Althouse: Obama poses with the Presidents.

June 15, 2015

Obama poses with the Presidents.

I like!

41 comments:

Original Mike said...: They got the relative stature correct.; 6/15/15, 11:31 AM
Gahrie said...: If they add an Obama competitor, will he get a 10 yard head start?; 6/15/15, 11:31 AM
Skeptical Voter said...: Well there's one potato head and five cartoon figures in that photo---oops-correction--SIX cartoon figures in that photo.; 6/15/15, 11:35 AM
Expat(ish) said...: Actually, he looks like he's having a good time, which is rarely something you see.

I think the president needs R&R and more simple fun stuff.

-XC; 6/15/15, 11:37 AM
Original Mike said...: They should include FDR.; 6/15/15, 11:40 AM
Rumpletweezer said...: This is all wrong. His head should be way bigger than theirs.; 6/15/15, 11:41 AM
Michael K said...: I seem to remember a joke about The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and something else that doesn't exist.; 6/15/15, 11:47 AM
Gahrie said...: OK..Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln I get..who's the fifth guy? Harding?; 6/15/15, 11:50 AM
Anonymous said...: I guess male puppets can wear shorts?; 6/15/15, 11:53 AM
Static Ping said...: Gahrie: OK..Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln I get..who's the fifth guy? Harding?

Taft. He was the first President to throw out the first ball at a baseball game (Opening Day 1910 in Washington). Also sometimes credited with inventing the seventh-inning stretch.; 6/15/15, 11:53 AM
Chris said...: Well at least he got the proportions right. Those men are all much bigger than he.; 6/15/15, 11:54 AM
HoodlumDoodlum said...: Men...in...shorts...; 6/15/15, 11:58 AM
lemondog said...: X Washington, all Repubs?; 6/15/15, 12:02 PM
Static Ping said...: Jefferson was a Democrat (as opposed to a Federalist).; 6/15/15, 12:09 PM
Gahrie said...: Jefferson was a Democrat

He was actually a Democratic-Republican. This was not the modern Democratic Party. The modern Democratic Party started with Andrew Jackson.; 6/15/15, 12:17 PM
Gahrie said...: Lincoln was the first Republican. Taft was a Republican. Roosevelt belonged to the Republican Party while president, but he was actually a Progressive, and would eventually help found the Progressive Party and run for president as a Progressive.; 6/15/15, 12:23 PM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/15/15, 12:30 PM
lemondog said...: Raccoon poses with alligator

Far more interesting.; 6/15/15, 12:34 PM
Anonymous said...: Teddy,

The good Roosevelt...; 6/15/15, 12:35 PM
traditionalguy said...: It must be reality day. They put Six illusions of Presidents together as if they are famous.

But in the end its still sexist.; 6/15/15, 12:38 PM
Hagar said...: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe were Republicans in their day, and in fact was referred to as "Old Republicans." The anti-federalists then became more organized and began to call themselves Democrat-Republicans, and finally Martin van Buren, as Jackson's Secretary of State, organized them as the Democratic Party, modeled on the New York machine organization.

The Republican Party (GOP) was organized in 1854 by former mainstream American Whigs after the Whigs died as a national party as it was seen as soft on slavery in the South. The name must have been chosen as a gibe at the Democrats for having forgotten their original ideals of small government, etc.

I think cousin Teddy ran in 1912 as a "Bull Moose" Republican with his base in the "progressive wing" of the party; sort of his own personal party.; 6/15/15, 12:44 PM
'TreHammer said...: ...I'll cut him a bit of slack on this one...I like it, too.; 6/15/15, 12:52 PM
Gahrie said...: I think cousin Teddy ran in 1912 as a "Bull Moose" Republican with his base in the "progressive wing" of the party; sort of his own personal party

Nope. He lost the Republican primary to Taft, and then formed the Progressive Party which was given the nickname of the Bull Moose Party. He then ran for president as a Progressive.; 6/15/15, 12:52 PM
MayBee said...: He posed for that when he was at the Congressional baseball game, trying to get them to vote for his trade bill. He had better luck with the guys in costumes.; 6/15/15, 1:08 PM
Fernandinande said...: Obama throws like a girl.; 6/15/15, 1:23 PM
Hagar said...: Gahrie,
You are right, sir.
And he gave us Woodrow Wilson.; 6/15/15, 1:26 PM
Bob Ellison said...: Imagine the picture on the mantelpiece, years from now. "There I am with President Obama! I'm the guy in the...the...I think the Lincoln head. It's been a while."; 6/15/15, 1:43 PM
southcentralpa said...: Ugh, really? Is there someplace we can go to get away from that spoiled man-child?? I remember during the 2012 season, OFA actually had trolls on the in-game discussion boards at the WaPo ... yegads, that was annoying.; 6/15/15, 1:50 PM
Rumpletweezer said...: I didn't know Rip Taylor was a President.; 6/15/15, 2:16 PM
Quaestor said...: Hagar wrote: And he gave us Woodrow Wilson.

