Well I am highly offended that I wasn't invited to his birthday bash tonight. I probably could have sold enough stuff, including my car, to come up with the $35,800 per couple folks are paying to do so.
But I wish him well. I just hope he celebrates all his birthdays after 2012 in Illinois.
Interesting news today related to his birthday though.
Apparently the unions are really ticked off at him because he hired a non union crew to work the birthday bash tonight. He'll have to figure out some way to make it up to them.
And he enlisted prisoners to scrub down the sidewalks in front of the theater where the party will be. They aren't union either.
He attended a party/fund raiser thrown in honor of his 50th birthday in Chicago yesterday and is reported to have said this:
"It's been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have. But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we're not even halfway there yet. When I said 'change we can believe in' I didn't say 'change we can believe in tomorrow.' Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy," President Obama said at a campaign fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday night.
It is his birthday, so I won't comment on that statement, but I bet a lot of folks see some really interesting things in it.
And apparently even going on vacation this week, we somehow managed to spend almost ALL of the debt limit increase this week. So. . . . .
Happy birthday, Mr. President. Everybody deserves to be happy on their birthday.