Obama Approval Rating Drops To New All Time Low

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Following Obama's departure for a much needed vacation the day the market had its most recent 400+ point drop, it was somewhat expected that that the general public will not be too happy with the president. Sure enough, according to Gallup which traditionally has the most representative polls (in this case 1500 random strangers, +/- 3% margin of error) the president's approval rating has just taken out last week's record low of 39% and was at 38% in the past few days. Obviously those disapproving hit an all time high of 54%. We are confident that Obama is well aware of this disturbing trend in popular opinion. What we have no clue about is what he will do to reverse it.

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Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:46 | 1591792 Robslob
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Well...an Earthquake should at least get him a sympathy vote...no?

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:48 | 1591803 spiral_eyes
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it's because americans are racist and won't give our president a fair chance. 

/sarc 

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:56 | 1591860 Toolshed
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Fair chance? Please list his accomplishments while in office so we can give him and unprejudiced review. And while your at it, see if you can locate some of that CHANGE we were asked to believe in. I am white, donated to his campaign, and voted for him. That just will not ever happen again I can assure you. He accomplished one thing, and one thing only......he has proven that he is nothing but a proffesional politician.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:01 | 1591885 Vergeltung
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you must have missed his "/sarc" tag.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 17:05 | 1592195 OS2010
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I almost did, too.  It was hidden under the avatar. 

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 19:39 | 1592650 TheTmfreak
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He recently stated it was because of congress. Its funny because then we could conclude that Bush was disliked because of his congress as well....... Right?

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 20:09 | 1592756 New_Meat
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O could conclude that he had super-majorities for two years in Congress (both Houses) and couldn't get stuff done.

Don't cha' know.

- Ned

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:04 | 1591911 Ahmeexnal
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He won a fucking Nobel Peace award for bombing the hell outta Tripoli.

How's that for an achievement?

Oh, and he's about to capture the Zodiac Killer and bury him at sea.

That should lift his ratings with the sheeple.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:32 | 1592053 Id fight Gandhi
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They gave him e Nobel peace prize for things they thought he would do. Either that or being black.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:58 | 1592164 New_Meat
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half-right on the last.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 22:30 | 1593207 SokPOTUS
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That Nobel Prize is when the whole O thing jumped the shark for most people.  It was so ridiculously undeserved and unnecessary that quite a few people realized for the first time that they had been scammed.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 18:08 | 1592406 Freddie
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ZH still has quite a few democrats and d**k ****ers who still love the Kenyanic-muslim.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:11 | 1591963 Clueless Economist
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wow, you admit to donating $ and voting for this asshat??

You are one brave (and stupid) person

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:25 | 1592022 Toolshed
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i) yep....missed the sarc/

ii) and yep.......stupid

iii) and double yep......extremely brave as I am an independent voter living in the armpit of the conservative south, otherwise known as Florida.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:25 | 1592025 NotApplicable
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He's a toolshed, what else should you expect?

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:31 | 1592047 SilverIsKing
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Foolshed is more apt.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:34 | 1592060 Toolshed
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Silver is king? Look in the mirror to see a REAL fool.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:25 | 1592024 trav7777
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and you've proven beyond any doubt that you are not the sharpest tool in that shed

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:27 | 1592033 Toolshed
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There are no sharp tools in my shed. I had to pass an OSHA inspection.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:25 | 1592027 Cdad
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What?  President Zero is just a politician?  I beg to differ.  He is far more destructive than your average politician.  He hasn't the first clue about the US economy and how it works...and he is residing over an economic depression.

Nope...President Zero is a very, very special politician.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:41 | 1592090 Problem Is
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Barry Soetoro is a useful idiot, teleprompter reading puppet... He makes no policy, no decisions, nothing, nada... The bitch does what he is told...

Just like Katie Couric... He isn't the news... he just reads the news...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 23:47 | 1593645 Beatscape
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I am dumb founded by Oblama's latest campaign strategy of blaming the S&P ratings drop and generally all the country's woes on a dis-functional political process.  Earth to Barry--you are the president and the leader of the political process!  You, more than anyone in the country, are suppose to control the political process and set the tone for it.  It's essentially like openly criticizing himself.  Anymore strategic political advice like this and his ratings are going to fall into the 20s.  That type of campaign strategy works when you're an outsider and you are claiming that you can change things.  But not when you are the ultimate insider and the president. My goodness. He still thinks he's running in 2008.

Wed, 08/24/2011 - 00:29 | 1593773 StychoKiller
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Most illogical, ne?

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:49 | 1592130 Esso
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He's given a lot of otherwise unemployable people jobs. Bernank, Geethner, Paulson, etc...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 20:01 | 1592734 A Nanny Moose
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Change?