I am one of those who consider Woodrow Wilson a failure. He was a lot like Jimmy Carter (or more precisely Carter was like Wilson) in that he couldn't resist the temptation to couch is politics in terms of morality, thus the anyone who opposed Wilson's politics or policies wasn't "unwise" or "un-Constitutional," he was a sinner. He publicly damned the Allies of the First World War as well as the Central Powers, and sounded the clarion of strict neutrality. Yet Wilson interpreted "neutrality" in terms that strongly favored the Allies, i.e. the "cash and carry" policy. Germany couldn't break the British blockade, so only Britain, France, and to a much lesser extent Russia, could derive any benefit from "cash and carry".

Germany made a few feeble attempt to test cash and carry. One was the first merchant submarine ever put into service. Deutschland was a 1500 ton submarine owned by the North German Lloyd shipping line. She carried artificial textile dyes and medical drugs (aspirin and heroin were both German-owned patents) to the United States and returned to rubber and strategic metals back to Germany. Thus by Wilson's blockheaded, unshakeable "moralism" the soldiers of both sides could and did perceive America as an unprincipled, amoral, and totally mercenary power (sound familiar?)

When this country finally did become involved (mainly because of the Zimmerman telegram affair) Wilson didn't backtrack and apologize to Lloyd George and Clemenceau, whom he continued to scold and lecture, instead he declared America's war aims were about making the world "safe for democracy." When asked to explain by the press Wilson made no clarifications about a world safe for democracy that would make the British or the French feel America was an ally over the matters of Ireland and Alsace-Lorraine. Politics as morality, as usual. All in all Wilson did more than any other person outside Germany to ensure that WWI would lead inexorably to WWII.; 6/15/15, 3:53 PM
SteveOrr said...: Oh yeah, they added Taft because of his unique look. But I like Ike instead. His bald head sets him apart. He's respected on both sides of the aisle. He'd also represent a distinct era in American history.

FDR offers similar benefits. But putting him in a footrace...just seems tacky.

Would also drop Jefferson. Looks too similar to Washington & represents the same era. Obama would be better on both counts. I never voted for him and don't like him. But it's just a stupid mascot race.; 6/15/15, 4:28 PM
The Godfather said...: Was it a Freudian slip to say that Obama poses with "the Presidents", rather than "the other Presidents"? I expect Prof. Althouse will not be receiving any invitations to the White House before January 2017.; 6/15/15, 5:01 PM
avwh said...: That's the closest Obama is ever going to come to being enshrined with the Presidents on Mount Rushmore.; 6/15/15, 5:19 PM
tim maguire said...: What's there to like? I don't dislike it, I suppose, but it's not noteworthy. Just another example to throw on the mountain-sized pile of examples of Barack Obama using his connections for personal gain and not taking the role of president seriously.; 6/15/15, 6:07 PM
Roadkill711 said...: Look at that little man posing with all those big and great presidents.; 6/15/15, 6:27 PM
Brando said...: Nice photo--I didn't realize those puppets were so big. They look smaller from the upper deck.

Woodrow Wilson was one of our worst presidents of all time. Taft was underrated.; 6/15/15, 7:00 PM
n.n said...: The heads aren't all in proportion.; 6/15/15, 7:28 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: It's interesting how the two Republicans stood for things that most Republicans today oppose.; 6/15/15, 7:36 PM
readering said...: Picturing Donald Trump in that photo.; 6/15/15, 7:49 PM
The Godfather said...: @R&B: "two Republicans"? The photo shows Lincoln, TR, and Taft. Which one do you think was not a Republican? Check Common Core.

Anyway, they "stood for things that most Republicans today oppose." Let's see, Lincoln supported maintaining the Federal union and freeing the slaves. I don't think even Sarah Palin opposes those things. Taft supported Constitutional government and the rule of law. Sounds like a Tea Party guy to me. Now TR, it's true, fell into the error of progressivism, and most modern Republicans have seen where that leads. He also promoted American Imperialism, which even today finds acolytes among Republicans and Democrats alike.

No, I think your comment is all balled up and disrhythmic.; 6/15/15, 9:22 PM
CStanley said...: I guess it's the lighting, but Teddy looks like he's trying to pass for black in that photo.; 6/16/15, 6:00 AM