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Monday, November 17

Barack Obama’s to-do list

by Toby Ward on Mon 17 Nov 2008 03:12 PM PST

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s to-do list (from Gerry Flahive, The Globe and Mail (Canada):

1. Buy puppy.

2. Return You Don't Mess with the Zohan DVD to video store; ask for refund as it kept skipping on special features.

3. Fix global economy.

4. Win war in Afghanistan.

5. Choose puppy name from short list: Carbon Neutral, Alexis de Tocqueville or Mr. Giggles?

6 Buy chew toy for puppy (or several? How fast do they go through these

things?)

7. Renew our historically strong ties with the Dominion of Canada, asserting America's respect for its cultural and political independence, and ever-so-delicately renegotiating only several small clauses in the North American free-trade agreement, all the while assuring the Canadians of our sincere goal of improving trade without harming that nation's vital potash industry. (Canadians will laugh hysterically to this… the others will scratch their heads. It’s a cultural thing).

8. Train puppy.

9. Find out if suede is considered "presidential."

10. Send change-of-address form to post office.

11. Return the $150,000 worth of Nike basketball shoes to the Democratic National Committee.

12. Change status on Face-book to "is now president-elect."

13. Wean self slowly off Grecian Formula.

14. Buy more Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer.

15. Start work on inaugural address; appropriate to mention puppy?

It goes down the list to 44 items but rapidly becomes less amusing...

Here’s my (Toby Ward's) “Web to-do list” for President-elect Obama:

1- Facebook friend invite Dick Cheney

2- Horrified by his friends list, “remove” Dick Cheney from friends