Obama: The musical

Sure, you loved the school kids singing paeans to Barack Obama (Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm!), but are you ready for...Obama On My Mind?

Obama on My Mind takes a humorous look at the whirlwind and wonderful world behind the scenes of an Obama campaign office in small town America. A passionate group of larger than life oddball characters start to panic when Sarah Palin enters the race and Obama falls 20 points in the polls. Pop, gospel, jazz, and soft rock come together in a politically inspired comedic romp featuring a motley crew of loyal, obsessive and downright peculiar personalities, striving to get their candidate into the White House.

Those bolded parts suggest they can go ahead and put "Based on actual events" on the advertisements. I wonder if anyone would miss me if I went into hibernation until 2012.

Hat tip to AB, who lives in the Seattle area and is considering building a moat.

"Hear our cry, Obama!"

Just when you thought it couldn't get any creepier, Naked Emperor News via breitbart.tv offers up this little gem - health care reform advocates actually praying to Barack Obama, with refrains of "Hear our cry, Obama!" and "Deliver us, Obama!".

Listen closely for the reference to "the prophet, Martin Luther King, Jr".

The eve of a new era?

So we've got about 48 hours before Barack Obama's inauguration as President of the United States Savior of Mankind, and things are already starting to look crazy. Examples:

• Driving home last night from the airport in Richmond after returning from the west coast, I saw a car with the license plate "NOV0408". Maybe it was the brain damage caused by watching Nights In Rodanthe on the plane ride home, but it took me a second or two to make the connection to Obama's election date.
• All those big lighted traffic information signs on I-295 and I-95 between Richmond and Fredericksburg had messages warning motorists of Inauguration Day traffic. A hundred freakin' miles south of Washington.
• Need a hotel room anywhere between Washington and the area south of Richmond for the inauguration? Fuhgeddaboudit.
• Want a lasting - as in permanent - memento from the big day on Tuesday? You can get an Obama tattoo.

OK, yes, it is a big deal that we're about to install our first black American president. But an Obama tattoo? What if he turns out to be a bigger crook than Nixon and gets his ass impeached? Aren't a lot of people setting themselves up for a huge letdown no matter how Obama's presidency plays out?

Cart before the horse

If it's not too early to start naming schools after Barack Obama, I guess it's not too soon to declare his presidency a failure? Or to start impeachment hearings?

If I were Barack Obama, I'd be embarrassed, not honored. But then again, I don't have an ego the size of Mount Rushmore.

Obamamania...catch it!

As an IT guy working for a large software company, I get around quite a bit. I'm a bit, er, liberal in handing out business cards, whether at meetings with customers or channel partners, at industry events, whatever. So it's no surprise when I get unsolicited e-mails on my corporate e-mail account inviting me to speak at or attend some industry event or another.

Today I got one from some group called Omnikron Systems that opened with this line:

In keeping with our Country's Theme, "We Want Change", the CTC is on it!

What? Do these blithering idiots just assume that I'm one of the 52% of Americans who supported Obama? And isn't it just a bit presumptuous to assume that "We Want Change" is "our Country's Theme"?

How much you wanna bet that the idiots running Omnikron Systems haven't used the phrase "our country" in the past eight years?

The world has gone batshit crazy

In Topeka, a movement is underway to establish a national holiday around Barack Obama.

"Yes We Can" planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald's restaurant...

Uh, yeah. Somehow I don't think this movement will get very far. And what the hell is a "planning rally", anyway?