Robin Givhan The Washington Post

August 22, 2009

Robin Givhan
The Washington Post
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Washington, DC 20071

RE: Shorts, short selling and other things – Some comments on your article in the Washington Post.

Ms. Givhan,

I think you may fit the template for this month’s “wretched un-idea’d girl”.

Since you know nothing about short selling, its function in the marketplace, and by inference, anything about any market, your comments on the attire of the wife of Lord Barack the Beneficent and blessed be his name are shrouded in doubt. For all I know you may want her to wear them upside down, inside out, and backwards.

Further on you say

“Unlike the President, whose entire life, down to his
medical history, is available for public scrutiny…”

If that is the case the quickest way to stop the “birthers” from befouling the political atmosphere is for him to release his birth certificate.

Unlike the 35% of Americans who believe that the United States engineered 9/11 the “birthers” are a pox and a plague on the common weal. Soon the smoking gun behind the Bush decision to invade Iraq to secure a family owned gas pipeline across Kafiristan will be found. Such is the power of these “birthers” they have Nancy Pelosi seeing Nazis everywhere. Even the Chicago Hack Alumni Club, currently in residence at the White House, was so unnerved by them that it decided to “push back twice as hard”.

All he has to do is release his birth certificate and the voice of the turtle will be heard in the land. Health care will pass in 2 to 3 days. A “wise Latina” will be followed by a “wise Uighur” who will be followed by a “wise Jovian”. Lambs will volunteer to lie down with lions. Single mothers, all women of color with children in need of a good Ritalin program who are too far away from the joys of Midnight Basketball, will find themselves farting through silk.

All this, and more, much more will happen as soon as he opens the wax sealed envelope that says “Birth Certificate – Do Not Open”.

Was it Justice Stewart who said that while he couldn’t define obscenity he knew it when he saw it?

The evidence of my own eyes suggests that if BO’s wife wears Saint John Knits the skirt is going to be 2 sizes bigger than the top.

Maybe she could get some stretch pants from Madeline Albright or Janet Reno. Hillary Clinton will be going to a bigger size soon so there may be some bargains there.

Maybe she is too “proud” to forget her roots.

Cut her some slack[s].





Kevin Smith