Beyond parody, my friends. Beyond parody.

Democrats will kneel before the “Temple of Obama” tonight.

As if a Rocky Mountain coronation were not lofty enough, Barack Obama will aim for Mount Olympus when he accepts his party’s nomination atop an enormous, Greek-columned stage - built by the same cheesy set team that put together Britney Spears’ last tour.

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“We’ve done Britney’s sets and a whole bunch of rock shows, but this was far more elaborate and complicated and we had to do it in far less time,” said Allen, of RDA Entertainment.

“The biggest challenge has been making sure we don’t damage the playing field underneath.”

Asked who is harder to sat isfy - the Democrats or Britney - Allen replied: “I better not answer that.”

More and more Americans are seeing Obama as a fad, a celebrity, a flash-in-the-pan — and not as a serious politician about to assume the mantle of leader of the free world. And it’s no wonder why. He doesn’t act like a President; he acts like a rock star going on a world tour. He doesn’t seem to understand that the 85,000 people who will be chanting “Obama!” and “Yes we can!” are already locked in for him. Those aren’t the people he needs to impress. It’s the undecided voters sitting at home he needs to impress, the voters who are finding his egotism and narcissism more and more of a turn-off. Yet he keeps pulling the Savior crap. Does he not learn?

Hat Tip: Hot Air

Britney Spears has released a preview of her new music video for the single Pieces of Me — you know, the one where she had to use a body double, showed up hours late, and only stayed for a fraction of the time she was supposed to.

She looks about as good as she did at the VMAs.

And then, showing what a class act she is, she didn’t get out of the car to check and see if he was ok. She didn’t take him to a doctor. She burst into tears… and drove away.

Here’s video:

While I kind of think that the paparazzi are asking for this when they get that close to a moving vehicle, couldn’t Britney have maybe stopped the car? Gotten out to see if he was OK? Not committed another hit-and-run? It ain’t exactly her first time!

Curiously, she was also leaving a medical office sporting disgustingly larger lips.

From Perez Hilton:

Britney, Britney, Britney. You need your license taken away ASAP, and then need to be put into a padded room. FAST.

Will someone please take her children away from her, quick??

Us Weekly has the story explaining her fabulous mothering skills:

“[Sean] He’s having dental problems because Britney just shoves a bottle of juice in his mouth all the time to stop him from crying,” a family insider tells Us.

Spears feeds her kids Doritos, gives the toddlers Coca Cola out of baby bottles and even asked a dentist if he would whiten her kid’s teeth. The dentist refused.

Brit even let her kids run around and make a mess of a house they were looking to potentially buy last week. “She ate tacos on the bedroom floor!” a source tells Us Weekly. “She got crumbs and grease everywhere. She let her babies and her dog roam the floor. She left the bed a mess – I don’t know what’s wrong with her.”

Life & Style has even more on what it’s like to grow up with Britney Spears as a mother (emphasis mine):

While Brit’s public slipups make news, a second Britney insider says that being at home with the single mom, 25, is just as unstable for her kids. “It’s tragic what these boys are exposed to on a daily basis,” the insider says. “Kids thrive on routine and the feeling of safety, and Sean and Jayden have neither. Their lives are subject to Brit’s whims.”

And some of the dangers are severe. When Britney and Kevin were first married, she objected to his smoking around the kids, the insider notes, but now “she smokes like a chimney in front of them.” Even worse, when Brit misplaces her pack of cigarettes, “she’ll actually turn to Sean and say, ‘Baby, where are Mama’s lollipops?’ Sean runs, gets her cigarettes and brings them back to her.”

Brit’s also constantly handing off her kids to bodyguards, nannies, even strangers. “She has a short attention span, and that applies to caring for her kids,” says the insider. “Jayden is at a fussy stage, and when he starts crying, Brit hands the baby to a bodyguard to calm him down. When she needs a break, she gives her boys to the nearest person — even shopgirls at clothing stores!”

But Britney still won’t allow the one person who really wants to help care for the kids — her mom — anywhere near them. In fact, the insider says, when Sean asks for Grandma, the singer (who blames Lynne for making her go to rehab in February) “tells the boys, ‘she’s a bad lady,’” says the insider. “It’s so inappropriate to drag the boys into her family feud when they can’t understand what’s going on.”

Really, let’s just skip the formalities and go ahead and give her the Mother of the Year award. Clearly, she deserves it.