tck tck tck Barack Obama

—By

| Thu Sep. 24, 2009 3:15 PM PDT

tck tck tck. Barack Obama are you listening? Are you a leader or a motivational speaker? Are you gonna do the hard work or Neville Chamberlain your way into the world records of spectacularly unwise mediations? tck tck tck.

 

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