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Rodent scurries by as Obama lauds Wall Street vote
« on: May 20, 2010, 08:47:44 PM »
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the midst of his battle with the titans of Wall Street, President Barack Obama was nearly upstaged by a rodent. Obama had just begun a Rose Garden statement lauding the end of a Senate filibuster on his financial overhaul when some kind of rodent dashed out of the bushes to his right, just outside the Oval Office.

As photographers snapped away in the sun-drenched garden, the critter scurried straight past the gray podium with the presidential seal and made a bee-li
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Re: Rodent scurries by as Obama lauds Wall Street vote
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2010, 09:58:39 PM »


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Re: Rodent scurries by as Obama lauds Wall Street vote
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2010, 10:25:35 PM »
Was that one of the critters what be disembarking Teh Wun's sinking ship of state?  :-)
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Re: Rodent scurries by as Obama lauds Wall Street vote
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2010, 01:28:39 AM »
I had seen a video shortly after that happened, and it looked like a rat.

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Re: Rodent scurries by as Obama lauds Wall Street vote
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2010, 07:49:32 AM »
That was too funny :-)
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Re: Rodent scurries by as Obama lauds Wall Street vote
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2010, 08:47:12 AM »
Bill Clinton has advised Obama to get tough on the rats. He has suggested using cruise missiles to hit them where it hurts, in their home ratholes. He has assured Obama that this action will not only solve the rat problem but also draw attention away the oil well disaster.  It is thought that 20 conventional armed missiles should do the job.....nukes weren't considered due to radioactive botox being highly toxic.

 
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