Year: 2009

They didn’t meet as children. They’re 20 years apart in age. Yet, Simon and Schuster, the big time New York City publisher, thinks there’s a story for George Obama to tell. In fact, he’s worthy of an entire memoir. George is Barry’s half brother, and another on a growing list of Obama family members to cash in on the fame of the most recent White House occupant.

Little is known about George Obama. The book, tentatively titled “Homeland” and to be written with author-journalist Damien Lewis, will tell of George Obama’s fall into crime and poverty as a teenager and his eventual embrace of community organizing — a passion shared by the president — and of advocacy for the poor, an identification so strong that he chooses to live among them.

“Even had George Obama not been our President’s half brother, his story is moving and inspirational,” David Rosenthal, Simon & Schuster publisher and executive vice president, said in a statement Sunday. “It is an object lesson in survival, selflessness and courage.” (AP)

Riiiight.

I bet there’s a political action committee being put together right now for ol’ George. And why not? He has become a community organizer after a life of crime. After all, it worked for his half-brother, and that’s all it takes to be elected U.S. President these days.

Has the clothing market gotten so bad that to be noticed you must put up an ad that has nothing to do with jeans but everything to do with orgies?

Apparently.

So, you’re a mom and you’re taking your kids out for a walk and all at once they look up and say, “Mommy, what are those three people doing?” Awkward, to say the least. But the point is, why should anyone be forced to confront a question like that? Frankly, I’m sick of this kind of thing. Are you? If you are, get in touch with the parent company of the Calvin Klein brand. Give them a piece of your mind. You can find the details here: www.pvh.com/contact.aspx.

Let’s put an end to this crap and send a signal to Calvin Klein and others like ’em (did someone say, Abercrombie and Fitch?)

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is doing whatever he can to get back into the spotlight…heck, any spotlight for that matter. His latest remarks come on the heals of the Senate take over in Albany, NY.

“Yes, the Senate takeover is being orchestrated by a rogue’s gallery of politicians and their associates, grabbing for power in a base, self-interested way,” the disgraced ex-governor wrote in his latest column on Slate.com.

“If you look at the upheaval from a different angle, it begins to make sense and to seem like a step forward in New York politics.”

“The use of that power by two Democratic senators, though perhaps for questionable purposes, is emboldening others to use their leverage to bargain for worthwhile causes,” like same-sex marriage,” wrote Spitzer.

Or the legalization of prostitution, perhaps.

U.S. Representative Barney Frank loves to be in front of the camera answering questions. Well, actually, he likes to be in front of the camera when he can answer questions he likes. Ask him something he doesn’t like, and he walks.

Like he did just now on CNBC.

Our representatives in congress act like kids on an elementary school playground. If they don’t get their way, they take their ball and go home.

The U.S. economy continues to lose jobs, and everyone agrees that more will be lost before we bottom out. Everyone except Barack Obama. In Obamaland, we’re not losing jobs at all. He’s creating them, as Karl Rove points out.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. For example, last week the president claimed that 150,000 jobs had been created or saved because of his stimulus package. He boasted, “And that’s just the beginning.”

However, at the beginning of January, 134.3 million people were employed. At the start of May, 132.4 million Americans were working. How was Mr. Obama magically able to conjure this loss of 1.9 million jobs into an increase of 150,000 jobs?

As my former White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto points out on his blog, the Labor Department does not and cannot collect data on “jobs saved.” So the Obama administration is asking that we accept its “clairvoyant ability to estimate,” and the White House press corps has let Mr. Obama’s ludicrous claim go virtually unchallenged.

While its pretty clear that a majority of the American public are still hypnotized by The One, they won’t stay that way for long. In fact, I’ll venture to say that they’ll send a message to Obama on November 2, 2010, the same message they sent Bill Clinton in 1994.