A truly green Obama
Readers with long memories will recall that last year when we made the annual July trek to the Texas Panhandle for an O'Brien family reunion, the California contingent was met at the cabin in Palo Duro Canyon with a big-screen TV locked to Fox News and a signed photo of Cindy and John McCain on the mantle.
My daughter and her cousins quickly turned the cabin front door into O'Briens for O'Bama HQ by cutting up an adulatory People magazine spread on the soon-to-be First Family and making a bunch of signs.
A year later, the pranking goes on -- when we walked into the cabin kitchen over the weekend, we were met by this bloomin' Obama chia head.
It was meant in good fun, and we took it that way. But I was sure some, if not our president himself, would be more sensitive. So I just Googled "Obama chia racist" and found that Walgreen's, for instance, stopped selling the item in April after objections from some customers.
There was no W. chia head, someone pointed out in the comments section to a wire-service story.
What do you think?
By the way, the Panhandle is a gorgeous place. People say, You're going to Texas, in the summer? Got that right -- it's God's country. Thunderstorms each afternoon kept it cooler than ... than here, for instance. The view from the beautiful Lyons family porch on a breezy Saturday:
Comments
Larry, you really are trying too hard to "prove" that you and your family are not afraid of black folks. But we know you didn't want your daughter going to school with our kids.
Fact is, you can lecture everyone else about how they shouldn't give up on Pasadena's public schools, despite the fact that YOU already gave up on Pasadena's public schools when you decided to transport your daughter 28 miles a day (2 round trips, 7 miles each way)to Alverno.
In fact, your daughter attended private schools for 12 years, didn't she ?
Hey, Larry, you can afford to have your rich relatives pay the tuition bill for private school for your child, but there are a lot of people in Pasadena who don't have that luxury. And a lot of those people would like some vouchers they could use to send their child to a private school. But you oppose vouchers, don't you ?
You remind me of Al Gore lecturing everyone about turning off the lights in their house...all the while he toots around the globe in a Lear jet, and uses more electricity than anyone in his entire county.
Posted by: Mustang Mark | July 30, 2009 3:22 PM