CAN'T TELL THE U.R. FROM BUBBA AND W WITHOUT A SOCRECARD:

INTERVIEW WITH NORMAN BIRNBAUM (SPIEGEL ONLINE, 12/12/08)

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Professor Birnbaum, please remind us: What was Barack Obama's campaign slogan?

Norman Birnbaum: Change. Why?

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Because looking at his cabinet choices, that change seems a distant memory. Obama is retaining Republican Robert Gates as Defense Secretary, he wants to appoint Jim Jones, a friend of John McCain, as his National Security Adviser and Hillary Clinton is going to be in charge of the State Department.

The Obama years haven't even started yet and they're comic gold.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 12, 2008 1:34 PM