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Posted by: Wordsmith @ 11:19 pm in Caption This, Humor, Obama Euphoric-Rapture Syndrome, WtF?, foreign policy | 2 views

Photo: President Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. Credit: EPA

Wow….a Barack belt. That’s just so many ways of awesome, right there. A title that is never earned; just redistributed.

Is there anything that this man can’t accomplish without ever having earned it, first?

A book deal, the presidency, a Nobel Peace Prize….now a black belt (hat tip to Patvann):

Anyway, there he was in Seoul, the last stop of his journey.

And out of the Seoul sky, President Lee Myung-bak hands over to the American leader a tae kwon do outfit. And then Lee, who practices tae kwon do himself, presents Obama with a coveted black belt.

After zero long years of study.

Apparently, President Obama does have some martial arts experience:

President Obama practiced Taekwondo for about four years with an American master in Chicago from 2001 while he was serving in the Illinois state senate. He obtained a green belt.

Well, he’s green alright. And it shows.

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Wordsmith

On a side note, my personal experience with martial arts doesn’t make me put much stock in most belt ranking systems. In some schools, especially in the U.S. but I doubt exclusive to the U.S., running a martial arts school is about running a business; and belt promotions are handed out as easily as personal fitness certifications.

A black belt really doesn’t signify much of anything beyond achieving a certain level of proficiency at the basics, a level of understanding and commitment; a black belt symbolizes a student who is now ready to engage in serious training. Really, it’s another level of being a beginner.

President Obama being redistributed a black belt after zero hours of training with President Lee Myung-bak just enhances the prestige and credibility of black belt ranking, all the more.

(Kind of insulting that he wasn’t given the title of 10th dan grandmaster of the universe).

November 23rd, 2009 at 11:20 pm

tfhr

Fists of Ego!

November 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 pm

Skookum

Words, the best way is to refuse to advance, fight as a white belt and make those brown and black belts wish they were somewhere else when they have to fight you. Who needs a belt?

Obviously, Obama was promoted from white belt to black belt and thought that was all there was to the deal. It would be really funny, if he weren’t destroying our country.

I played with Brazilian jiu jitsu in the MMA dojos, until a bad horse wreck left me with eight fractures three of which were compound, thus my horsebacking and martial arts career are over until I retire, although i still enjoy Kendo. Well I enjoy it, but really I love it. I am so close to retirement, that it is important that I maintain my vitality for work, so I also parked my two Harley’s for the duration, after 45 years of riding.

However, I will come out of retirement if Obama wants to challenge me in the octagon, all I need is just one punch, he can throw all he has at me, just let me have one punch and i think our problems will be over.

November 23rd, 2009 at 11:49 pm

Skookum

“And then I told Putin, Look Putin do you need your a$$ kicked.”

November 23rd, 2009 at 11:56 pm

tfhr

“Thanks Lee, I’m ready for Putin now. Hey, I’ll be the Green Hornet and you can be Kato.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08iht-putin.1.16776325.html?_r=1

November 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 pm

MataHarley

Unable to cope with the pain of Michelle’s more assertive fist bumps, the POTUS contracts a world-class fist-bump trainer as part of his new health and fitness care.

November 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 pm

tfhr

“Hey Lee, I’m a pretty good bowler too!”

November 24th, 2009 at 12:01 am

tfhr

“And this is how I broke my first teleprompter”

November 24th, 2009 at 12:02 am

tfhr

“The next time Jesse Jackson says he wants to cut my balls off…oh who am I kidding? Michelle! Where’d you put them?”

November 24th, 2009 at 12:04 am

Skookum

Then I told the bartender, I don’t care if she is drunk or not give my wife another beer.

November 24th, 2009 at 12:21 am

Skookum

Back in the hood, I was known as the Obamanator.

November 24th, 2009 at 12:23 am

Skookum

Then i told this Chicago cop, don’t push me bud, I’m a community organizer.

November 24th, 2009 at 12:26 am

Skookum

I might look like an impotent little wimp, but I am a bad motor scooter.

November 24th, 2009 at 12:28 am

Skookum

When it comes to kids and puppies, I kick a$$.

November 24th, 2009 at 12:33 am

Davey

Sweet cheeks Big O! I’ll bet you’d be a lot of fun around the cellblock.

