Manny Pacquiao is sworn in as congressman in the Philippines

Before you chuckle, replay in your head some of the cretins that we've elected to office.

From ESPN.com:

World welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao has officially added a new title -- Congressman.

Pacquiao was sworn in to the Philippines' House of Representatives on Monday in the southern province of Sarangani.

"He wants change," Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, said of Pacquiao before the boxer won the election. "I think it's genuine. People see that he wants to help his country, and that's why they're voting. That's why they support him."

Pacquiao accepted his third Fighter of the Year award June 4 after a year that featured a spectacular second-round knockout of Ricky Hatton to win a 140-pound belt and a brutal 12th-round stoppage of Miguel Cotto that gave Pacquiao titles in a record seven divisions.

"When he fights they close down Parliament and all the terrorists call for a peace," Roach said in May, only half jokingly. "It's not going to change anything. They'll just announce him as Congressman Manny Pacquiao, that's all."