Obama is a murderer.

[Androidpk]

Or so says Peta... :lol:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527001,00.html

[diethx]

He's not a murderer, he's a ninja (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sV3_LUBGTU).

[Tolwynn]

He's not a murderer, he's a ninja.

That would go a long ways towards the purported Klaive's allegiance to him.

[Tisket]

PETA is fucked up. Is there even anyone left who still respects them as an organization? Jesus.

[Methais]

Or so says Peta... :lol:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527001,00.html

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/DoyleHargraves/facepalm-5.jpg

[Ashlander]

Someone needs to explain to them that an insect isn't an animal.

[Ker_Thwap]

I'd have been more impressed if he'd have used chopsticks.

[Mabus]

I'd have been more impressed if he'd have used chopsticks.
You ever "slow cup" a fly with your hand? Below a certain speed threshold flies cannot see movement.

Of course you have to be bored and around flies. That shouldn't happen to often in the white house.

[diethx]

Someone needs to explain to them that an insect isn't an animal.

They actually are animals, they're just not vertebrate animals.

[Bhuryn]

Apparently someone needs to sign Michael Vick so PETA has something to do.

[Geshron]

lol @ fox news link

[Slider]

lol @ fox news link

Yeah, if it is on Fox, then it must be a lie huh? :club:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/06/16/national/w143131D58.DTL

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/06/18/2009-06-18_peta_bugged_by_president_obamas_fly_swatting.ht ml

http://www.salon.com/5things/2009/06/18/peta_scolds_obama_fo/index.html

[Hulkein]

lol @ fox news link

You're an idiot.

PETA is laughable. What sane person cares about this?

[Mabus]

Obama shows his Tough Side -Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kevin O'Brien (http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2009/06/a_fly_brings_out_obamas_tough.html)


A fly brings out Obama's tough side
by Kevin O'Brien
Thursday June 18, 2009, 4:17 AM

"Evidently, there's a new SWAT team at the White House -- and it's Barack Obama.

"The president, irritated by an omnipresent fly during a TV interview at the Executive Mansion Tuesday, took matters into his own hands.

"Said Obama to the persistent fly: 'Get out of here.' But it didn't.

"So Obama waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked the fly dead in one try.

"Without missing a beat, the president said to CNBC correspondent John Harwood: 'Now, where were we?'

"Well, maybe one more second to gloat.

"Said Obama: 'That was pretty impressive, wasn't it? I got the sucker.' "

It was just a fun, little story, known in the trade as a "brite." But that doesn't mean we can't draw important conclusions from it. For instance:

• Iran and North Korea are wrong to assume that Obama wouldn't hurt a fly.

• Obama's critics are wrong when they say that both his faith in diplomacy and his reluctance to back it up with force are too great. After the fly rejected his diplomatic overtures, Obama acted with deadly force.

• After sufficient provocation and with the understanding that he has a personal stake in the outcome, Obama is capable not only of taking unilateral action against an enemy, but of prosecuting the conflict aggressively until the victory is won. (Note: We cannot be sure that this level of perseverance applies to conflicts that last longer than a 10th of a second.)

• The president continues to be very impressed with himself, and continues to invite the media chorus to share in his joy.

• The joy of the media chorus continues to hover somewhere between unbounded and complete.

If the incident involving the president and the fly had occurred while George W. Bush were still in office, we can be quite certain that:

• It would have made front pages all over the country under headlines like, "Murder in the White House."

• It would have been classified as a "failure of diplomacy." Bush would have been criticized for not giving the fly more warnings, for overstating the threat posed by the fly and for failing to involve the United Nations.

• Congress would be debating today whether the government should be forced to make public the photographs purporting to show that the fly underwent torture.

But George W. Bush is no longer the president, so from the story of the president and the fly, we may reasonably assume that:

• North Korea and Iran will continue to misbehave with impunity, because both fully understand that nothing they do could possibly bother Obama enough to get them swatted.

• When Obama whacked the fly, executives at General Motors, Chrysler and banks and investment companies all over the country flinched and were briefly stunned. They're getting used to the feeling, though.

• Members of the ABC News crew that will broadcast from the White House on Wednesday made a mental note to be on their best behavior. They are reworking the show, which originally was to be a one-sided infomercial for Obama's health care plan, into a fawning tribute instead. Just to be on the safe side.

• Newsweek's staff, on the orders of Editor Evan Thomas (who declared a couple of weeks ago, "I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above -- above the world, he's sort of God."), has assigned a dozen reporters to an exhaustive follow-up on the fly. Next week's cover story, "Wow! He IS God!" will differ slightly from the AP account, asserting that although Obama did "put up his hand," he never made physical contact with the insect. Rather, he smote it in the traditionally godlike way -- with a fatal burst of divine energy. Moreover, at that precise moment, the waters of the Potomac River parted briefly and thunder was heard from a cloudless sky.

• People who have long said they'd love to be a fly on the wall of the Oval Office are having second thoughts.

[Stanley Burrell]

Is PETA really doing this? I thought it was a joke. I still want to believe that.