In the end, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin could come to an agreement: they’re both equally miserable at these meetings and would rather be playing basketball or stealing Super Bowl rings, respectively.
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President Obama is planning to nominate Samantha Power as America’s next ambassador to the United Nations. But why stop with just one perfectly-named appointment? All top government jobs should be filled by people with apt names:
NASA Administrator: Former Rep. Zach Space (D-OH)
White House Chief of Staff: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
National Institutes of Health Director: Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI)
Secretary of Defense: Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) or Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Director: Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Secretary of the Interior: Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), or Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)
Secretary of Energy: Current Transportation Secretary nominee Mel Watt (D-NC)
FDA Commissioner: Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH)
Secretary of Agriculture: National Security Adviser-to-be Susan Rice
Secretary of Education: Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT)
Voila: a bipartisan team born to do their jobs. You’re welcome, Mr. President.
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Here’s the bear Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) won for President Obama during a trip to the Point Pleasant boardwalk. Turns out you CAN win a Jersey shore carnival game, if you can spend $60 billion on disaster relief.
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Stay weird, Twitter.
Barack Obama’s big national security speech was interrupted by Medea Benjamin — no, not Tyler Perry’s latest creation, but the co-founder of the shouty anti-war group Code Pink.
The president sure looked like a certain protester was about to get the IRS’s luxury audit package, but that didn’t keep Twitter from smelling a conspiracy:
That heckler was a total plant.”Watch me respect free speech, everyone!”#codepink #irs #obama
— AquinasMan (@AquinasMan)
Wow.Pretty obvious this heckler is a plant.Cheap trick by a desperate President.
— Wake Up America (@ProudAmerican82)
“Yo, Prez, New MySpace is the HOTTEST site for obnoxious auto-tuned music. And have I told you about my Pets.com stock?”
Photo by Pete Souza
