Why would they release a photo that looks so terrible?
The strangest photos come out of this White House.
Here’s a snap for a fundraiser Dr. Utopia just did in Missouri for Robin Carnahan’s 2010 Senate bid, where the White House pretended it was for Claire McCaskill’s 2012 race instead, which makes no sense unless you remember how spectacularly Dr. Utopia failed in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, where any candidate he came 100 feet within radius of was shellacked at the polls by voters tired of the hopeychange nonsense.
“I love hopeychange! I wore my Miss Piggy costume tonight ’cause I’m Senator and this my party!,” Claire McCaskill enthusiastically told anyone who would listen. “Welcome to my party! Did you bring me presents? I like blocks and paper clips and bugs and stuff I can eat, like sammiches. I’m Senator! It’s my party!”.
Jane Putipon, Chief of Staff to Claire McCaskill, doesn’t seem able to control how often the junior Senator from Missouri wears her favorite Halloween costume in public. Apparently, whenever Jane reminds McCaskill “it’s time to dress like a normal, grown-up person, not like a spoiled Muppet lusting after frogs”, she just gets a barrage of “I’m Senator! I’m Senator! I wears what I wants!” in return, so maybe she’s just completely given up at this point.
Just as the people of Missouri have given up on Claire McCaskill ever doing anything sensible or worthwhile.
It’s VERY curious that the White House pulled this McCaskill stunt, though. We’re not aware of this particular ruse ever being played before, in all the years we’ve followed politics. We’ve never once seen a fundraiser for someone who was not running for re-election for years, when there’s a candidate running THAT year who needs the money…and, presumably, all the money raised at that event is going to be funneled to Carnahan anyway.
It really is, as many have said the last few days, an admission by the White House that the current president gives the kiss of death to all he ventures out of the White House “to save”.
March 12, 2010 at 12:12 am
Is the photographer a closet Republican? This picture is not at all flattering to either of them. Wierd angle too, like they were down at Clairebear’s feet or something.
March 12, 2010 at 1:17 am
it is weird because she is not even looking at him….and she is not looking at the camera either.
March 12, 2010 at 9:45 am
Aussie, I just heard that our esteemed President is delaying his visit to your part of the world for several days …
He really does care about bolstering America’s image in the world, doesn’t he? …
March 12, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Remember before when he postponed his trip to Japan and China? Then when he did show up, he expected the leaders of the countries to drop everything for him at his whim. I believe they were quite upset. I also believe he didn’t go then because of healthcare.
March 12, 2010 at 7:56 pm
It looks like he’s saying something to her out of the side of his mouth – you know, like when you don’t want someone to read your lips? And she looks like she’s listening.
Unflattering is the nicest thing I might say about it. She looks 40 pounds heavier at that angle, bless her heart, and he looks like he’s about to put a WFW wrestling move on her to take her down to the mat.
March 12, 2010 at 12:19 am
Senator McCackle is an utter joke and failure.
March 12, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Is that really her? It kinda looks like her, but has she gained a few pounds or something? Seriously, it doesn’t look like her.
March 12, 2010 at 12:51 am
Too weird, really.
March 12, 2010 at 1:04 am
I really wish I hadn’t done one final check of hillbuzz before going to bed tonight. That picture is bound to give me nightmares!
March 12, 2010 at 6:27 am
I wish I hadn’t looked at it so early in the morning.
It spoiled my coffee. :-)
March 12, 2010 at 1:18 am
I loved the Miss Piggy reference. Can we name McCaskill as Miss Piggy from now on?
March 12, 2010 at 10:17 am
Not unless you want Miss Piggy to sue for slander. :-)
March 12, 2010 at 12:19 pm
And if I recall correctly, she’s got a pretty mean karate chop.
March 12, 2010 at 1:27 am
Why would they release a photo that looks so terrible? Hey, this may have been the BEST of the bunch; the others they took may have caused people’s watches to stop.
Miss Piggy McCaskill and Kermit the President? Yikes!
March 12, 2010 at 10:13 am
Nah… I wouldn’t insult Kermit like that…
March 12, 2010 at 1:31 am
Looks like he’s trying to squeeze her hand too tight.
Good luck trying to call Clairebear’s offices and actually getting a real person.
The local offices have an automatic answering machine and it gives you 2 choices one to leave a message only and another to leave a message and have have someone call you back (we know how that always works). If you call her Washington office you get taken to voice mail only and it is always full and it hangs up on you so you can not even leave a message there.
You have NO chance to actually talk to a real person.
I can not wait till we get her out of office.
March 12, 2010 at 1:53 am
You’d think I’d like Claire better since she looks so much like Benny Hill.
March 12, 2010 at 1:57 am
The photo is at an odd angle. Obama looks like the guy on SNL – don’t know the guy’s name – who plays Obama. I never thought the man who played Obama on SNL really looked like Obama until I saw this photo.
March 12, 2010 at 6:02 am
Is it just me or does Obama look like he is swatting her on the butt while saying ‘go get ‘em piggy’ like in football?
SWAT ‘Good game’
March 12, 2010 at 6:30 am
Or giving her a wedgie, maybe? If looks could talk, O’s expression would go on for hours. He does anyway.
