News reports today are filled with stories about new research on what makes people smoke. Apparently, after suffering a stroke, a former smoker “forgot” his habit. Researchers discovered he kicked the habit because a deep area of his brain, the size of a silver dollar called the insula, had been damaged.

Very interesting, especially when you consider Barack Hussein Obama’s smoking habit. (An aside: is it just me, or does anyone else find it odd to be lectured about fixing the health care system by a smoker? Please don’t misunderstand. He’s entitled to use a legal product and just because it’s dangerous to his health, of course, he’s still entitled to an opinion about any public policy issue. I’m just asking …). Some have asked whether the fact that He Who Walks on Water’s smoking habit could be a political liability, forgetting what I like to call the Obama Rule: if he does it, it’s not only OK, it’s COOOOL. If his political operatives persuade him otherwise, perhaps he’ll disappear for a few days into a private clinic to treat an undisclosed ailment, during which time he will have doctors inflict damage on his insula so that he can forget to smoke.

Speaking of secret medical procedures, as you know, we never got a peeky-boo at Bill Clinton’s medical records, which reminds me that he reportedly received treatment for sex addiction. With the results of this research in hand, and determined that NOTHING—I mean NOTHING—will be permitted to derail her presidential prospects, do you suppose Hillary will check Bubba into the same secret clinic mentioned above for treatment of his addiction? Should the surgery go awry, the junior senator from New York automatically regains the sympathy that she received in some quarters during the Monica flap, the brave, long-suffering wife, this time committed to not only saving America but caring for her beloved husband, now in that vegetative state that the liberals liked to cite so often when Terri Schiavo was being starved and dehydrated by her cheating husband.

It’s funny how things could work out, no? Adultery symmetry: catch it!

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