Annie Rhiannon

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Cowabunga

Didn't Obama just get even more loveable — as if that were even possible — when he kept fluffing his lines as he was sworn in? You can see Michelle lean into him afterwards, all like: You did good baby, you did good. No baby, really, you did alright!

All he has to do for me tomorrow is reprimand Israel, rebuild Palestine, close down Gitmo, and save the polar bears.

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UPDATE: He didn't fluff his lines at all, the Chief Justice dude was just reading the wrong oath and Barack stopped mid-sentence when he suddenly found himself saying wedding vows on his inauguration day.

49 comments:

  1. Obama was amazing and so adorable with his lines. I may even have cried a tiny little bit. But they were tears of joy.

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  2. I don't imagine he's going to be in the office too early tomorrow morning what with the partying and that.

    Give him until the end of the week.

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  3. I just wish he'd stop getting out of the car.

    Yeah, yeah I know they're all vetted and shit, but has nobody seen 'In the Line of Fire'? John Malkovich was vetted.

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  4. What? You don't think Dubya was adorable?

    Well, all right. I'm not too fond of him myself.

    So, all we need Obama to do is end the war in Afghanistan, pull out of Iraq, give Alaska back to the Inuit, cancel the Israeli arms-supplies, open a dialogue with Iran and pardon Willie Nelson.

    That's tomorrow's list. Thursday might be tougher.

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  5. They get back in again pretty quick though, hey.

    He'll be in the office first thing in the morning, replying to my email: Dear Annie, I have been in contact with Mr Olmert, and also with the polar bears...

    I like Michelle's outfit. My mother hates it. I guess they can't please everybody.

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  6. Give Alaska back to the Inuit...

    I read that as "idiot". I thought you were talking about Sarah Palin for a second there.

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  7. Obama Speech Word Cloud.

    http://tinyurl.com/dlxnjc

    Where have you been?

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  8. I've been in Wales. Am still here, actually, just coming out of hibernation.

    I can't open the link!

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  9. http://tinyurl.com/9k7vz3
    Obama Word Cloud

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  10. I think Chief Justice Roberts screwed up one of the lines, and Obama gave him an opportunity to say it again so he could repeat it correctly, otherwise they all have to go back to the start and begin again, only this time on a big plastic waterslide and they're all wearing Teletubby costumes.

    Or something.

    Joining in with the welcomes back. With your newfound US insight, you'll be able to guide us through the first 100 days.

    Or post other stuff. I'm not fussy.

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  11. Ah, I see. I didn't realise that. So Michelle was actually whispering "You did good baby, the fault lies with the Chief".

    Yeah, I'm the expert on America now, seems I was there for five minutes last year. I feel like everybody's discovered my favourite band and now they're number one in the charts and I'm all like dude, what about their great first album? I know, like, all the words.

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  12. You should have taught the Chief Justice, in that case.

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  13. Oh wait, you were being ironical. Fuck I'm tired.

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  14. And you're being moronical.

    Only kidding, Radgey-Padgey. Go to bed and I'll see you in the spring.

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  15. Everyone's talking about how no one, not even Obama, can live up to the sort of expectations we've laid on him, and he's doomed to disappoint.

    I beg to differ. There is only one expectation.

    1. Don't be as shit as the last guy, please.

    I've known molluscs who could pull that one off.

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  16. did you see her give him a little wink? so cute.

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  17. Yes. I love their little winks, and their little hugs, and their terrorist fist-bumps. My next relationship is going to be a marriage like theirs. Talk about expectations.

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  18. My next relationship is going to be with a mollusc.

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  19. Hey! I worked on that first album!

    Welcome back.

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  20. I have to watch all of the winks and quiet comments to each other on replay, since I listened to the Inauguration on the Wireless back in '52. Seriously, the technology I have in that school, and AM radio was the only thing that worked?

    Ahh, but what a day!

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  21. I know shitall about US politics so re: Obama, all I can say is, Yes I would, and (on an unrelated note):

    Hurrah you're back.

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  22. I wondered where you were. Seems we want the same things. I do have a solution to the Middle East Crisis here, but I don't think the new Mr. Pres would go for it.

    Tell your mom to give Michelle a break, as it's hard to find something that fits right over a bulletproof vest. Spanx hasn't designed any protective wear yet, so she had to make due.

    I wish Republicans were on the endangered list instead of Polar Bears. They certainly are scarier.

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  23. That reminds me of the BBC's 'have your say' site, when someone from Surrey wrote, in all sincerity: "Israel should never have been set up there in the first place, they could have put them somewhere remote like Iceland instead".

    COWABUNGA. That site is pure gold.

    And YES, I'm back, back again. Hello blonkettes. I missed you all very much.

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  24. "Barack Obama has requested the suspension of all military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay"

    Um, isn't it only 4am over there right now? Dude, have a lie-in. My email can wait.

