The doctor told a friend of mine that she might have pneumonia. He recommended a chest X-ray and prescribed an antibiotic.

I saw her later that day. She was on her way out.

“Shouldn't you be home in bed? You might have pneumonia,” I said.

“I don't have pneumonia,” she insisted. “The doctor would have called.”

The next day, the doctor called.

“I have pneumonia,” she told me.

“Impossible,” I said. “You already told me you don't have it, so that's that.”

She somehow knew I was being sarcastic and defended herself by saying, “it's only walking pneumonia.”

“Great,” I said. “That's one of the four stages of pneumonia. The others are falling-down pneumonia, hacking-up-a-lung pneumonia, and lying-in-state pneumonia.”

This, by the way, is the same woman who had earlier self-diagnosed the problem as tree pollen, which is nothing to sneeze at.

I understand President Obama was born with walking pneumonia, which he picked up when he was out chopping down cherry trees with George Washington.

In case you missed it, Obama has been messing with the official biographies of past Presidents on a White House web site.

Every President but Gerald Ford (who gets no respect) now has some factoid box or other reference linking Obama to him.

Lyndon Johnson, for instance, has a reference to starting Medicare. It now has a link to what Obama has done to help that program and how Obamacare makes it better.

I didn't see it, but I'm told a Republican group has pounced on this incredible bit of chutzpah by issuing photos of Obama crossing the Delaware with Washington and the like.

Wonder if there is a shot in there of Obama helping Bill Clinton with White House interns?

So far, I have heard no reports of Obama trying to get recipes into the official Indian cookbook of Massachusetts' U.S. Senate candidate and noted Cherokee Elizabeth Warren.

Ms. Warren, it transpires, used to tout her alleged one thirty-second Indian stock and there are questions as to whether she may have used it to advance her lot in life.

I doubt the election will hinge on that, but I have had fun listening to Howie Carr have even more fun with the subject on his WRKO radio show.

Howie wondered the other day if Ms. Warren could resurrect the old Mass. Turnpike Authority logo, which featured a Pilgrim hat with two arrows piercing it.

Wow. Can you imagine the politically correct howling such a symbol would prompt today?

Write to Joe McQuaid at publisher@unionleader.com.