P050409PS-0341

President Barack Obama talks during a briefing with advisors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 4, 2009.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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l e o j says:

Six on the floor, Mr. President.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

THROUGH_HAWAIIAN_EYES says:

Neat!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Balki's Photo (Copyright FREE!) says:

this is a cool candid, good thing he's not a heavy guy or that chair might break...
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

MaryTClark says:

ha ha ha ....this is priceless. My mom would've yelled at him. lol great capture!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Chinethy says:

lol @ leoj. Couldn't agree more.
I am constantly scared (whenever I see these pics) that he'll fall over and break something.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

lion2attack says:

hehe oh boy.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

xy0_0yx says:

That is quite the amusing pose! He's the President and he will position the chair as he damn pleases!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

djakbar56 says:

5 bucks says there is a Secret Service Agent whos job it is to catch the president when he leans back too far.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

DJVelveteen says:

Another great thing about Obama: he'll probably suck it up and laugh alongside everyone else if he ever tips all the way over.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

thogue5d says:

=D this is GREAT!!!

made my day.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Reverend Andy says:

Fucking A, Mr. President! If they'd meant for chairs to have all their legs on the floor, they'd have made them comfortable in that position!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

myotheralt says:

I would love to have that photogs job. And I would take that shot of the President falling over.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

sp1d3rx says:

That's actually the perfect angle to sit, you should be at 110 degrees, not 90 degrees, otherwise you will develop back pain from sitting in chairs. Your spine was not meant to take the full weight of your torso on it, for more than 20 years.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

douglass.clem says:

So I cannot edit this photo in any way? Shows how much the White House knows about the public domain.

Behold, POTUS with green hair (just because someone told me not to)! www.flickr.com/photos/crashsystems/3549840503 /
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

TwistedSifter says:

"Balance the chair. Balance the budget. It's all relative playa"
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

awesomest guy ever says:

Bush leans back in/rocks in his chair and it's unprofessional and a sign of ridicule.

Obama does it? heyyyyyyyyy. he just bein cool dawg.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

madpanda says:

anyone defending bush should get the fuck off the internet
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

ida_magin says:

@ awesomest_guy_ever.....NO! Bush is unprofessional and an object of ridicule. It doesn't matter how he sits!! :)
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

pxidistribution says:

Ok Barack in the corner

Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

pondage says:

hahahaha....i will never listen again to my 2nd grade teacher...! ;-D
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

mgtlead says:

Wow love to be the photographer.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

photo.envy in perpetual confusion says:

The cool thing about being President is that you can do shit like this all the time! haha. :)
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

lapietra says:

You've got legs that long, you've got to do something about it :)

Anyway - what the pic doesn't show is the guy crouched in back of him, just out of the range of the camera, ready to dash forward at any sign of instability ;)
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

pxidistribution says:

too cool
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

gemsnwire says:

Total lack of respect for the office.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Flag in distress 11/04/08 says:

Well well well if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black: Obama is the king of hypocrisy.

Who Knows “Mob Rule” Better Than Union Bosses?

Richard Trumka, soon-to-be president of the largest union umbrella in the United States, has a funny understanding of “mob rule.”

Presumptive AFL-CIO president Trumka recently blasted those concerned citizens across the country who simply exercised their free speech rights at town hall meetings:

“Mob rule is not a democracy. People have a democratic right to express themselves and our elected leaders have a right to hear from their constituents -- not organized thugs whose sole purpose is to shut down the conversation and attempt to scare our leaders into inaction.”

Well isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black! Of course, Trumka is the expert on “organized thugs” and scare tactics. And in the case of the union he formerly headed, we’re talking about REAL thuggery.

Not long ago, as president of the United Mine Workers (UMW) union, Trumka ordered thousands of miners in seven states out on strike.

In some states, workers exercised their right to continue working to provide for their families, and massive mobs of UMW union thugs harassed and even violently attacked those who entered picketed worksites. One man named Eddie York was brutally shot and killed by a UMW militant named Jerry Dale Lowe.

But Trumka dismissed the violence, implying it was the victims’ fault. He told the Washington Times, “[I]f you strike a match and put your finger in, common sense tells you you're going to burn your finger.”
From "Workers right to work foundation."
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

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