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  25. At least you can say stuff like that there in mainstream media. Our Jon Stewart from The Daily Show merely asked why the media or public officials can never even remotely come near criticizing Israel and half his audience turned on him (the rest of us defended him).

    Odd how the same people that puked when Bush said "You're either with us or against us" basically do the same in regards to Israel. I so don't get it.

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  26. Yup, Gitmo to go.

    Unravelling that set up and applying the rule of law is going to make a lot of US 'security' types uncomfortable.

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  27. I don't know, chief justices these days, I despair. What really threw me was the black national anthem being sung to the tune of God Save the Queen. Excuse me, save the white monarch? In a country with a black president? WTF?

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  28. I didn't get WHAT she was singing! I thought it sounded like God Save the Queen, but then I thought no it couldn't be, that would make no sense whatsoever.

    I love Jon Stewart, I didn't know he'd said anything about Israel though. He's Jewish, right?

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  29. Krista21.1.09

    Yeah, Stewart's Jewish. And "My Country 'Tis Of Thee" is set to "God Save the Queen." Consider it an homage! Also, probably a full 80% of the US has no idea.

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  30. The episode is online if your interested: http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=213378

    The Jan. 5, 2009 show with David Gregory as the guest.

    F'excellent show. Took some serious nads to go there.

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  31. Oops forgot to say that the episode posted is in 4 segments. The ones regarding the Middle East are the first one and the third one about midway through the interview with David Gregory.

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  32. Thank you! I had been trawling for it. Love the analogy about the crazy man hammering at your door... and Jon's all like, well, yeah, if you keep him tied up in your hallway and make him check in every time he needs to take a shit.

    Hello Krista! You know, it is confusing and unnecessary to have two songs set to the same tune.

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  33. You think the fluffed lines were cute.

    Try this for size.....

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7841928.stm

    Welcome back by the way!

    EW

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  34. Annie!

    I am so madly in love today. Did you see their many many dances at the endless inaugural balls? And Michelle rolling her eyes a bit when he started to twirl her.

    That man can rock a tux. Dreamy!

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  35. QI just told me that America was named after a Welshman. Woo.

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  36. Yup. I liked that he didn't pick the american anthem about war and things blowing up, but used the one about how nice it is...
    with words in it like:

    "Let music swell the breeze, and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song..."

    S'nice.

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  37. I heard it was named after some dude called ap Meurig but that seems a bit far fetched to me. Still, we'll take whatever association we can get today, hey.

    Yeah, their dancing was too cute. They should've rocked it a bit more like they did on Ellen, though.

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  38. It was named after Amerigo Vespucci.An Italian cartographer and explorer who demonstrated that the Americas were another continent.

    If it wasn't for the Brits bombing the fuck out of Baltimore we wouldn't have had the Star Spangled Banner.So thanks a lot for that!

    Here's the rarely heard third verse (there's an even more obscure fourth)

    "And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
    That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
    A home and a country should leave us no more!
    Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
    No refuge could save the hireling and slave
    From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
    And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
    O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave"

    Isn't it cheery?

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  39. Nope, it's a very common misconception that America was named after Amerigo Vespucci. It it were named after him, it probably would have been called Vespuccia.
    In fact it's named after Richard Ameryk, see here: http://www.blurtit.com/q613801.html
    And that'll about do for todays pedantry:)

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  40. How very educational. I've found all this very interesting, especially the bit about America being named after a Welshman. Although I've never heard of the Welsh surname Ameryk, and come to think of it, Richard isn't particularly Welsh either. Hmmmm.

    But I'll still have it. ;)

    EW

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  41. Okay, just to clear this up, his name was "Richard ap Meurig".

    'Ap' means 'son of' in Welsh, kind of like the Icelandic system, so his dad's first name was therefore Meurig.

    But English people tend not to get these naming systems, favouring the whole 'take your husband's name' thingy, so they started calling him Richard Ameryk, because that's what "ap Meurig" sounded like to them.

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  42. Pull the other one, it's got bells on

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  43. welcome back..I missed you, keep on making me smile, laugh and cry...

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  44. I'm descended from Anishinaabe (the ORIGINAL peoples) a.k.a Ojibway. Before white people decided to rename it, the mound of dirt I was born on (the USA) was called "Turtle Island", at least for a few centuries.

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  45. I am really sorry on behalf of all Welsh people, in that case. "Turtle Island" is a much better name.

    "Introducing Barack Obama! The 44th President of Turtle Island!"

    Seriously: cowabunga.

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  46. Thanks Annie! I'll tell my tribe and we'll cross you guys off the "to scalp" list heheheheh. Nah, we were the peaceful "let's get it on" nations, hence why so many mixed bloods now. =)

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  47. Ah. You're back, Dubya is gone and all is right with the world.

    Did you see the picture of Obama and his Mrs from inauguration night in The Observer today? It's obviously late, they're in a service lift with their foreheads pressed together and she's wearing his jacket. Like it's their debs.

    It's beautiful.

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