Thursday, September 06, 2012

It looks like the Teabaggers were right, Obama IS a socialist. Here he is with Karl Marx.

Wait for it, it will come to you .

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    1. Tania9:50 PM

      Whenever I see Victorian Era photos, I always wonder what was up with the one hand in coat pose that was very popular. There's always either a man-with-hand-in-coat, or a deceased person dressed and propped up to look alive (shudder; these are actually very common), someone draped lovingly over a couch, other object, or a member of their own sex, or the 'serial killer' look, where the subject glares into the camera chillingly.

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    2. A common stance for "men of breeding"

      http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/con
      tent/binary/mcclellan.jpg

      http://historymyths.files.wordpress.com/2010/0
      5/1950-2261.jpg

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    3. Tania,

      I've seen too many. I always thought it was just a "southern" custom, but I don't know if that's true. I thought it was creepy to see those in old family photo albums when I was growing up. Worse than creepy, "Mom! Sissy's trying to scare me!"

      http://tinyurl.com/post-mortem-photo

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    4. Anonymous8:34 AM

      The pose brings to mind portraits Napoleon Bonaparte.

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  2. Anonymous2:10 PM

    empty chair...

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  3. Anonymous2:18 PM

    oooooh, it DID take a while to come to me!
    I'm so hoping this is the start of a photo series! Let's see, Freud in his consulting room sitting next to his couch....

    Wild Tortoise (sitting in my own shell)

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  4. OK, I waited several minutes. I'm still not getting it. At all.

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  5. WakeUpAmerica2:20 PM

    Yeh, yeh, empty chair. Didn't have to wait. That's funny.

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  6. Anonymous2:20 PM

    LOL ... it took me a few seconds, but then I saw him.

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  7. Anonymous2:28 PM

    They have nothing to run onexcept hate and lies. Not a damn thing. As Clinton so eloquently pointed out, no one has entered the WH facing more urgent problems than our President. But the GOP cannot give him credit for anything, because then their followers won't have their hate and sound bites. Morons one and all. And is MArx hiding Mitt's tax returns in his coat?

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    1. Anonymous7:17 PM

      Left-leaning tweets are playful, often with cultural or historical references. Con tweets are just hard-edged and mean.

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    2. Anonymous8:22 PM

      Hard to use historical references when they learn their history from Huckberry and Beck, or just make it up ala Sarah. And they hate culture...that's just for those rich elitists (like Mitt and Paul?)

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  8. It took only a second or two. I'm so proud of myself!

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    1. Anonymous9:03 PM

      It's a first step...you'll find something else.

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  9. Anonymous2:48 PM

    Invisible Obama is alive and well. Your 'chair' awaits you Sir!!

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  10. Anonymous2:51 PM

    Zach Wahls is talking at the Convention.

    He's the impressive young man who spoke at his Iowa legislature about his two moms!!

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  11. Anonymous2:54 PM

    Hee, Hee...there he is, right in plain sight...well sorta in plain sight.

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  12. Anonymous3:00 PM

    It took a minute, but I finally saw the empty chair! Good one!

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  13. hahahahahahahaha!

    ... reminds me of picture of the empty chair at the Columbian graduation that's been touted as PROOF that President Obama attended lol!

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  14. Maple3:15 PM

    Ah, the empty chair again!

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  15. Anonymous3:24 PM

    Very good. I give you a star for that one.
    Pat Padrnos

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  16. OK, not getting a response from you so I tried googling and discovered the Jawa Report claims that's Obama's college hat on the table.

    Seriously, the only way any of your readers would get that joke is if they read the Jawa Report, and why would we?

    Love your blog but you're wonking out on us here.

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    1. Anonymous7:18 PM

      Check out https://twitter.com/InvisibleObama

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    2. Thanks. I'm usually not this clueless but the notion of Obama traveling back through time created too many "joke" opportunities for me to sort through, apparently.

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  17. OK. Took me a bit.

    It's the empty chair, right?

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  18. Anonymous3:42 PM

    Took me a second . . . LOL!

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  19. Anonymous3:43 PM

    T-shirt I saw the other day: "The grave of Karl Marx is a communist plot!"

    How many people know that Karl marx, as a newspaper reporter in England during America's Civil War, helped spread the word of blue-collar workers that they would NOT see England dragged into the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy? That they would NOT fight America to defend slavery just because the arrogant aristocrats of England wanted to "show up those Yankees"? That's a little history we should remember. Karl Marx's political theories were baloney, but at the time he at least was trying to stick up for the underdogs of the world.

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  20. Anonymous3:46 PM

    Like!

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  21. Anonymous3:48 PM

    Ahahaha!!!! It looks a little too upholstered though...is Obama becoming sloppy in his thought processes?

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  22. Anonymous3:54 PM

    At the convention earlier today when James Taylor was introduced to sing, he came on stage and made a joke that the people in the venue must of wondered about the chair on the stage. He explained that he's going to sit on it -- and did!

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  23. Anonymous3:56 PM

    Ahh..the empty chair! Right??

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  24. Anonymous4:21 PM

    Sarah YOU did that to gabby. Her blood is on YOUR hands. Shame on you. You are evil.

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  25. Anonymous4:31 PM

    PBO looks good as usual. Marx looks like Dr Leckter in disguise. Nice chair.

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  26. indylindy4:38 PM

    Hilarious! Love it!

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  27. Anonymous4:41 PM

    It's not nice to fool with old people. It's just another episode of looking for things in places where they aren't--and sadly I looked high and low, side to side and almost dumped my purse out like I do for my keys before I got it! It's hell to get old and have your shiny steel trap mind turn into a colander. And wait for it, it will come? Ha, not so much any more. You just wait, young fella.

