Presidential Prerogative

By Baxter

One of the advantages of being President is that you get to do neat stuff — like move furniture, artwork and sculptures around the White House to reflect your taste and/or political persuasion.

For example, President Obama has returned to the United Kingdom a bust of Winston Churchill that had been lent by the U.K. government to George W. Bush after September 11. Our right-wing friends over at Free Republic — and, we're sure, other places — are just beside themselves about this. (Never mind that Mr. Obama is replacing Churchill with a bust of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln.)

But that's what President Obama gets to do. It's his Oval Office now.

Ditto the White House website. Practically at the stroke of noon on January 20, someone in Obama World pressed a button, and a fabulous new site took the place of the previous Administration's clunky old one.

But here's what we cats like best about it: To see a slideshow of Presidential pets, you have to click on Socks Clinton. Sure beats clicking on Barney!

We're sure this will last only until the Obamas get a pet of their own. But in the meantime, as you can probably guess, we cats PURR.