Today is the 47th birthday of Barack ‘Barry’ Hussein Obama, the presumptive (presumptuous?) presidential nominee of the Democratic Party for 2008. I hope it is a great one for him. It just might be his last for a while.

I do wish that it might not be the last great one he has for 8 years because his own wish for himself is for something I expect to be demanding and thankless and maybe impossible. He wants to bite off a huge challenge taking the helm of a once great nation that has been plundered and violated and driven into a ditch by a bunch of thugs and gangsters who will likely be long gone, unreachable, and held unaccountable when Presumident Obama and the rest of us try to see what we have left, what can be fixed and saved, or what the hell we can do.

I hope he has a good one today. I hope after 8 tough years he will be leaving the office intact with a tremendous amount of pride and deserved adulation and thanks for having saved the country and maybe the world. He will only be around my age then with a couple of teenage daughters and wife Michelle. He seems to like to take care of himself so maybe the presidency will not exact the same toll on him that it has on others. Then he can just move on to that organic arugula farm and drink exotic teas and hopefully the rest of us will be in higher cotton.

I wish him well in all of his Obamagance as I also hope for the best for all of us.

Thanks to the R’n’R Historian in Berlin for pointing to the artist Juke for this image.

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