Does he really deserve a break today?

I never was a huge fan of Robert Gibbs, President Obama's 2008 campaign spokesman who became his first press secretary. At his "best," he was a bland comedown from the promise of the '08 campaign, not unlike his boss in some of the lower moments. Occasionally he even attacked the people who got him and Obama their jobs, the so-called "professional left." That was better, at least, than the time he defended the U.S. drone killing of a 16-year-old American citizen by stating the boy "should [have] had a more responsible father."

Gibbs became a highly paid soporific pundit, and today he became the rarest of all creatures -- a fast-food worker who just got a big raise. The former Obama mouthpiece was hired as McDonald's chief spokesman, where he'll presumably be the counterweight to Michelle Obama's healthy eating initiatives when he's not defending wage theft and sub-living paychecks underwritten by the American taxpayer.

Is this a great county or what? I'm looking forward to Gibbs' statement that a young worker trying to support herself on $7.25 an hour "should [have] had a more responsible father."

Blogger's note: Light blogging today as I work on non-blogging things.