Pesky fly no match for Obama
By David Stewart, Boston.com Staff
A fly buzzing around Barack Obama met its end yesterday with one hard slap of the presidential hand.
During a White House television interview with CNBC's John Harwood, the president tried shooing the fly away, saying, "Hey! Get out of here."
Harwood offered, "That's the most persistent fly I've ever seen."
Obama paused for a moment, seeming to study the fly's flight path, and then he suddenly slapped his right hand down on his left. The fly had bugged its last commander in chief.
"Nice!" Harwood said to the sounds of a few claps in the background.
"Now, where were we?" Obama said with a touch of nonchalance.
"That was pretty impressive, wasn't it?" Obama added. "I got it. I got the sucker."
Obama appeared to kick the fly away and gestured to the camera to zoom down at the now still fly on the carpet. "You want to show that?" Obama said. "There it is."
Harwood talked about Obama's encounter with the fly in this interview.
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Must be nice having such divine powers.
Obama kills longtime Democratic supporter Jeff Goldblum......story @ 11:00.
What a guy, is there nothing he can't do?
Thank you Boston.com for letting me know.
Another hard httting story from NBC.
Now, there's a commander-in-chief who knows how it gets done!
Let's hear from PETA in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Perhaps it was one of the new "spy" bugs out of M1. Was J. Bond around???????
OMG..you must be kidding, that's news??
I'm sure if Bush did the same thing he would have been criticized for killing the fly and not showing any compassion by letting the fly go free !!!
Did he use chopsticks?
Ahhh grasshopper.
It's not news, just human interest. Kinda funny, don't you think?
Obama is a freaking NINJA. GOP certainly has its work cut out. This guy just gets the job DONE.
Nothing better to write about?? That is Not newsworthy
Who wants to start a pool bet on the number of YouTube views in the next week?
Again..you took the time to read it, probably watch the video and then comment about it. So, yes, apparently it is news to you!
Not quite as good as the interview Bob Sheiffer (spelling?) had with the guy wearing a monocle. I've gotta find that one on youtube!
Metaphor for Korea???
Didn't think it was possible, but I am now dumber than I was before I read that "news" article.
Wow. We've run out of news!!!!
Im sure FoxNews will call him an animal killer and MSNBC will talk about how that was just his way of sending a message to Iran.
Obama appears competent when its a mere fly. It is a good sign and he may even enjoy the hunt and the kill. If we can help him with his intestinal fortitude and fighting skills we might get a real commander in chief. Until then, he appears to have a lot of oratorical skills but no bite. We need to keep telling him that he is doing a good job. He seems to been the type of man who repsonds to praise, even the insincere kind.
They forgot to report his post match interview where he gave the President's Eyebrow and then went back out to the floor and dropped the President's Elbow on the floored fly.
Cheney would have tortured it first.
But seriously, the guy's just got "it." He must have been trained by Miyagi.
Seriously, this is news?
This is the most important thing that Boston.com editors could think of to put on the home page?
100,000 people are currently rioting in the streets of the capital city of a soon-to-be nuclear-armed state sponsor of terrorism protesting a rigged election of a military dictator, and Boston.com is reporting that the President killed a fly?
And you wonder why this pathetic excuse for a newspaper is going out of business.
Mission Accomplished!!
too bad he's not as quick to snuff out the lives of Muslim Terrorists that want to destroy us
I bet he couldn't do it if he was chewing gum.
I saw Brian "I love the Obama's" Williams reporting on this last night too. Unbelievable how they can't get enough.
I love Obama ... but really, what is newsworthy about this?
I'd still rather have a republican in office... A good republican would have hosed the room down with military grade bug spray before the interview (preemptive attack) and then if the fly had still persisted, it would have met the full force and fury of the United States military. God bless the USA!
If he had used chopsticks, I would really be impressed.
Breaking news!!!........
I just went to the bathroom to wash my clean hands.
The manure that was George Bush has been removed from the White House but it may be awhile before the flies leave...
/facepalm
He a robot! I keep telling you people, but you won't listen!
How many plants did PETA kill today ?
doesn't some insects depend on plants for survival ?
I wonder how PETA members sleep at night ?....
In other news, the planet is running out of plants, PETA members are informed to stop eating all PLANTS
more news at 1 A.M.