Patterico's Pontifications

8/25/2010

Can’t He Just Finish His Waffle, Er, Shrimp?

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 1:43 pm



Tapper on Twitter:

Reporter shouts question on Iraq to POTUS, who’s ordering at restaurant. POTUS responds: “We’re buying shrimp, guys. Come on.”

Via Hot Air. Where else?

62 Responses to “Can’t He Just Finish His Waffle, Er, Shrimp?”

  1. *shakes head*

    He has no idea what being POTUS is all about.

    doanli (e07231)

  2. ‘We’re ordering shrimp’

    ????

    WTF. Dude has more vacations and sporting events than press conferences, and when he has one, he refuses to answer anything. Why? Because he can’t take the heat.

    Looks like the American people bought a real shrimp too, guys.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  3. obama have time
    for vacations after he
    finish only term

    ColonelHaiku (60a24c)

  4. what!?!? obama not
    happy owning the staffshrimp
    with the dead fish eyes?

    ColonelHaiku (60a24c)

  5. ObamaGump Shrimp company ads in his future?

    elissa (f224b1)

  6. This is worse than the waffles whining.

    JD (b6cb48)

  7. he’s a crappy president

    happyfeet (a55ba0)

  8. …and he’s our President;
    and, a Good Man!

    AD - RtR/OS! (01b64a)

  9. Good Allah, let us apply the what would have happened if Bush said this, or went on his 10th vacation while the country sunk further and further and further into economic malaise because of the shltty economic policies that Barcky has foisted on us yet he feels content to prance around Martha’s Vineyard golfing for the 50th+ time since he took office.

    JD (3dc31c)

  10. Obama’s become a cannibal?

    htom, not a professional politico (412a17)

  11. I suppose what a president does mostly is he… presides… he presides over shrimps and golfings and also whatever it was he was presiding over when he sent his wife out of the country for his birthday… I bet he presided the sh*t out of that

    happyfeet (a55ba0)

  12. Let’s be completely honest here. As far as the country and world is concerned isn’t it much better for him to be playing golf and eating ice cream and shrimp on the Vineyard than to be in Washington DC making equally stupid (but far more dangerous) statements?

    elissa (f224b1)

  13. What do you want for your birthday, darling?

    I want you on the other side of the planet! And some shrimp.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  14. Just think of the trouble we would be in if he was in Washington all the time working.

    Mike K (d6b02c)

  15. i would have asked him if they were packed in oil…. 😀

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  16. Don’t buy into the attempt to make Obama sympathetic as being “put upon” by the press. The press is allowed on the periphery of these events specifically to create these faked events. It is intentional of the White House to set up these encounters where the President can look spontaneous.

    Its all fakery. Or fakir.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  17. Was that shrimp imported?
    And, does he prefer American or Belgium waffles?

    AD - RtR/OS! (01b64a)

  18. …and he’s our President;
    and, a Good Man!

    Comment by AD – RtR/OS! — 8/25/2010 @ 2:32 pm

    Yes. The post distorted by the beloved blogger. Nice to see the distortion sticks even with my own readers.

    no one you know: take note.

    Patterico (a7990b)

  19. As expected, this thread’s a hoot. Thanks for coming through again guys. LOL

    This man is so tiresome. The only upside of all this whining is it’s another reminder that IMO he really doesn’t want to Do President, he wants to Be President and To Have Been President.

    I think he’s itching to get at those $100K speeches, endless golf games and those “you were historic, please sign my copy of your fifth book!” narcissist-feeding screams from the groupies. Can’t come soon enough for me.

    no one you know (196ed7)

  20. …and be General-Secretary of the United Nations.

    AD - RtR/OS! (01b64a)

  21. Comment by Patterico — 8/25/2010 @ 3:11 pm

    Some things, though forgiven, are never forgotten.

    But, you should know that – you’re married.

    AD - RtR/OS! (01b64a)

  22. Does Barrack use Union made golf equipment while playing President?

    highpockets (adaced)

  23. no one you know: take note.

    Comment by Patterico — 8/25/2010 @ 3:11 pm

    Well…am just addressing Patterico here since he addressed me [scroll down if desired, because this is an OT post and I don’t want another thread to go off topic too badly]. I remember that post and (as you may have already seen) made a comment about this on the Sherrod thread.

    Am sorry it’s been such a source of misunderstanding — didn’t really follow at the time where it was going around the blogosphere.

    A couple people on the Sherrod thread made a great point I thought about just putting yourself out there like you are, and things tend to sort themselves out eventually. Happened to me a few years ago just like that — a disgruntled employee was spreading lies to the diocese (the equivalent of HR Corporate), and other employees, that I was creating an abusive and hostile work envt for her. No one believed her since I had a good reputation but I didn’t know that at the time since I was new at that particular parish and didn’t realize people already “knew” me through others.

    Cost me many sleepless nights and since then I’m even more aware of the toll “talking without understanding”, even if innocently done, can take on someone. Again: hope you find a way to make blogging better for yourself because you’re good at it and deserve to enjoy it.

    no one you know (196ed7)

  24. Some things, though forgiven, are never forgotten.

    But, you should know that – you’re married.

    Comment by AD – RtR/OS! — 8/25/2010 @ 3:20 pm

    Indeed. And I know from that experience that some of the things I have been “forgiven” for, are things where I was not wrong to begin with — but my position was distorted beyond all recognition.

    Why should the blog be any different?

    Next time, try to get it right *before* you remember it. Just a thought.

    Patterico (a7990b)

  25. noyk,

    Yeah, it’s a hoot all right.

