Being Able to Count Is Highly Overrated

Here's an oldie but a goodie, from a Joe Biden campaign appearance in Athens, Ohio, on October 16.



Transcript:

Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack say, a three-letter word — Jobs. J-O-B-S. Jobs.

I'm not sure what's more pathetic: that Biden said it, or that the clueless lemmings behind him applauded.

All Hail Obama!

Yesterday, I wrote:

What's next, the inaugural crown?

Apparently, I wasn't the first person to think of it. Time magazine's Nancy Gibbs (a.k.a. Mother Goose) thought of it first:

Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope. [...] We are the ones we've been waiting for, [Obama] liked to say, but people were waiting for him, waiting for someone to finish what a King began.

Indeed, just like a prince or a king (as opposed to King, who must be turning in his grave right now over such pomposity), Obama is ready to rule. Not govern, not lead, but — according to Valerie Jarrett, co-chair of the Obama-Biden transition team, speaking to NBC's Tom Brokaw — rule.



Here's a transcript of the clip (emphasis mine):

Brokaw: What's the working model? Are you going to try to be a shadow government, or just a very interested spectator off to the side?

Jarrett: Well, it's a good question. There is one president at a time. President Bush is still the president. He has graciously invited President-elect Obama to the White House tomorrow to begin their conversations of the transition. So we respect that. He will be the President until January 20. However, given really the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that President-elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one. So we will be working closely with [this/his] administration. We're reviewing the agencies now. He will be making key personnel decisions. He gets national security briefings every day now as well. But he will not be the President until January 20.

Just think, four years of this hilarity. Does the fun never end?

If It Isn't There, Make It Up

First it was the official Presidential-Wanna-Be seal, featuring the eagle who ate the really big doughnut thinking it was a 'possum.



Now we have the official web site of the official (though non-existent) Office of the President-Elect.



What's next, the inaugural crown?

What We're Doing Isn't Working -- We Have to Do More of It

Saith the President-elect, or perhaps we should call him the President-in-dress-up:

“Some of the choices that we make are going to be difficult,” Mr. Obama said. “And I have said before, and I will repeat again: It is not going to be quick, and it is not going to be easy for us to dig ourselves out of the hole that we are in, but America is a strong and resilient country.”

He makes the waters recede, he heals the nation, and now he digs us out of a hole. Is there nothing this man cannot do?

Inaugural Post (no pun intended)

Throughout his presidential campaign (the one that started two years ago, though it feels like 20), Barack Obama -- and more recently, his running-mate Joe Biden -- have said and done some things that have provoked chuckles among those who were paying attention. Since "those who were paying attention" doesn't include most of the establishment media, most of you probably didn't hear about them. That's why I, a patriotic American, am devoting myself for the next four years to performing the important public service of documenting, for history and posterity, the amazingly lame words and actions of our soon-to-be President and Vice President. After all, someone has to keep the egos of these two guys in check.