Ted Cruz Walks Out of Mandela Funeral During Raul Castro Memorial — Plus: Another Caption Contest!
Compare and contrast:
Sen. Cruz walked out of Raul Castro's speech at Nelson Mandela's memorial, a Cruz spokesman confirms to NBC News.
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) December 11, 2013
Meanwhile, Obama shakes Raul Castro’s hand:
Via Twitchy, which has been bought out by Salem Communications and is now partnered with Hot Air. Congratulations to Michelle and Jesse Malkin.
P.S. Meanwhile, Barack is having a great old time taking selfies at Mandela’s memorial, while Michelle does a slow burn.
Call it the day’s second caption contest. Your captions below.
“I’m good enough to cook his breakfast, and to iron his shirts, and to raise his kids, but am I good enough to be in the picture? Noooh!”
nk (dbc370) — 12/10/2013 @ 6:21 pmThat’s good, except she doesn’t cook his breakfast or iron his shirts.
Maybe she raises his kids. I don’t know about that.
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/10/2013 @ 6:22 pmWhat makes the levity a little less so,
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/365941/damage-handshake-otto-j-reich
narciso (3fec35) — 12/10/2013 @ 6:26 pmThe black lady looks as if she’s ready to do some neklacing on some south african white farmers.
mg (31009b) — 12/10/2013 @ 6:33 pmWe have a family friend whose kid played soccer in the same league as the Obama girls and she related that Michelle was 100% soccer mom. That was when they still lived in Chicago, of course.
nk (dbc370) — 12/10/2013 @ 6:35 pmObama to Denmark’s prime minister: “I will have more flexibility, you know, after…..after she’s gone “
The Emperor AKA the Size-ist. (98014f) — 12/10/2013 @ 6:37 pmHope Ted Cruz got the “walking away” grandstanding on camera. Could come in handy.
The Emperor AKA the Size-ist. (e28272) — 12/10/2013 @ 6:41 pmYou know, maybe they should get together more often;
http://townhall.com/news/us/2013/11/26/insight-denmarks-pm-changes-course-to-join-nordic-welfare-reform-n1753390
narciso (3fec35) — 12/10/2013 @ 6:55 pmso turns out food stamp is a castro-loving whore
who knew?
happyfeet (8ce051) — 12/10/2013 @ 6:56 pm“Threesome!”
Kevin M (536c5d) — 12/10/2013 @ 7:04 pm“This is my new Blackberry z10!”
FLOTUS, aside to Protective Detail Chief: Really? He thinks Denmark is far enough away?
htom (412a17) — 12/10/2013 @ 7:07 pmFear and Loathing in Johannesburg
mg (31009b) — 12/10/2013 @ 7:12 pmSchmidt — “Oh, come on Barack, nobody is that well endowed!”
Cameron — “I’ve seen bigger.”
Kevin M (536c5d) — 12/10/2013 @ 7:37 pmGod Bless Texas for sending such fine representation to the world stage. Standing against tyranny is often something that upsets the right people, but that’s not the point.
Dustin (05170a) — 12/10/2013 @ 7:40 pmI may actually have a little more respect of the First Lady. At least she knows when her husband is doing something stupid.
Also, thank goodness for the British press and the Internet because we would never have seen this shameful display by the President.
But especially, God bless Sen. Cruz for walking out on a tyrant’s speech no matter the circumstances. The Castros deserve nothing but contempt. Actually they deserve worse than contempt, but I’m not sure what word is appropriate.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 12/10/2013 @ 7:48 pmActually they deserve worse than contempt, but I’m not sure what word is appropriate.
“Hanging”?
Kevin M (536c5d) — 12/10/2013 @ 7:56 pmDubya’s is younger and prettier, and Laura is (of course) showing more class. http://i.imgur.com/HJfkzXL.png
nk (dbc370) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:10 pmHanging would be a good start. However, how do you punish dictators who have left their nation impoverished and people in despair for as long as I have been alive? What do you do with monsters who leave people to starve and take their children for a brain-washing education that makes them think that oppression is better than freedom?
And, after you finally defeat the Democrats, what do you do about real Communists such as the Castros?
