The White House shows its 9/11 resolve…
…by painting a living room.
Here is the commander-in-chief wielding his mighty paint roller,
via Reuters/Yahoo News Photos:

Notice he’s using whitewash. How appropriate.
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Is it just me or is he always “on” camera?
Hey Liar in Chief, 9-11 is not about you.
There could be a better way to remember 9/11 but at least if he’s painting he’s not appointing any more idiot czars.
I can see how that would keep him from going to Ground Zero. I could have been awarded a Nobel Prize, but my wife had me take out the trash instead.
Maybe he just likes smelling the fumes…
These constant photo ops make me sick!
So glad the Marxist couple want to tell me how to “serve” my fellow Americans. I’d be lost without the Messiah’s guidance! (sarc off)
I wonder if Michelle dripped paint on a $500 pair of tennis shoes?
That’ll show ‘em!
Nuff said.
Is it just me, but could this be a metaphor for whitewashing the memory of what evil people will do to advance their cause?
But it fits perfectly with his “9-11 is a day of community service” meme.
rjbjrirish ~ excellent point!
If you can get your head around the fact that he’s a Marxist set to destroy this country, everything he’s done since being President makes sense.
Hey, Odumbo could help his brother out of his hut …
I am sure the 9/11 dead appreciate his effort.
Yeah. Like maybe observing a moment of silence on the South Lawn at the moment the first plane hit. Or, like maybe going to the Pentagon in the pouring rain to lay a wreath in remembrance. That jerk should have totally done those things instead.
I guess MM missed the “Service” part of the whole “National Day of Service and Remembrance.” Maybe you think recognizing 9/11 by invoking a sense of civic spirit is a dumb idea, or maybe you just hate Habitat for Humanity. I think it is just a silly partisan cheap shot.
What, can’t find any illegals to paint a room for you?
I do.
Doug Powers–LOL
Is Michelle proud of her country yet?
the Disgrace-In-Chief
How would he feel if we paved over Martin Luther King’s birthday with say…. Right to Life Day?
What better way to celebrate freedom than celebrating the innocent unborn child’s right to life?
Thank God Almighty we have Chapoutier here to explain everything to us.
Have you been drinking yet, Chapoutier? Should I wait until you get a good buzz on?
Oh, I also hate the United Way.
Note the logo on the sleeve of the guy to Obama’s left…
That, in my opinion, was not an accident, but rather was intentionally staged.
Obama making 9/11 all about him.
Well, maybe it is…
She didn’t miss it, Chap. You just missed her point.
(Channelling lgm) “Yeah, but you guys did it to Boooosssshhhhh first!”
He is The One. Even the rain holds off for him.
Oh do tell. What was no doubt brilliant point of cherry picking one of the several things Obama has done today wrt 9/11 and then mocking painting a freaking room for charity?
All hail the Interior Decorator In Chief!
Thanks Doug.
Oh my Obama is channeling Jimmy Carter. Wheres his union card?
You too? I thought it was just me.
Whenever Barry and Michelle don’t know how a real American should honor their country, they hang curtains or paint walls.
It’s common knowledge that a lack of volunteerism led to the events of 9/11.
Michelle O: “Do these curtains make my a$$ look fat?”
Hey, I won’t complain. I much prefer President Obama when he’s painting walls than when he’s playing chief legislator.
How about we mark the anniversary with a crapload of “Daisy Cutters” in Afghanistan?!
Community Service ~ Does that include the people who rushed to Ground Zero on 9/11/01 and began digging with their bare hands?
Barry & Michelle O. ~ That’s a LOVELY shade of whitewash!
What the Reuters left out of those photos is Jamie Gorelick whitewashing the Chinese Walls.
Richard Clarke is writing a book about how he wanted Bush to paint walls, but he wouldn’t and so children ate peeling lead paint and died…
The Obama’s are taking the term DUMBASS to a new level.
