Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition

[Crone]

WASHINGTON—After months of heated negotiations and failed attempts to achieve any kind of consensus, President Obama turned 50 years old Thursday, drawing strong criticism from Republicans in Congress. "With the host of problems this country is currently facing, the fact that our president is devoting time to the human process of aging is an affront to Americans everywhere," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who advocated a provision to keep Obama 49 at least through the fall of 2013. "To move forward unilaterally and simply begin the next year of his life without bipartisan support—is that any way to lead a country?" According to White House officials, Obama attempted to work with Republicans right up until the Aug. 4 deadline, but was ultimately left with no choice except to turn a year older.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-t...ion,21061/

[Red White and Blue]

Kind of sad really when you require your best friends to give you a $36,000 cash birthday gift per person for the privilege of attending your birthday party. Really sad. I wonder if he took checks?

[Crone]

(And they have absolutely NO sense of humor)

[PonderThis]

Kind of sad really when you require your best friends to give you a $36,000 cash birthday gift per person for the privilege of attending your birthday party. Really sad. I wonder if he took checks?

For you, that's cash only.

[Scrapper]

[Red White and Blue]

Maybe you should send him some mints

[Crone]

Amen...ain't that the truth.

[Snowlover]

Well, the one good thing about B-day party was it gave him incentive to come to an agreement on the debt issue since he said if it wasn't done by then, he wasn't going to attend the party.

[illcommandante]

I didn't mind my wife charging me to come to her birthday party, until I found out about the deal she gave her boyfriends.