Well, almost...

Nothing says unamerican like visiting your grandmother.

Well, she isn't even an American. *I* heard she's actually a C.H.U.D. Do we want a president who would visit his non-American C.H.U.D. grandmother in some foreign country like Hawaii?!?

It really is the apocalypse, isn't it?

I didn't expect Scola to get to Venezuela so quickly...

I will so be back because the hospitality of the bayistas is incredible!

YAY! And it's because you RAWK!

My apologies to Loehmann's.

Perhaps I should go there and apologize for you in person.

Lately I've heard some really dumbass shit on NPR.

At least 38 Venezuelans have died as a result of a suspected outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats.

And suddenly I'm concerned about Allyson's bat.

Mind you, it's one of vanishingly few things Bush has done that I actually think is nice and genuinely patriotic rather than jingoistic or malevolent.

Except that he looked bored out of his mind. If I thought he had any leadership skills, I would suggest that the Russia/Georgia problem might need his attention a bit more than Women's Gymnastics.

Oh, and now the McCain campaign and the RNC are saying that Obama's private school (that he attended on a scholarship) is evidence of his elitist background.

Team McCain and the RNC issued reporters a mock "Barack Obama's Hawaii Travel Guide," which lambasts Obama for attending the Punahou School from 1971 to 1979. Despite the fact that Obama, who was raised by a single mother and attended the school on scholarship, the McCain campaign depicted him as the child of privilege.

Of course, McCain's own prep school, which now runs $38K a year to attend, doesn't mean that he is elitist, no siree bob!

"While John McCain went to private school, he also went to public university," said [campaign spokesman] Bounds. "The Naval Academy is as public as public gets," he added, noting that a four-year military commitment is required following school.

His father being an admiral had nothing to do with his getting into that "public" university, apparently.

Of course, McCain's own prep school, which now runs $38K a year to attend, doesn't mean that he is elitist, no siree bob!

Or say, Bush, who not only went to Yale and Harvard, but also Phillips Academy Andover, which, as discussed previously, is one of the Select Sixteen. Apart from choosing Andover over Phillips Academy Exeter, it doesn't get more elitist than that.

Ha! Now the craxies have tied the Hawaii trip and the citizenship thing together.

He’s in Hawaii to try to somehow get around his forged Hawaiian Birth Certificate. Maybe his sister or grandmother have a connection to get a new one. His grandmother was a bank higher-up in Hawaii.

This would be awesome if it weren't so sad.

I wonder if this is to try to distract people from the legal question about McCain's citizenship (which, while valid, is also ridiculous).