Presidential embarrassments

Yeah, they do, but the video still looks pretty doofy. My take on it is that Snopes is nitpicking.

Was that before or after the rabbit incident? Either could have mentally prepared him for the other.

Eh. He’s not throwing smoke like W, but Obama throws out a pretty decent first pitch.

I now have a weird desire to know how pimps dressed in the early parts of the 19th Century.

Well, there’s the old story about John Quincy Adams skinny dipping, and a female reporter sitting on his clothes until he agreed to give her an interview.

If I was president the only story she would have gotten was an accurate description of the presidential dong.

Funny as balls dude.

Reagan’s quip about outlawing Russia was pretty hilarious too.

But you’d be “quoted out of context,” with no mention in the story of the water’s temperature.

Grant getting a speeding ticket had to be a little embarassing to everyone involved.

Bush 41 flubbed a line in a speech and said he had sex with Reagan.

“Or as I like to call it, the White House Staff.”

Remember, Bush 1 didn’t just vomit in Japan – he vomited on the Japanese P.M., then passed out.
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What about “Mission Accomplished?”

Bush having a shoe thrown at him. And wasn’t it Carter who told that story about seeing a – oh, what do you call it – it’s not a jackrabbit, but it’s a rumored animal, like Big Foot? What is it? Dammit!

It wasn’t the pitch that was the problem…it was the pants.

A jackalope?

I think someone may have conflated the very real attack on Jimmy Carter of the unidentified rabbit/rodent-like thing with Jimmy’s report of seeing a UFO, to come up with Jimmy reporting a jackalope. Googling “Jimmy Carter” and jackalope together provide a lot of hits that suggest that the “killer rabbit” was a jackalope, but they seem mostly tongue-in-cheek.

For shame!

I just want to insert that I have been bitten by a thirteen pound rabbit (a lop, yet!), and it’s no joke! We referred to that rabbit as Spawn of Satan, although her rescuer had given her the name Mindy in hopes of sweetening her up a bit.

Which is a curiously ill-informed article. In fact, there is such a thing as the swamp rabbit ([url=http://www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=366]Sylvilagus aquaticus/url]), which is a subspecies of cottontail rabbit, and is known for being more aggressive about marking territory than its prairie cousin. I don’t know if I’d classify this as a presidential embarrassment of the same class as vomiting on a foreign dignitary, making a terminally tasteless joke during a mike check, or being caught in flagrante delicto with women of a substandard grade of attractiveness. Carter’s “Swamp Rabbit” episode was largely manufactured by news sources on what was otherwise a slow news week; it is the equivalent of the story the family likes to tell at Christmas about how you were once frightened out of your wits at night by a robe that was blown off the clothesline and onto a bush; more amusing in the telling than truly revealing of a personal defect.

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And even though he wasn’t the president, Vice-President Dan Quayle was one big walking FAIL.

Obama’s handling of the BP oil spill is becoming an embarassment. It’s become blindingly obvious that BP can’t handle the situation themselves, yet Obama refuses to assert federal authority and send in the Coast Guard or the Navy or someone to help out.

…wrong thread dude.