<digs in pocket>. Sorry. All I have is some spare lint.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:01 | 1591889 trav7777
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I wait for him to claim he inherited the earthquake

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:06 | 1591921 DonnieD
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The earthquake will certainly be cited in the unemployment claims this week.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:12 | 1591964 nodhannum
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Earthquake was Bushes's fault so he can't lay claim to it!

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:33 | 1592055 Lazlo Toth
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Well GWB is responsible for much oil drilling in Texas, and Texas is connected to the blah blah fault and by removing this precious natural resource it has caused a vast shift of possible pressures in the tetonic system. Which I have been told by many reputable sources is very likely able to have caused a similar but not exactly mirrored event..... Zzzzzzzz

 

 

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 17:01 | 1592171 my puppy for prez
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You're talking about the process of "fracking".  The US has been fracking since the late 60's or so!  That sure is a long time for facking to take its effect.

Regardless of the science or lack thereof regarding fracking danger, one truth IS proveable:

We're FRACKED if we do, and FRACKED if we don't!

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 19:04 | 1592543 ZeroAffect
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A better explanation for the earthquake can be seen at, http://elenin.org/ which has links to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories trajectory animation of both, Near Earth Objects, comets Honda and Elenin as they make their close fly-by of Earth. Just saying, take a look.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:50 | 1591816 SilverRhino
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The worse the approval the bigger the war he'll start.  Fucking scum politicians.  

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:46 | 1591797 DonnieD
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He will spend money to reverse it. That's the only play in his playbook.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:47 | 1591799 slaughterer
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OT, but this headline deserves more research:

German government party leader says expect majority for changes to EFSF

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:50 | 1591819 magpie
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haha yes "vote scheduled sometime before September 23rd"

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:47 | 1591800 macholatte
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Obviously those disapproving hit an all time high of 54%.

And 46% approve? We are so screwed.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:49 | 1591815 mynhair
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Yep.  So sell your PMs, and buy LULU while you can!

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:49 | 1591802 cowdiddly
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Claim to have thrown Gaddafi's body in the ocean.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:43 | 1592101 Problem Is
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Hahahahah... I like that one...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 17:30 | 1592296 X Yooper
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Or that Marvin the Martian is attacking us with his space modulator! “Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!”

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:48 | 1591804 EscapeKey
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38% didn't understand the question, or couldn't hear it over their foreclosure.

But hey, soon we will have a brand NEW Wall Street puppet (Rick Perry most likely?) who will transfer even MORE wealth down Manhattan.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:49 | 1591812 Hearst
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Let us hope Gold and Silver are not joined together and tracking Obama's approval rating..

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:49 | 1591813 sabra1
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hey! my avatar was laughing just an hour ago! good goin'!

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:49 | 1591814 slaughterer
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"We are confident that Obama is well aware of this disturbing trend in popular opinion. What we have no clue about is what he will do to reverse it."

Gaddafi naval funeral

+

Post-Labor Day Ogolfer FLUFF FEST Speech!

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:51 | 1591824 caerus
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two words..."earthquake mulligan"

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:03 | 1591900 trav7777
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that, like everything else, is Busch's fault

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:47 | 1592114 Problem Is
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Have you ever tasted Busch Beer?

It makes PBR or Oly taste like premium micro brew... Busch beer HAS to be somebodies fault??

Busch IS Bush's fault... I'll respond YES to a poll on that...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 17:00 | 1592168 trav7777
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why do you think I refer to GWB as "Busch"?  I am not misspelling it unintentionally

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 17:31 | 1592292 Problem Is
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And I took your humor and ran with it...

George W. "Shrub","Junior" Bush... give the new guy your Dunce Cap...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:52 | 1591825 mfoste1
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there are no more boogey men to get.....maybe he will send a check for 10k to all american citizens, or throw lloyd in jail, or maybe join the PGA and show what  great golfer he has bcome

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:50 | 1592133 Problem Is
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Nazis, commies, terrorists, virus/plagues, asteroids and then aliens... There will ALWAYS be a boogey man....

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 17:01 | 1592173 trav7777
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yeah, bc with Tiger in the tank, the PGA and all the guilty YTs all over the country need their Great Black Hope back

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:51 | 1591826 SeverinSlade
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He will come out tomorrow and say he captured and killed the Earthquake just like he captured and killed Osama.  The earthquake is now at the bottom of the Atlantic.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:02 | 1591897 magpie
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That rascal earthquake even had porn on his computer, could you beleive that.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:51 | 1591829 Robslob
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Decisions decisions...

EQ GDP positive...we have all seen that.

QE stock market positive we have all seen that.

EQ + QE = double positive!

 

Enter Robo the clown...buy buy buy TZOO, LULU, AMZN, BBY, Solars buy everything!!!!

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:53 | 1591841 mynhair
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You forgot to say Sell anything of value!

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:53 | 1591830 Sudden Debt
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DON'T WORRY OBAMA!!

