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Obama visits the library.

Henry Payne | 7.13.2012 7:00 AM

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heller 13 years ago

GUFFAW!
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Obama is content to do some light reading while being swallowed by that giant black unicorn eel.
1. LemonMender 13 years ago
  
  This comment made looking at this FF worth it. If only the actual cartoons would pass the Marmaduke test?
Suthenboy 13 years ago

For a guy who sought out Marxist professors and joined the New Party, I would say this is right on the money. What a scumbag.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

Henry, Henry, the cover is actually yellow

http://www.amazon.com/Class-20.....=class+war
1. Jerry on the road 13 years ago
  
  Yeah, I don't think even Obama will want to read Gaddafi's Green Book.
Longtorso 13 years ago

Need moar labels.
1. Whiterun Guard 13 years ago
  
  Why is there a Library sign IN the library?
  1. some guy 13 years ago
    
    Why does it even matter that he's in a library? Mr. Payne just likes to label things.
    1. LTC(ret) John 13 years ago
      
      He is ISO 9003 compliant!
  2. Gindjurra 13 years ago
    
    Because the average politician wouldn't realize what all the shelves and shelves of books were for without a warning label?
ant1sthenes 13 years ago

Learning how to make spitballs, huh? Boehner will never see it coming.
Broseph of Invention 13 years ago

1. Why is Obama checking out the Clinton Ass War, also known as the White House Intern Program?

2. Since the last button on his shirt is larger than the other two, are we to assume he's wearing a cardigan? The subtle, subconscious hate in this piece is interesting.

3. Are we sure that isn't Anthony Davis? Would much prefer him for president.
1. Dagny T. 13 years ago
  
  WHIP is an interesting acronym for such a program. And is part of what contributes to the overall RACIST!!11! nature of your comment. Not all black people wear cardigans, for starters, Broseph.
  1. Broseph of Invention 13 years ago
    
    BOTH ALL my black friends wear cardigans. They're vintage, from our prep school days. But I'm glad you picked up on my impression of a FAUX News commenter with all that racism.
    
    *Changes sweat-soaked cardigan; listens to TV On the Radio as pennance and pretends to like it; cries a little*
    1. Dagny T. 13 years ago
      
      Going to prep school and having the correct level of respect for the 2012 Wildcats champ team? Bro.
      Self-hating hipster? So un-bro.
    2. Butts Wagner 13 years ago
      
      TOO SOON!
Ted S. 13 years ago

If Payne wanted to be subversive, he'd have Obama check out a copy of Brian Doherty's book on Ron Paul.
1. Whiterun Guard 13 years ago
  
  Brian Doherty wrote a book!? When did this happen?!
  1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
    
    No, he's kidding. None of the Reason writers have written a book, ever.
  2. John Tagliaferro 13 years ago
    
    He did write a worthwhile book a few years ago, "Radicals for Capitalism". I just started reading it and "freewheeling history" is an understatement. It is indeed the definitive history book for the libertarian movement.
Mike G 13 years ago

Well, he sure hasn't been reading "How To Win Friends and Influence People."
1. Whiterun Guard 13 years ago
  
  Governing for Dummies
Longtorso 13 years ago

IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!
1. Anomalous 13 years ago
  
  ^FTW!^
Bardas Phocas 13 years ago

Death to the Kulats!

or is it kulaks? I get those two mixed up.
1. LTC(ret) John 13 years ago
  
  And the Hoarders and Wreckers!
2. Anomalous 13 years ago
  
  Culottes suck.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

ahahahahaa! It's so funny because it's TRUE!!! ahahahaha!
Mr. FIFY 13 years ago

Wow, it took 'em this long?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....f=politics

Four comments as of this moment, and they're all vapid and full of shit. Just like the leftist tools that post here.
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Dammit, that just lowered my daily IQ by ten points. NEVER READ THE COMMENTS AT HUFFPO.
  1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
    
    Shit, you can lose more IQ points reading comments by Tony and shrike, Scruff.
    1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      Conservatives are effectively the same as Communists. They just want to choose their masters differently.
      
      Communists got rid of property rights in order to seize assets for Communist party leaders.
      
