His nerdiness has never been much of a secret, but pictures of President Obama with a toy lightsaber on the South Lawn Wednesday afternoon have stormed the internet! Fear not, there were real fencers and other athletes on hand – it was all an effort to promote Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics.
Obama cements first geek status with lightsaber pics
September 17th, 2009 by Dunc · 1 Comment
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1 Scoke // Sep 18, 2009 at 4:04 am
“Real fencers…” Dunc, you almost made me do a spit-take there. ;)
Good thing the real swordmasters of old didn’t get to see how “real” fencing turned out… heh.
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