Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Caption This!: Gore endorsement edition
While the blogosphere spins on the relevance or not of the Gorebot's tardy endorsement of Barack Obama, we are focused on the superficial. Like the "caption" for this photograph:
The official "caption" (as if):
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, listens as former Vice President Al Gore speaks at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Monday, June 16, 2008.
I am quite sure you can do better than that.
UPDATE: The penultimate sentence of this post would have been a perfect entry.
19 Comments:
By Yishai, at Tue Jun 17, 01:22:00 PM:
"Unforgettable, in every way..."
By Yishai, at Tue Jun 17, 01:25:00 PM:
"How much for this fine, eligible bachelor over here?"
By Yishai, at Tue Jun 17, 01:27:00 PM:
"I vow to stop driving my SUV! I vow to raise my thermostat! I vow to, uh, eat slower!"
, atObama: "Don't I get to speak sometime? I mean, who's the candidate here, anyway?"
By Dorf, at Tue Jun 17, 02:18:00 PM:
I'm shocked, totally shocked that a democrat is endorsing the only democrat left in the race.
I'm mean, what kinda balls does Gore have to go out on a limb like that?
By Andrew Hofer, at Tue Jun 17, 02:25:00 PM:
"Man, that guy can burp"
"If we all suck real hard, yes we can reduce global warming gases"
"We can't go on driving our SUVs and overeating and..."
It's true, bitter people turn to gums and religion.
By Georg Felis, at Tue Jun 17, 02:40:00 PM:
Albert “Al” Gore, holder of the Guinness World Record for Longest Presidential Concession Speech (7 years, 7 months and counting) gives helpful pointers to one-term Senator Barack Obama, who will be competing in the same category in just a few months.
, atFormer Vice-President Al Gore debuts the main aria to his forthcoming opera.
, atCurrent Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama applauding former Vice President Al Gore as he completes his best impersonation of a large mouth bass.
By Diane Wilson, at Tue Jun 17, 04:16:00 PM:
I've never seen a face that more clearly said, "Sit down and STFU!"
, at
"Lemme put you up on game
Every man is different but the game won't change
Lemme put you up on game
So you don't make the same mistakes I made . . . "
By Counter Trey, at Tue Jun 17, 05:35:00 PM:
Gore told the crowd:
"It is not: 'Change that WORKS for you'
It is: 'Change...THAT works for YOU'
Hunda Dolla bills works for us. Up top Barack."
" ... and that's how I won the election by virtue of winning the popular vote, before the man stole it from me."
By GreenmanTim, at Tue Jun 17, 09:45:00 PM:
Damn. The one day I decide to wear my flag pin and he goes without. At least he got the memo about the "All Blue" color scheme.
By Assistant Village Idiot, at Tue Jun 17, 10:22:00 PM:
"Go Down, Moses - way down in Egypt land. Tell old Pharaoh - Let My People Go."
, atYea, okay, I think that they are both more than a few dimes short of a dollar. That's the kind of change they represent.
, at
So I said to him, "Bill, if I can show you I can give better head than Monica, can I hang with you in the Oval Office also?" He agreed, So I gave him a hummer.
I'll show you now how I can wolf down this mike, which is, by the way, larger than Bill's weiner.
"And so I nominate, as the next Sheriff of Rock Ridge...I mean President of the United States..."
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