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Mr. Obama’s Very Most Important Announcement

The New York Times Caucus blog is reporting that President-elect In Taining, Barack Obama made his very most important staff announcement today.  He’s making Jon Favreau, his speechwriter,  not the actor, move to the White House:

In his latest round of White House staff announcements, Mr. Obama said Wednesday that he was naming Jon Favreau as his director of speechwriting. Mr. Favreau, 27, has had a hand in practically every speech that the president-elect has delivered over the last four years, following Mr. Obama from his Senate office to the presidential campaign.

“Had a hand?”  Where?  Up his bu In his back?  Oh, the “TelePrompTer in the boudoir” jokes I could write!  But, alas, I’ll restrain myself (this time,) and just move the story along.  The Caucus gently tries to lay to rest the notion that the Really Wannabe President writes his own speeches:

While legend has it that Mr. Obama writes his own speeches longhand on a legal pad, a better historical account will show that he offers input and Mr. Favreau crafts them.

No, history will show that publications like the New York Times make stuff up to try to make Barack Obantos appear to be qualified.  Gotta try to justify those baseless endorsements somehow.  In other news, with food stamp use nearing a record-high, the Obamessiah and his family took the photo-opportunity to feed the hungry.

After holding his third press conference in as many days, President-elect Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters volunteered at a South Side parish that operates a food bank every Wednesday.

No mention was made in the article of the congregants’ reaction when His Preciousness multiplied the loaves and fishes and changed the water to wine, however.  He did allow supplicants to “call me Barack” after they kissed his ring.

Lastly, but not leastly, the image above is the one that inspired Rev. Jeremiah (Uncle Wackadoodle) Wright’s “Audacity of Hope” sermon, that in turn inspired Barack Obama to write a book, which then inspired easily impressed voters to lose their minds and elect an inexperienced slacker guy who has been forced to admit to all those nervous about his “business as usual” appointments, that he is the change they’ve been waiting for, not the other way around.

“What we are going to do is combine experience with fresh thinking,” he said. “But understand where the vision for change comes from. First and foremost, it comes from me. That’s my job.”

Yeah, Obie, but how’re you gonna make ‘em listen?  Pout?  Tell Mommy?

That one might work.

We Still Don’t Want Nobody Nobody Sent

The Hyde Park, Chicago guy, Abner Mikva, a “mentor” of Barack Obama,  of whom it was said, “we don’t want nobody nobody sent,” gave a TimesOnline UK interview to the guy Michelle Malkin accused of fabricating war stories, and is quoted as being concerned about the appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State:

One of Barack Obama’s longstanding mentors and oldest friends said yesterday that he believes Bill Clinton will be a complicating factor for the new president and that his list of foreign donors could prove embarrassing.

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“I worry about the difficulty not that she brings, but that her husband brings,” he said over breakfast at the University of Chicago, where he recently retired as a law professor. “His entire career since leaving the White House has involved foreign contacts, foreign speeches and foreign contributions,” Mr Mikva, also a former US congressman, said.

My response?  So what?  Didn’t we deal with this issue last week?  Why is one of Obama’s “boys,” who’s not affiliated with the transition team in any way, rehashing this now, and why is the Times reporting it?  And, why is this being played up in the British press?  Who cares what they think, anyway?  Haven’t they embarrassed themselves enough?