Politicians
sometimes want to make people believe that they are just like us, that
they can relate to our problems. Barack Obama definitely did that for
me by telling reporters that he and wife Michelle would soon be
celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary next week. Michelle's
spokesperson quickly released a statement pointing out that, in fact,
it was their 16th anniversary. Um, oops. This husbandly gaffe prompted
MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann to include Barack in the "Worst
Person of the Week" list, although Barack lost out to Karl Rove. Here's
the video; the Obama part is at the beginning if you don't want to hear
the rest of Olbermann's spiel (although the part where he talks about
Rove is pretty good):
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