November 24th, 2009 at 3:20 am

Bob Chisam

He is showing that he can’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag

November 24th, 2009 at 5:28 am

Bobachek

Dude,
With a punch like that, my 11 year old daughter Kwan Lee could kick your a$$…

November 24th, 2009 at 5:32 am

Fit fit

“…We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
The sudden motion made me skip now we’re into a brand knew trip

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they did it with expert timing”

November 24th, 2009 at 5:50 am

J.N. Sterneker

This is how I treat the American taxpayers!

November 24th, 2009 at 6:27 am

Smarty

“And then Michelle, well she was mad, she hit me like this and then I agreed to do the dishes and vacuum”

November 24th, 2009 at 6:48 am

Patvann

“A black belt? Watta you, a racist?”

November 24th, 2009 at 7:08 am

jainphx

My left fist for that Alaskan woman, I’m saving the right for Limbaugh.

November 24th, 2009 at 7:08 am

mary

Super twins power – Unite!

November 24th, 2009 at 7:26 am

Bob

Go on…kiss the ring or you get the other fist!

November 24th, 2009 at 7:32 am

Cuss

“So this is how you fight… And here i was about to give up the farm.”

November 24th, 2009 at 8:09 am

eaglewingz08

Barack-This is how I stick it up the butt of the American Taxpayer. I learned it from the movie Caligula.
SK Pres-Ahhso!

November 24th, 2009 at 8:34 am

tfhr

@eaglewingz08:

That gets my vote.

November 24th, 2009 at 8:39 am

Patvann

“ya put your left hand out, and you shake it all about”

November 24th, 2009 at 8:40 am

Sid

And that’s how I punched out democracy!

November 24th, 2009 at 8:52 am

drjohn

“Look at me! I’m freakin’ Jackie Chan!”

November 24th, 2009 at 8:53 am

Smorgasbord

Lee Myung-bak saying to himself:

(1) I knew I would have him dancing to my tune if I just gave him enough rope: Money.

(2) I got Obama the Chicago way: I bought him. He is my puppet now.

(3) If you run the USA like you fight, it will be down for the count in the 1st round.

(4) Now that I own the USA, what will I do with it?

November 24th, 2009 at 9:06 am

Aqua

@ Fit fit

FTW

November 24th, 2009 at 11:19 am

Tony

“No, I’m not in a bad Kung Fu movie (lips continue to move), my teleprompter is out of sync! (lips continue to move)”

November 24th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

DarkIndy

Aides in the background “It looks like it is working. The American Schools may be onto something with giving meaningless awards to boost self esteem.” “Yes, but do you think it is enough to carry into the Dollar. I am losing my retirement fund.” “We can always award him ‘The best president with a black belt to visit China’ award as a backup.”

November 24th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

skutch

Wonder Twin Powers, ACTIVATE!
Form of…Mao Zedong!
Shape of…Karl Marx!

November 24th, 2009 at 3:01 pm

skutch

…and so I told the SEIU to punch back twice as hard. POW!

November 24th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

skutch

“After every speech, I give my teleprompter a little fist bump.”

November 24th, 2009 at 3:06 pm

Oh damn, Lee is there a restroom around here I think I just crapped my pants.

November 24th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

J.N. Sterneker

This is what I would like to do to Palin and Beck!

November 24th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

JanH

BHO: “You think I do this good, you should see me throw a baseball!!”

November 24th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

bigpapa

I know I punch like a douche bag, it’s because I am!

November 24th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

Buffalobob

See Michelle I’m wearing the damn ring.

November 24th, 2009 at 7:32 pm

Skookum

One fist made out of iron and the other one of steel
If the left one don’t get you, then the right one will.

November 24th, 2009 at 8:24 pm

Skookum

Oh no! Obama is now a pugilist
One more thing on the to do list
Perhaps there will be a big prize
and a large belt to dazzle the eyes

To Hell with danger, actually fighting
my enemies might find that enticing
I’d rather do nothing, and sit around and dither
Then sneak up and pow, punch them in the liver

Skook 09

November 24th, 2009 at 8:46 pm

Phil

“I soften them up with some Hope-n-Change, then BAM! Hit them with my Socialist Manifesto!”

November 25th, 2009 at 6:45 am

eaglewingz08

thank tfhr

Barack-This is how I deal with those bitter bible and gun toting xenophobic americans;

Barack-All right I will show you my wedding ring but I won’t show you my long form birth certificate.

November 25th, 2009 at 9:14 am

Obama…with Kung-Fu Grip

November 25th, 2009 at 10:11 am

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