WASHINGTON – In his battle with the titans of Wall Street, President Barack Obama almost got upstaged by a rat.

But he didn't even seem to notice. Assuming that's what it was, scurrying in front of his podium Thursday in a sun-drenched Rose Garden.

Obama had just begun an afternoon statement to reporters lauding the end of a Senate filibuster on his financial overhaul plan when some kind of rodent — opinions differ on which — dashed out of the bushes to his right, just outside the Oval Office.

As photographers snapped away, the critter trundled straight past the gray podium with the presidential seal and made a bee-line for another set of bushes to Obama's left.

It's not clear if the president could even see the streaker, but he didn't show any reaction. And he concluded his statement minutes later, returning to his office without answering a few shouted questions on other topics.

Once he was safely inside the Oval Office, a fierce debate erupted among the photographers and reporters who'd witnessed the dash. Was it a rat or a mouse? Or maybe a mole, or a vole, or some other kind of related creature.

In fact, this wasn't the first time a rodent's been spied in the White House, or even the Rose Garden.

Just last week, as camera crews set up for an Obama statement on the Gulf oil spill, what's believed to have been the same rodent made a dash across the famous garden.

The press work areas behind the White House briefing room have had at least one rat sighting, though that was before a multimillion-dollar rehab project finished by the Bush administration.

Moreover, rodents of all kinds are pretty common in Washington. From time to time, city officials issue alarms about surges in the rat population when residents put out extra-big summer piles of garbage.

Washington is, after all built, along a river, on what used to be a malarial swamp.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100520/ap_o...ama_rodent

Wow! With a headline like that I was expecting to read that Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, or Harry Reid had moved in.

So a rat occupies the White House and a rodent runs by during one of his speeches. And this is news?

Apparently it's the mole that's been leaking information on Blair to the press.

Oh my...Rats to the cheese...

(05-21-2010 02:53 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Once he was safely inside the Oval Office, a fierce debate erupted among the photographers and reporters who'd witnessed the dash. Was it a rat or a mouse? Or maybe a mole, or a vole, or some other kind of related creature.

It was Calderon, America's new enemy #1.

(05-21-2010 09:04 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(05-21-2010 02:53 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Once he was safely inside the Oval Office, a fierce debate erupted among the photographers and reporters who'd witnessed the dash. Was it a rat or a mouse? Or maybe a mole, or a vole, or some other kind of related creature.

It was Calderon, America's new enemy #1.

So he replaces OBL? :withstupid:

Btw, I was thinking that Cheney got back into the White House(to defend Halliburton in the Gulf oil spill).

(05-22-2010 02:44 AM)RobertN Wrote:  So he replaces OBL?

No, for the moment he's replacing Obama.

(05-22-2010 08:37 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(05-22-2010 02:44 AM)RobertN Wrote:  So he replaces OBL?

No, for the moment he's replacing Obama.

So what you are saying is it is Obama, Calderon and then OBL? You REALLY believe Obama is a bigger enemy than OBL? I always thought you were insane but you just proved it with this post.

(05-22-2010 09:42 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(05-22-2010 08:37 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(05-22-2010 02:44 AM)RobertN Wrote:  So he replaces OBL?

No, for the moment he's replacing Obama.

So what you are saying is it is Obama, Calderon and then OBL? You REALLY believe Obama is a bigger enemy than OBL? I always thought you were insane but you just proved it with this post.

OBL may have killed more people than Obama but Obama has done more damage to this country than OBL ever could. As for my sanity, liberalsim should qualify as a mental disorder and rightfully treated by Obamacare.

(05-22-2010 10:12 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(05-22-2010 09:42 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(05-22-2010 08:37 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(05-22-2010 02:44 AM)RobertN Wrote:  So he replaces OBL?

No, for the moment he's replacing Obama.

So what you are saying is it is Obama, Calderon and then OBL? You REALLY believe Obama is a bigger enemy than OBL? I always thought you were insane but you just proved it with this post.

OBL may have killed more people than Obama but Obama has done more damage to this country than OBL ever could. As for my sanity, liberalsim should qualify as a mental disorder and rightfully treated by Obamacare.

Go ahead. Keep showing your insanity. I need a good laugh every once in a while.