There is just something surreal about this photo

[NNN0LHI]

Hello, senate

(Tribune photo by Pete Souza / January 4, 2005)

Vice President Dick Cheney watches as Sasha Obama, 3, waves to cameras during a mock swearing-in for her father, Sen. Barack Obama, at the U.S Capitol.

[Muttocracy]

1. Now instead of Cheney all of them get to take the oath from Biden :)

[NNN0LHI]

4. Who swears Biden in?

[Muttocracy]

9. actually, I'm not sure, looks like it varies - Robert Byrd would be cool :)

http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/daysevents/vpswearingin.cfm

"...While tradition dictates that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court administers the oath of office to the President-elect, a variety of officials have administered the oath to Vice Presidents. The president pro tempore of the Senate administered the oath to the first three Vice Presidents—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Aaron Burr—and to many Vice Presidents from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Some Vice Presidents took the oath from the Chief Justice. On some occasions, the outgoing Vice President administered the oath to the Vice President-elect. Since World War II, Vice Presidents have chosen friends and associates to administer the oath of office.

The location of the Vice President's oath-taking ceremony has also changed since John Adams became Vice President in 1789. Today, the Vice President recites the oath on the west front terrace of the U.S. Capitol. Until 1937, most Vice Presidents took the oath of office in the Senate chamber, prior to the President's swearing-in ceremony. This made the Vice President's swearing-in ceremony distinct and separate from the President's..."

[TomInTib]

2. Looks as if the older daughter is playing Mumbley-Peg with a troll in a suit. nt

[maddezmom]

3. They are both beautiful girls

But Sasha is going to be fun to watch...she is sassy. As for cheney, she basically wasn't impressed.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Wow ... strange. And Cheney looks about 100 years old there.

[lonestarnot]

6. Those girls are just the sweetest cutest little sweethearts.

[skooooo]

7. I wish one of the girls...

..would kick Cheney in the shins.

[unpossibles]

8. The first thing to pop into my head was...

"God bless us every one!"

:D

[crikkett]

10. Look at Dick Cheney Smile!!!

I swear this family brings out the best in people.

:loveya:

[cynatnite]

11. OMG! Get the children away from Darth Cheney! n/t

[lonestarnot]

12. LOL!

Hurry!

[Orsino]

14. He does look hungry. n/t

[psychmommy]

13. that's cuzn darth.

that just tickles me to no end.

[kestrel91316]

15. Papa's gonna have to watch that little one. She's quite the imp!

[charlie]

16. Hnnn ...nnnn... yeeeessss...

Hnnnnn ...yesss, they are quite small... and... nnn... energetic...

Nnnnn... They aren't employed, you say? ...They could be very useful, for ummm... nnnn... finding paths through minefields... yesssss...

"Children," you say? ...hnnnn... A kind of hu-man? ...Like dwarves? Albinos? nnnnn...

Young hu-mans? Like *I* was once? Hnnnn... nnnn... No, no, no... Heh. Heh... Heh. Heh...

Noooo... nnnn... I was never a "children."

Hnnn... no. Never.

[Pithy]

17. :: snorty laugh::

[zbdent]

18. "Who told the help it was 'Bring your daughter to work day'?"