This is an excerpt from an interview of Obama by Barbara Walters, which aired tonight. Reportedly, Walters sent a photo of her pet, a Havanese dog named Cha Cha Cha, to the Obamas, who are still looking for a pet dog. Obama: “Cha Cha?” Bawbwa: “It’s short for Cha Cha Cha.” O: “What is a […]
An article in the Huffington Post declares: Obama’s Election Marks The End Of Irony It points to an article in the NY Times: Irony Is Dead. Again. Yeah, Right. Famed ironist Joan Didion laments that the US in the era of Obama has become an “irony-free zone” where hope “is now in”. But I am […]
© Lisa Benson I actually find this cartoon a bit stupid (even though it made me laugh). First, how many people is Obama going to find for his administration who haven’t worked in the Clinton administration? Second, isn’t complaining about this like the “guilt by association” that we found so disgusting when it was used […]
A reader points out two interesting tidbits in the Obama half-hour “infomercial” that aired just before the election. I didn’t get either of these, but I wonder if other people noticed them. One was the story of a retired “elderly” couple where the man had to go back to work at the age of 72 […]
Interesting stories about life for the future POTUS. President Reagan said the White House was like living in an eight-star hotel, but Harry Truman complained that the place was a “glamorous prison”. The biggest changes are the intense security requirements for the president — which even include provisions for when he has to go to […]
Most people know that Obama’s two autobiographical books have become bestsellers, but it now looks like Obama also has the power to create bestsellers out of other people’s books. The first example is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln”. The book’s discussion of how Lincoln brought his political […]
Obama has announced that he will be making a weekly posting to YouTube (which is owned by Google) of four-minute long videos, starting tomorrow and continuing indefinitely. Other members of his staff will also be posting videos. Already, transition co-chairman Valerie Jarrett has recorded a two-minute video and posted it. The videos can be found […]
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