"No cake? Maureen Dowd will write a story about you not eating cake! Don't want to be an elitist now

When a reporter turned down his offer of birthday cake (not this reporter), Obama joked, "No cake? Maureen Dowd will write a story about you not eating cake! Don't want to be an elitist now!"

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"You know, I mean, Jake, I will leave that up to you to make your analysis," Obama said. "One thing I’ve learned is to not read daily tracking polls. If I had been reading daily tracking polls I think I would have quit right around August of last year, wouldn’t I?"

Obama said attacks were not a problem. "I’m not one to suggest that there’s anything wrong with them hitting us hard on things that they fundamentally disagree with me on," he said. "I mean I think there is a very real difference in our tax policies, there is a very real difference in our energy politics, there is a very real difference in our health care policies, and they have a right to make their arguments.

"My sense was last week wasn’t about any of that stuff," he said. "It was all about seeing if they can slap onto me a certain caricature that will help carry them though the election.

"Last week I think was just a series of distractions," he said. "It felt like, you know, I guess it's a squid that sends out ink..."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/celebratory-oba.html

Was that Maureen?

Prozac or your psycho-elixir cocktail of the day.

Ummm...Cake, please?