Humor Me, Son

Despite all the analysis of how Bush 41 and 43 react and deal with each other, their's remains a unique and in many ways inexplicable father-son bond.The most recent example of how other-worldly is their relationship comes with 43's current Decision Points book-tour stop on Fox and Friends. He related what is supposed to be his dad's joke (although the meme "are my testicles black" has been around for a while) with a nurse anecdote from the book. It's black (ball) humor based on poor diction told by a loving son about an adored father. Somewhere in there is a key to the parent-child world of the Bushes. Somewhere. Somewhere ...

What You See; What You Really Get

One father in the Corono (Calif.) PTA, a past president, thinks his daughter gives him adoring looks when he shows up at school as part of his duties. Maybe she does: she is, after all, still in elementary school ....

It seems more likely though, that the adoring look is him seeing what he wants as he mixes the business of being in his daughter's life and the pleasure. The more likely scenario between father and child is found with young Nathan Upfold. The South African 4-year-old works with his hypnotist father and grandfather as part of their show. Dad thinks he has everything under control and his son just wants to perform. The son believes he has the power to produce extra candy from pops and leave school at midday. And he does.

Face it. The kids are in control no matter what people from outside may think they see. The U.S. president-elect, Barack Obama, will soon have the ideal dad situation: ultimate authority and getting to work from home. Most likely he will find, as have other First SAHDs, that while everyone says they want the perfect stay at home dad situation ... the reality of that perfection is pretty much as Teddy Roosevelt said of first daughter Alice, "I can either run the country or control Alice, not both." He chose the to run the country, because he actually had a chance to do that.

Who's His Daddy

Neo-Canadian Jack Worthington's mum told the 47-year-old former Texan that he is President Kennedy's illegitimate son a few years ago ... he says. And he told President Bush's ex-sister-in-law soon after ... she says.

The only part of this fiction/fact of JFK's legacy —and did we mention that the father of the Bush 41's first White House spokesperson is trying to flog a conspiracy book says it's all linked to his work — that is not unlikely is that the New York Post blames JFK's bro Ted for causing the problem of a son being able to embrace (at least metaphorically) his father.

** Whose Camelot is this? **