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In case there was any doubt the Republican Party is run by fools who never matured past 13 years of age:

The Republican National Committee (RNC) sent the Democratic National Committee (DNC) a birthday cake on Friday,

The cake read “you didn’t bake this” over a picture of President Obama. Text written in icing reads, “Happy birthday, Mr. President.” The cake marks the occasion of the president’s birthday, which is Saturday, with a play on the “you didn’t build that” controversy.

As always, the GOPers have nothing real to run on so they’re reduced to juvenile stunts. I’m sure the 27%ers found it hilarious. High fives all around. But I rather liked the Dems response:

[T]he Democrats sent the cake back.

“This is typical of Mitt Romney’s approach to the middle class,” DNC spokeswoman Melanie Roussell told The Hill. “He wants to ‘Let them eat cake!’ while robbing them blind. We sent the cake back to the RNC, along with a copy of the Tax Center’s report on Mitt Romney’s tax plan.”

In any event today is President Obama’s birthday. Wishing him a grand celebration and many blessings on his way to the next one.

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  2. 2.

    Allen

    I have to admit that is rather clever, though it doesn’t mitigate the absolute fact that most modern-day Republicans have not indeed matured past 13 years of age.

    And the Democratic response is even more clever.

  7. 7.

    Smiling Mortician

    @Allen: Clever? Well, maybe if Obama had actually, y’know, claimed to have baked his own birthday cake. But since he didn’t . . . it’s just sophomoric.

  9. 9.

    scav

    Hipy Papy Bthuthdth Thuthda Bthuthdy!

    And may the next 4 be at least theoretically in the WH. I hope that the first one is and that there’s a VERY large sheet cake with a motto. . . .

  10. 10.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    Wishing my favorite President a very happy birthday.

    Fuck the RNC, the GOP, and teabaggers everywhere.

  13. 13.

    MikeJ

    @Ohmmade: They left out the fact that the lumber yard is probably organized as a corporation, which is the government saying that nobody can go after the owner’s personal assets when the business fails, or their substandard wood kills someone.

  14. 14.

    dmsilev

    And here I was thinking that the honking bus marked a nadir in GOP maturity. Silly me.

    How long until Romney personally moons the White House?

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    @Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937:

    You didn’t born yerself!

    Actually, Obama did. That was how he faked being born in Hawaii, by going back in time and making sure all of the “evidence” was properly seeded. At that point, assisting at his own birth just seemed like common sense.

  16. 16.

    The Dangerman

    I would have sent it back after the Secret Service had it tested for poisons, explosives, etc.

  20. 20.

    Alex S.

    Well, they’re right, Obama didn’t bake that cake. But that doesn’t actually refute his point…. it confirms it.

  21. 21.

    quannlace

    Oh man. I just realized I’m older than the friggin’ President of the United States!

    Happy Birthday anyway, Commander!

  22. 22.

    Libby Spencer

    Meanwhile, Mark Knoller is in his summer cranky mode and would like you all to know: “Pres Obama is playing golf today on the course at Joint Base Andrews, his 48th time out of 104 rounds of golf.”

  25. 25.

    FlipYrWhig

    I hope the RNC had the cake made by someone who also built the entire mesh of services that allowed the cake-baking business to exist, or else they’d run the risk of being inconsistent and/or ignorant for the purposes of hoodwinking a claque of dumbasses.

  26. 26.

    Zifnab

    I suspect the time and energy invested in this cake was a valuable expenditure of taxpayer and/or campaign donor resources.

  27. 27.

    quannlace

    How long until Romney personally moons the White House?”

    And he’ll have ‘Don’t Tread On Me.” written on his backside.

    (Lisa: I’m amazed you could write so legibly on your own butt.’)

  28. 28.

    quannlace

    How long until Romney personally moons the White House?”

    And he’ll have ‘Don’t Tread On Me.” written on his backside.

    (Lisa: I’m impressed you could write so legibly on your own butt.’)

  29. 29.

    Doggie D

    The President is really a very great guy and we should all take a minute today to reflect on his generosity towards us.

  30. 30.

    Lahru

    you know there’s nothing wrong with a little humor in a political campaign. It’s just that these R’s are so immature in their choice of jokes, I thinks rational Americans get the gist of you didn’t build that and all and they really harden their 27% at the exspense of everyone else. Oh, the 27% and the N-clang haters, which probobly adds up to 48% of the voters.

  31. 31.

    Libby Spencer

    @Hill Dweller: I’m actually inexplicably fond of the guy. But he does get tiresome when the weather gets hot. Generally scroll over his tweets in the summer months.

  32. 32.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Alex S.: I bet if the cake had made it to him, he would have said so. Libby, as Alex points out, this is an even bigger fail by the Repubs.

  34. 34.