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:10 pmWell for the latter, the Ceaucescu treatment,
narciso (3fec35) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:16 pmMeanwhile, Obama shakes Raul Castro’s hand:
A nice trio of photos now exist, with the latest to be grouped together with pictures of his bowing before the king of Saudi Arabia and the Emperor of Japan.
I guess we should be relieved Obama at least limited his greeting to Raul Castro with a handshake instead of a bow.
while Michelle does a slow burn.
Not to spoil the fun, but I wonder if that moment actually played out the way it can be imagined. Nonetheless, something is rotten in Denmark (and, yea, that woman next to Obama is the Danish prime minister) when earlier this year Michelle took the kids and headed off to Colorado while Bathhouse Barry vacationed in Florida with his “body man,” and more recently when she created a minor diplomatic row by not attending a major state dinner hosted by Obama for China’s president and his wife.
Mark (58ea35) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:18 pmdont be silly Mr. Mark just cause food stamp is a flamboyant gaywad doesn’t mean he can’t act like a growed up at a funeral
especially when you be representing the leading food stamp economy at a global event
happyfeet (8ce051) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:22 pmit fashion it strobelight it rolla coasta
happyfeet (8ce051) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:23 pmI know I’m old-fashioned but, really, taking laughing photos of yourself and your colleagues is not appropriate at a memorial. These leaders need ego adjustments.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:35 pmMark is right. You can not take a series of photos to make a judgment. It is fun, but it may not be the truth.
However, I believe to the bottom of my soul that the Castros are monsters.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:36 pmHell knows no fury like a Wookie stuck in a marriage of convenience while the Gay Peacock on her arm cavorts wit da white wimmen.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:36 pmfood stamp is special DRJ he’s our first training wheel president
this is why he’s the first president who gets to go two terms without having to worry about pesky interest rates the way normal presidents do it
a special special lil snowflake – that’s our food stamp!
happyfeet (8ce051) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:38 pmMark, are you sitting down? http://i.imgur.com/IBBd2F2.png
nk (dbc370) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:40 pm15. I do agree Moochelle married down, lazy fat azzed shrew that she be, a number of notches.
She’s brighter and a better speaker, besides being a fearsome woman of schtrenth.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:41 pmI know some people are making this photo out to be Laura Bush being unhappy with former President Bush for talking to an attractive woman.
However, it looks more as if Bishop Tutu was wishing he was in the selfie with the President and his Denmark girlfriend.
Yes, I am a hypocrite.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:42 pmLaura doesn’t look unhappy, she looks indulgently amused if anything.
nk (dbc370) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:45 pmLaura looks kinda tired but part of it is she’s rockin the texas grand dame makeup when really she could get away with a much less severe palette
baby put a lil color in your cheeks
for christ’s sake she looks more cadaverous than nelson and it’s HIS big day
happyfeet (8ce051) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:53 pm31. Good call. Jet-lagged and up way too early, missing her grand baby.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/10/2013 @ 8:57 pmAll joking aside, though, every picture tells a story. I think that’s what Rod Stewart said in the long ago.
And there is no question that the President was hamming it up for a selfie with some guy and the PM of Denmark. At a funeral.
I guess he never learned how to do it.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 12/10/2013 @ 9:05 pmI guess we should be relieved Obama at least limited his greeting to Raul Castro with a handshake instead of a bow.
Looked like a bow to me in the video.
Kevin M (536c5d) — 12/10/2013 @ 9:11 pmMark, are you sitting down?
nk, I couldn’t get the photo slide to work, but the setup apparently is a jab at Obama’s homosexuality. Or the caption writer didn’t realize he’s closer to the truth than assumed—at least about the guy in charge of the US versus the guy managing (or mismanaging) Cuba.
Looked like a bow to me in the video.
Or it certainly suggests a I’ll-kiss-your-butt form of deference towards Castro on the part of Barry.
BTW, combining the blatant ideological symbolism of that (ie, Obama damn well knew what he was doing and the way that cameras would capture the moment) with any inappropriate behavior — or certainly unchecked ego — at the memorial for Mandela pretty much nails the intent and meaning of the current president’s response to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral earlier this year. A slam dunk that was meant to be an out-and-out, carefully orchestrated, in-your-face snub.
