The latest controversy surrounding the presidency of Barack Obama, his mom jeans.  Are you kidding me?  This is all you have to talk about?

Well, that says to me he must be doing a great job in office.  Another thing it says to me is that America is once again confused.

If Barack Obama takes his wife out on the town, the media jumps on him for showing off in a time when it’s not economically stable.  “He’s in office and he wants to have a good time while he’s there?  What a bad guy.”

So then, he chooses not to wear designer jeans to a baseball game and the media once again takes a different angle all together.  “Why isn’t he in designer jeans?  Why doesn’t our president look like the leader of the free world?”

Barack Obama, you do you!  I got your back.

By the way, it seems that not many people understood what I meant about James Bond in my last post.  So, I’ll try again.  I know that James Bond is supposed to have gadgets.  He’s supposed to have gadgets we don’t have and don’t know anything about.  A James Bond movie is supposed to open up our minds to possibilities in technology.

A cellphone and a laptop just doesn’t do it.

See, we have those things…

He needs to be talking through a cuff link while listening to his pen and getting on his twitter with a pair of glasses.  The keyboard and mouse are in his watch.  Get me now?

Show me something people!

Posted under Barack Obama, Celebrity, James Bond, Reviews

Electing Barack Obama has had a ridiculous impact on our economy.  The day after he was elected, shirts were on sale.  Will.I.am released his new song, “It’s a New Day” mere hours after we knew.  Books are already being published and I plan on writing one myself.  But, I’m going to cover what he actually does first and then publish my book in four or eight years.  You know, once he has actually made an impact.

At first, I thought it was all too much.  I had actually written a paragraph or two in my own book when I heard one was already being published.  I thought first to just forget the notion of writing it and I still might.  Well, I’ll write it in case it’s going to be a good one.  But, I’ll consider whether or not to publish it later.  Because one thing I am not is a writer who jumps on a story for its economic value.  I want all of my books to stand and deliver a good story.  Economics comes later.

My thoughts about it all being too much soon faded when the reality of the situation hit me.  I, like everyone else hadn’t quite felt the actual impact yet.  It’s like winning the lottery and not knowing how you actually feel about it.  It takes time for some things to set in before the actual impact kicks you in the butt one day while you’re making a cup of coffee or shaving in the mirror.  Then, you either wind up cleaning your spilled coffee or start placing pieces of toilet paper all over your face.  That’s the day you realize, “You know what?  Yes I can.”

So, I really think everyone should be getting a piece of history.  This is one of those things my grandparents used to tell me all the time when they would buy me a Tonka Toy or a G.I. Joe.  “Don’t open it up!  It’s going to be worth money some day.”

Are you kidding me?  I can’t open it.  That’s B.S.  This Tonka Toy is going to be thrown off the top of my tower with G.I. Joe inside strapped to a homemade parachute made out of string and plastic trash bags.  Oh, did I mention that I was going to light a firecracker and watch it all explode?  Don’t open it?  Why buy it for me if you didn’t want me to open it?

Anyway, I’m a little older now and I see what they’re saying.  Of course, if you came to my house now with a Tonka Toy and G.I. Joe, I’d probably still do it.  That’s the kid in me.  But the Obama merchandise is something to invest in and keep because in the words of my grandparents, it will be worth something some day.  And for many of you, it will still be hard to get rid of it even then.

This is a time that means so much to many of us.  Get a piece of history!

Posted under Barack Obama, Will.I.am

Since the elections have been over, I haven’t focussed on anything else celebrity. I’m still following the Barack Obama news and the latest has been a last ditch effort to oust Obama from office.

It appears that some people who really don’t want Obama in office are claiming that he refuses to produce a birth certificate. But, that’s not true. I’m sorry! But, it couldn’t be. He couldn’t be president if he refused to produce a birth certificate that meets all the requirements designed for the criteria for being president.

There is a copy of a birth certificate circulating the internet and if you right click on it, view the image to get a better view. You’ll see his name, the races of his parents and the place where he was born. The only thing that disturbs me is the date of birth. He is the only president in history who has ever been younger than me.

I’m only kidding. The first time I saw the birth certificate, I had a heart attack after I read it wrong. After picking myself up off the floor and settling down, I took another look and Obama is in fact older than I am. Not much, but he is.

I know my life seems like it’s going by way too fast. But, damn! I had to slow that one down.

I would like to point out that there are people questioning the validity of the certificate and I would have to say that there are some real pathetic excuses out there. One individual points out that the father’s race is noted as “African.” Then that person goes on to explain that in 1961, the term would have been “Negro.” African didn’t come along as a politically correct term until much later. So, it’s an invalid certificate.

Without doing the research, I think I can beat that argument rather quickly. Obama’s father was from Kenya…in East Africa. That might be the reason his father is listed as “African.”  It’s not Negro as in one of the races living in America.  But, African as in from Africa.

Anyway…

Posted under Barack Obama, Celebrity

Don’t elect Obama! What will SNL do once the elections are over? They’ve had so much fun with this campaign that I think their rates are up to stay. But, they don’t have any jokes for Obama. It’s all about McCain.

And what about Paris Hilton? Wouldn’t that be something if she actually got some votes? What if everyone just gave up and voted her into office? The cabinet would get traded in for a walk-in closet and the White House would get painted pink. I think she said she would move it to Florida.

Posted under Barack Obama, Celebrity, John McCain, NFL, New Orleans Saints, Paris Hilton, Reviews, SNL, Sarah Palin

It’s hilarious to me when I hear John McCain and Barack Obama ending their commercials with, “My name is blah blah and I approve this message.”

Not when someone else is talking.  Not when someone else paid for the commercial.  But, when they are the ones doing the talking and their funds paid for the commercial.  It’s hilarious because you think they would know better.

First of all, “I approve this message” is a statement that was created when campaigns were getting real deceptive back in the…80’s.

That’s right!  Since then, candidates of all types of positions have been putting their stamp of approval on commercials that were paid by organizations and voiced by an actor or a member of the organization.  What was going on at the time was very crafty campaign managers and very crafty organizations would put together a message and make it seem like it was coming from the candidate they opposed.

Why would they do that?  Because, it would confuse voters.  The message a candidate was trying to get across would get conflicted with these mock commercials.

To put an end to that practice, candidates would let their supporters know that if they didn’t put their stamp of approval on a message they were watching on television, then the message wasn’t from them.  Thus, the beginning of the highly overused, “…I approve this message.”

So now, candidates are putting this message on every commercial…even their own.  That’s why it’s hilarious.  Barack Obama talking about his grandfather and his mother in a commercial and talking about his strong American roots, then at the end of the commercial comes, “I am Barack Obama and I approve this message.”

John McCain with his commercial about Plumber Joe and Barack Obama’s plan to raise his taxes and then comes, “I am John McCain and I approve this message.”

Well, no kidding.  You’re the one delivering it.

Posted under Barack Obama, Celebrity, John McCain