On Meet the Press yesterday, Tom Brokaw dragged it out of the president-elect: yes, Barack Obama still smokes.
So what's the big deal? He obviously keeps it out of the limelight.
Well, the White House is a smoke-free zone. He'll have to go to some lengths to light up and not break the rules. Obama assured Brokaw (very end of the transcript and video) that he wouldn't. He also said he hasn't given up on giving up and that, under the circumstances, he's done well with cutting back.
We think it's totally better to be a closet smoker than, say ...
... a total dimwit that takes long vacations every chance he gets, wrecks the country's economy, starts a war under false pretenses, gives away rights and money and human lives, and doesn't even really regret much about it. (Oh, wait, kind of got off course there. Our advice to Obama regarding ciggies: never quit quitting.)
Love the youth and vitality of Obama, his supporters and loads of the people that work for him. But we can't help but loathe this guy: 27-year-old Jon Favreau, Obama's incoming director of speechwriting. He may be gifted with words, but comedically he's very empty. Here's a picture of him at a party back in the primary campaign days, making advances at a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton.
Was a titty grope the best Favreau could come up with? And posed in front of a camera? Hanging out with a guy who still wears his ball cap backwards? We suppose there's one of those Hillary nutcrackers kicking around in the background too.
Reports say that Favreau apologized to Clinton, who responded with humor.
Ann Romney, wife of once presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer.
Following a lumpectomy, she's doing well. Her post-op cardboard cutout
will soon be ready for a little attention from the hil-AR-ious Jon Favreau and the can't-be-contained Backwards Ball Cap.
Oh, in case this needs clarifying: Obama's totally an American, born on American soil and everything! Still, it's the whisper campaign that won't end and the Supreme Court will decide today whether to hear either of the two cases challenging the president-elect's "natural born citizen" status. Some claim he doesn't qualify because his father was a citizen of Kenya.
Update on President George W. Bush's new house: exclusive community, home also to Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and, at one time, Ross Perot, only recently started letting non-whites to live there. Recently, as in 2000!!!!
From Raw Story:
Until
2000, the neighborhood association's covenant said only white people
were allowed to live there, though an exception was made for servants.
The document, enacted in 1956, reads: "Said property shall be used and occupied by white persons only
except these covenants shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants
of different race or nationality in the employ of a tenant."
Laid-off workers at Republic Windows and Doors, a Chicago factory, have staged a sit-in to protest the short layoff notice, a lack of severance pay and paid-out vacation time. Obama says he supports the workers' demands.
Obama spelled out a few of the details of his WPA plan. Grab a hard-hat and get to work!
Former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich thinks we should call this economy what it is: a depression! Is Prozac going to get us out of it?
So much for going green the easy way -- recycling. Everything's back to junk value so a lot of your good sorting efforts will wind up in the landfill. But we'll always have reduce and reuse.
Unsold cars are piling up too.
Good news for Iowans! Their state may be inching closer to lifting a ban on gay marriage. Their supreme court will start hearing arguments today challenging the legality of a recent ban on same-sex marriages.
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