You're So Vain

When Donald Trump reappeared on the campaign trail this week to support Mitt Romney, I couldn't resist Carly Simon's great song "You're So Vain."

You walked into my fundraiser
Like you were a launching a TV show
Your hair strategically coiffed upon your head
Like a lawn in need of a good mow
You had one eye in the mirror
As you flashed your gleaming smile
And all the girls wished that they had your money
They had your money, and

You’re so vain

You probably think this song is about you

You’re so vain

I’ll bet you think this song is about you

Don’t you?  Don’t you?

You told me several months ago

That you’d make me the president

Now my aides are worried that your birther views

Could shrink the size of my elect’ral tent

For you question where Barack was born

In Hawaii, I’ve told you so

But you refuse to accept what the truth is

Accept what the truth is, and

You’re so vain

You probably think this song is about you

You’re so vain

I’ll bet you think this song is about you

Don’t you?  Don’t you?

Well, I hear that you call yourself “The Donald,”

This seems excessive I have to say

But your wealth from all that real estate

Is what I need for my Election Day

You’re not my type I know it’s so

But I have a big campaign

And all I need is the cash that you dole out

Cash that you dole out, and

You’re so vain

You probably think this song is about you

You’re so vain

I’ll bet you think this song is about

Don’t you?  Don’t you?

The Birth Certificate

What's striking about Barack Obama's birth certificate is that we actually have a President of the United States

* with the name Barack Hussein Obama II

* with an address at 6085 Kalaniansole Highway, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

* with an African father from Kenya, East Africa

* and with a Caucasian mother from Wichita, Kansas.

The ongoing flap over this birth certificate is the direct result of the information above. Many Americans have never gotten over the fact that a majority of us elected a black man as President of the United States. To them, funny-sounding words like Kalaniansole and Oahu aren't really American words; Kenya is simply not a part of the civilized world; and an 18-year-old white woman from Kansas had no business having a child with an African man--let alone a child who would one day become President of the United States.

Mr. Obama is generous to call this monstrous distraction "silliness." In fact, it's bigotry through and through.