Did you hear? Obambi is getting ready to do another “major” speech – this time on the economy. Is it odd the guy gives a speech every day and they are all considered “major”?
This day is about remembering and mourning the attack and loss of our fellow citizens. Whats next, prune the hedges on Dec 7th? Perhaps dig a ditch on VE Day? Maybe lay some asphalt on Veterans day? Community Service day on our day of infamy, what a way to make it about organizer and Sock Puppt rather than the true reason for this day. Anyone with any sence would say painting a freaking wall to show your sympathy for 9/11 victims would say — WTF.
B.O.: “No, it’s your big a$$ that makes you look fat.”
His last speech had zero effect. The “Liar” comment sucked the life out of whatever it was he said. The economy speech needs to be given while the market is up but before inflation hits 20% and the Yuan floats and the dollar tanks even further.
Did you all buy gold when Bear1909 and I mentioned it?
I took the bother to look at liberal blogs today and these themes of “moving on” and substituting some liberal program for 9/11 are prevalent on such sites. Chapoteer, you are slime. You make these comments to inspire anger and outrage from those around you.
Wow! I feel much safer now. Wow!
Duh One’s re-making this day in his image.
His next target: Christmas!
No. I make these comments because this is a dumb post by MM.
I will reserve my comments about you.
Watching her walk reminds me of two bobcats fighting in a gunny sack!
If you think that the equivalent of remembering how Ameicans died horribly on Flight 93 fighting to the death with their bare hands to save the U.S. Capitol and who knows how many people on the ground is to go paint some freaking room you go right ahead.
If you want me to do some service on this day, give me 5,000 rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition and I’ll load it all into magazines so some fine young Americans can use it to drill terrorists in their single point of contact.
I’ll even pay for the shipping to get it there.
National Day of Service my @$$.
If you think that is all Obama did today, or if you think what you just wrote was in any way what I was saying, you go right ahead. You’d be predictably wrong. But go right ahead anyway.
What is the Flyoverman-approved way to remember Americans dying horribly, anyway?
Whatever. You all can continue with your faux indignation. But don’t kid yourself into thinking it is anything but.
And when they’re done there, could they come over and paint my great room?
I think a better way to commemorate 9/11 would be to fly your flag, thank a veteran, attend a tea party (tomorrow), watch documentaries and news footage of the 9/11/01 events, or kick the a$$ of a terrorist.
National Day of Service and Remembrance changes the subject.
The subject is remembering what happened that day to all in America, honoring the dead, the thousands of volunteers who came to help and to never allow this to happen again. Making this a day of service takes your mind away from what really happened.
It’s not hard to figure out if one really understands the tragic significance of that day.
“Moments before the president and first lady stepped outside, the rain subsided and held off as they placed their hands over their hearts and bowed their heads.”
Oh. My. Freakin’. Gourd.
Better Obama whitewashing a wall than pretending to show respect to the ‘Little Eichmanns’ at the WTC.
Obama is a communist POS, the spawn of a tranzi communist POS who could only mate with foreign Muslims, the grandchild of communist POSes who moved from Kansas to Seattle to Hawai’i to get closer to fellow travellers.
Obama launched his political career from the home of suspected cop killer Bernadine Dohrn, and unrepentant terror bomber William Ayers, who had the odd luck to appear in the New York Times on September 11, 2001 stomping on an American flag.
Don’t forget
Obama Hates America!
I ,for one, find this National Day of Service -crap. It is crap because it marginalizes the impact this day had and still has. You libtard drones follow and will always follow. You have no conception what so ever of why this day or any day honoring anyone is a day to remember and reflect.
I don’t need the Federal gov’t to remind me to serve my community and I don’t need to be a member/employee of a non-profit to serve either.
Amen, flyoverman, amen!!
I wonder how many families of victims of 9/11 voted for Obama and this administration. There had to be some. I ask with sadness, what could they have been thinking?
