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You saw yesterday these skimpy cakes for poor Helen Thomas.

Well the White House cakegate gets worse and worse.

Look at this!

Oh my God, what a lack of taste and sweet disaster!

It must be a fake picture, doesn’t matter that in this blog they give credit to the White House.

He is the President of the most powerful country of the world and gets this kitsch and tacky cake.

A few months ago, the White House pastry chef Bill Yosses and assistant pastry chef Susie Morrison wheeled out a cake for Michelle Obama topped with fruit, candles and best wishes spelled out on a plaque.

Quite kitsch and tacky too.

So, the tradition goes on and on, and if not, look at this one presented to Ronald Reagan…

But, wait a minute, Sarkozy got a better deal with this “Lafayette” cake served on Nov. 6, 2007, during the White House dinner in honor of French President.

And what about this Inauguration one that was on sale in Seattle last January for just $7.99 that Gabriel Campanario sketched in his great blog.

At least it’s nicer and cheaper.

But nothing to compare with this real White House cake made in 1934 by these three men standing behind this monster cake baked by the Strand Baking Company in Madison, Wisconsin, for the Roosevelt Birthday Ball.

If the Obama’s White House 427 employees at a cost to the taxpayers of over 32 million annually cannot make a decent cake, how we can trust them?

Barack Obama is celebrating today his own birthday (48)

Like reporter Helen Thomas (89)

So he went to White House Press Room where there she was: seating in the front row.

The oldest working journalist in Washington DC told him that her birthday wishes were “world peace and a real health care reform bill.”

Obama carried cupcakes into the room where reporters were with his spokesman, Robert Gibbs, at the daily briefing.

Watch the video here.

As a White House correspondent for the United Press International, Thomas began covering the Kennedy White House.

Thomas resigned from UPI the day after the announcement of its acquisition by the Unification Church leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Since then she works for Hearst Newspapers as a columnist

Bush didn’t like her, and she didn’t liker him either.

She wrote:

“As he leaves office, President Bush is passing on to his successor two wars and a growing economic debacle. What a way to go!”

Usually dressed in red she is invariably the first or second reporter the president calls upon.

And she is the one that still carries the tradition of closing the White House press conferences by saying, “Thank you, Mr. President”

She is the author of Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times (Scribner, 1999)

Happy birthday fierce Helen!

(Picture by Alex Wong/Getty Images)