I don’t know how long Rep. Joe Wilson (R-Teabagland) will be the butt of our jokes, so get Joe Wilson Is Your Preexisting Condition.com while it’s hot.
Among our favorites: Joe Wilson yells Free Bird at concerts…

“Obama’s kids-speech starts w a Stalin quote. Just kiddin’. Reading it now. A good pep talk: references to Harry Potter and Michael Jordan”
— Tweet from David Corn, Washington editor of Mother Jones magazine and Politics Daily

All the feigned umbrage in the world doesn’t change the fact that Van Jones is right.

In yet another one of his quote-marked, not-proof-read, bombastic “press releases,” Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer lashed out at President Obama for a speech he is planning to give Sept. 8. The nationwide address, the first ever aimed directly at American schoolchildren by a U.S. president, sounds pretty dang bad, according to Greer.

Gotta love it. Student reporter and South Florida’s own Damon Weaver lands his dream interview with the president. Weaver did an amazing job, as did Obama. Damon’s take-away: Pres. Obama is very tall and nice.
Note for non-basketball fans: Dwayne Wade is a guard for the Miami Heat.

As Pres. Obama blows out the 48 candles (hey, that’s one year for each of the lower 48 states!) on his birthday cake today, we wonder what he’ll wish for. Health care reform? A muzzle for Joe Biden? Retirement for Sen. Ben Nelson and two more Supreme Court members? It’s hard to say, but it’s [...]

There was speculation earlier this year that the true dynamic behind the tea-bagging movement was not opposition to taxes but rather racist anger over the election of an African-American president. After all, taxes had been lowered, not raised at that point, and the only tax hikes on the table targeted people making over $250,000 per [...]

Joe Biden just can’t help himself. And we just can’t help but like him anyway. (Official White House photo)
For the record:
The president was drinking Bud Light, Biden was drinking Buckler (a nonalcoholic beer), Gates was drinking Samuel Adams Light and Crowley was drinking Blue Moon.

They’re saying that Pres. Obama could do for beer what he did for Portuguese water dogs. Breathless reporters are already lining up to reveal what beer is served when Obama sits down with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley and asks, “Can’t we all just get along?”
What beer would [...]