While President Bush was vilified by the mainstream media for his handling of the crisis in the South during Hurricane Katrina, President Obama is getting a free pass in his handling -- or lack of handling -- of the mess in Middle America where thousands are still without power thanks to last week's ice storm.

Check out this blog post by my colleague Tony Phyrillas.

Lindsay Lohan has done it again.

In an interview with "Access Hollywood," the troubled 22-year-actress referred to President-elect Barack Obama as the country's "first colored president."

Yep, she said it.

According to the Associated Press story, in describing her experience on Election Day, Lohan said: "It was really exciting. It's an amazing feeling. It's our first colored president.

A spokesman for the syndicated entertainment news program said in a statement Wednesday: "We believe the word in question that Ms. Lohan used was unintelligible."

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In a recent poll at http://www.pottsmerc.com/, nearly 57% of voters believe GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin would beat Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in a game of one-on-one basketball.

Palin was a point guard on the basketball team in high school and led Wasilla High School in Alaska to the small-school championship in 1982. She was nicknamed Sarah "Barracuda" for her style of play.

Obama, you might remember from an earlier post, was shown rolling gutter balls in an appearance at a bowling alley in Altoona, Pa., during a campaign stop in March.

Last week, legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen announced on his Web site that he was supporting Barack Obama for the presidency.

While I'm sure Obama supporters are excited to have such a person of The Boss' stature behind their candidate, they might want to look at Springsteen's history of backing presidential losers.

In 1984, President Reagan used Springsteen's anthem "Born In The USA" during his re-election campaign. Springsteen, shown above in an Associated Press photo, asked the president to stop as he was supporting Democratic candidate Walter Mondale. Reagan obliged and in the election, he trounced Mondale in a landslide victory.

In 2004, Springsteen was one of the brains behind MTV's "Rock the Vote" campaign, in which liberals in entertainment tried to use their influence to get younger voters out to support Sen. John Kerry against President Bush. And we all know the kind of success he had there.

So beware, Barack. You might be "Born to Run," but I hope you aren't "Blinded by the Light" of Springsteen's influence.

Barack Obama showed last week in Altoona, Pa., that bowling isn't his sport. I don't know what is, but it certainly isn't bowling.

The Democratic presidential candidate showed his "skill" at a campaign stop at the Pleasant Valley Lanes on Saturday, shown in the Associated Press photo at right.

You don't even need to be much of an athlete to be able to bowl. Case in point -- me. My high score is 220. I used to average about 160 and that was by only bowling a few times a year.

Even little kids manage to roll the ball down the center of the lane. But as a liberal Democrat, I guess every ball Obama rolled went left -- and into the gutter. His score -- an embarassing 37. And that was just over 7 frames. I'm a lefty like Obama, but I'd be able to double that score using my right hand.

Perhaps Barack should have tried the Fred "Twinkletoes" Flintstone approach.

Sen. Bob Casey, who was campaigning with Obama, didn't fare much better, as he lit up the scoreboard with a whopping 71 pins.

Taking note of Obama's bowling "skills," Democratic opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton showed a rare sense of humor and, according to the Associated Press, offered a challenge to Obama on Tuesday:

"This has been a very hard fought race," she said. "We clearly need to do something so that our party and our people can make the right decision. So, I have a proposal."
The tension grew. Reporters shifted in their seats. Was she dropping out of the race? Offering to join rival Barack Obama as his running mate?
April Fools!
"Today, I am challenging Senator Obama to a bowl-off," Clinton said, provoking relieved laughs from the assembled scribes.
Clinton carried on, making reference to Obama's
disastrous outing at a Pennsylvania bowling alley Saturday.
"A bowling night. Right here in Pennsylvania. The winner take all," she went on. "I'll even spot him two frames.
"It is time for his campaign to get out of the gutter and allow all the pins to be counted. I'm prepared to play this game all the way to the tenth
frame. When this game is over, the American people will know that when that phone rings at 3 a.m., they'll have a president ready to bowl on day one.
"Let's strike a deal and go bowling for delegates. We don't have a moment to spare, because it's already April Fool's Day. Happy April Fool's Day."

Maybe Hillary learned to bowl while ducking sniper fire in Bosnia.