My health insurance: $20,000, but Obama will "whup 'em"

By GottaLaff

Mr. Laffy had a surprise for me last night: This year's health insurance will cost us $20,000. The Writers Guild won't cover us any more because he works on a reality show, and reality show Guild members don't qualify. You all remember that little fun fact from the writers' strike, don't you? So we're on our own now, as is one of our twins, who has Crohn's Disease.

Enter Barack Obama:

Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee, signaled Thursday that he means really business when it comes to health care reform.

An elderly African-American man presented Obama, the first African-American to secure the nomination of a major party, with a gift. Charles Edwards, who told Obama he was 95 years old, gave Obama a long maple walking stick.

"It's beautiful," Obama told Edwards. "And, if members of Congress don't pass my health care bill, I'm ready," Obama said wielding the stick as supporters laughed and cheered.

"I'll whup 'em," he joked. "They better not mess with me. I'll have that stick."

Please whup 'em soon, Barack. Soon we won't even be able to afford one of those sticks.