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  28. Thank You! Thank You! The second I "got" it...I stole it and passed it on to my "friends"!

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  29. I got off the phone with a technician from my internet providor and learned they are only working at a fraction of their capacity due to some power outages still remaining.

    He would not give me an estimate but did add me to a list as somebody with power but no Internet or cable.

    I also went to that nearby coffee shop to publish your comments only to learn THEY are now having Internet problems.

    I am long past amused at this situation.

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    1. Anita Winecooler6:08 PM

      I'd be past amused, too. I'm hoping you'll be back on and up to speed soon.

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    2. G, you're the man.

      Not MY man, nor A man, but THE man. (It's like being a stud but you're older than 3 1/2).

      Thanks for drinking all those 3.95 ventis.

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  30. Anonymous5:18 PM

    Omg when you see the accomplished women at the democratic convention the republican women seem so silly the way they hate everybody and everything. It makes you proud to NOT be a republican.

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  31. Anonymous5:20 PM

    FYI - REPLY NOT WORKING RIGHT - goes nowhere!

    Anyhow --

    Now you know what MS/LA is still/was going thru after Isaac, whose remnants have now split in 2. (One part has boomeranged back down off the MA/LA coast. As I said / tweeted during his visit Gulf visit, Isaac lost/still hasn't found his GPS but is still refusing to ask for directions out of town.)

    There are still areas without power in 80+ temps & high humidity. For all the inconvenience you have, it's still better than those folks have it.

    JMO...

    PMom_GA

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  32. I got it--I got it-- eat your heart out Clint Eastwood. Thanks for the belly laugh. I needed that:-)

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  33. Anonymous5:28 PM

    I don't get it.

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  34. Anonymous5:28 PM

    Oh wait, now I get it...the empty chair!!

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  35. Anonymous5:41 PM

    Gryph, and everyone else who's complaining about the power outages, we're damned lucky it was only Mother Nature that wreaked havoc upon us! Consider all the other ways such damage could possibly be visited upon us!

    Sheesh! such a bunch of whiners.

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  36. LoveAndKnishesFromBrooklyn5:43 PM

    That is TOO rich--the image, not your power problem. Best of luck and hang in there--thanks for all your efforts and hauling over to the coffee shop for us!

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  37. Anonymous5:46 PM

    Gryphen did you see where Gabby Giffords was there leading in the Pledge of Allegience? Awesome! And God was included.

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  38. Anita Winecooler5:58 PM

    Ha Ha Ha!!!

    Thank You Clint Eastwood!

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  39. Anonymous6:05 PM

    So, it's the empty chair, right?

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  40. Bwah ha ha ha ha ha !!! Gryphen, this is a good one, thanks !

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  41. Anonymous6:32 PM

    Kerry took a slin sot at Lego Haie at the Dnc and pop She appears and says how does he know my name .hello u ran for VP that's how and said all those dumb lines.

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    1. Anita Winecooler7:35 PM

      http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120906sarah_palin_is_surprised_john_kerry_knows_her_name/

      After four years of screaming "look at me, mention me! I'm a rill merican's dammit!

      Someone finally does it, and Moosehilda is "Surprised he even knows her name"?????

      Glad to see you were watching, Sarah! So glad it got under your "thick skin". THIS is how it's done.

      Did you see Gabby Giffords? What, no retort for that?

      Of course you just heard "Sarah Palin" and flew off the handle.

      You're not even a joke, you're a nothing.

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  42. Anonymous6:41 PM

    Don't sweat it. I'm sure a lot of people in AK have bigger problems than we do waiting for our pithy comments to appear. Have a hot cup of coffee and relish the time off the grid before the uncivil war really heats up in a couple days. Thanks for your vigilance and keeping an eye on the frontier and its denizens. Its a dirty job but somebody has to do it. I love AK BTW so no disrespect intended. You're going to have an awfully unhappy Ice Queen up there soon, unless she stays south to burnish her tan. Keep an eye on her. We haven't heard the last of her yet, though her mellifluous voice gets fainter and fainter and her influence more and more tenuous.

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  43. Anonymous7:04 PM

    I just read the article in the NY Time about the Obama’s children. Note they are not a part of the campaign, they have their own lives and they are extremely well educated. And this is a value in the Obama family. (BTW Sarah, Bristol or any of you Palinbots out there: It does take very determined and devoted parent to make sure one’s kids actually do their homework and are aware it is a “family value” to do well in school. Parenting is a hell of a lot more work than Sarah Palin's crazy and self-enamored idea when you asked Frank Bailey whether it would be cool to have a baby while you were in office. You should have been thinking about your kids who already needed your attention and help with homework!!!) I am in awe 11-year-old Sasha Obama can chat in Mandarin!

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    1. Anonymous8:18 PM

      Just read where Sasha asked if she could miss school tomorrow? No, said her mother. You're going to school. The Preisdential limo was the first car off the grounds. These are great parents!!

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  44. Super Fan In Atlanta7:18 PM

    OMG! I can't believe it took me that long to figure it out. Geez!

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  45. Anonymous8:00 PM

    The Tea Party/Republicans see Imaginary Obama while the rest of us see an empty chair! Invisible Obama is the angry communist divisive Kenyan-born black Muslim that hates whites and America.

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  46. Paul - Minnesota9:05 PM

    That's funny.

    I saw it right away. Even before I read the: Wait for it, it will come to you.

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  47. Anonymous10:12 AM

    Brilliant! Best come-back, yet!

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