But just more examples of the crass and strangely heartless behavior that liberalism can breed in people, harking back to what occurred at Senator Paul Wellstone’s memorial service in Minnesota several years ago.
Mark (58ea35) — 12/10/2013 @ 10:17 pmAmericans
they are a discouraged race
happyfeet (8ce051) — 12/10/2013 @ 10:38 pmI know I’m old-fashioned but, really, taking laughing photos of yourself and your colleagues is not appropriate at a memorial. These leaders need ego adjustments.
Thank you, DRJ. It’s amazing how society now seems to lack any sense of solemnity. You would think that you could put all of this nonsense on hold for a few hours and show some decorum during the actual funeral service.
JVW (709bc7) — 12/10/2013 @ 10:40 pmSo Obama gave a speech to fawning MORONS, and made sure to say “HEY” to the Cuban Dicatator!!
Gus (70b624) — 12/10/2013 @ 10:57 pmCHECK….CHECK…. were there no Muzlim Mullahs for Obama to FELATE???
Hahahahahaha. Hahahahahahahahaha. Let’s take a picture of US!!! This will be really fun!! We can take a picture of US, and have a good time at ….What’s his names funeral!!! Oh yes. Nelson Mandela, lets PANDER like it’s 1999. Pander and pander and pander, BECAUSE…Nelson Mandela was really cool and got on the cover of magazines!!!!
Gus (70b624) — 12/10/2013 @ 11:00 pmReally cool.
Obama is a complete clown.
Michelle: “Note to self: Call Hillary and tell her ‘I’m in.’ I’ll be Vice President and we’ll see if he can sneak in the bimbos while raising the girls!”
L.N. Smithee (46d48f) — 12/11/2013 @ 12:25 amToday is 11-12-13. Nice ring to it. Does it hold any significance? Who knows.
The Emperor AKA the Size-ist. (d356d4) — 12/11/2013 @ 6:03 amWhat the Hell is Sen. Ted Cruz doing over in SA? I like the guy, but why would he feel a need to pay his respects, if that’s what he’s there for?
Colonel Haiku (058bc9) — 12/11/2013 @ 6:20 amUpdate. http://i.imgur.com/zKvbKgE.jpg
nk (dbc370) — 12/11/2013 @ 6:27 amColonel – there was a large contingent of US politicos there. Congresscritters of all stripes.
JD (b12e6e) — 12/11/2013 @ 6:28 amFor the comments. http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1sls7j/an_attempt_at_making_amends_from_the_potus/
nk (dbc370) — 12/11/2013 @ 6:31 amWell, at least he shook hands instead of kissing Castro’s ass.
Bar Sinister (b48c12) — 12/11/2013 @ 7:05 amThanks, JD, same goes for ALL of ’em. Leave it to the executive branch/State Dept. to handle.
That last photo is a doozie, nk. The Kardashian presidency.
Colonel Haiku (058bc9) — 12/11/2013 @ 7:24 amOn nk’s last pic… a hand now, her ass later…
Colonel Haiku (058bc9) — 12/11/2013 @ 7:27 am42.44. After seeing the list I am very curious and would love to know how or by whom the choices were made for the many congresscritters’ attendance on the taxpayer dime. Volunteers? Forced by leadership? Names drawn out of hat? Something else?
Aaron Schock, young up and comer R congressman from west central IL (18th) was also there for no obvious reason.
elissa (207170) — 12/11/2013 @ 7:29 amObbama did not take taht selfie.
That camera clearly belongs to the Danish Prime Minister, Helle Thorning Schmidt, and both President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are looking at the picture, whle Michelle Obama, remains solemn, to Barack Obama’s left.
Neither she nor anybody else there knows that the sign language interpreter is faking it.
Both President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron seem to be happy the camera works, although the cellphone camera has to be held far away from both of them in order for both of them to see the picture at the same time..
Remarkable! If only George Herbert Walker Bush was there to see it!
It’s new to both of them, since their security precludes them, or strongly advises against, either one of them having access to consumer devices that might connect to the Internet.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 12/11/2013 @ 8:15 amCaption:
This is the greatest thing since…since…since the supermarket scanner!
Hey, Michelle!
Michelle..
Michelle????
