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Tuesday, Jun 7, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Chris Kennedy is indeed making the rounds and talking to quite a number of people about running for governor. So, it’s his turn in the barrel…

* The Question: Caption?

       

91 Comments
  1. - So... - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:44 am:

    Chris Kennedy: He’ll take a bite out of Springfield.


  2. - Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:45 am:

    “Do you remember the Sixties? Vote for me!”


  3. - Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:46 am:

    Hey, weren’t you Christopher Reeve’s real Dad in the Superman movie?


  4. - DuPage Saint - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:47 am:

    Hey I am entitled too


  5. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:48 am:

    “I’m like Rauner, but with a heart and conscious… “


  6. - So... - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:50 am:

    Vote for Kennedy! The only thing bigger than his dental bills is his heart.


  7. - titan - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:51 am:

    Bill Daley and William Kelly can’t be the only campaign teasers around


  8. - Huh? - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:53 am:

    How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?


  9. - Lucky Pierre - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:53 am:

    “I am Chris Kennedy and I approve this mullet.”


  10. - LizPhairTax - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:53 am:

    Not a Springfield Incisor!


  11. - No. 9 - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:53 am:

    Have you met my 3 sons, Alvin, Simon and Theodore?


  12. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:54 am:

    “I have a social agenda, I care about people”


  13. - Lucky Pierre - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:55 am:

    The voters say they want Santa Claus, well the best I can do is the Easter Bunny!


  14. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:55 am:

    I thought a Kennedy could afford anything.


  15. - Precinct Captain - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:55 am:

    “It’s all in the floss.”


  16. - Earnest - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:56 am:

    Combining the spirit of a Kennedy with the smile of a Jimmy Carter.


  17. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:56 am:

    “It’s been ‘fun’ watching Bruce thru the years social climbing at the cost of other people and their careers, but… “


  18. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:57 am:

    “Diana Rauner just sent me a check, but… I’m not gonna cash it… no… no, I’m going to save it… “


  19. - So... - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 11:59 am:

    Vote Kennedy! He’s got a pension reform plan based on the tooth fairy model.


  20. - LizPhairTax - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:00 pm:

    Send Kenilworth to clean up Winnetka’s mess!


  21. - Reality Check - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:01 pm:

    Why yes, I would vote for a fat old chipmunk against Bruce Rauner.


  22. - Judgment Day - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:01 pm:

    If I’m elected, I’ll cut costs by decorating the Governor’s office with old Illinois license plates….”


  23. - enoughalready - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:01 pm:

    “Four years of Rauner will be enough. Vote for me and my RunAground Agenda - it will set Illinois on a new course.”


  24. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:03 pm:

    “I wanted that Bruce for all the unexpected Labor support, wow… “


  25. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:05 pm:

    ===“I want to thank Bruce for all the unexpected Labor support, wow… “====

    Ugh.

    “Who is the Evelyn woman and why is she looking to be hired… hired for what?


  26. - Michelle Flaherty - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:05 pm:

    Making mullets great again.

    He just won Forby’s district with 101 percent of the vote.


  27. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:06 pm:

    “Because if there’s one thing we all know voters want right now, it’s a family made of career politicians”


  28. - phocion - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:06 pm:

    “Eh….what’s up, Doc?”


  29. - Amalia - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:08 pm:

    we still believe in the Chicago Skakel vote.


  30. - Ghost - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:13 pm:

    crest whitening strips, they work!


  31. - Lenny Bruce - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:16 pm:

    Clint Howard can play me in the Hollywood version…


  32. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:21 pm:

    He also loves his dogs…

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9d/a9/4f/9da94f23cf515febd64faaf17b4b08a2.jpg


  33. - Downstate Dem - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:27 pm:

    “I’m on my way to the Gallatin County Fairgrounds to present my agricultural policy … Should I wear my Brooks Brothers suit or overalls?”


  34. - JustRight - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:30 pm:

    “I say we move the State Capital, maybe to Flossmoor?” ;)


  35. - OurMagician - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:41 pm:

    “Ask not what your state can do for you, ask if your state can pay their bills.”


  36. - Stones - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:50 pm:

    “I’m saying cheeeeze!”


  37. - A guy - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:51 pm:

    I’m from the cautious side of the family that doesn’t view silly risks as alluring.


  38. - siriusly - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:52 pm:

    People say I am toothless. I am not toothless. And if I find the man who is calling me toothless, I shall destroy him.


  39. - DuPage Don - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:52 pm:

    “I’m a Yankee Doodle, born on the 4th of July, in Boston, MA”

    ^a slogan and all factually accurate.


  40. - 4 percent - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:53 pm:

    I’m not only the Hair Club president, I’m also a client!

    Pearl Drops…See the Whiteness. Feel the Shine.


  41. - siriusly - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:53 pm:

    I forgot to add quotation marks, sorry. It is a quote.


  42. - DuPage Don - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:53 pm:

    ^* Yankee Doodle Dandy


  43. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 12:57 pm:

    Moving to Montana soon…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ialhaxhr7iA


  44. - Rabid - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:00 pm:

    Major disappointment said there’s a superstar general disorder in the mansion


  45. - Allknowingmasterofraccoondom - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:07 pm:

    Brusha Brusha Brusha, it’s a new ipana!