    Stuck In 60s

    @dmsilev:

    “How long until Romney personally moons the White House?”

    If synchronized mooning were an Olympic event, Rafalca and Mitt’s 5 IRA-sons would already be on Pennsylvania Avenue.

  35. 35.

    quannlace

    It’s just that these R’s are so immature in their choice of jokes,

    I’m still rolling in the aisles over that Purple Heart bandaid they were wearing at the R Convention, to mock Kerry.

  39. 39.

    gbear

    “I’m not sure about this cake. It doesn’t look like you made it. No, no. It came from the local 7-eleven, bakery, or whatever.”

  40. 40.

    gnomedad

    It’s not the horriblest thing evah, but is there any prececent for the opposition ridiculing the President on his birthday?

  41. 41.

    Mnemosyne

    I really hope some Republican staffer made that in their kitchen, because otherwise that thing belongs on Cake Wrecks. Seriously, the bakery couldn’t figure out how to center the photo?

    ETA: Yes, this is part 1,646,753 of my rant entitled, “Why Can’t Supposed Professionals Do Their Goddamned Jobs Competently?”

  42. 42.

    Hal

    @Allen:

    It’s sort of like laughing at your own jokes. Plus, no one bakes there own bday cakes except in movies featuring lonely women who live alone with their cats.

  44. 44.

    Anya

    The republicans are always pulling these sophomoric pranks. Last year Mittenz send leftover pizza to Obama headquarters. Who does that?

    Via Jim Newel:

    The nameless ghost who writes Twitter’s “Mitt Romney” account notified the American public of this extraordinary display of charity yesterday afternoon, tweeting, “Great deep dish at @ginoseast. Sending the extra slices to @barackobama and his Chicago HQ team.” Heh indeed, another classic idea from Camp Mitt. But the campaign really did deliver its leftover p

    izza to Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters.

  45. 45.

    delphi_ote

    Better response for the DNC: “Neither did you, but at least we’re not taking credit for everyone else’s hard work.”

  46. 46.

    Ruckus

    13?
    Way too much credit. I normally give them 8-10 and will stretch to 12 for the less batshit. Both of them.

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @Anya:

    If you don’t understand that, you’ve never been to Gino’s East. It really is the top Chicago-style pizza in town.

    That actually makes more sense to me than that incompetently decorated cake.

  49. 49.

    Wag

    Give the RNC a break. This is exactly the same as when some unknown leftist called GWB a nazi.

    Edit. This comment didn’t come off as snarky as I hoped

  53. 53.

    Tony the Wonderhorse

    but, but, someone else baked the cake.

    I mean, the people who said “You didn’t bake this,” didn’t bake it.

  56. 56.

    Elie

    They are just so lame ass… seriously. Its like running against a 14 year old and his homies. They couldn’t get him ready for the international arena but they can send stupid cakes and run their buses around Obama’s events? Seriously. They are an insult to stupid… they are moving into a whole other class of fail…

  57. 57.

    AA+ Bonds

    Well Obama did not bake that cake, much as business owners did not build the roads that allow their businesses to function

    I am not sure this was thought through

  59. 59.

    ralph wiggum

    When you talk to a Romney person just say ‘You didn’t build that’ over and over. It pisses them off. I do it every day so I know.

  60. 60.

    Patricia Kayden

    Dang. I clapped when I read that the DNC sent the cake back! Good move.

    Boy, no one is going to celebrate as hard as I am if Obama wins. The Repubs deserve to get beaten like a bongo drum. They can’t get any lower in my opinion. We’ll see. They’re so desperate.

  61. 61.

    mainmati

    Apparently, someone did some research on the famous saying and discovered that it was mistranslation. Queen Marie Antoinette apparently really said: “If they have no bread let them eat brioche.” Which is equally clueless but I suspect the French were more likely back then to eat more brioche than cake which was more common to the Germans and Brits.

  62. 62.

    Honus

    Yep, no government involvement in the lumber business starting with the fact that every stick of construction lumber in that guys yard has a government grade stamp on it.

  64. 64.

    Mnemosyne

    @mainmati:

    There’s actually no evidence that Marie Antoinette said it at all. There were a whole lot of slander sheets that were vilifying her before the Revolution, and it looks like someone took a much older quote and attributed it to her.

    Believe it or not, the Sofia Coppola Marie Antoinette movie is actually fairly historically accurate since it’s primarily basedon the Antonia Fraser biography. Plus it has songs by Bow Wow Wow! :-)

    @redoubt:

    Of course you realize that this means war.
    /Bugs

  65. 65.

    iLarynx

    Who the f*ck bakes their own birthday cake anyway? Once again the GOP has reality bass-ackwards.

    Republicans: Always trying to out-stupid themselves, and always successful at it.

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