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Obama and GOP Senator Share ‘Exploding Bipartisan Fist Bump’ on House Floor

Feb. 13, 2013 12:41am Jason Howerton

President Barack Obama was captured on video doing an exploding fist bump with Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on the House floor following his State of the Union address on Monday. It is being dubbed the “exploding bipartisan fist bump.”

This GIF, courtesy of Gawker, is now spreading across social media:

Obama and GOP Congressman Share Exploding Bipartisan Fist Bump

You may recall, Sen. Kirk suffered a stroke in 2012 and recently returned to Congress. Kirk claims to have seen “angels” and says the stroke was a “gift from God.”

(H/T: Gawker)

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YOURSENSEI
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:12am
This is what you must know:

it wasn’t a fist bump. It was a terrorist fist jab. Fox News has the fair and balanced perspective you need:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xScZN2-Z_Sg

It is so.

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- M13
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:33pm
  So sensi , still got your nose in Ted Nugents pants? How are they smelling today?
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:22pm
  Mr or Ms M13,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Ted Nugent’s pants? Whatever do you mean? what do his pants have to do with anything? Oh, wait, you must mean his admission that he stewed in his own feces for a week to avoid the draft, refusing to defend this great nation, choosing instead to pursue sexual relations with underage girls.
  
  Thanks for reminding me.
  
  It is so.
  
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barber2
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:52am
Isn’t it nice that they have removed the bars at the Washington Zoo ?

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PA PATRIOT
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:11am
There are more horses asses in the world than there are horses

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term limits for congress
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:51am
the little kiss on the neck is a little more disturbing.

Elaina Kagel (spelling?) should try a little harder.

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SamIamTwo
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:21am
Oh ain’t they kool, eh? Prob catch the flu that way dood. You don’t know where that hand has been, so you better wash up.

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denkat56
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:56am
The boy king Obama is a chameleon he can assume any persona or characteristics as the need chooses. Too bad ! Play so many parts, you forget the one that’s really you. Talk about getting lost in a lie.

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RightUnite
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:48am
Vomit.

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- M24
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:53am
  Copy That
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:29am
  as “tingles the clown” laments “that should have been ME!!!!”…..(quiet sobbing……..)
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:30am
  Heh heh heh…. You beat me to it.
  
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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:21am
  Can this guy stoop any lower?? He is what they call ghetto fabulous…. A sad state of affairs for the highest office in the world…. that’s what you get america when you elect george and wheezy jefferson….
  
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- betsyyoung
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:50pm
  Ditto!
  
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:21am
What’s the old saying:

You take the Brotha out of the hood ,
But You cant take the Hood …Out of the Brotha..

Shades of idiocracy . : (

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- savagenatn
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:51am
  are you kidding me? This jackass has just made a mockery out of the presidency with his ghetto foolish antics, not to mention his blatant lying and arrogance beyond belief.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:15am
Boooooooooooooo! Hisss! Boooooooooooooo!

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piper60
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:55am
The rep he had the fist pump was clearly a rhino at best, and more probably a D.I.D. at worst.
D.I.D.=Democrat in Disguise.

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sparkyrules
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:48am
Obama should be indefinitely suspended for using that violent exploding fist bump gesture.What kind of message doe’s it send to our children?There should be a zero tolerance policy for that sort of thing,especially coming from King Obama. What was he thinking?It could lead to serious acts of violence much like the ‘finger gun’ …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/boy-6-suspended-from-silver-spring-school-for-pointing-finger-like-a-gun/2013/01/02/21acc8d4-54fc-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop

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MonkeyBeagle
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:01am
Its almost as if theblaze comment section has been hacked by liberal propagandist.. My comments rarely ever even post, but it seems that the liberals trolls always manage to get at the top of these comment sections, not only that it appears there comments always get posted.

I would look into your comment plug in blaze… I have a sneaking suspicion something is afoot.

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betterpart
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:09am
I recall when he won the presidency in 2008 he and the obama woman also engaged in a terrorist fist bump, viewed on national television.

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- betsyyoung
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:54pm
  They are classless ghetto trash!
  
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Nlitend1
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:28am
It’s kinda exciting for me to see this little symbol of bipartisanship. no tingle down my leg, but encouraging. I think if the two/three parties started getting along at this point, it would be huge. On the scale of palestine/israel big, or india/pakistan, or like that movie Independence Day when the whole joined together to fight the alien invasion huge.

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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:45am
  Nah ..I’m into reality .
  
  I‘m thinking of the movie…. ‘Titanic‘…..!!!!
  
  The last time I saw them get this chummy..
  
  Slick Willy and Congress sold us out for NAFTA and China.
  
  Causing ‘The North American Jobs Exodus‘.
  
  With no jobs to loose, what could possibly go wrong this time.?
  
  What else can they take from us..?
  
  OH yeah…RIGHTS..!
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:36am
  ENLITNED….I am beginning to think you are are really ‘Pollyanna”. You don’t seem to have the capacity to know what’s going on. You are so full of yourself, you can’t make any sense at all. You see everything through the filter of self admiration. I would bet that you and your friend, think you are very smart.
  It’s unfortunate.
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:30pm
  @Maxjones
  Your picture makes you look like a cartoon. It makes me want to trim your nose ****. To your point…what was your point? Are you having a conversation with someone else in your real life and continuing it within the blaze comments? Maybe something finally snapped in your head and those once imaginary voices have gained a foothold in your head and have crowded out reality? Is your comment a cry for help? Please get back to us, we are concerned
  
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teacherbil
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:24am
The Senator gets a pass, as he’s a stroke victim. Wish I could say the same for the President.

