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Offline TwoTired

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Morning briefing to the president
« on: April 01, 2009, 10:45:00 PM »
The Dept Of Defense briefed the president this morning, they told OBAMA that 2 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq . To everyone's surprise, all the color drained from Obama's face.

Then he collapsed onto his desk, head in his hands, visibly shaken, almost in tears.

Finally, he composed himself and asked, 'Just how many is a brazilian?'

This is especially funny since he obviously has no understanding of million, billion or trillion either.
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2009, 04:11:52 AM »
you've got him - would you like the daily double & take our "Kevin 747" as well
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2009, 07:00:46 AM »
I think he knows what quadrillion means though- what the taxpayers gotta pay.
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2009, 07:09:07 AM »
Okay, so do YOU know what a trillion dollars looks like?   ???

(sorry for the annoying ad at this site, but it's worth putting up with it to see this)


http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion




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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2009, 07:19:25 AM »
Looks like a nice cushy soccer field. ;)
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2009, 08:19:03 AM »
I thought that joke surfaced at the expense of the previous President... ;)
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2009, 08:35:35 AM »
Quote from: nickjtc on April 02, 2009, 08:19:03 AM
I thought that joke surfaced at the expense of the previous President... ;)

It did, and makes a lot more sense that way considering his tenuous grasp of the English language. 
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2009, 11:55:38 AM »
Yeah it worked MUCH better for bush junior!
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2009, 06:17:54 PM »
Tenuous grasp of the english language or tenuous grasp of the size of numbers... same thing.
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2009, 02:15:07 AM »
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2009, 07:26:58 AM »
So we had a pres with a C gpa? No wonder finances eluded him!
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2009, 11:09:48 AM »
Conservatives seems to have this love affair with mediocrity.  They like to deride and mock intellect as some sort of "liberal elite" thing.  The elevation of Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and Joe the Plumber as important voices in the party come to mind.  I remember how proud they were of Bush's C average when he was first elected.
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2009, 10:35:10 AM »
Quote from: vinmans brew on April 07, 2009, 07:26:58 AM
So we had a pres with a C gpa? No wonder finances eluded him!

You seem to forget that we had presidents who hadn't even finished college.  Kind of an interesting list, actually...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidents_by_college_education
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2009, 11:46:52 AM »
Ah, but do you need ;) a college education to learn common sense?
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2009, 12:35:07 PM »
As heard one colleague say after the umpteenth balls-up by the powers-that-be:

Lots of sense, but not much common.

Goes for a lot of the muppets that govern us
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Re: Morning briefing to the president
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2009, 10:13:28 PM »
Quote from: rhos1355 on April 17, 2009, 12:35:07 PM
As heard one colleague say after the umpteenth balls-up by the powers-that-be:

Lots of sense, but not much common.

Goes for a lot of the muppets that govern us

Hey! I resent that!  I've done a good job.

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