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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Obama Rama!

posted by on July 8 at 8:23 AM

My Fourth of July? Delightful, thanks! I spent it with the Obamas. Yes, the Obamas. In, um, Butte, Montana. Yes, um, Butte. I know. Peculiar. There should be a little something about it in the paper tomorrow (or so I’ve heard it rumored).

Barack came, he saw, he picnicked, he speechified, he ate a hotdog, and here is what he looked like doing it.

Watching the parade:

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That’s Michelle siting next to him, of course, and their daughters Malia and Natasha (adorable!). You can also see his sister, Maya, her hot Chinese husband Konrad, and their very bored little girl, whose name I just cannot pronounce.

Here he is speechifying at the picnic (check out the size of that crowd!):

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The national press was there too, and I spent a lot of time chatting with this lovely young woman…

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…who, I was too brain-dead at the time to realize, was/is Gwen Ifill from PBS (of course!) and, Mary, let me tell you: It’s a God damn good thing I didn’t recognize her, because I would have yelled at her for soft-balling George Bush during the 2004 Presidential Debate. It made me furious! I’ve held that grudge for four long years. There is no way I would have been able to restrain myself.

I’ve been pissed at you for four years, Gwen Ifill! Do you hear me?

PISSED!

And now you know.

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1

but she has such beautiful teeth? who could stay mad at those teeth?

Posted by ellarosa | July 8, 2008 8:47 AM
2

Obama's daughters are Malia and SASHA, not Natasha.

Posted by Bryce | July 8, 2008 8:48 AM
3

Are you sure that isn't Ichiro sitting next to Obama's sister?

Posted by Mike in MO | July 8, 2008 8:49 AM
4

Obama needs to see a tailor about his dress shirts. They're always too big for him, making him look like a marshmallow on a stick.

Posted by Suffragette city | July 8, 2008 9:00 AM
5

@#4 America isn't ready for a president in a slim-fit shirt.

Posted by Tim Keck | July 8, 2008 9:07 AM
6

Bryce-- I think Sasha is her nickname for Natasha.

Posted by V | July 8, 2008 9:10 AM
7

You were so pissed for four years and you couldn't recognize the pissee when she was right in front of you talking to you?? I am doubting your pissedness.....

Posted by Hartiepie | July 8, 2008 9:13 AM
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@7 - I don't get it either. If you know her well enought to know she softballed Bush in 2004, how would you not recognize her? Were you drunk to cope with being in Butte?

Posted by bohica | July 8, 2008 9:17 AM
9

she looks fantastic in that jacket. her smile must have blinded you. and if "speechify" is a word, there's no "a" in it.

Posted by hillpagan | July 8, 2008 9:22 AM
10

@4 and 5: But check out the way the very same shirt hangs in this clip.

Not bad...

Posted by Eli Sanders | July 8, 2008 9:23 AM
11

Get off Gwen's jock! She's cool.

Posted by Lola | July 8, 2008 9:29 AM
12

We won't support NO-Bama whatsoever and will re-defeat him in November.

Posted by clintonsarmy | July 8, 2008 9:41 AM
13

Oh. My. Gawd. You saw HIM! And HER! Did you touch THEM? Are you healed?

Posted by umvue | July 8, 2008 9:54 AM
14

Fuck messing with Obama...I want to see clintonsarmy take on the KISS Army!

Posted by DENVEROPOLIS | July 8, 2008 10:01 AM
15

What's a sarmy?

And something weird happened to that second picture. It's not just tilted, it's bent. You MUST have been drunk.

Posted by Fnarf | July 8, 2008 10:05 AM
16

I always like summer fireworks in Montana and BC near the mountains - the sound echos make them way more cool.

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 8, 2008 10:06 AM
17

In other words, you did some Googling after you met Gwen, learned that she asked soft questions, then adapted that into your own retroactive "opinion" about her.

If Dan gave you column inches for this I will be so surprized. Are you related or something? Why hasn't he cut your cord yet.

Posted by Non | July 8, 2008 10:12 AM
18

@10- good call. but we don't see the back of his shirt in the vid; the tell all of fashion detail.

Posted by meerkat | July 8, 2008 10:19 AM
19

Get that man some new clothes!

He's desperately needing a Marc Ecko makeover!

Posted by michael strangeways | July 8, 2008 11:37 AM
20

You have to be drunk to be in Butte! I was born in MT and have tons of family there - including in Butte - and that is what Butte is know for in the state. Much of the state wondered "Obama in Butte?! Really?!"

It does have an interesting history - and a killer St Patrick's Day!

Posted by Olivia | July 8, 2008 11:42 AM
21

He's tall and skinny so he has to buy shirts that big or the sleeves won't be long enough.

He's also straight so he can't (and probably doesn't want to) buy custom fitted shirts without somewhat validating the elitist smear. (See also: $400 haircut, John Edwards)

Posted by Mike of Renton | July 8, 2008 12:02 PM
22

So, Adrian, has Eli chastized you yet for being a naive simp for daring to picnic with Obama because of Obama's refusal to have a perfect record on Gay Marriage?

Posted by Andy Niable | July 8, 2008 1:08 PM
23

Konrad Ng is indeed hot.

Posted by gay dad | July 8, 2008 1:56 PM

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