Obama cartoon

As luck would have it, my computer had to go into the shop, so I can't scan anything new for a few days. In the interim, here's a golden oldie from 2008.  Oddly, it still applies to the situation.  Note that I hadn't yet captured Michelle's "attitude."

Can my brother's baby mend family issues?

"Nothin' melts a heart like a grandchild will"

I remember hearing that line in the song "Jacob's Ladder" by Mark Wills clear back in 1996. I guess I never really believed that could happen, but now that my older brother is having his first baby (also my mom's first grandchild), I'm starting to see that the song was right in so many ways.

(Before I explain that, I want to say something about the