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Our President:

President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.

As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

President Bush made the private joke in the summit's closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a [one]-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry. He had given some ground at the summit by saying he would "seriously consider" a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.

I corrected the British euphemism to its American form for clarity. Our President is a gigantic jerk.

Then again, John McCain may well be a bigger one. Setting aside that he called his wife a "cunt," calls audience members "little bastards," and dumped his first wife for a rich heiress when he returned home and found that the first wife had gotten crippled in a car accident.

No, McSame's jerkiness can be expressed in his bone-headed joking about killing random Iranian civilians with lung cancer and emphysema. Or perhaps in his calling Social Security, a program which turned retirement from a path to poverty into the Golden Years, an "absolute disgrace."

However much Barack Obama's vote to gut the 4th Amendment may piss me off, there are a host of ways in which he is a better Senator and will be a better President than either McCain or Bush. Because of his vote, I won't be giving to his campaign any more (I made myself a promise), but there's still the DSCC and DCCC, as well as great candidates like Jim Slattery, Donald Betts and Nancy Boyda who need our support.