Businessman Earl Stafford is planning on spending $1 million for the Obama inauguration.
The kicker: most of the money is going toward tickets, gowns, tuxedos and transportation for needy, underpriviledged people, as well as wounded vets.
She wasn't being rude, but Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen hung up on Barack Obama and then on her chief of staff.
The congresswoman said she thought it was a joke being played by a radio station.
Barack Obama says he reads a lot about Abraham Lincoln, a former president he admires.
So this columnist suggests Obama might want to keep following Lincoln and grow a beard.
We've had schools and streets renamed for the president-elect, so why not just go ahead and create "Barack Obama Day."
Yep, a small Alabama county has done just that.
Just so you know, those neat little $1 coins with Obama's picture on them aren't legal tender. Apparently, it's getting to the point where the U.S. Mint is having to issue press releases to that effect.
"Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new economic team. You know what he should do? Hire those people who were in charge of his fundraising campaign. We can pay this thing off in like a week." --Jay Leno