  46. - A Jack - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:07 pm:

    “My wife just said I could run for Governor.”


  47. - Harry - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:09 pm:

    “Vote for me because I’m a Kennedy and I want it.”


  48. - A Jack - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:09 pm:

    “Rauner’s wife just donated a million dollars to my campaign.”


  49. - pool boy - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:14 pm:

    Do you really like me, Wally?


  50. - frisbee - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:15 pm:

    “Kennedy, just as much an Illinois name as Lincoln, Daley, and Obama…”


  51. - Huh? - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:19 pm:

    Vote for me because I have a famous last name. I want to ride the coattails of my uncles Ted and John and my dad Bobby. I’ll even talk with a funny accent.


  52. - View from the Cheap Seats - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:19 pm:

    All the belly aching about a rich GOP governor and the Dems go and rectruit their one Billionaire.


  53. - AlfondoGonz - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:20 pm:

    “I might not have the face or the brains, but I’ve got the name!”


  54. - @MisterJayEm - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:23 pm:

    Chris Kennedy: Not Bruce Rauner. Not Pat Quinn.

    – MrJM


  55. - Former hillrod - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:27 pm:

    Didn’t this guy play a rat in a Harry Potter movie?


  56. - C - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:28 pm:

    Governor Christopher Kennedy


  57. - Lovie - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:31 pm:

    I think I just saw a wabbit.


  58. - Team Warwick - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:32 pm:

    Im getting a short All-American baseball haircut before we shoot campaign commercials or make campaign appearances so i will look businesslike and conservative.


  59. - Rabid - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:35 pm:

    Cape cod vs. caped crusader


  60. - Filmmaker Professor - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:37 pm:

    “Trust me. I’m the guy who hired Michael Hogan as President of the U of I.” (for those of you who don’t follow the U of I, Google Michael Hogan. then laugh. then throw up.)


  61. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:41 pm:

    Do it or shut up.


  62. - Michelle Flaherty - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:42 pm:

    See, Garry Shandling’s still alive


  63. - Rabid - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 1:45 pm:

    Goldberg remover


  64. - Ryan - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:09 pm:

    How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?


  65. - Honeybear - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:15 pm:

    Dear God, and you guys get on me for supporting cussing the Governor and you’re gonna say this stuff about his teeth. As they say here,

    “You all is petty”


  66. - Honeybear - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:15 pm:

    petty and extra


  67. - The Old Professor - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:16 pm:

    When I was Chair of the UI Board of Trustees, I said that I didn’t care about what happened to a demoted Administrator (Lisa Troyer), because “as a faculty member, her reporting line would go through a department head, dean, provost and chancellor first. We don’t want to get involved in something six levels deep into the university,” That is, until they got involved with Salaita.


  68. - Rabid - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:17 pm:

    I can run better than the govenor can


  69. - Loop Lady - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:20 pm:

    Too bad he’s not running in WI…the badger state…


  70. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:22 pm:

    “LADY!!!! Hey, LADY!”


  71. - lovecraft - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:23 pm:

    Eager beaver!


  72. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:25 pm:

    If there’s a budget stalemate, he could challenge Madigan to an apple-eating contest.


  73. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:26 pm:

    “You know my name, orthodontics is my game!”


  74. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:28 pm:

    “Because by 2018, Illinois will be the New Frontier again.”


  75. - A guy - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:29 pm:

    I’m not moving in until he fixes that house. We’re Kennedy’s. That means Decorators. Nothing more.


  76. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:31 pm:

    “Because rich politicians are SOOOO in touch with the people.”


  77. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:33 pm:

    Rich, I’m guessing you won’t be challenging THIS guy to bite you any time soon…


  78. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:37 pm:

    Poor guy got Ethel’s looks!


  79. - Boone's is Back - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:39 pm:

    “It’s ‘CHOWDA’”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0R6QO9LooI


  80. - Gruntled University Employee - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:39 pm:

    That Wauner is a wascally wabbit. (Please forgive me Chris, I couldn’t help myself)


  81. - Gruntled University Employee - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 2:42 pm:

    Rich Miller
    Dental Floss Tycoon


  82. - GoAway - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 3:11 pm:

    He is a bizarre guy


  83. - Nieva - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 3:26 pm:

    Streator at 2:33, That was good.


  84. - Jake From Elwood - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 3:42 pm:

    More problematic than the Kennedy Expressway…


  85. - BigBadWolf - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 3:43 pm:

    Four out of five dentists approved this message….


  86. - fightforfair - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 4:11 pm:

    I’ll take care of this groundhog day crap!


  87. - AC - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 4:21 pm:

    I’m excited at the prospect of trading our Governor who has no heart for a man with bad teeth.


  88. - Former hillrod - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 4:33 pm:

    Badgers don’t have incisors like that. They are carnivores and have teeth like skunks and raccoons.


  89. - Jorge - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 8:35 pm:

    The song “I’m alright” comes to mind.


  90. - Mama - Tuesday, Jun 7, 16 @ 10:06 pm:

    Chris Kennedy in the governor’s chair will be a very positive change for the voters in IL.


  91. - Henry Francis - Wednesday, Jun 8, 16 @ 8:13 am:

    Mayor Quimby never lost an election to Montgomery C. Burns


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