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Number of Pirates Killed by Obama in Two Graphs

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on April 14, 2009 at 8:52 pm

Of course, Obama didn’t personally kill any pirates, but just so you know:


Then again, consider this:

Via The Daily Dish.

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DISCUSSION: 20 Comments
    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 14, 2009 at 10:08 pm

    What percentage of pirates has Obama killed compared to the others?  Hmmm?

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 14, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    Thomas Jefferson was all like, “Aw hell no.”and shit. “These tributes be straight trippin’.”

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 15, 2009 at 7:00 am

    FSM will not be happy with this!

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 15, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    fantastic

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 15, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    Wasn’t this a campaign promise?

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 15, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    Maybe there should be some normalizing factor in the denominator to account for number of slaves owned.

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 16, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    the real question is whether jefferson or madison also had preferences for portuguese water dogs.

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 17, 2009 at 11:53 am

    What most people don’t know is that Jefferson killed all those pirates personally in hand-to-hand combat.You don’t fuck with the T-Jef.

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 17, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    I’ve heard that Obama has also not killed a single of Alaric’s men in defending Rome. What a wuss.

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 17, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    The scale on the first graph made me laugh. How does one kill half a pirate?

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 17, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    You kill a pirates dreams and thus their soul or .5 of the pirate

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 17, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    Yeah! He’s been in office already for three months and only killed himself three pirates? WTF!? Piracy really is the most important issue of our times; it’s sooo much more important that the global collapse of credit markets, spiraling unemployment, a resurgent Russia, North Korean nuclear aspirations, and repairing the US image in the world.

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 17, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    how about percentage of pirate population reduction vs. percentage of presidents “reduced” while in office?  you got two on that chart up there…  wounded also not doing so good for the president’s side

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 20, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    “Piracy really is the most important issue of our times; it’s sooo much more important that the global collapse of credit markets”

    you must be a republican.

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 24, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    yeah, he’s killed 3 pirates… but how many ninjas has he bagged?  Huh?  wus.

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on April 30, 2009 at 8:51 am

    ergo, Obama = Ninja?

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on May 2, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    Obama = Ninjathen T. Jeff and J. Madison = Super Robot Ninjas

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on May 5, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    I think Obama realized that, after this horrible episode, his time would be better spent eradicating from the world our real enemy; ISRAEL!

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on May 21, 2009 at 9:07 am

    You kill a pirates dreams and thus their soul or .5 of the piratelol… makes sense

    • Posted by: Charles Pergiel
    • on June 6, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    I had to enlarge the text five times in order to read the labels on the second graph. Actually, without enlarging, I couldn’t read the labels on the first graph either. But it wasn’t so important with that one, it was fairly obvious that it was probably the most recent presidents in order, and only Obama had had to deal with Pirates. It can be difficult to get charts to appear the way you want. Cheers,ccp

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