What's wrong with "Pie"? UPDATED

I’m seeing posts here and there giggling and making fun of this Obama video and his overuse of the word “pie.”

Chris Barrett & Powerhouse Pictures

Can I say, I don’t get it. What’s the big deal? The man likes pie! There’s nothing wrong with that. I got a pie-lovin’ son. When he was 9 years old, he and I spent a few days at Montauk while Elder Son and his father were at Boy Scout Camp together. Buster announced that he was hungry for pie and was going to have pie at every meal.

I told him, “have at it, kid, this is vacation!”

So Buster had pumpkin pie with breakfast and other pie with lunch (or, usually, for lunch) and other pie with supper and the Great Pie Vacation went forward. He ate 9 slices of pie in three days and pronounced all of them “the best pie I’ve ever had!”

You know, sometimes a guy just likes pie.

UPDATE: Emailer Mark S writes, “what people are giggling at is that he sounds like a doofus idiot. But kudos to you, Anchoress, you actually defended Barry. If there was two minutes of video showing McCain sounding that stupid and telling a pointless story, I’m sure no nutroot blogger would be decent enough to defend McCain. They’d just laugh at him and say he was a senile old fool.”

Well, that’s me…all about defending a man and his pie…