Perfectly timed for the start of the Inaugural weekend is the announcement that the President’s never ending campaign organization, Obama for America, formerly under the umbrella of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is now transforming into Organizing for Action and will sever ties with the DNC. (Just how ticked off is DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz?)
From Politico:
President Barack Obama on Friday announced the relaunch of his remaining campaign apparatus as a new tax-exempt group called Organizing for Action that will “play an active role” in “mobilizing around and speaking out in support of important legislation” during his second term.
The photo for our caption contest was posted yesterday, front and center on the Drudge Report, with the headline “High On His Power.” This was a quote from newly minted Texas Senator Ted Cruz, from this piece in the Weekly Standard.
Republican senator Ted Cruz of Texas said Thursday that Barack Obama is “high on his own power” with regard to the president’s announced efforts on gun control. Speaking on Laura Ingraham’s radio talk show, Cruz, who was just elected to the Senate last November, said “this is a president who has drunk the Kool-Aid.”
These two separate news items, coupled with President Obama’s rather strange hand gesture, means that you should all have an “inaugural ball” of your own writing captions for this contest photo. But remember our rules, “be nice and stay classy because the media is watching.” (The winners of our last contest are good examples of this.)
Now, if you need some tips for staying sane during the next few days, go back and read this piece and tape it to your television set.
And yes, it is going to be a tough couple of days, so I recommend stocking up on cases of adult beverages while watching the other half of the country drink Kool-Aid.
OMG! Obviously my computer is tapped because just this second I received an email from our “Organizer in Chief” with the subject line: “Say you’re in.”
Organizing for Action:
You In?
Our work didn’t end on Election Day.
Organizing for Action will support the legislative agenda we voted on, train the next generation of grassroots organizers and leaders, and organize around local issues in our communities.
Watch this video the First Lady recorded about the next step of this grassroots movement, and say you’re in:
Yes, it REALLY is going to be a tough couple of days and an even tougher four more years, but look to our Tatler Photo Captions Contests to provide you with some comic relief.
This is how you should pray to me.
Let me be perfectly clear: I do not have a gigantic head and tiny old lady hands.
I, Me, Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46vk716HMtA
Repeat with me: Here’s the church and here’s the steeple, open the…
Dive right in, and I swear, I didn’t pee in the pool first.
First, you put your hands together like this. Then, you bow.
1.) “My hands are bitterly clinging to each other.”
2.) “This is Austrian sign language for ‘Present’.”
3.) “My list of accomplishments is this long.”
4.) “Excellent” (Said in Mr. Burns’ voice.)
Let’s start by building a big statue of me, right over there where that fat kid is standing.
“And then I’ll part the sea – just like this…”
“Due to ongoing energy concerns that dog our great nation, I’ve installed Clappers in every major metropolis south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Watch…”
Who put super glue on my executive order pen?
Yo dawg, for this gesture they expelled me from Choom’s. Word.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Ye be prepareth for me Second Cometh.
The first gay president.
Must channel my inner Jong Il.
And now let’s all pray for Chavez.
If you know what’s good for you, worship Me at least as I worship Myself.
Mount Rushmore material.
Ecce Homo.
The president of the US posing as the new Virgin Mary.
“As of today, Shiva has his own Federal holiday. My Master-Corpseman-At-Arms has assured me this federally mandated chant will save the nation 5 billion dollars a year in health costs. Get with it people, here we go. Om Padme Mani Hum, Om Padme Mani Hum,…”
I dreamed last night I joined the N. R. A., I’m still praying that it was just a dream.
“Pull all my fingers, America.”
I am, therefore you exist.
Two thumbs up for me.
“…and then I prayed to Boehner, ‘oh please, pretty please’…”
I do the breaststroke because you’d have to be a right winger to do “freestyle”.
1) “Now, when I clap my hands the Republic … er… I mean the Republicans will disappear!”
2) ” I can be more flexible now. Soon I’ll have the whole WORLD in my hands! After all, what’s a messiah to expect?”
