And Now, Barack Obama, Starring as Michael Douglas, Starring as President Andrew Shepard

Is Barry ready for a meltdown or is it, as 'chode' wonders, all calculated?

Today, he chided the press for making hay of his pig remark as follows.

"These are serious times and they call for a serious debate...spare me all the phony outrage. Spare me all the phony talk about change."

Barack Obama 9-10-2008

"We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious men to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, friend, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it."

Michael Douglas in The American President

I know he's not the first politician to ever use "serious" more than once in a sentence, but it still jumped out at me.

For the record, if it's a rainy afternoon, I'm just about guaranteed to stop and watch The American President if I see it on. While I can do without all the liberal sermonizing, it's an entertaining flick, in my opinion.