here's a question

Why hasn't some rich person built his/her house - or vacation home - to look exactly like the White House?

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It's either going to be funny or patriotic, or both. 

This morning, Barack Obama announced that Joe Biden will be his running mate. So my question is this: look at the three women in the race, and tell me if they're sitting around in McCain's campaign headquarters right now and talking about the obvious...

Michelle Obama

Jill Biden

Cindy McCain

(they've gotta find a guy with a pretty decent looking wife)

Overrated?

I was already getting tired of hearing about Michael Phelps when I picked up a Redeye the other day and saw a picture of Phelps on the cover with the caption, "GREATEST OLYMPIAN EVER."

If I was the editor of the Redeye, that headline would have been, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"

He's not even the fastest swimmer in the world. He is simply the fastest swimmer in certain -- slower -- strokes. Who cares if he's the fastest butterfly stroke swimmer in the world? or the fastest backstroker? or the fastest in all four strokes combined?

Carl Lewis never got to inflate his medal count by winning an extra gold in the backwards 100 meter dash. Can anyone name the fastest side-shuffler in the world?

I can't either.

So why do we give a shit about the fastest butterfly stroker in the world?

Why do we even celebrate the world's fastest swimmer anyway? I'm more impressed by the world's fastest runner. We all should be. I think it's a more important feat.

Does it have anything to do with the fact that the fastest swimmers are always white? And the fastest runners are never white?