Brrrrrrrrrrrrring! Brrrrrrrrrrrrring!

MANIFESTO

Contrary to appearances, President Failure is still alive.

Before announcing his plan for withdrawing troops from Iraq, President Obama made an intriguing courtesy call on Friday morning: to former president George W. Bush, who began the war that Obama has so vehemently opposed.

White House officials did not elaborate on the call, which Obama placed from a holding room at Camp Lejeune just moments before he gave his long-awaited speech. Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said Obama made the call "as a courtesy" to the former president.

With Texas Republicans pleading with XLIII to leave his bunker, it's nice to know that at least one person remembers his existence.