If he’s going to emphasize service, why not focus on groups who served on 9/11, such as firemen, police, and military? And *gasp* maybe even encourage people to serve their country by joining these noble organizations, or at the least calling every American to be prepared to serve their country like those seemingly ordinary Americans who rose to the occasion on Flight 93, preventing who knows how many other casualties. Instead he paints a house.
But then this is the guy who thinks the police act “stupidly,” and the military is “air-raiding villages and killing civilians.” So why not paint houses instead of encouraging people to become such monsters?
That is probably the most physical labor Obama has ever done in his life.
Almost a la H. Ross Perot!
He’s leading by example – literally!
It’s all part of that Edward Kennedy Act which gave tons of bucks to Americorp and other non-profits. It’s not about doing anything on your own, it’s about building the forces of the non-profits.
Bingo!
Would this be an appropriate way to spend Pearl Harbor Day?
All caught on tape by the State Run Media, no doubt.
No, it’s about getting those who have already done for themselves to either give or do something for those who do nothing and expect everything.
That’s why those H4H houses look so great after the occupants move in right?
Pearl Harbor story: Mr. K and I take a vacation to Hawaii each year right after Thanksgiving. Coincidentally our flight usually has some WW2 gents or a widow on board. It’s touching to watch their faces as we fly over Pearl Harbor. Always remember.
Answer: By killing every single one of the people who did it and those who help them.
It’s a war. It ends with them with their hands in the air or dead.
What’s your way Chap? Helping write a legal brief to assist in the trial of the CIA interrogators who broke KSM?
Never have a Democrat on your flank.
…and the clouds parted, split by a glorious silvery-gold light, bathing Obama in a warm aura that glimmered off tints of bronze in his skin….drool, slobber…uh get me a towel….
Spaceycakes,
I am laughing so hard I am shaking!!
Spent a day helping put a roof on one of those houses (we did a darn good job too).
Photo op for Melissa Ethridge: we had to wait around the site for her entourage to get there for the picture.
She came, put on a hard hat, camera clicked and she was outa there.
Much like what probably happened today.
spaceycakes said:
I felt it, I really felt it. And with my glazed look and filled with holy thirst – I am going for a beer.
That, and rolling his own.
Sounds like you have a promising career as a Harlequin Romance writer or a journalist for NBC.
Who is the Rain Czar, by the way?
I see the Jugeared Nitwit is dressed for a day of work with his starched white shirt and dark slacks. /sarc
I’m not surprised the doofus doesn’t know how to dress for work since he’s never done any in his worthless life.
Could he look any more like a putz with his Crackberry hanging on his belt?
Not all of us our indignant, faux or otherwise. However, you seem a bit indignant over others’ indignation.
I think for some (or most) here, it’s a question of the timing. Seeing this on 9-12 probably wouldn’t have mattered. What we see here is what appears to be an attempt to harness the energy around 9-11 into something else.
It all just seems a bit gimmicky. You call Michelle’s posting on it a partisan cheap shot, but wasn’t Obama essentially asking for publicity on this? It’s not a coincidence that this this taking place on 9/11, is it?
Civic spirit that might have been more in line with something related to 9/11 probably wouldn’t have been a big deal. I’m not sure what this has to do with 9/11, specifically.
As I said before, I don’t much care as it means less time playing legislator-in-chief.
Wouldn’t that be the messiah himself? After all, he made the sea levels stop rising and we’re headed for the promised land.
LOL!
I stayed away from the ‘bodice-ripper’ prose this time. I just couldn’t bring myself to actually type ‘throbbing manhood’.
oopsie.
Doing what a community organizer does best.
Claude Rains?
Rimshot, Flyoverman!
My indignation is harder than a ballpeen hammer between the eyes, nothing faux about it. I kid you not.
Al Swearengen: What makes you talk to me in that tone of voice?
I don’t know how the rest of you would like to spend today, but my fondest wish would be to be invited to Vice President Cheney’s place in Wyoming. He would drag out a cooler full of Coors and we would watch a pirated DVD of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed being water boarded 183 times over and over and over until the beer was gone.
