Billary On Torture
09.27.07Caption Contest
Lets hear your best caption for this photo.
National Review Online
Sept. 27, 2007In last night’s Presidential Debate, Tim Russert put the screws to Democratic hopefuls using an instrument from their own dungeon.
“I want to move to another subject, and this involves a comment that a guest on ‘Meet the Press’ made,” Russert said. “I want to read it, as follows: ‘Imagine the following scenario. We get lucky. We get the number three guy in Al Qaeda. We know there’s a big bomb going off in America in three days and we know this guy knows where it is. Don’t we have the right and responsibility to beat it out of him? You could set up a law where the president could make a finding or could guarantee a pardon.’”
Russert asked the candidates to comment. Obama said he wouldn’t torture the prisoner under any circumstances. So did Sen. Joseph Biden. Then Russert turned to Sen. Clinton. “Should there be a presidential exception to allow torture in that kind of situation?” he asked.
“You know, Tim, I agree with what Joe and Barack have said,” Clinton answered. “As a matter of policy it cannot be American policy, period….These hypotheticals are very dangerous because they open a great big hole in what should be an attitude that our country and our president takes toward the appropriate treatment of everyone. And I think it’s dangerous to go down this path.”
Russert then delivered the punch line. “The guest who laid out this scenario for me with that proposed solution was William Jefferson Clinton last year,” Russert said to Sen. Clinton. “So he disagrees with you.”
“Well, he’s not standing here right now,” Clinton said.
“So there is a disagreement?”
“Well, I’ll talk to him later,” she answered.
The crowd laughed; Clinton had handled the situation as best she could. But Russert’s question zeroed in on her frequent citations of her husband, and his administration, and her part in his administration, among the reasons she is qualified to be president. What are the differences between them?
There would be no answer Wednesday night. And after all the odd and sometimes perplexing answers, there weren’t any winners, either.
Obama: “Hey Hillary, I heard there’s this guy in New York City named Guav, who has the answers to all of our country’s political problems. When you win the nomination and you choose me as your vice presidential running mate, we should enlist the help of Guav. We could be the Trifecta. You could make sure we get all the Feminazi votes, I can get all the black votes, and Guav can secure all the Vegan BMXers votes. We would be unstoppable!”
Hillary: “hmmmm.”
# September 27th, 2007 at 1:58 pm“Hillary, instead of running against each other, we should consider working together to figure out the best way to destroy America.”
# September 27th, 2007 at 2:36 pmBut JJ’s is good too, although a tad lengthy.
# September 27th, 2007 at 2:36 pmI know… it’s elementary, but how about:
“do you smell that?”
I mean… he kinda has that “I farted and I cant wait to tell you” look on his face.
# September 27th, 2007 at 2:59 pm1) “Really, Do I need a TicTac?
# September 27th, 2007 at 6:26 pm2) “I am so exicted I just wet my pants.”
3) “I just got an endorsement from ProActive. Touch my face.”
“Colt 45 … works every time.”
# September 27th, 2007 at 6:58 pm“Hey Hillary…..Hey Hillary….Hey Hillary…Hey Hillary….hey Hillary….Hey Hillary…”
“Whatever O-BUG-me I’m busy listening here, so sit back and shut up.”
# September 27th, 2007 at 8:27 pmYou have to wonder why torture has got such a bad rap… I mean really, you have a guy in custody who knows about an operation that will destroy an American city (which you have sworn to protect) in 3 days and you’re categorically going to say NO TORTURE… good grief what bunch of veal calves, I fear for our future.
# September 27th, 2007 at 9:07 pm“Utilitarianism is the shit.”
I win.
# September 27th, 2007 at 9:25 pmHAHA! I like Simon’s.
# September 27th, 2007 at 10:10 pm“Check out the comb-over on Joe Biden!”
# September 27th, 2007 at 10:58 pmOh yeah it’s a caption competition, how’s this…
Obama: What is thy bidding, my Master?
Clinton: Send the fleet to the far side of Endor. There it will stay until called for.
Obama: What of the reports of the Rebel fleet massing near Sullust?
Clinton: It is of no concern. Soon the Rebellion will be crushed and young Skywalker will be one of us! Your work here is finished, my friend. Go out to the command ship and await my orders.
Obama: Yes, my Master
# September 27th, 2007 at 11:00 pmOr…
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, known to have partial deafness in her left ear, gazes with thoughtful consideration after Barack Obama suggests she opens her speech with an ethnically charged greeting, which she erroneously heard as “what’s up my knickers?”.
# September 27th, 2007 at 11:03 pmOr both saying simultaneously to each other…
“Would you consider being my Vice President?”
# September 27th, 2007 at 11:05 pmHAHA! Stevil’s got a point there. So much for actual discussion here. Caption Contests are so much cooler!
# September 27th, 2007 at 11:16 pm“You want I should bring tha car ’round Miss Hillary?”
# September 29th, 2007 at 3:15 amIs the default picture supposed to be Ted Nugent in a robe?
# October 1st, 2007 at 1:22 pmno way, dude. It’s Jesus, guiding his flock. With a 30-30 Lever Action Winchester. Surprised you didn’t know that.
# October 1st, 2007 at 7:40 pmMan if the Jews had access to 30-30’s at that time in history… they really blew it for letting the Romans pimp slap them around like they did. I mean… would you want to mess with a Jew if you knew they had a Hassidic handgun under their robes?
# October 2nd, 2007 at 8:08 pmTo be honest… I also would bet money on the fact that Jesus himself wasn’t packing heat back then… any takers on this discussion?
# October 2nd, 2007 at 8:10 pmI actually heard that the first “2 Tickets to the Gun Show” joke was made by Jesus but the disciples didn’t get it.
# October 2nd, 2007 at 8:40 pmIs there any prospect of the default picture becoming Ted Nugent in a robe?
# October 3rd, 2007 at 4:25 amJesus was a little ahead of His time…
# October 3rd, 2007 at 10:09 am“Hillary, if you become president, can I be your intern?”
# October 17th, 2007 at 10:22 pm