Only When He's Had a Couple of Drinks

The, if not completely personal, at least less grim, side of B. O. & T. B. on Meet the Press today, as typed by Politico.

But ultimately we want to talk about parents reading to their kids. We want to invite kids from local schools into the White House.” The president-elect said his administration is interested in “elevating science once again, and having lectures in the White House where people are talking about traveling to the stars or breaking down atoms, inspiring our youth to get a sense of what discovery is all about.” “Thinking about the diversity of our culture and inviting jazz musicians and classical musicians and poetry readings in the White House so that once again we appreciate this incredible tapestry that's America,” he said.

Already the Prez-in-waiting shows us he understands that education begins at home, not necessarily w/ home-schooling either, but w/ parents who give a shit. (Good luck getting Americans to buy into that. Yes, they're all too busy & everything. We understand how it is.)

Not to mention culture & stuff. In the White House. A president who won't spend Sunday afternoon watching football by himself & choking on a pretzel? We'll take sneaking out to the portico for a puff during a recital over choking yourself to death in front of the LCD/plasma teat any day.

“What I said was that there were times where I have fallen off the wagon,” Obama said. “What I would say is that I have done a terrific job under the circumstances of making myself much healthier, and I think that you will not see any violations of these rules in the White House.”

That's politics at work. And what a pleasure to have a guy who doesn't sound as if he just fell off the proverbial turnip truck (landing on his head) in the Presidency. A guy w/ a regular, West Coast/Telebision accent, for once. A real real American, not some pseudo or real hayseed w/ deep-rooted Oedipal problems (NB: Could as easily be Clinton as Bush!) to get all Freudian on y'all.