Call to Caption: Mitt Romney is bemused by schoolchildren
Current TV does caption contests every week. Go to their page and suggest a caption for this photo.
Some warm-ups:
Romney: “If I become President, none of these kids will be able to afford college. Hopefully.”
Mitt Romney sits in on a middle school social studies class awaiting the court-ordered lesson on what socialism really is.
Romney attends a class where the teacher polls students on the upcoming election. Romney later commented, “I can’t believe they all raised their hands to say they’d vote for Obama. RUDE.”
AHAHAHA
TINY CHILDREN FOR THE WIN
Republicans in Senate Block Bill on Student Loan Rates
Senate Republicans blocked consideration of a bill to prevent the doubling of some student loan interest rates, leaving the legislation in limbo less than two months before rates are set to rise.
Holy crap! A Tumblr milestone!
It was this post, BTW. Thanks, Mr. President.
“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.
And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.”
—President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
When Obama was nominated, he got a lot of criticism for not having military experience. I think it’s more pertinent that he had the experience of not growing up wealthy and privileged in America. How can someone who’s never had to worry about money or loans create a fair policy about them? -Jess
(via stfuconservatives)
“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.
And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.”
—President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
How Israeli cartoonist Shay Charka draws president Barack Obama using a bottle of ketchup and an egg.
Charka lives in a Jewish settlement called Zufim. It’s a neighborhood of suburban-style single family homes that sits on a hilltop above the Palestinian city of Qalqilya. Charka reckoned he’s Israel’s only syndicated political cartoonist who is also a settler.
“Fuck you” doesn’t even begin to cover my feelings on this front.
Say What Now of the Day: In today’s edition of Santorum Santorum Says: Rape victims who get pregnant “have to make the best out of a bad situation.”
(Also: “I believe and I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you.”)
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WHAT THE FUCK I AM SO FUCKING ENRAGED BY THIS THAT I NEED TO FUCKING STEP AWAY FROM THE FUCKING COMPUTER OH MY FUCKING FUCK AKSJFDKSDJFNSDLKFJDFHS