“…so to properly bow to a foreign leader, you first put your hands together like this…”
“I’ve come up with a new national motto: E Pluribus Obama.”
These hands – coming soon to a pocket near you.
“With these hands, I thee divide.”
“In my 2nd term, I’m going to increase the national debt by this many trillion.”
“See these hands? They built Organizing for Action.”
The first real work he’s done – using his hands to direct movement of the teleprompter.
“This is how I will hold my next Nobel Prize.”
“This is how much difference there is between me and Lance Armstrong.”
Just like catching a fly ball, use BOTH HANDS to grab the wallet.
… and then I ordered the Spartans to worship me as King Xerxes. But you know what those peasants said? “Molon Labe”. To Me. And I don’t even speak Austrian, everybody knows that.
But you know what I replied? “The future does not belong to those who insult Barack Hussein Obama, the great prophet of Progressivism”.
I will unleash my armies of OFAs against the Spartans and then they will witness the true vision of a Lord of Community Organizing.
In the beginning there was Obama and Obama created Everything.
“My hands are tied now but after next week I’ll have more flexibility…”
Let me be perfectly clear: sleep with the fish with hands together like this!
Bang! Bang! First amendment. Second amendment.
Some members of Congress won’t applaud my decisions, but I will.
Wait now. Ok. Now do I look like Mussolini?
If you’re a narcissist and you know it, clap your hands.
LOL
Heh. Gets my vote, Chris.
I’d like to applaud everyone who puts up with me.
“When the American Left and Muslims of the world unite, like so! There will be no room for the American Right.”
Contest winner can not be announced until we hear from cfbleachers.
(Although I already have a winner in mind.)
Mr. CF, the only reason I can imagine why we have not heard from you is the “Organizing for Action” troops with the “O” on their armbands have taken your guns and communication devices and shipped you off to “re-education camp.”
If that is the case, please submit your captions by carrier pigeon.
[quote]“Mr. CF, the only reason I can imagine why we have not heard from you is the “Organizing for Action” troops with the “O” on their armbands have taken your guns and communication devices and shipped you off to “re-education camp.”[/quote]
If so, at least CFB will be a voice of reason in there and can then talk some sense into those who dispense the Kool-Aid.
‘Here comes Handy Boo-Boo.’
Or,
‘Here comes Barack-y Boo-Boo.’
‘Here comes Hussein-y Boo-Boo.’
‘Here comes Bama Boo-Boo.’
Piers Morgan, you are now ready for the privilege of kissing my hand.
I have been community agitating America and all I got is this crappy background.
Did I get trapped in the spam filter?
We can all rest easy now, cfbleachers has escaped “Organizing for Action” camp.
Myra, check the spam filter. I submitted a list of nine entries.
“…and then I used this ‘Flying Crane’ move and whupped Chuck Norris’ ass!”
“My way points to Mecca.”
Hmmm. Do I have to try to resend all of them individually?
I smell a plot against the throne!
1)Motto for Organizing for Action: “Let us prey”
2)The halo is gone, but horns are growing in with our flag attached.
3)The pinkie and the thumb don’t line up exactly, but both middle fingers are perfectly aligned and pointing at you, America.
3)Time for paws and re-fiction.
oops, counting error, paws is #4
5)The Tony Rezco rosary, “Hail Barry, full of grease”
6)The Overlord’s prayer: Give me all your yearly bread.
7)Want to see my lapdog media magic trick? I call it the Pen and Unteller. In my hands is your children’s financial future. Watch me make it disappear before your very eyes and have the media blame conservatives.
9)”You’re in good hands with All Statist”
Rewrite called.
“You’re in bad hands with All Statist”
The stars at night are big and bright,
Deep in the heart of Taxes!
( Clap,clap,clap!)
And now let’s pray you will all donate tax exempt 5 bucks on my dog birthday when OFA requires you to. Or else.
I have a list with those who donated to OFA, and I have a list with those who didn’t.
Remember the President you did not vote for, Well, here I am!