Needlenose

(Via Matt Yglesias.)

“As part of my administration’s commitment to diversity, I’ve chosen a member of the underrepresented dipshit poseur community…”

(Barack Obama and Interior secretary-nominee Ken Salazar, via the Associated Press.)

Dubya looks into an Iraqi reporter’s eyes and sees his sole.

(Via the Associated Press.)

Update:  Oops, I think watertiger won even before I posted this.

(Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich outside his home this morning, via Agence France Presse/Getty Images.)

“Because you’ve been such a good sport, I’m going to let you stand behind the sign for a few minutes…”

From Reuters a week ago, via the New York Times: “President Bush in Lima, Peru, on Saturday for a meeting that is his last scheduled foreign trip.”

(Iraqis at a Baghdad cafe during a televised address by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on the proposed security agreement with the U.S., vIa the Associated Press and the New York Times.)

(NOTE:  I’ll have an actual post on this subject coming up one of these days…)

(John McCain and Barack Obama today in Chicago, via the Associated Press.)

“Thanks for explaining how to use the bureaucracy to circumvent the President and impose my own policies… Hillary passes along her thanks, too!”

(Via Reuters:  “Vice President Dick Cheney bids farewell to Vice President-elect Joe Biden, following their nearly hour-long visit at the vice president’s residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington.”)