An Obama
The act of telling people what they want to hear to get your way then totally fucking them afterward.
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an Obama
A unit of measure, basically consisting of eight (8) of anything, because eight (and only eight) was the number of almonds President Obama would eat each evening while working. Not to be confused with a "Trump"
an Obama by planetjack September 8, 2020
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Take an Obama
Take an Obama by Juan Jose Torres Ramon October 31, 2013
Pulled an Obama
I pulled an Obama on my math homework today as I asked the Chinese kid to lend me money to buy a calculator
Pulled an Obama by Michael Geico July 1, 2009
Pull an Obama
To win or accept an award that had no reason to be bestowed and do so with no sense of incredulity whatsoever.
To take credit for an accomplishment when no credit was merited, chiefly because no action was performed to fulfill the achievement.
To be credited with accomplishing a deed by simply stating in words what is intended to be done. Whether or not the intention comes to fruition is of absolutely no consequence.
To take credit for an accomplishment when no credit was merited, chiefly because no action was performed to fulfill the achievement.
To be credited with accomplishing a deed by simply stating in words what is intended to be done. Whether or not the intention comes to fruition is of absolutely no consequence.
1. Keith was on the job two months when his division made their annual numbers. They did so well they decided to let him pull an Obama and go on the $1.5 million bonus trip with them to Venezuela.
2. Chris the janitor told the Chairman of the Board we should become the market leader in widgets. The board agreed and decided to make him company president and gave him a $1.5 million bonus. How's that for pulling an Obama?!
3. Yesterday Rachel the crackwhore told me she was finally going to get clean. I gave her my credit card and told her to start by getting herself a new wardrobe. This morning I caught her with a penis in one hand, a crack pipe in the other and my credit card was nowhere to be found! Boy did she pull an Obama!
4. Al pulled an Obama when he told me we could successfully navigate the space-time continuum if we just hoped it could be done while holding these special hi-tech antennae he invented. The government is going to give him a $1.5 million grant just for having the courage to speak out about such a laudable goal! I only hope there's enough wire hangers for everybody...
5. Usain had the 200m race won going away until he tripped over his own shoelaces and did a disfiguring faceplant into the track. Minutes later Linus pulled an Obama by crossing the finish line and taking the gold! Good thing Linus stayed unflappably cool in that head-to-head race!
2. Chris the janitor told the Chairman of the Board we should become the market leader in widgets. The board agreed and decided to make him company president and gave him a $1.5 million bonus. How's that for pulling an Obama?!
3. Yesterday Rachel the crackwhore told me she was finally going to get clean. I gave her my credit card and told her to start by getting herself a new wardrobe. This morning I caught her with a penis in one hand, a crack pipe in the other and my credit card was nowhere to be found! Boy did she pull an Obama!
4. Al pulled an Obama when he told me we could successfully navigate the space-time continuum if we just hoped it could be done while holding these special hi-tech antennae he invented. The government is going to give him a $1.5 million grant just for having the courage to speak out about such a laudable goal! I only hope there's enough wire hangers for everybody...
5. Usain had the 200m race won going away until he tripped over his own shoelaces and did a disfiguring faceplant into the track. Minutes later Linus pulled an Obama by crossing the finish line and taking the gold! Good thing Linus stayed unflappably cool in that head-to-head race!
Pull an Obama by skeeter_jr October 11, 2009
pull an obama
To have absolute control over a very responsible position that requires an acute knowledge of a situation only to deny acceptance of any wrong doing when information about a blatant offense to the moral majority becomes so evident.
What?!? the USA was using IRS to attack an opposing political party?.? Let me “pull an Obama” and deny any knowledge of this, or What?!? The USA was letting US diplomats get killed in another country during a critical point in an election?.? Let me “pull an Obama” and deny any knowledge of this… You know… because Hilary Clinton did not tell me of this… Or what?.? The US govt. through the NSA is tapping everyone's personal information?.? Let me “pull an Obama”(insert next un-claimable incompetent statement next in order to agree with the mass media.
pull an obama by pull an obama June 19, 2014
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