Happy Birthday, Mr. President

President Barack Obama is 49 today. I see from the above photo that he still has to move his own furniture around... with Vermont Governor Jim Douglas not sure whether to help or not. Let's hope Obama doesn't have to cut his own cake!

Joking aside, I checked in on national political news again today, and as before, came away with the feeling that I had tripped over the corpse of a polka-dot pink elephant which had died of explosive diarrhoea: you do not believe what your eyes are seeing, even as the stench makes you retch and run away.

Many Americans — a majority, according to a CNN poll — now believe that Obama was not born in the U.S., and is not eligible to occupy the office of President. I am afraid that, despite the evidence to the contrary, and even if Obama lives to be 100, some nativist asshole will desecrate his grave with slogans from this enduring campaign of nonsense.

There has been some good news, news of the right and proper assertion of the U.S. Constitution in the stupid case of California's Proposition 8, the anti-same-sex marriage clause voted into that state's constitution in 2008. The judge in the case ruled today to strike Prop 8 down as it violates the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Consitution. It seems supporters of the ban on same-sex marriage could only muster two and a half morons to defend it. The internationally famous legal duo of David Boies (a liberal Democrat) and Ted Olsen (a conservative Republican who was President George W. Bush's Solicitor-General) demolished Prop 8 with ease.

But then I frowned. I frowned as I caught a segment of Fox News, where a right wing host was asking a Republican strategist how could Republicans explain better to the electorate what they would do if elected back into power in Washington — ah, my readers! When last was it, that e'er a Republican didst draw nigh unto that place of political power? Mine eyes do look, but canst not see! Was it perhaps thirty gazillion score years since last they held power? Nay, longer...

Perhaps under Capitol Hill, one day shall men find fossils... (actually there are plenty of fossils walking around in D.C.) An honest answer would be: "Well, Jed / Zippy, the electorate may recall that we just left off wrecking the country two years ago.  We shattered America's reputation around the world by the illegal invasion of Iraq. We created a massive recession. We lined our own pockets. We governed haphazardly and strewed scandals around the world. We ripped up the Constitution, applied no law to ourselves, and we stirred up stupid non-issues to distract everyone. In fact, to call what we did 'governing,' is like lipstick on a pig..."