Wednesday, June 17, 2009

"I got the sucker"

Obama had a press conference about.... something... today. It got overshadowed by a fly. A fly kept buzzing around the podeum - BO told the fly to "get out of here." It didn't listen. The fly landed on Obama's hand for an instant too long. BO pauses mid-sentence, looks down, and SMACK! Got it. Says the reporter, "Nice."
Obama replies, "That was pretty impressive wasn't it? I got the sucker. What do you think of that, Gibbs?" I like the real-person-ness about the whole thing. Who DOESN'T ask that when they swat a fly? 'Did you see that?' 'that just happend!'

Of course - I'm sure some groups will say he shouldn't have killed the fly. He should have captured it humanely and released it into the wild.

5 comments:

middleson said...

LOVE IT!!!!

homebase said...

he really focused in on the thing first, then smack. Nice.

Bandit said...

you betcha Obama would have caught the fly with a pair of chopsticks if he had any with 'em

L said...

Hmmm... I wonder how people would have reacted if our last president would have become distracted by a fly while in an interview. Would he have gotten the kill? Doubtful. Would he have been criticized? Likely. Either way kudos for a successful kill.

Stoppable said...

finally something to put those hawks at ease.

Obama is a no-nonsense, no second chance, man of action and terminal VIOLENCE!

you mess w/the bull you get the HORNS