“This seat’s taken” will go down as one of the dumbest statements made by a politician ever.
1) It opens the door to all kinds of ridicule.
2) The underlying premise is that Obama somehow owns the seat—that it is his by right—instead of being on loan from the voters. You can’t “take” something that is on loan from another.
Continuing the trend that there’s an ass for every seat.
That picture is the best I have seen all day.