Jules Crittenden links to Don Surber's post comparing Barack "I'm Tired!" Obama to Lili Von Shtupp, noting that "There is little in politics that cannot viewed through Blazing Saddles goggles. So who’s Mongo?”

Don responds with his 2008 cast list. I can only add that based on his inspired Brooksian choices, Surber's mind is clearly aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.

(Meanwhile, Alex Beam compares Obama to the co-stars of more recent productions.)