Sometimes I Really Hate My State

It's bad enough that I live in a deep red state. It sucks that even Nebraska "Democrats" like Ben Nelson vote solely on party lines - the Republican Party. But this state is so ridiculously off the deep end that even government officials feel a certain permission to treat President Obama (who did win one of Nebraska's five electoral votes) as though he were just some guy and not the President of the United States.

Obama Cigarette Portrait To Be Replaced With Official Portrait At Nebraska's Adams County Courthouse

HASTINGS, Neb. -- The Adams County Courthouse meeting room will soon be getting an official portrait of President Barack Obama nearly 18 months after Obama was elected.

The portrait will hang in a spot that had held a framed black-and-white image depicting the President with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. That photo -- a notorious fake -- drew a complaint from a county official who found it disrespectful.

County Supervisor Eldon Orthmann, a Republican, told the Hastings Tribune that he had the smoking photo matted and framed at his own expense. Orthmann said he had hung it next to an official photo of Gov. Dave Heineman as a joke.

County Supervisor Lee Saathoff, the board's lone Democrat, said Monday that U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson's office is sending the county an official presidential portrait.