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 12/11/2013 @ 8:28 amfrom the NRO article in #3:
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 12/11/2013 @ 9:48 amEugene Burdick and William Lederer are considering new cover-art for their 1963 book.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/11/2013 @ 9:56 amComment by JVW (709bc7) — 12/10/2013 @ 10:40 pm
In the World of Teh Won, he is the only reality.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/11/2013 @ 9:57 am53- Oops, 1958 book.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/11/2013 @ 10:13 am“If you like your selfie with the Prime Ministers of Britain and Denmark, you can keep it. Otherwise, you can delete it and take another one.”
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 12/11/2013 @ 11:19 am“Barack, you’ll be sleeping on the couch by yourSELFIE if you don’t stop embarrassing me in front of all these world despots and leaders.”
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 12/11/2013 @ 1:00 pm“Barack, the world didn’t draw that red line about taking selfies at funerals—-but as your wife, I am !”
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 12/11/2013 @ 1:06 pm“Barack, Reggie Love can have you
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 12/11/2013 @ 2:13 pmback!”“Twenty seven years in prison sounds fair as punishment for the way that my husband is embarassing me right now.”
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 12/11/2013 @ 2:16 pmWhat could go wrong;
http://freebeacon.com/white-house-iranian-ballistic-missile-test-not-a-deal-killer/
narciso (3fec35) — 12/11/2013 @ 2:48 pmThat was before Obama got up tp speak. When he came back, Michelle had taken the seat next to the Danish Prim Minister.
There are actually a whole series of pictures. Obama and Helle Thorning Schmidt were having quite a conversation.
He even gave her a peck. Later, he kissed Michelle on the hand.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 12/11/2013 @ 2:51 pmhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/10/us-iran-nuclear-committee-idUSBRE9B91AE20131210
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 12/11/2013 @ 2:54 pmtwo minute hate, has been postponed;
http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/12/prosecutors-to-drop-zimmerman-domestic-violence-charges/
narciso (3fec35) — 12/11/2013 @ 2:55 pmWould you believe…..that was during Raul Castro’s speech?
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 12/11/2013 @ 2:55 pmHow about….I have ADHD?
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 12/11/2013 @ 2:56 pmI do this all the time. I didn’t pay any attention to Jeremiah Wright, either.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 12/11/2013 @ 2:58 pm63- There was never any chance that Reid would allow a sanctions bill to come to the floor for a vote.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/11/2013 @ 3:10 pmLet the Preening Princes and Princesses bloviate during committee hearings, and floor speeches, but never allow them to endanger themselves with an actual vote on a question that matters.
Hey, that may be our next president you’re talking about. (God forbid it, but I greatly fear it’s going to happen. At any rate, I’m fairly confident they’re going to try to make it happen.)
Milhouse (b95258) — 12/11/2013 @ 4:07 pmYes, that’s what went through my mind too. It’s an art, and it takes either good instincts or lots of practice, the kind 0 has no patience for.
Milhouse (b95258) — 12/11/2013 @ 4:12 pmPOTUS made up for the blunder by kissing her hand. I think we will be fine now. 🙂
The Emperor AKA the Size-ist. (cbe4e9) — 12/11/2013 @ 4:13 pmVice president?! What makes you think she’s shooting so low? In her mind, the 2016 primary will be a repeat of 2008, her v Hillary. Fauxcahontas can be VP to either of them.
Milhouse (b95258) — 12/11/2013 @ 4:17 pmUm, you do know, don’t you, that the scanner Bush marveled at was marvelous at the time?
Milhouse (b95258) — 12/11/2013 @ 4:53 pmNeither she nor anybody else there knows that the sign language interpreter is faking it.
Somehow that’s a fitting symbol of a gathering dominated by people along the lines of Obama and other modern-day “champagne socialists.”
Mark (58ea35) — 12/11/2013 @ 7:55 pmMilhouse @4:07 “Hey, that may be our next president you’re talking about.”
Is it remotely possible this is all theater, designed to prop up her creds?
creeper (f6fc52) — 12/12/2013 @ 8:51 amOverheard through the walls of the private suite on Air Force One: “•••••••••••••••••skinny••••••••••••••••white••••••••••••••••••b*tch•••••”
Icy (b0295e) — 12/12/2013 @ 11:08 am