Subject: Presidential comparison quiz

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Tony Blair a set of inexpensive and useless (to Tony Blair's UK video formatting) DVDs, when Tony Blair had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 10 weeks -- so you'll have three years and nine-and-a-half months to come up with an answer.

We suspect voter fraud when....

Obama checklist

I'm composing a handy checklist so when these things happen you can check them off. Please let me know if you can think of any others so I can add them. Obama 2008

[ ] Federally funded abortions anytime during pregnancy.
[ ] Legislative judges.
[ ] Amnesty for illegal immigrants.
[ ] Reparations for all.
[ ] Mandatory universal healthcare.
[x] Federal stem-cell funding.
[ ] Price regulations.
[ ] Increased unionization.
[x] Nationalization of industries: oil, banking, auto, airlines….
[ ] Kyoto treaty signed.
[ ] Taxes back to Carter era.
[ ] Fairness doctrine imposed.
[ ] Cap-and-trade carbon tax.
[x] Increased government regulation.
[ ] Criminal prosecution of Bush/Cheney.
[ ] Home schooling banned.
[x] Mass exodus or failure of businesses.
[ ] Double-digit interest rates.
[ ] Double-digit unemployment.
[ ] Double-digit inflation.
[ ] Presidential pardons for radicals.
[ ] Church is singled out for persecution.
[ ] Guns grabbed.
[ ] National gay marriage.
[ ] Drilling for oil shut down.
[ ] Coal mining shut down.
[ ] This blog determined to be hate speech and shut down.