obama birthday

Today marks the 48th birthday of President Barack Obama. While you probably won't see him do a birthday dance--like the one Michelle did on her birthday, which you can watch right here--he will likely have some sort of celebration, like lunch with Senate Democrats.As inspiration, here's a look at his past parties. And feel to leave him birthday wishes below.

IQ? Nope, President Obama's latest bowling score, says Robert Gibbs.

You'll remember, the President tossed a miserable 37, or something like that, back in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, causing no end of grief and mockery. (And then there was that more recent gaffe comparing himself to a Special Olympian.)

But Gibbs just told the press that Obama celebrated his birthday (it's Tuesday) at Camp David over the weekend in part by playing a little basketball and, yes, bowling. He threw three strikes and a 9 on his last four tries, Gibbs said.

I'm just saying,Gibbs joked.I told the President, look, if you had done this in Pennsylvania, my life would have been a little easier last spring.We're waiting for the movement demanding to see the President's long-form scoring sheet.

I stood on the press risers in Invesco Field as Senator Obama spoke on my birthday, August 28, and formally accepted the nomination. It was a big high for many of us, but the next day, Senator John McCain picked then Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, and suddenly the press was in a frenzy about the new girl in town.

When you look back on where we were last August, you notice the stunning hypocrisy of the Republican Party in the past year. A year ago today, the Republicans were complaining that Barack Obama wasn't qualified to be president and Sen. McCain was releasing TV But on August 29, McCain picked Palin, a person with no national governing experience, to be his running mate. It was, I believe, the single dumbest move of McCain's ill-fated campaign. How could McCain-Palin complain about Obama's experience when the Arizona senator had picked someone far less qualified than Obama to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?

But they did complain about Obama's qualifications even after Palin was picked. A woman who had barely finished serving as mayor of a tiny town in Alaska had the nerve to denigrate Obama, a distinguished and thoughtful U.S. Senator, as a mere "community organizer."

And a campaign that had just complained about Obama's celebrity had picked a woman who rose to media-created celebrity status overnight, not because of her knowledge or experience, but because McCain wanted a woman he barely knew to try to win disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters.

Just another one of the many hypocritical stands taken by the Republicans in their war against Obama in the past year. So today as the birthers use Obama's birthday as their last attempt to milk the media attention for their lost cause, it's worth remembering that John McCain wasn't born in the United States.