Official White House Photo Tonight: Obama Ignores Boehner on Phone, Plays With Blackberry

The White House ^ | Wednesday, November 3, 2010

[kristinn]

President Barack Obama makes an election night phone call to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) from his Treaty Room office in the White House residence, Nov. 2, 2010.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

(Note by Kristinn: Obama is working his Blackberry with both hands with it propped on his lap. What message is Boehner to take away from the White House releasing this official photo of their phone call?)

[Mack Truck]

He’s working his bberry? - with both hands? Wow, an ambidextrous president.

[indianrightwinger]

That Obama is a classless clown that he has shown to be during his tenure and on the camapaign trail recently!

[Ezekiel]

Every detail of this photograph is staged

That was my first thought because there seems to be an error in the staging. He is "using" his Blackberry, but he doesn't need the reading glasses that are sitting on the stack of papers? Okay, maybe he just sets the thing to a giant font, but if he needs the glasses for the papers, then why not for that tiny screen?

[I still care]

He doesn’t look that upset, does he? He’s probably playing a game on the BB.

IMHO, the senators who lost tonight, or who almost lost in his party - this picture is really going to toast their cookies. After all, does Obama really care they lost their jobs?

My guess is not a bit. He’s going off on a VERY expensive vacation he’s taking for free. The heck with all those folk.

[antceecee]

Looks like he’s playing with himself... er... his blackberry... you know what message he was sending. Pretty obvious to me.

[TheThinker]

Obama’s just getting his orders.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Hes working his bberry? - with both hands? Wow, an ambidextrous president.

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More like “ambisexual”; He can ‘do it’ with EITHER hand.

[The_Pickle]

I have seen people warning the Republicans not to be the “Party of No” and to that I say why not? We cannot pass our own agenda as we do not have the votes to override a veto so why not just be the party of no for a bit? In fact I suggest that the Republicans use their slim majority to pass piece after piece of legislation in the House and let the Dem controlled Senate be the chamber of obstruction.

[paulycy]

when you’re broke then saying no to spending IS the answer!

[Vendome]

I say be the party of “Stop It!”.

[MinuteGal]

This photo depicts the epitome of arrogance.

Leni

[BookmanTheJanitor]

the man child who refuses to grow up

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

On the other hand, we only have 27 more months with this turkey. If he gets re-elected, we’re in deep doo-doo.

PING!

[arthurus]

I think we will find out the reach and effectiveness of Executive Orders over the next two years.

[arthurus]

Donors.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ping.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

beethovenfan: “Plays with his black WHAT?”

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Obama is making it clear that he wants to remain the boss.

No time for timidity on our side. Too many outreaches will be viewed as a weakness.

[combat_boots]

“Nah...that’s his mini-teleprompter.”

AKA Pocket Totus

[jersey117]

He’s probably surfing the left wing blog sites. There is no way he will handle his loss in a statesmanlike manner. The community agitator doesn’t have it in him.