back from the Shuttle Commander. Obama then replied, “That’s funny, I was just dialing out for pizza and ended up in outer space, uh..., etc, uh...”

Obama was IMO obviously uncomfortable making this call and it sounded like he’d had one drink too many. Some of his words were slurred and mispronounced. The astronauts all looked like they’d rather be in another galaxy and certainly not talking to the man who’d deep sixed the shuttle program.

Listen here: www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collection_id=63651


24 posted on 07/18/2011 10:00:34 PM PDT by miele man
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To: Clump
Sounds like a joke, doesn't it?

We can thank Dodd-Frank.

Rest assured, it'll be hell. Among other things...

It will write and enforce bank rules, conduct bank examinations, monitor and report on markets, as well as collect and track consumer complaints.

25 posted on 07/18/2011 10:00:56 PM PDT by newzjunkey (millionaires and billionaires vs. old people, dems? yawn.)
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To: mylife

80% want taxes on the other 20%....


26 posted on 07/18/2011 10:01:02 PM PDT by donmeaker (I)
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To: Doofer
...newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.<<<

What's up with that?

Key word: "protection". What a racket.

27 posted on 07/18/2011 10:09:35 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Gondring

“I don’t get no respect.” Tell Obama to go here:

http://www.rodney.com/home/home.asp

“I went to my proctologist. He stuck his finger in my mouth.”

“My mother breast-fed me through a straw.”

Enjoy the meatloaf. We’ll be here all week.


28 posted on 07/18/2011 10:10:07 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Gondring

“But then he told a bad joke about Cordray’s past as a Jeopardy! contestant. And nobody laughed. And it was sad.”

Ha, I find that hilarious.


29 posted on 07/18/2011 10:11:16 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Obama may not be a natural born citizen, but there is no denying that he is a natural born liar.)
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Obama makes me sick.


30 posted on 07/18/2011 10:12:08 PM PDT by worriedinoregon
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Drudge had this up and it also caught my eye, where Steve Wynn calls Obama a fear mongering socialist, and much more for good measure.

“Wynn CEO Goes On Epic Anti-Obama Rant On Company Conference Call”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wynn-ceo-steve-wynn-conference-call-transcript-obama-2011-7#ixzz1SWbDB4OT


31 posted on 07/18/2011 10:26:48 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Obama may not be a natural born citizen, but there is no denying that he is a natural born liar.)
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To: donmeaker

There is the truth.


32 posted on 07/18/2011 10:30:07 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: miele man

I hate this SOB


33 posted on 07/18/2011 10:31:53 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: Rocky

“I told my psychiatrist I keep thinking I’m ugly - he told me to lay on the couch - face down!”


34 posted on 07/18/2011 10:37:58 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Gondring

I have noticed that, as a people, we don’t laugh a fraction of what we did thirty years ago. Particularly with the Obama regime, there seems to be a black out on political satire and jokes. American’s always had such a great sense of humor. Has political correctness destroyed our ability to laugh at ourselves?


35 posted on 07/18/2011 10:40:33 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: Gondring

President Obama is a Joke every day and Nobody Laughs


36 posted on 07/18/2011 10:45:14 PM PDT by JEH_Boston (Never give up.)
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To: Doofer

“...newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
What’s up with that?”

It’s another one of Obama’s czars with a nice sounding title to fool us into thinking he’s doing something good for us ignorant (what they think) citizens, but behind the scenes he’s putting in more controls on us and further destroying our freedoms and the country.


37 posted on 07/18/2011 10:49:31 PM PDT by abcc2011 (Christian and conservative.)
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To: Gondring

either they’re too friggin’ stupid to get it... (very possible), or no one is in a laughing mood anymore these days... (also quite possible)


38 posted on 07/18/2011 11:13:22 PM PDT by KIDFOH (E.I.E.I.O. (enough is enough, impeach obama))
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To: TwoSwords
Pretty sad when the suit your wearing is sharper than yourself.

Along the same line...

Q: Wat's the smartest thing about Obama?

A: His outfit.

39 posted on 07/18/2011 11:36:05 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: Doofer
What's up with that?

Setting us up for price controls. But not for everyone.
Some animals are more equal than others.

I wonder why Jimmy Carter wasn't tapped for the job?
He's got the experience, LOL.

40 posted on 07/18/2011 11:36:43 PM PDT by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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