John Boehner --- Nowhere Man

At the end of the ceremony, Sir Paul appeared to offer praise of Obama while taking a jab at President Bush. “After the last eight years, it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is,” he said.

The view that Obama is more of an intellectual than Bush is one that many well-known figures publicly hold — including the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. Nevertheless, House Minority John Boehner (R-OH) found McCartney’s opinion too much to handle, and demanded that he apologize:

“Like millions of other Americans, I have always had a good impression of Paul McCartney and thought of him as a classy guy, but I was surprised and disappointed by the lack of grace and respect he displayed at the White House,” Boehner told HUMAN EVENTS. “I hope he’ll apologize to the American people for his conduct which demeaned him, the White House and President Obama.”

And the random deep thought of the day: Paul McCartney's crack about George W. Bush's lack of familiarity with libraries is far more controversial and worthy of discussion than Bush's glib claim that he would authorize torture again.