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March 12, 2010 at 6:52 am
Weeeel, face it, I would look a bit off myself if I had to slap HER butt. I bet most would look a bit peaked too. Unless of course some odd one was really hot for her, then they might look eager….but we arent going there this morning since that would be cruel to everyone reading and trying to eat breakfast. ewwww :D
March 12, 2010 at 6:50 am
Oh. My. Wiping my eyes here.
Miss Piggy!?! (Affecting a Missourian Persian accent) “Barry came to St. Louie to see Moi!”
I never like to disagree with a fellow BuzzPeep…but I havta. Barky as Kermie? Nah. I BHO as more a Beeker type. And Biden as Swedish Chef…”Doh, de doh, de duh” pretty much sums up all Plugs statements.
March 12, 2010 at 6:54 am
Nah, not beeker. Beeker was my fav. more like the mutant child of Roosevelt Franklin and Guy Smiley. (Sesame street muppets)
March 12, 2010 at 7:23 am
Oh this is too funny! It looks like the camera man was on the floor (hoping for an up the skirt shot maybe?). Here is what I think … Owonderful was humiliated by the snub so the wh had to spin quickly. They chose the woman in pink as the replacement “beneficiary” and this was the ONLY photo of the two together. Or the other photos were of her superwoman costume she is wearing under her piggy skirt.
March 12, 2010 at 8:23 am
Waiting for this woman to come up for reelection is like watching grass grow. I cannot believe that I have two more long years to wait to vote this idiot back to obscurity.
March 12, 2010 at 8:53 am
OMG. That is actually creepier than Nixon jumping in the air.
March 12, 2010 at 9:15 am
At least he wasn’t trying to nuzzle her …
March 12, 2010 at 10:15 am
Well, there went MY appetite…
March 12, 2010 at 10:19 am
I know (sorry!) … but somehow I don’t think McCaskell would have minded it if he had …
March 12, 2010 at 12:21 pm
…and whatever thoughts I was having of going straight.
March 12, 2010 at 9:31 am
I read yesterday somewhere that one of the carrots the O is holding up to get votes on O-care is that he will come and campaign for you.I’m not sure that’s an offer you can’t refuse.
March 12, 2010 at 11:42 am
Given how well his campaigning for other candidates has gone, he really should promise NOT to campaign for anyone voting for O-care.
March 12, 2010 at 9:47 am
the junior Senator from Missouri
You realize that in January 2011, she’ll become the senior Senator from Missouri?
Oy.
March 12, 2010 at 10:18 am
The “show me state” is being “shown” too much. If I were in MO I would say “ENOUGH already! I never want to SEE Piggy McCaskill or Hopey-Changey ‘Bama again!” Honestly, what was the “show me state” “shown” to vote “Piggy” in, in the first place?
March 12, 2010 at 10:30 am
They both look like they are suffering with intestinal pain.
March 12, 2010 at 10:36 am
I really don’t know what to say . . . campaigning for someone who is not up for re-election until 2012 . . . but in reality raising cash for someone running in 2010 . . . and the poor choice of pictures . . . Hmmm.
Very strange. Is this a sign Obama and Co. really do not know what they are doing? Or are we reading too much into this?
March 12, 2010 at 10:40 am
It’s no WONDER ClaireBear likes to do her senatoring from under her desk, mining for diamonds and murdering stacks of sammiches.
It’s way less scary than having her hand scrunched by that Hopey-Change guy. Anndd, he stinks like smoke…peeuww.
March 12, 2010 at 11:31 am
How long has she been wearing the Sarah Palin glasses?
March 12, 2010 at 12:43 pm
OMG, this… “I love hopeychange! I wore my Miss Piggy costume tonight ’cause I’m Senator and this my party!,”
is an absolute scream! I’m laughing so hard, tears are running down my cheeks. Soo freakin’ hilarious!!
Thanks guys for the laugh.
March 12, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Sometimes, we wish people would send these to McCaskill herself. It’s fun to think of her getting all excited and shouting, “That me! That me in picture! I famous!”. Or, maybe like a parakeet staring into a mirror, she’d just sit transfixed gaping at the screen, mouth wide, eyes googling, her brain trying to process how she could be inside the screen while she’s sitting outside staring at it.
March 12, 2010 at 1:33 pm
LOL!
ClaireBear reminds me of the high school wallflower geek that the “big men on campus” jocks allow into their circle. The geek suddenly acts relevant and equal to the cool jocks, but in reality is merely their jester.
ClaireBear probably thinks she is cool and relevant. However, I see her as the fool in king obama’s court.
March 12, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Now wait a friggin’ minute! O is hyper-attentive to image. Did someone in his PR & media corps suffer a momentary lapse of good judgment, or is the House of O finally starting to crumble??
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March 12, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Nah. This is probably a local pic from the newzies [either the photog. is an amateur or he really really doesn't like either of them]. The WH would never release a photo like that.
March 12, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Another photo where Dr. U. certainly looks stoned.
March 12, 2010 at 6:44 pm
He looks like he is in VERY bad health in this photo -
March 13, 2010 at 9:23 am
Boys I told you I read you all the time and I do not write much but could you please blurr out bambis face I cannot stand to look at him anymore I turn the channel on the tv when he comes on and that seems to be quite a bit. I am from PA and a dem and I will vote for anyone who is a who is not a dem this election