TO LAUGH AT ME IS TO SCORN GOD:

Go Ahead, Laugh at Obama: Don’t listen to what they say. The presumptuous — er, presumptive — Democratic nominee is funny. (Byron York, 7/28/08, National Review)

And this was about a man who made up his own pretend presidential seal and motto, Vero Possumus; a man who, upon securing the Democratic nomination, said, “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”; a man who has on a number of occasions seemed to forget that he is not, or at least not yet, the President of the United States, who has misstated the number of states in his own country, who has forgotten on which committees he serves in the U.S. Senate. Professional comedians — and their audiences — couldn’t find anything funny about any of that?

Now, after Obama’s world tour, there are already cracks in the Times-imposed conventional wisdom. Confronted with something of an official ban on Obama humor, there is emerging a new strain of Obama humor — zings at the candidate’s hauteur, his presumptuousness, and, especially, his most zealous admirers in the press.

It's revealing that the three recent presidents who had no sense of humor aboiut themselves were LBJ, Nixon and Carter--all unmitigated disasters.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 28, 2008 8:57 AM