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17:00 January 7th, 2009

Look, it’s the Presidential Chorus!

Posted by: Robert Basler
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Blog Guy, I heard there was some big deal at the White House today. Can you please check with your sources?

Under an obscure rule, every four years on January 7, anybody who’s ever been elected president and has a suit on can come to the Oval Office to reclaim the job. Today, they ALL showed up! Security folks kept them at bay with long poles.

Wait a minute! This is just more of your horse poopy! That didn’t happen!

Let me correct myself. Maddame Tussauds opened a new Oval Office exhibit, with wax works of all the living ex-presidents. The TV lights got too hot and the wax started to…

What a moron! That didn’t happen, either!

Sigh. You’re right. You know those cardboard cutouts that tourists pose with as a gag? Somebody moved five of them into the same room, and…

Finally, the truth. Don’t you feel better now?

You got me. I sure do.

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Former President President George H.W. Bush, President-elect Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter meet in the Oval Office of the White House, January 7, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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9 comments so far

Why is Carter so far to the left of everyone else? Hmmmmm.

- Posted by Tim

And, apart from everyone else…

- Posted by gwmc

The dream team oh so maybe it was a nightmare.

- Posted by David

And Obama is hiding in the Bushes…

- Posted by Jmc

JMC just made me laugh more than I have all night. thanks.

- Posted by LMM

Dubya: “He ain’t got a clue of the kind of mess he’s gettin into, y’all!”
Clinton: “I told you the very same words when it was up to me and you, dind’t I?”
Obama: “You sure you want your other son to come after me? HAven’t you had enough of sons in this office for a while?”

- Posted by M

Space between Bill and Jimmy reserved for cardboard cutout of Ronnie (or maybe the Chimp)

- Posted by Michael

Jesus H.! I mean George H.! I mean George W.! I mean William J.!…

Jesus H., I don’t even know what I’m talking about anymore…

- Posted by Bandage

Let me guess…they got together for a game of Monopoly with tax payer money?

- Posted by buffalobob

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