Easy targets, politicians

Joel Stein has a column in the Los Angeles Times about making fun of Obama.
Now Rico's all for poking fun at politicians, he does it himself, but Joel does it up right:

He's a nerd.
He's ridiculously earnest.
He's black.
He's effete.
His name is weird.

There's more, but you can read it all by clicking the post title. (And be sure to click on his other columns while you're there. The guy's funny, after all. This one was great: "If MoveOn and Barack Obama really were going to bravely confront America with hard, necessary truths, they'd tell us how great $4 gas has been for us. With public transit use nationally at a 50-year high, traffic dropped 2.1% in the first four months of this year across the country. That mileage reduction -- along with people driving smaller cars, and more slowly, to save gas -- could mean that 12,000 fewer people will die in traffic accidents this year, according to a study by professors Michael Morrisey at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and David C. Grabowski at Harvard Medical School. Air pollution has been reduced enough, according to UC Davis economics professor J. Paul Leigh, to prevent 2,200 respiratory-related deaths over the last year. Less eating out and more walking and biking could mean a 10% reduction in obesity, according to Charles Courtemanche, an assistant economics professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. And, apparently, higher gas prices also keep econ professors employed.")

Rico says it's good to be able to laugh at presidential candidates. If you couldn't, this would be a country Rico wouldn't want to live in. Like Russia, say, or Mexico...