    Well, at least you’re here, to remember what actually happened. Damn few do — as you can see.

    Such is the power of distortion.

    Patterico (a7990b)

  26. …and be General-Secretary of the United Nations.

    Comment by AD – RtR/OS! — 8/25/2010 @ 3:18 pm

    Exactly right. Wonder if he’d do less damage there than in other places; don’t know enough about the job description. Anyway, he sure seems to like to give Big Historic UN type world encompassing speeches, no?

    no one you know (196ed7)

  27. Yeah, it’s a hoot all right.

    Comment by Patterico — 8/25/2010 @ 3:31 pm

    Oh — sorry, that part was about the funny comments re: Obama above. Didn’t mean to reference you w/ that.

    no one you know (196ed7)

  28. Anyone else want to “forgive” me for something I didn’t do?

    Patterico (a7990b)

  29. noyk, I know.

    Patterico (a7990b)

  30. Ego te absolvo, Patterico. Blog in peace.

    Eric Blair (28f3dc)

  31. He can’t even order right. He should be getting scallops and clams and oysters or some fish, some of the local stuff, not shrimp they ship in from somewhere else.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  32. “Anyone else want to “forgive” me for something I didn’t do?”

    What do you want to fess up about not doing? Make it good.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  33. Daley,

    Declaring Obama and his policies the bestest ever.

    You’d think that, if you listened to others’ descriptions of my writing.

    Or if you were Drew.

    I’m used to seeing my words distorted by people acting in bad faith. It’s disappointing seeing it done by you own readers.

    Patterico (a7990b)

  34. “Patterico is a good man”

    damned with faint praise (fb8750)

  35. the First Failure was prolly pissed off they didn’t have any Wagyu beef….. and did you see how much they wanted for arugula?

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  36. It’s hell having to be president in the age of blogs, iphones, YouTube and twitter.

    elissa (f224b1)

  37. shrimp and waffles are both metaphors he wears very well but shrimp is the apter one cause of he’s such a picayune little man

    happyfeet (a55ba0)

  38. Can you imagine what Michael Moore would have done with that footage?

    JD (3dc31c)

  39. he probably wouldn’t have stuffed it in a pita and ated it but I wouldn’t bet money

    happyfeet (a55ba0)

  40. I thought chicken and waffles went together. Shrimp and waffles sounds … odd.

    JD (3dc31c)

  41. slart has a shrimp and grits recipe… I would love to try…

    I think it’s slart

    happyfeet (a55ba0)

  42. “Declaring Obama and his policies the bestest ever.”

    Patterico – I knew about that already. AD is fond of bringing it up every chance he gets. Yawn.

    I thought you were going to fess up to not doing something else.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  43. I made garlic slimp and sghetti last night.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  44. This has been sushi/sashimi/tartar/ceviche week in the JD household. I still cannot stand Barcky.

    JD (3dc31c)

  45. Quite a limp shrimp.

    Dmac (d61c0d)

  46. How many jobs were created or saved by BHO today?

    highpockets (adaced)

  47. Things are different with shrimpy in charge.

    I remember when Mr. Bush was president it was like hey let’s go spread democracy and make social security sustainable… now it’s like hey let’s ram dirty socialist health cares up America’s ass with reconciliation and build a victory mosque.

    Not the same.

    happyfeet (19c1da)

  48. Gulf Coast shrimp?

    Kelly T. (e678a8)

  49. Better Half thought that was hysterical, happyfeet. Well said.

    JD (3dc31c)

  50. That’s our POTUS without the TOTUS!

    What I want to know, is, why he didn’t want to be interrupted when ordering shrimp? I mean, would it have been OK if he was ordering a cheeseburger?

    MD in Philly (3d3f72)

  51. The only thing I wish he would finish is his first, and only, term as president.

    Marty Farty (cb1d38)

  52. Wait a minute. I thought Muslims aren’t supposed to eat shrimp?

    Arizona Bob (e8af2b)

  53. Can he be a smaller man, a more petulant child? Is it even possible?

    JD (3dc31c)

  54. whatever it was he was presiding over when he sent his wife out of the country for his birthday… I bet he presided the sh*t out of that
    Comment by happyfeet — 8/25/2010 @ 2:40 pm

    — Does anyone know where Scarlett Johansson was that day?

    Icy Texan (2b06b5)

  55. ==– Does anyone know where Scarlett Johansson was that day? comment by Icy Texan ==

    Icy, you have to stop rumormongering and passing on all the alternate universe stuff about the president that is being fed surreptitiously (and on a wink and a prayer) out of the WH Office of Disinformation. Next you’re going to tell us he went to Hooters that weekend? 🙂

    elissa (d3b72f)

  56. Patterico, I forgive you for the poorly chosen bottle of scotch you sent to me for my birthday. You know I prefer island single malts.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  57. RE #28:

    Pat, I forgive you for not sending me more money ><

    Lord Nazh (ad60d6)

  58. #58
    He might have chosen better if you had specified “Islay” single malt rather than “Island”

    quasimodo (4af144)

  59. That’s spell check for ya, quasimodo.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  60. Next you’re going to tell us he went to Hooters that weekend?
    Comment by elissa — 8/26/2010 @ 6:12 am

    — Nah, that was Bill Clinton. I hear they kicked him out when he shouted, “Where are all the fat chicks at?”

    Icy Texan (2b06b5)

  61. #51–maybe Obama has a special fondness for shrimp, so it’s a problem if you interrupt him when he’s ordering seafood, but not when he’s ordering red meat; or some other obscure rule.

    rochf (ae9c58)


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