PEOPLE ARE JUST JALOUS ABOUT YOUR LOW GOLF HANDICAP!

At least he's setting his priorities and improves what needs to be improved because after this presidency, those golf skills will come in mighty handy for his new bank lobby job.

 

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:58 | 1591872 He_Who Carried ...
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"Jalous"? No, people are not getting "jalous" at all, trust me.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:58 | 1592163 Confused
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Some here don't claim English as their mother tongue. Perhaps you should try spelling in theirs.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:52 | 1591837 Sophist Economicus
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Quit?

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:53 | 1591839 DefiantSurf
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 Pump the market up 300 points to appease the slaves

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:54 | 1591844 lizzy36
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Well since he made that great decision to sell 30 million barrels of oil from SPR, gas prices have dropped a whopping 1%.

Anothe decider in genius.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:54 | 1591848 mynhair
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He can tank gold soz peeps can get in cheep.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:55 | 1591849 earnyermoney
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Whose next on the regime change list? Time to drop a few daisy cutters on Damascas.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:55 | 1591850 lolmao500
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Time to invade Iran? Amiright? That should please... the bankers, the arms dealers, the warmongers, the muslims haters, the fundies, the zionists, the republicans... Everyone but the anti-war people... who are a minority apparently because they are nowhere to be seen.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 17:09 | 1592212 my puppy for prez
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Syria first...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:55 | 1591851 Critical Path
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Time to trawl the ocean for bin laden only to put some more bullets in him and dispose of, perhaps via volcano or one way rocket to the sun?

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:58 | 1591873 VyseLegendaire
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Declare a war on war to end all wars. 

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:59 | 1591874 rubearish10
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After today, no worries:

 

1. S&P bad guy - removed

2. Top MENA terrorist - removed

3. Gold albatross - removed (temporarily)

4. Doubts about QE3 - removed

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 15:59 | 1591875 Gold N Glocks
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If he resigned and then hung himself?

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:52 | 1592142 Problem Is
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Then the impotent "Clueless Joe" Biden would be in charge...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 17:00 | 1592167 New_Meat
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Joe Bite-Me over in China, aligning w/international incident.  Gotta' wonder. - Ned

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:00 | 1591879 TradingJoe
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"What we have no clue about is what he will do to reverse it."

 

He will announce "His Stimulus Package" after Labour Day!

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:02 | 1591891 carbonmutant
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Sounds like free Viagra....

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:00 | 1591882 speconomist
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Kill Gaddafi? Problem solved? And also gold smack-down?

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:00 | 1591883 carbonmutant
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Bush was 15 points higher during August of his first term, even with the war in Iraq...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:03 | 1591905 weinerdog43
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Talk about setting the bar low...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:01 | 1591884 Sparkey
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Why are you sure he wants to reverse it? Have you seen him lately? I think the people who will be most relieved to see the end of the Obama era will be the Obamas themselves, once they get through this, if they do, it is a watermellon fried chicken heaven kind of a life for them! Yass sir, that Boy done got it made!

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:08 | 1591937 trav7777
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does a homo like bama strike you as the chicken and waffles type?  Mfer didn't even know how to order a burger

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:31 | 1592045 NotApplicable
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But he's hip on the price of arugula.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:38 | 1592076 tamboo
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trust me it's gefilte and matzoes,

those white house seders aint about pork rinds and watermelon.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 17:01 | 1592172 New_Meat
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not in this incarnation

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:56 | 1592147 Problem Is
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If Obama Bin Lyin' loses...

Michelle Robinson-Soetoro will so kick his ass...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 17:51 | 1592351 takinthehighway
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Why did the theme song for "The Jeffersons" pop into my head when I read that?

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:01 | 1591886 anony
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Forget approval ratings that are a year and more from the election.

Shoshana Cardin's descendants, apostles, disciples, and other hangers on will see to it that theBamster gets another 4 years.   Hillary sycophants will have to wait until 2012. 

The details of how that will happen do not matter. 

Just take the Intrade bet now at at 50/50 when it drops to 80/20 against him being re-elected.  You will make money when he....ahem...wins.

 

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:02 | 1591895 DefiantSurf
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Pivot to Jobs Jobs Jobs....wait, didn't he try that already?

 

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:04 | 1591916 wcvarones
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Bomb Syria.

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:06 | 1591924 youngman
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He saw that new statue for Martin Luther King.....and is jelous...very jelous.....he will be lucky to get a butter statue at the Iowa State Fair...

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:31 | 1592051 urbanelf
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Mmmmm.... butter statue....

Tue, 08/23/2011 - 16:07 | 1591925 digalert
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NewsFlash!

NewsFlash!

After devastating earthquake in DC...

The TOTUS is safe!

repeat

The TOTUS is safe!

 

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