SEATTLE — president Obama's motorcade arrived in downtown about 2 pm where crowds lined the blocked off streets to snap photos and gay rights activists waved supporting signs.

Inside the paramount Theater a crowd that paid $1000 per ticket was being treated to music from dave Matthews and warmup Political speeches from local democrats like patty Murray while about 20 reporters and photographers waited downstairs near the restrooms for Obama's entrance.

OK, this is getting strange, in an “Art imitates life imitates art” kind of way. Doonesbury’s network correspondent Roland Hedley began tweeting on the Obama birth certificate “controversy” last night.

Here are his tweets, in reverse chron order:

Tomorrow: 9-part tweetage on Birther movement. Was POTUS really born in Hawaii, and if so, is Hawaii a real state? You decide.
about 14 hours ago from web

FYI, no dog in fight, just report. Still historic if it turns out POTUS is our first Kenyan president.
about 14 hours ago from web

Breaking rumor we’re working on: Hawaii cooked numbers on application for statehood. Still a colony? You’ll get to decide.
about 14 hours ago from web

Car-pooled to Fight Club with Lou Dobbs, two Birthers and a Teabagger. Always good to get fresh perspectives.
about 2 hours ago from web

Follow his tweets here.

The folks at JibJab have a new video on the Web, which may not be up to some of their best from the 2008 campaign, but it’s still pretty good.

…or went to church, and missed the weekend “talking head shows” here’s the TalkingPointsMemo short version, that highlights Obama’s stylistic differences in cabinet meetings, and Rush Limbaugh’s role in the GOP: