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He used to be commander in chief, but former President Obama says the "top dog" in his household is definitely his wife. "I'm generally the brunt of every joke in my household," Obama said of life with wife Michelle and the couple's two adult daughters, in a Thursday interview on Dax Shepard and Monica Padman's Spotify podcast, "Armchair Expert." "Michelle, she's the top dog because they're scared of her," he quipped of the former first lady and his daughters, Malia, 22, and Sasha, 20. "Michelle always says that you have to have at least one parent who the kids think...

<p>The right has come up with a new line of attack against Barack Obama: He’s too cool.</p> <p>You read that right.</p> <p>Suddenly, it was an act of unpresidential affrontery for Obama to go on Jimmy Fallon’s show. Never mind that presidents and presidential candidates have been doing the late-night thing for two decades, back to Bubba’s sax-playing moment with Arsenio. Never mind that Mitt Romney recited a silly Top Ten list on Letterman and pretended to be reading Kim Kardashian’s tweets. Never mind that George W. Bush went on Oprah. Obama was a bad boy.</p>

Could you imagine if Bush would have stumbled like this? This would be rolling non-stop 24-7: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/media-ignores-obumblers-stumble.html

CHEESY crooner Barry Manilow was unveiled yesterday as a weapon in the fight against teen mobs. Council chiefs say shops should pump out uncool songs such as Barry’s Mandy to scare kids away. The Local Government Association found this was a big hit in Australia and drew up a hit-list of bad-taste tunes. The move came as Children’s Commissioner Sir Al Aynsley-Green called to ban the Mosquito device, which emits a high-pitched sound that only under-25s can hear. THE NAFF TOP FIVE: 1. Mandy – Barry Manilow; 2. Please Release Me – Engelbert Humperdinck

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

Sarah Edwards for NBC, describing this March release film, said: “Steve Martin plays the typical uptight white guy.” (She just loved the movie.) Teamed with Martin is a rapper-turned-actress, a black woman he meets via the internet, and who in the clip shown enters his living quarters, saying, “I absolutely love what you’ve done with the place. It’s so … sterile.” From there, of course, the stupid (un-cool) white man's noveau step-and-fetchit awkwardness generates guffaws as he is introduced to the myriad and far superior elements of modern black American culture which have done so much to improve life in...