Beat 360º 7/22/09
Ready for today's Beat 360°? Everyday we post a picture – and you provide the caption and our staff will join in too. Tune in tonight at 10pm to see if you are our favorite! Here is the 'Beat 360°' pic:
US Vice President Joe Biden and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili gesture toward the ceiling at the presidential residence in Tbilisi. Biden arrived in Georgia on a mission to reassure the ex-Soviet state of continued US support as Washington seeks to retool its approach to Russia and its ex-Soviet neighbors. (Photo credit: VANO SHLAMOV/AFP/Getty Images)
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UPDATE – BEAT 360 WINNERS:
Staff Winner:
Gary Tuchman
An international custom: politicians holding their fingers to the wind.
Viewer Winner:
Seth, Philadelphia, PA
Joe Biden and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili share a moment while listening to Josh Groban’s “You Raise Me Up.”
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VP Biden leads a round of 'this little light of mine.....'
WOW President Saakashvili, you are right! There really are footprints on your ceiling!
"Vee are numberr vone."
"No, we are number one."
Biden to translater; "What the .... he pointing at?
Translater; Kingdom
Put your hands down Biden, It's my turn to go
Biden: :"I concur,The moon has Asia marked to take lead. Glad i lost the race. Like my Brotha boss would put it, It's going down"
Look! a Place To Hide!
Whooo! Lookit! It's Michael Jackson moonwalking up there!
biden: "up there"
saakashvili: "no, secret eye from russia is still there"
look mr president it is just a clean sky nothing up there.really?
Is that Spiderman? No. It's Anderson showing off. After that dangerous bite in Ghana, Anderson has shown amazing talent at climbing walls. He's nearly reached the ceiling!
Oh, I didn't realize Georgians use the index finger to flip the bird toward Russia.
Look! Up in the sky!
It's a bird!
No, it's a plane!
No, It's Obama!
Strange American President with words and advisors above those of mortal men.
Jolly Green Giant, we'll pick your nose.
Biden: I don't see Alaska from here, is that Alaska?
Saakashvili: No silly, don't hold you finger like this, we use that like the middle finger in Georgia...
Biden: "To the top I tell ya, I'm going straight to the top."
Mikheil: "That top?"
Here comes 'Pointer'....Here comes 'Pointer'...There you are...There you are....
See how easily we can solve the world's problems.....just have to play like children.
As a politician I've found the best way to deal with any situation is to wait and see which way the political winds are blowing.
"To the top I tell you. I'm going straight to the top."
"That top?"
How many politicians does it take to supervise the maintenance man changing a compact fluorescent light bulb?
What U-2? I don't see no stinkin' U-2.
North to Alaska from here too?
Okay, Joe! I understand you want to concentrate on the here and now, but we must never forget our past.
US Vice President Joe Biden and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili rock the presidential residence in Tbilisi with 'Polka Polka Polka'!
By golly, I see him too. That is the great Anderson. The AC should be on in 14 minutes. Hooray!
Look, I think that's Putin's webcam up there
US VP: So, why is the ceiling made with glass?
Georgian President: We promote transparency , you can see the guest`s bathroom above us and a little bit down there is my swimming pool.
Bring your finger back down Joe, the speaker didn't mean Georgia, USA, he is asking for the representative of Georgia Soviet Union.
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do...
I think I see Star Wars! There it is!
Da Plane! Da Plane!
Look, there goes President Obama’s Hope Blimp
Look North, you can see Sarah Palin over there in Alaska.
Up in the air jr.birdmen, with their noses to the ground.
See..! We in Georgia can afford roofs over our heads even without slaves from Africa or undocumented workers from Mexico building them for us.
Where is Anderson Cooper? He is my favorite reporter, because he digs in and gets the facts firsthand. We miss him?
"Not only will this picture not look any good, but "You" won't look much good either unless you finally straighten up that "darn finger", like Mine, see?"
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to Vice President Biden: Since both our jobs are, as your predecessor John Adams so eloquently said, "the most insignificant office ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived," let's practice a routine and audition for the World's Got Talent!!
My boogski is bigger than your boogski!
You put your right hand in,
You put your right hand out,
You put your right hand in,
And you shake it all about,
You do the hokey pokey
and you turn yourself around
That what it's all about.
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! No, it's a Russian spyplane! No, it's Super Obama saving America's healthcare system!
Put your right finger up, put your right finger down, do the hokey pokey and turn yourself around!
"The sky is falling!" "no, it's not" Guess which one said what?
Okay! Toss the onion rings!
I feel insecure.......is there a peep hole up there?
Made you look!
Biden: My president likes going like this when he meets foreign leaders says 'pull my finger'
Mikheil: Like this? Then what happens?
Biden: Just don't say I didn't warn you
Where is pointer, where is pointer, here I am , here I am ...............
Biden saids its rude to point, Saakashvili answers, but when in Rome.....Biden... "wait a minute, i'm not in Rome"??
The Vice President enlists President Saakashvili's help in pushing the Dow over 9000.