Obama resigns Senate seat effective Sunday (The US can wait till the Messiah gets ready. /sarc)

President-elect Barack Obama said on Thursday he would resign his U.S. Senate seat effective Sunday, which means he will not participate in next week's post-election session that could address the ailing economy and struggling auto industry.

Obama, who will be sworn in as president on January 20, said he would step down from his Senate seat to focus on the transition to the White House.

"It has been one of the highest honors and privileges of my life to have served the people of Illinois in the United States Senate," said Obama, who has served four years of his six-year term in the Senate.

Under Illinois state law, Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich is responsible for naming a successor to Obama. The appointee would serve Obama's term through 2010.

Obamalot

Words by Rusty Humphries and Rich Davis

Cap and Trade will soon be legal law here
Big Brother will leave nothing left unplanned
and there's no legal limit to the taxes here
in Obamalot

Talk Radio is forbidden till December
And exits March the 2nd on the dot
By mandate Farrikahn lingers through September
In Obamalot

Obamalot
Obamalot

I know it sounds a bit bizarre
But in Obamalot
Obamalot
That's how the liberals are

Conservatives can't come out till after sundown
By 8 all scrutiny must disappear
In short there's simply not
A more socialistic plot
for taxing everaftering then
Here in Obamalot

(Obama)
Where white folks greed runs a world in need.
Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny. They don't pose a serious threat to us.
The Bush tax cuts ... People didn't need 'um and they weren't even askin' for 'um.
I've now been in 57 states.
By the way I have to say, I think Al Gore won.
But what people really want is farness.
We Are the ones we've been waiting for.

Obamalot
Obamalot

I know it gives Americans pause
But in Obamalot
Obamalot
Those are the loopy laws

Where hope will always trump reality
By 9 PM all decent must disappear
In short there's simply not
A more socialistic plot
for taxing everaftering then
Here in Obamalot

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