Department of the Ironic

Forget just how amazing it is that the presidential election this year is between Barack Obama and John McCain. Instead, consider the incredibly irony of these two facts, given the type of campaign the political right wants to run:

1. Only one of these two candidates was born inside the 50 United States. That candidate? Barack Obama. Yet he's the one who was forced to produce his birth certificate.
2. Only one of these two candidates has a campaign manager who has been accused by the Bush Administration of undercutting American foreign policy by representing foreign agents...and that candidate is John McCain.

Update: Here's an article about John McCain's place of birth, the Panama Canal Zone. He is, of course, every bit as American as Barack Obama, and anyone who argues the McCain is somehow less American than Barack by virtue of having been born overseas is spreading a scurrilous rumor.