Friday, October 1, 2010

Hyperbolic Curve

During the press conference announcing that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel was leaving (probably to run for mayor of Chicago), Emmanuel thanked his boss, President Obama, and lauded his work as "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced."

That "thud" sound you heard was Abraham Lincoln kicking Emmanuel's brain back up between his ears while Franklin Roosevelt rolled his chair over Emmanuel's foot to hold him steady.

2 comments:

philip vm said...

i'm pretty sure churchill was holding him down while he was taking his ass-whupping.

Friar said...

Winnie may have just settled for blowing some cigar smoke in his face.

Here's a what-if for you: When Churchill addressed Congress on one of his visits, he pointed out that he had an American mother and an English father, but that if it had been the other way around, "...I might have got here on my own." Winston Churchill, Speaker of the House?