Ripping On Dowd

This is funny. As you may know, NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd has a bizarre obsession with Barack Obama's diet. In her mind, the fact that he eats, you know, healthy food somehow makes him weird or foreign to her. Not sure how anyone can actually think like this, especially after 8 years of a disastrous peanut butter-and-jelly president, but so be it.

Anyway, on the occasion of Obama's 47th birthday, he served cake to the reporters in the back of his plane. And check out this snippet:

When a reporter turned down his offer of birthday cake (not this reporter), Obama joked, "No cake? Maureen Dowd will write a story about you not eating cake! Don't want to be an elitist now!"

Happy Birthday, Barack. You are now only 24 years younger than McCain...at least until August 29th.