In Oval Office, A Spill Prompts A Presidential Quip
(AP)
Obama heard something untoward as the press entered the room.
"Uh oh," he said. "What'd you all get there," he inquired.
"A water glass," came the reply from several in the press.
"Alright," he said with unmistakable dismay in his voice, adding sarcastically, "It's the Resolution Desk. It's only like a hundred years old."
Actually it's the Resolute Desk, made from the timbers of the HMS Resolute, a gift to President Rutherford B. Hayes from Queen Victoria in 1880.
(CBS)
Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."
In addition, it appears that he was only adjunct faculty and not "real" faculty at UofC.
Posted by ccfsdca at 12:11 PM : Jun 13, 2009
correct!!!!
I don't blame him. The press has been in his face from day one, if they could find a reason that wouldn't get them sued into the poor house they would sneak a camera in the rest room to catch him on a potty break then put it in the evening news under the headline "The Nations first Black president, 'Cr@ps out'"
Posted by johndevinejr at 7:37 AM : Jun 14, 2009
w got to be a cheerleader, tho'.
The mind reels...
You people amaze me ! Literate enough to own a computer but still mentally in the Stone Age.
Posted by ChicagoOldHead at 7:35 AM : Jun 14, 2009
They couldn't possibly have ideas from the Stone Age. The Stone Age did not occur. The earth is only 6500 years old. Men and plants and animals arrived on the earth at that time abruptly and fully formed.
Then they froliced with the dinasours on the flat earth which is still circled by the sun.
Posted by randomlybanned at 9:38 PM : Jun 12, 2009
Unlike Bush who violated the 1st 4th 5th and 8th Ammendments.
President Obama is a Constitutional scholar, who was at the top of his class.
Bush on the other had was an idiot incapable of composing a complete sentence in the English Language.
Posted by Dgunner at 7:13 AM : Jun 13, 2009
We need to have a free press. That is the only chance we have of getting information that those in power may seek to hide.
In the former USSR the press was entirely controlled by the government, as it is today in Iran
We certainly don't want that.
Posted by ccfsdca at 12:11 PM : Jun 13, 2009
1quip
Pronunciation:\?kwip\
Function:noun
Etymology:earlier quippy, perhaps from Latin quippe indeed, to be sure (often ironic), from quid what ? more at quiddity
Date:1532
1 a: a clever usually taunting remark : gibe b: a witty or funny observation or response usually made on the spur of the moment
2: quibble, equivocation
3: something strange, droll, curious, or eccentric : oddity
To lazy to look up the word?
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- by raybury June 12, 2009 7:37 PM EDT
- Didn't Obama have his feet up on the desk, with his shoes on, just the other day while he was talking to Bibi?
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