If you don’t know who Jedward are, there’s no reason you should. They’re a couple of Irish teenagers — John + Edward = Jedward — who are so awkward and devoid of musical talent that they’ve become stars in England. Here they are performing on The X-Factor, another one of Simon Cowell’s “singing” competitions that have made him rich and famous by exploiting mankind’s stupidity:

You never thought you’d actually miss Vanilla Ice, did you? At the 2:25 mark, some guy jumps onstage and thrusts his buttocks out at the crowd. This is by far the highlight of the performance.

I’ve been fascinated with these two nonentities ever since seeing this a while back, but I never had a chance to blog about them until now. The Telegraph reports:

Barack Obama may not have had time to meet Nick Clegg, but he has managed to hold a summit with the Jedward twins.

The duo were on Tuesday’s morning service to Heathrow out of Dublin after performing for Obama on College Green. They were proudly showing fellow passengers a packet of M & Ms which had the presidential seal upon it.

What past between the president and the boys – beside confectionary – when they met backstage? “Jedward asked Obama to follow them on Twitter and to see if he could get them on the [defunct] Oprah show,” says their publicist.

Of the meeting, the boys say it brought them “one step closer to America, one step closer to Britney Spears.”

You can dwell on the implications of that “thought” if you like, but I’m going to move on to the following from Hello! magazine:

They told the BBC: “It’s an honour to perform for the most famous man in the world, after Simon Cowell that is.”

However they could not conceal their excitement over seeing the US leader, tweeting after the show: “We performed for President Barrack Obama he said thank you to us it was a lot of fun…”

And it seems their brush with political royalty has left the twins confident of their leadership abilities.

Edward said: ” Me and John have so much power in Ireland, it’s actually crazy the legion of fans we have. If we went for election we’d totally get in.”

John jokingly added: ” I think Obama’s going to ask us to be vice-president of America.”

We hardly need a couple of bumbling, gaffe-prone oafs sharing the office of Vice President. One is quite enough.

I really hope Jedward do come to America and make it big. But then, I don’t like myself very much and feel I deserve to be punished.