Every once in a while the comments on a post surpass the post itself and so it is over at Ace this morning. What follows is just one of thirty or so really good ones regarding Obama's spreading the wealth around comment.

Once upon a time, on a government subsidized farm in Chicago, there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few grains of wheat.

She called all of her neighbors together and said, "If we plant this wheat, we shall have tasty bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?"

"Not I," said the cow.
"Not I," said the goose.
"Not I," said the pig.
"Not I," said the skinny pencil-necked crow.

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen. And so she did; and the wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.

"Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the little red hen.

"Not I, I busy watching Oprah and Jerry Springer" said the cow.
"I'm busy forging voter's registrations for ACORN" said the pig.
"I just got my Welfare check and heading out to buy some Lotto tickets," said the goose.
"Above my pay grade," said the crow, looking up from reading the Koran.

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen, and so she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread. "Who will help me bake the bread? Asked the little red hen.

"I'm heading out to listen to Rev. Wright give another inspirational speech" said the cow.
"I'd lose my welfare benefits if I worked," said the goose.
"I'm too tired from playing mid-night basketball all night" said the pig.
"Asking the Black Bird to help, that's racist," said the crow's racist wife.

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen. She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a loaf each. But the little red hen said, "No, I shall keep all five loaves as I did all of the work this year to earn them."

"Excess profits!" cried the cow.
"Capitalist leech!" screamed the goose.
"That's racist, I demand reparations!" yelled the crow.
The pig just grunted in disdain. And they all headed down to ACORN to complain, and ACORN had their community organizer come. His name was Barrack, and he said to the little red hen, "You must not be so greedy, it is Patriotic to spread the wealth."

"But I earned the bread," said the little red hen.

"Exactly," said the community organizer. "That is what makes our new 2009 Socialist system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our new tax code, the 5% productive workers must "spread the wealth" with the 95% losers who are now lazy and idle. Its the patriotic thing to do!"

So, to the moral of this little story. Vote for Barrack, unless you are too chicken to do so, all you loafers.