      Conservatives elevate property rights above all else, thus allowing a few wealthy owners to seize the remaining assets. Communists or Wealthy , you end up in the same place.
      1. Loki 13 years ago
        
        Ugh, the stupid... It burns!!!!
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        Like Harry Reid bitching about the Chinese-made Olympic duds (shouldn't he be proud to support their government, given his political affiliation?), it is a laugh to hear leftists compare libertarians or conservatives to communists (again, like Reid, a political model they admire).
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        "but why did we not hear anything about what Liberals and Progressives believe?"
        
        Ezra Klein summed that up already.
        
        Besides, the Constitution was written by rich old white guys who owned brown people, and it just gets in the way of leftist progression anyway.
      2. John Tagliaferro 13 years ago
        
        Yes, they are confusing National Socialism with political/economic Conservativism as if National Socialism differs from International Socialism by anything more measurable than deeds and titles of property.
        
        In moments they will have social conservatives confused with political Conservatives too.
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        They already conflate social cons with fiscal cons, so why not add to the confusion?
      3. Brutus 13 years ago
        
        So conservatives are exactly like commies because their views on property are diametrically opposed to those of the commies?
        
        I'm trying to understand here.
      4. Brutus 13 years ago
        
        So conservatives are exactly like commies because their views on property are diametrically opposed to those of the commies?
        
        I'm trying to understand here.
    2. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      I give shrike more credit than I do Tony.
      1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        That can't be much more, though. shrike is so fucking punchable, what with his "I'm the greatest Barry Goldwater fan EVAR, but I'm still going to vote for Obama" schtick.
      2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
        
        I don't know why. He's purely partisan and probably doesn't believe half of what he says, he just tows the party lion.
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        Oh, he believes it. He's got the brain damage, too.
2. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  Those comments are as coherent as a white man's dialogue in a Spike Lee movie.
Almanian's Evil Twin 13 years ago

Huh
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Too many labels.
1. LTC(ret) John 13 years ago
  
  If His Majesty says there ae too many notes, there are too many notes!
  1. Whiterun Guard 13 years ago
    
    Sir, I knew Mozart, and Payne is no communist.
2. Dagny T. 13 years ago
  
  This guy is a model of restraint compared to one Chip Bok. He probably would've labelled the giant black unicorn eel "puffed up chest" or something, and thereby eliminated FoE's confusion above.
$park? 13 years ago

I find it odd that all of the war books on the shelves are exactly the same length. And that the Civil War book was written by National Geographic.
1. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
  
  I know - doesn't Time-Life write those things?
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

The shelves are missing:

Terror War
Drug War
On Women, War
On Religion, War
Robot War
Star War
G WAR
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

The shelves are missing:

Terror War
Drug War
On Women, War
On Religion, War
Robot War
Star War
GWAR
mr simple 13 years ago

You'd think he'd be able to get someone to at least put the books in chronological order if not alphabetical.
1. Broseph of Invention 13 years ago
  
  They are in chronological order. We've always been at war with Iraq.
  1. Anomalous 13 years ago
    
    No, that would be Eastasia.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

The shelves are missing some titles.

Terror War
Drug War
On Women, War
On Religion, War
Robot War
Star War
GWAR
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

The shelves are missing:

Terror War
Drug War
On Women, War
On Religion, War
Robot War
Star War
GWAR
Nike air max womens 13 years ago

They would have to choose between extending a decade-old lower tax rate that everyone is accustomed to in defiance of the president and holding out to institute an effective rate hike in a terrible economy.
1. SFC B 13 years ago
  
  Wrong thread Skynet.
JoshSN 13 years ago

I'm sad that anyone finds this at all funny.

Obama is talking about rates returning to the Clinton era rates.

I remember, quite distinctly, how the Republicans **attempted to bamboozle** the American public, and claimed, with a certainty similar to the religious (with which they are so familiar) that the Clinton tax cuts would destroy the economy.

ThinkProgress has collected some of the quotes that turned out to be ass-backwards.
1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
  
  What makes the Clinton-era rates sacrosanct?
  
  /paraphrasing Tony from another thread on why we don't need higher taxes
  
  Oh, and fuck ThinkProgress.
  1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
    
    In fact, fuck everyone who wages wealth-envy tactics.
2. DarrenM 13 years ago
  
  how the Republicans **attempted to bamboozle** the American public
  
  It's a good thing Democrats don't engage in hyperbole or exagerration to make political points. /s
Gilbert Martin 13 years ago

Hopefully the only thing that Obama will be reading after November is the want ads.
WhenTheBuildingFellDown 13 years ago

My favorite part was when the building fell down.
sweeterjan 13 years ago

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