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catherinemax
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:36am
Love the fist bump and hug!!Our President is a man of great heart which is why so many people love him. I know it absolutely kills the bigots, but Barack Obama is liked and respected here and abroad because his humanity shows through. Finally, a president we can be truly proud of for for his intellect and compassion.

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- Dushman Kush
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:44am
  You couldn’t have put it better. Your post I’ll go to sleep on tonight. Merci.
  
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- DLV
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:16am
  Oh great another newbie troll. Just what the blaze needs. Go awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:21am
  “His humanity shows through”
  I think that is an incredibly poignant way of describing his appeal. While I’m sure you will be receiving some negative responses to your post, I personally think you are dead on.
  In fact, it makes me wonder in a larger sense, how people can have such varied judgments of his character, and how strange it is that this variation is based on party identification. Do republicans look at dick cheney and see a nice grandpa character? Do they have problems watching tv and movies because they can’t properly identify the villain and the hero? Does conservatism make you scowl when you are happy?
  Maybe it’s simpler than that…A academic study I ran across the other day found that conservatives were less trusting than liberals. Oddly, it also found that conservatives were more likely to be defrauded and generally cheated. I think there is a connection in all of this, but maybe it’s all coincidence.
  
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- brasasman
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:35am
  I’m sorry, but that is not a sign of compassion. A sign of compassion for me would be if the president took his brother from Kenya out of misery and gave him at least a job as the janitor at the white house. Once he starts caring about his brother in Kenya, then you can come back and talk to me about compassion from the president.
  
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- whalevox
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:35am
  I have no problem with your comments. Well, at least until you called people who don’t agree with the president “bigots”. Only MORONS resort to those tactics.
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:57am
  “Love the fist bump and hug!…Finally, a president we can be truly proud of for for his intellect and compassion.”
  Yeah right.While our kids are being suspended at school for gesturing with ‘violent’ finger guns,King Obama has the audacity to give a man with heart problems an exploding handshake.His ‘intellect and compassion’ could just as easily be construed as a violent gesture towards a member of the opposing Party.
  He’s about as clueless as they come.
  
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- decendentof56
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:26am
  Katherine and Dush-Tush……
  Glad you both just LLLLLove the president and are able to brush off all the things he’s said and all the people he’s been associated with before and during his time in office. Ayers, Dohrn, Emanuel, V Jones, Wright, Holdren, Holder, are just the tip of the iceberg of the people that the man who wants to “fundamentally transform” America.
  I’m sure you both can sleep all comfy knowing that if you just “spend a little more” that your financial woes will vanish, even without a job to pay all those bills.
  Lest I waste any more time trying to convince you two otherwise, let me suggest a short video to watch. There is a longer one, but for now maybe 5+ minutes is all you can handle.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlpODYhnPEo
  
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- ForMyKidsVA
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:20am
  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Whoo! That was a good one! I haven’t had such a good laugh in a long time. Thanks Catherinemax!
  
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- carbonyes
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:59am
  NLITEND1
  Appeal, character, integrity? Obama, the appeal of a snake, the character of a rat and the integrity of a Joseph Stalin or a Mao Tse Tung. The man is a habitual liar, a narcissist infatuated with himself and is bent on carrying out the destruction of this on once great nation, and dorks like yourself would not know a righteous man if you were staring him in his face.
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:44am
  Sad to see the extent that this halfrican has degraded the office of the presidency to. Our president is now a thug running roughshod over the people like third world countries. Europe? Heck, we are going straight for Venezuela…
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:44am
  CATHYand ENLITED….Both of you, obviously have no reference point, when it comes to the Obama’s veracity…..this is called “drinking the kool-aid”. In other words,….for all your imagined intellect, you have a dearth of understanding of what is really going on…….
  
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- Jaimo
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:29pm
  You are a tool, or rather a useful idiot.
  
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- Nlitend1
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 6:25pm
  @max
  How is it that every time someone agrees with something that you do not, they were drinking the cool-aid? Can’t I stand for the values that this president represents without being diametrically opposed to yours? You all happily attribute horrible things to Obama’s values, but I’ve been listening too, and I hear none of those ‘evil’ intentions. I’ve seen the videos, the movies, and read all the first-hand accounts, and there is nothing there that would convince a jury and nothing there that would convince a logical sane thinking person. Believe what you want, but if you expect everyone to agree with your delusional crazy land where something like, “improving education” means send all the non-believers to a forced education camp, your are going to continue to be laughed at. P.S. and I will continue to have a job selling you this propaganda ;)
  
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Xanderson
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:53am
Wow, that”s embarrassing for grown men. At least neither one of them was wearing a green ribbon on his lapel.

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- CatB
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:16am
  Amen to that .. gun control pins .. how disgusting.
  
  McCain should be ashamed (he was wearing one of those pins).. then he has a lot to be ashamed of with regards to his time in Congress.
  
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vic138
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:49am
Our politicians are so fvcking weird. A bomb could of gone off in that place and we’d be better off.

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- Dushman Kush
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:45am
  That’s not Original Thought, Comrade. I’ve heard the same thing all evening.
  
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tonypro
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:43am
How DISGUSTING !!!

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neverending
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:43am
He may have seen angels but now has to look at the devil again.

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- catherinemax
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:32am
  Huh?? He doesn’t appear to be looking at you ;)P
  
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- decendentof56
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:28am
  Cathy,
  He had a stroke. Maybe he thought he was looking at G Washington.
  
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