Shocking revelation: The iraq war continues! even as Obama trots the globe.

I was shocked, shocked I tell you,to find out that we are still at war with Iraq. NPR finally had a story that told me so and looking back I could be forgiven for thinking it was all over based on the coverage it (and Afghanistan) have been getting for the last 6 months.

Contrast that with the endless stream of silly coverage of every comment that comes out of Obama's mouth no matter how trivial and worse, no matter how many endless times we have heard them over and over and over again. We don't care that Obama is on another trivial, couple of hours stop over in Mexico for instance, with all the endless speculation about what they are going to talk about and no real news.

I have a suggestion. How about simply saying Obama is in Mexico today visiting the the president of Mexico? If they actually say something new instead of the same old banalities that always come out of Obama's mouth that would be news. Meanwhile NPR could actually use that saved time to give us some news. The election is over. NPR no longer has to shill for Obama , at least not for the next 2 years and our soldiers might appreciate being part of the news every day since the war(s) are ongoing.

Besides in my mind when America is supposed to be at war, Americans need to be made aware of that fact every day. They must not be allowed to forget that their blood and treasure is being spent even if they don't want to hear it and would rather watch American Idol (or in this case Presidential Idol). It is called shared sacrifice.

BO back on the campaign trail: found new office to run for

You may think that O-blah-blah sure has been traveling a lot lately. But you just don't understand -he has found the new office that he is going to run for- King of the World. Michelle touched the queen last week and decided that what she really really wanted was not just all the adoration of royalty but the trappings of it too. As soon as they got home she started right in on BO to get moving -he was wasting time doing all that presidential stuff and he needed to get on with what he does best- run for the next office.  What better than King of the World and then all he would have to do is speechify and every one would follow him around and he wouldn't be expected to actually do anything- ahh that is the life. Obama quickly realized he had made a good start during his G20 visit so he is well on his way. I suspect we will see a lot more of this since even O-blah-blah is likely to run out of weighty pronouncements and will have to actually get something done. But soon he will have his new excuse  and I quote "who knew I would be called on to run for this new office so soon".  And now he is off to Mexico and then Trinidad to meet with South American leaders. He better make his announcement soon though because even the breathy press is starting to expect actual accomplishments as opposed to "just words". 

another example of what the headlines should say

Headline: Portuguese water dog redefined as a mutt

Just another example of oh-blah-blah's fluctuating relationship with the truth. He said they were going to get a "shelter dog" a "mutt like me". Hmmm I guess the public will be too dumb to notice that Portuguese water dogs are a purebred.  The breeders might be a little disappointed to hear that they breed mutts now though. And of course since the first owner sent it back to the "breeder" it is of course a shelter dog -even though Teddy Kennedy owns its litter mate and sent it to his own dog trainer so it would not soil the Obama's living room.  If we had anything but a fawning media  the headlines would read as above. 

This incident joins the archives of WE DEFINE REALITY along with Gibbs' statement "who are you going to believe me, or your lying eyes- Obama was not  bowing to the Saudi King- no way no how!"

UPDATE: I have now seen it all "Meet BO -Obama names his dog after himself ". Actually I am not surprised- there is nothing, no stoop too low that would surprise me about this man.