Lost Barack Obama 'Johnnycakes' Tape Surfaces

Now, the truth comes out. Barack Obama has a thing for "johnnycakes." I didn't even know those were a real thing, I thought "The Sopranos" made it up.

As lost tapes go, this is a pretty stark contrast from the stuff the wingnuts tried to push on us during the campaign. It's good to win. It's also good to see that Obama has better taste in restaurants than his Surgeon General-Designate.

The LA Times explains:

One of my Chicago pals just passed along a fascinating pair of vintage video clips from a Chicago-based PBS restaurant review show, "Check, Please!" Back in 2001, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune, the show invited a trio of amateur reviewers to pick their favorite restaurants.

One of the participants was Obama, then a largely unknown state senator. His fellow amateur critics, a local firefighter and a retail buyer, were no match for him.

They actually canned the episode because Obama was too good. Is there anything he's not good at? The guy is like Buckaroo Banzai.

I hope this isn't the last video treasure to emerge from Obama's past. I'm still looking forward to his lost "Star Wars" audition.

As Stormtrooper: "We are the 'droids we've been looking for."

As Luke: (casting director, off camera) "You don't actually have to walk on the sky, it's just the character's name."

As Darth Vader: "Luke, I am your father. And you were born in Kenya."

Here are the 2 excerpts from the show that are available on YouTube. Bon Appetit!

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Bonus content: I thought my conservative friends would get a kick out of this screenshot of the web ad that accompanied the "Check, Please!" video. All I can say is, "Mwah-ha-ha! Suck it, conservatives!"