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RS Caption Contest 01.29.2011 Results

CC Winner

This week’s winning caption came from Ganelon – there was a similar entry, but this one was entered sooner.

See the rest of the winning captions below:  Thanks for participating.  I hope you had as much fun as I, reading the humor of Redstate readers.


(1) – 25%
Help me Obi-Ron Kenobi, you’re my only hope! – Ganelon

(2) – 18%
Isn’t it great that even though you ended the Cold War I’m the one with the Nobel Peace Prize? – rogershru2

(3) – 11%
When I grow up I want to be just like you. – austinandy

(The other finalists…)
Don’t tell Michelle but I love Jelly Beans too! – Michael Dugas

They’re totally buying iiiiiiiiit. – randy streu

I thought ‘Reganesque’ was an insult… until Christian Amanpour called me that. – bk

Don’t worry, your legacy is safe with me. – breeanneh

Did they call you “The Gripper” because you were able to hold on to the job for two terms? – MathMom

They say that rubbing Buddha’s belly brings you luck, maybe this will bring me some common sense! – wolfeman

Sigh… Tell me again about the ’84 election when you took 49 states. It makes my leg tingle. – gamechange11two

Boy, if this really works I’ll buy myself a cowboy hat and start riding a horse. – author43

Like our military, you make a great photo op. – SusanAnne Hiller

Whose my favorite mask of the moment – you are – yes you are! – anotherindyfilmguy

What’s the Soviet Union like? – Ben Howe

Hugging you will make my life better off than four years ago. – kowalski

{singing} Everybody… needs somebody… to leeeeeean on. – smitch61

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COMMENTS

  • walter_hanson

    Keep in mind in the Star Wars world Luke Skywalker had to listen to Obi-wan to try to be trained. It seems like even though there are plenty of Obi-wans telling Obama important things he’s just electing to ignore them. Good for us in the 2012 elections! Bad for the country until we clean up the mess he’s creating!

    Walter Hanson
    Minneapolis, MN

    • stephaniet

      …he got his hand chopped off!

      “LUKE DON’T GO!”
      “I must!”
      “Fine, but I’m not responsible!”
      “Whatever, old dude!”

      *big fight*

      “AUUUUUUUGHHHH MY HAND!”

      Anyway, the point to my my caffeine-induced nerdy rambling is this, and is in line with Walter’s: If you don’t listen to your Obi-Wan, everything gets screwed up, and it’s all your own fault!

  • http://minorcan-maven.blogspot.com/ minorcanmaven

    And @Walter – you are so right!

  • rogershru2

    That was probably better than mine – mostly because I pictured him as a holographic Leia. That would make a good cartoon.

  • kowalski

    This is fun! I mean it!

    I voted for austinandy’s myself, I wish I’d said it. Please keep it going. Personally I stay away from Star Wars references, Lucas is way past his prime and Star Wars is a distant memory, but it wasn’t mine to judge. I think of Robert Gibbs with the Star Wars Book coming down the steps of Air Force One…and I see why it won.

    http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/publius-forum/2010/03/obama-press-sec-gibbs-challenging-reading-material-a-star-wars-pop-up-book.html

    That’s why I voted for austinandy’s entry, in a way. It’s about time people grew up.

  • taxthis

    This cartoon picture really is outrageous and depicts an image that these two would be buddies on a golf course or regularly seen together at any social and political gathering.

    Of course nothing could be farther from the truth.

    These two men are polar opposites. In fact the former President Reagan would be turning over in his grave right now if he knew the ideology he defeated in the Cold War with the Soviet Union would be the ideology embraced so fully by our standing President.

    To allow this left wing progressive President to steal the emblematic symbol of conservative America by continuing to adopt an approving Ronald Reagan in his speeches and using images such as this cartoon to pass them off as bosom pals cut from the same cloth to soften the political contrasts is not only absurd but malicious.

    The left tried and failed to degrade him,. Tried and failed to diminish his legacy. Now they simply want his legacy as their own.

    Unfortunately this cartoon is projecting more of the same.

    • rickbull

      that anyone on the right (or the left) is buying this Obama as Reagan crap? Obama would have to stand on his mother’s shoulders to kiss Ronald Reagan’s behind.

      May God bless Ronald Reagan, the second greatest man to ever walk on planet Earth. (of course, we should all know who #1 is–hint: his initials are J.C.)

      • taxthis

        More importantly he does. Why do you think he

        • rickbull

          All we have to do is wait for 0bama to be fully invested in comparing himself to Reagan, then we pull out all the stops and replay all the negative things that the LSM said about St. Ronnie and, by association, they will be indicting Zerobama.

          • taxthis

            Amen Brother.

    • http://www.tobytoons.com TobyToons

      in response to:

      “This cartoon picture really is outrageous and depicts an image that these two would be buddies on a golf course…”

      Do you see the look on Reagan’s face? This cartoon absolutely does not do what you claim. It does the opposite, which is the basis for the humorous quote (which further pokes fun at the relationship Obama is trying to create in people’s minds).

      I went back and forth many time with myself when trying to decide whether to put a thought bubble above Reagan’s head. The thought bubble would have contained the letters “WTF?” (to bring the Palin quote into the mix) but decided that it was something the Reagan probably wouldn’t be thinking or saying.

      • rickbull

        Reagan’s eyes tell the WHOLE story.

  • taxthis

    More importantly he does. Why do you think hs

  • taxthis

    To me this picture represents a mellowing of the differences between two polar opposites. I will also admit that I am biased and could be over sensitive on the issue. Therefore overreacting is a possibility.

    But it is in Obama