On last night's Daily Show, in response to President Obama pledging to get the US off oil, Jon Stewart played a series of clips showing every President since Nixon making essentially the same broken promise. But it goes even deeper than that. I heard an early draft of The Gettysburg Address had an entire paragraph about ending out dependency on foreign buggy whips. And at his first inauguration, George Washington promised to convert the entire country to zero-emission hydrogen-based typhoid fever.

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Funny or Die and Ron Howard put together this pretty neat video of Saturday Night Live alum doing their presidential characters together. Look, there's Fred Armisen as Barack Obama (and Maya Rudolph as Michelle Obama)! And Will Ferrell as George W. Bush and Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton!

Hey, there's Dana Carvey as George Bush, Sr. and Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford! And Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter! Oh, look, there's Ronald Reagan. Who's playing him? Why, it's classic SNL performer… Jim Carrey? Um, okay. Sure…

I know that I was probably supposed to be paying attention to some kind of message about how we should be giving the banks more (or was it less?) money or something, but I was kind of preoccupied with marveling at Jimmy Carter's amazing girth. I guess he must have eaten Walter Mondale or something.

Maybe the answer to that mystery is in this making-of video after the jump (Spoiler Alert: Don't count on it)…

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Barack Obama has hit the 50 day mark and motherfuck if that guy still hasn't made good on his promise to build every single American a house made out of fellatio.

That bit of disappointment aside, Nate Silver looks at how his approval ratings so far match up with other presidents this far in…

Wow, this is really telling. Only two slots below the great George W. Bush. That's pretty badass. On the other hand, he's just one slot above Ronald Regan. Yuck.

Check out JFK all the way up top with a 73 percent approval rating. Now there was a guy who knew how to make a house out of fellatio.

Delicious fellatio.

Notice anything interesting about all the turkeys being pardoned in these pictures?

That's right! None of these turkeys are from the inner-city.

Last year, Michael Kraskin pointed out here on this blog that in Bush's first seven years in office, not once did he pardon a non-caucasian turkey for Thanksgiving.

But, now, at Political Machine, he's showing us that the problem is much more systemic. It appears that no president since Harry Truman has pardoned a turkey of color. Not even Bill Clinton, our first black turkey president.

Let's hope that Barack Obama has the decency to make change happen and pardon, at least, a mixed-race turkey next year.

Update: Change has not come to America quite yet. Here's President Bush and this year's Thanksgiving pardon recipient, Pumpkin.

Barack Obama — for no particular reason whatsoever, not for an awkward opportunity or anything, I mean — decided, just of his own free will, to go bowling in Altoona, PA — where there might maybe be a really important primary coming up soon — over the weekend for some reason.

And, I'll tell you, Obama may have been compared on several occasions to great Americans like Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, but it doesn't seem like he'll be compared to Johnny Petraglia anytime soon…

"I haven't bowled in 30 years," Obama declared before putting on size 13 1/2 shoes. Casey joined in, and the two rolled. Casey's ball went into the left gutter; Obama's rolled into the right. And so it went, though the locals didn't seem to mind the poor performance…

No, because clearly they could tell that these millionaire politicians were spending time with them strictly for the sheer love of bowling. And I'm sure they realized that they were just rusty and would be improving as they night wore on. And Casey's performance did improve.

And Obama's?

Obama's balls on the on the other hand meandered their way into the gutter time and time again.

Well, I guess we can add Bill Clinton to that list of people he's been compared to.

"My economic plan is better than my bowling!" Obama declared at one point to the crowd that had gathered around the lane, growing with each frame as patrons texted and called friends and family to see the political spectacle.

Well, I should hope so. Sounds like George Bush's economic plan is better than Obama's bowling.