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Now that Mad Men fever is back in full swing, you have to check out this brilliant video our friend Will Rabbe produced for The Chris Matthews show. It is a spoof on the Mad Men intro, with President Obama as Don Draper. More»

Last week, President Obama joined Instagram. This week, first lady Michelle Obama joins Twitter! [@michelleobama]

Both accounts are being run by Barack's re-election campaign. All tweets from Michelle herself will be signed "-mo." She sent her first "-mo" tweet about 20 minutes ago.

President Obama proves yet again that he is a politico that is "with it" and has joined the iPhone photo sharing platform Instagram.

From the Instagram blog:

We’re excited to welcome President Barack Obama to Instagram! We look forward to seeing how President Obama uses Instagram to give folks a visual sense of what happens in the everyday life of the President of the United States. In addition to sharing photos through the @barackobama Instagram account, the Obama 2012 staff is asking supporters to share their photos from the campaign trail with the tag #obama2012.

His account is run by staff of the Obama 2012 campaign, and so far there are three pictures up--and all of them are using the funky Instagram photo filters. Neat-o.

Let's see how the fundraising efforts of various presidential candidates are going this election cycle, and where you can get an awesome doodad to contribute to your favorite candidate's success.

Herman Cain’s 5-minute gaffe on Obama’s Libya policy, recorded by the Journal Sentinel editorial board, has gone viral on Youtube in less than a day. The entire brain fart is worth watching. [Youtube] If you can’t watch the video at work, save it for later, but here are some memorable moments. More»

Last night during the Republican Presidential Debate, one of the few candidates that had a fighting chance, Rick Perry, made a huuuuge mistake when he was naming the government agencies he wants to cut if he's elected. When I first watched this, I thought he messed up by saying he was cutting education. But it gets worse...[WATCH THE VIDEO] More»

It's always election time here in DC, but for the 2012 presidential election we've got a motley crew of misfits that pretty much guarantee months of comedic gold and national shame. Here are some viral gems we've found around the net featuring some of the current candidates vying for the presidency. [VIEW SLIDESHOW]

The new book by Joe McGinniss, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin uncovers all sorts of details about Sarah Palin's wild streak through the years.

Apparently she was a big cokehead (and her husband, too) and has had all kinds of affairs, including a one-night stand with NBA star Glen Rice.

The Atlantic did a great rundown on some of the juice in the book.

Girl, don't you know you shouldn't run for president when your closet is overflowing with skeletons??

Photo courtesy Reuters

Obama Bday Not your usual birthday check from Grandma...

Today is President Obama's 50th birthday!

He did most of the celebrating last night (seems like Thursday would be more fun than Wednesday, at least you're hungover with everyone else on Friday at work) in Chicago with two grand campaign fundraising parties.

That's Layman, not Lehman.

Sun setting over the Treasury Building

We know our readers that have been holed up on Capitol Hill will skip this entry, but for our readers that have been acting like they know what's going on--you're welcome:

The U.S. Debt Ceiling is set at $14.294 trillion, which is the amount of debt the United States is allowed to carry to pay off bills. This is basically our country's credit card limit--except instead of credit cards, we issue bonds to citizens and institutions. We also borrow money from other countries, like China. China owns about one trillion dollars of our debt. How nice of them to spot us.

We officially hit this ceiling in May. As written by the Wall Street Journal, the Treasury has been using "stopgap measures" to keep paying bills, but will be totally out of money on August 2, although some analysts say we might be able to last until August 10. Ouch.

We tend to stay pretty apolitical, or should we say apathetic, when it comes to matters of government, but with the D.C. Democratic Primary coming up tomorrow, the time is ripe for a tabulation of all the misdeeds (or bad press, depending on your P.O.V.) that current Mayor Adrian Fenty has run up during his since taking office in 2007. More»