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While The Weekly Standard found a way - they picked on Barack’s ears in this caricature, the New Yorker’s satirical route didn’t work so well.

Joel Stein of the L.A. Times is here to help.

“I called some comedian friends to compile a guide to making fun of Obama.  The consensus is there’s not yet one standout attribute to pound away on.

(McCain is old! Clinton cheats on his wife! Bush is stupid!  Al Gore is a robot! John Kerry makes me feel inexplicably sad inside!), but there are areas to explore.

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The New York Times is reporting that James A. Johnson, the consummate Washington insider whom Senator Barack Obamaa tapped to head his vice-presidential search effort, resigned abruptly on Wednesday to try to silence a growing furor over his business activities.

Johnson’s departure deprives Mr. Obama of decades of experience and access to Washington’s power elite. Johnson has been a fixture in Washington political and legal circles for three decades, and he led the vice-presidential search team for Senator John Kerry, the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 2004, according to the New York Times.

Obama said Wednesday afternoon that “Jim did not want to distract in any way from the very important task of gathering information about my vice-presidential nominee, so he has made a decision to step aside that I accept.”

And the national campaign has officially begun.