(ZZZzzzz) What? Somebody call me?
Rogue,
Aren’t you impressed when someone who has never met you can judge your level of indignation over an Internet connection?
The issue isn’t that he was helping to paint a house on Sept 11th. The issue is that this act is a statement of his desire to change 9/11 from a day that we remember the loss of life that took place into a vehicle for his partisan agenda. Further, I believe that even separate from his “Community Service” agenda is his desire to sweep the reality of what happened that day under the rug to appease the muslim world and not offend them with any further mourning on the part of the United States.
That’s what’s offensive about what’s he’s doing. It matters not that he visited the Pentagon.
If I shake your hand then slap you in the face, what the net impact of our encounter?
Fantastic idea. May I suggest a switch to Olympia Beer to view the video. After all there motto used to be: “It’s the water and a lot more.”
I can almost see how a Liberal might think that a “day of service” is a way to honor those we’ve lost but are they really so thoughtless that they don’t understand that a significant portion of the public sees it as the opposite?
Those are the choices. Either Obama is so stupid he doesn’t know that a lot of us believe he showed disrespect for the dead and for the nature of this day, or he is intentionally insulting us.
And then he wonders why his poll numbers aren’t wonderful anymore.
BINGO!!
BINGO!! again.
Must…stop…laughing….
If only I had a smiley to properly convey. I like Chap mostly, but sometimes he presumes too much.
Yep…and back again on Monday.
Finally, as an adult, he’s found something he likes to do, and is good at…”chattering.”
9-11 will always be a day of service to me. I serviced my combat backpack, and made sure my H-harness was in good service too. My body was serviced in the gym to stay strong. My BDU’s, boots, hair, finger nails, and toe nails were serviced, right after I serviced my weapons.
I will never forget. Every Marine Corp day I will always remember 9-11, 1994 Twin Towers, Kobar Towers, USS Cole, etc… all the way back to 1983 when 243 marines were Murdered by the religion of peace.
As a poster called Infidel Alliance stated at PJ media, this is a world war with Islam. If the Belsen school in Russia is any example of what may happen here, I suggest everyone get ready.
Obama is all about “fundamentally changing America”, never mind that most of us don’t want a completely new nation. He is trying to force us to redistribute our wealth and our time to his voting block. I don’t want to give him and his ACORN “peeps” my money or my time… my TIME is valuable. I spend it earning MONEY to pay my mortgage, my bills, my insurance. I pay 50% of my taxes already to the government… that is ENOUGH! I don’t expect I will see any ACORN members showing up to volunteer to paint MY house… which needs it and will have to be done and paid for by me.
The man is a DISGRACE!
That doesn’t involve too much physical labor.
Nothing says 9/11 better than painting the walls of a house.
The Moment of Silence and Wreath Laying all happened before 10 am, so what else was Obama going to do with his day?
BO and MO should have to go live with the Amish for awhile.
This reminds me of when we worked in the Philippines. The First Lady and a bunch of senators and crony types had a luncheon for street children at the Manila Cathedral. White linen tables, gold rimmed china, silver (carefully watched of course). Said dignitaries had a fine photo op of them helping the poor children. Afterword, they kicked the kids back into the streets and went home to their mansions.
Say, isn’t Mrs Obeauty wearing her $500 sneakers in that pic? Perfect.
O.D.S.
Habitat for Humanity: Insulting the Memory of the Dead Since 1976
You’re stealing lgm’s lines.
Say it quickly to form a word. That’s my opinion of the Jugeared Nitwit.
No, perfect for NPR.
Service to any cause is only honorable when no one else is looking. This is Won’s attempt, again, to steer the attention away from ground zero, the Pentagon, and that lonely field in PA to center all the attention on himself. You can take it to the bank that if there had been no cameras, he wouldn’t have been there either.