Democrats to Employ Man Who Played Obama During 2008 Campaign
Would Hit Campaign Trail in Place of President
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – With just a month remaining until the crucial midterm elections, worried Democrats have decided to reach out to the man who played Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign, Democratic Party officials confirmed today.
“We were sitting around thinking of who we could put out there on the campaign trail to get people energized again,” said party chairman Tim Kaine. “And then I was like, what about that guy who played Obama in ’08? He was amazing!”
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The Obama of 2008 was ever the man of our dreams. Too many of us left-leaners loaded onto him all our expectations of our dream Democratic candidate, which he never was. He was center-right then, and he's center-right today.
Nevertheless, 4 or 8 more years of the likes of Bush or worse would have brought the country ever closer to becoming a banana republic, with the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer, and the middle class squeezed to fit in a bathtub, with governmental functions squeezed down to the same size. Good-bye Social Security. Good-bye Medicare. Good-bye to any programs that benefitted anyone but the rich and corporate classes.
Very likely we would have found another war to fight to keep the military-industrial complex fed. Iran, perhaps?
And now we are facing the possibility of the loss of a functional majority in both houses of Congress and perhaps even an actual Republican majority in one or both houses. We are in a fix, my friends. We cannot afford complacency.
20 months of unsuccessful kissing up to the Republicans and ignoring the home base and now they're adding insult to injury by telling us to quit whining, STFU & get out and vote, like good little Company slaves. The comparison between how Roosevelt went nose to nose with the Republicans when he first took office, and how Obama, time after time, has caved in to them, tells all there is to know about the comparative positions of those two presidents as they approached their first (& only?) half-term elections.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't have said it better, Grandmere.
ReplyDeleteLapin, I don't disagree. Obama is not a Roosevelt, but he never was. Too many of us projected upon him what we hoped he be.
ReplyDeleteWe still have to decide. Sitting out this election is not an option, in my opinion, and most progressives will not choose to do so. On the other hand, Independents and Republicans who joined us 2008 in voting for Democrats may go the other way or stay home.
Counterlight, thank you.
It's funny, but it reflects a defeatist attitude I'm sorry to see.
ReplyDeleteJust yesterday President Obama was in Albuquerque's South Valley talking about actual issues and campaigning for two very tight races, the governorship and the congressional race for the central district.
I know that, in two years, all he's done is avert a banking (and general economic) collapse, move toward ending two useless wars, and enact the beginning of real health care reform. These have made him hated by the right, and deserted by those Molly Ivans used to call the "kamakazi liberals."
Looking at the circus that politics has become, it makes me wonder whether, two years ago, the electorate embraced Obama because of his novelty, and that now that he's "old news" the great media establishments will keep us focused on the great central issues, like whether a nutjob in Florida will burn a Qur'an.
I do not, of course, agree with everything that President Obama has done. But I fear for a democracy whose citizens are shown, by every poll, to be appallingly ignorant of the world, of their history, even of their own professed faiths.
Just to keep the historical record straight, Roosevelt came out swinging with his famous "I embrace their hatred" line during his 1936 campaign for his second term. Just a reminder, we are only 2 years into Obama's first (I hope) term.
ReplyDeleteI'm far from perfectly happy with Obama, but he's achieved more progressive legislation in one year than in the last 40 years. I'm not willing to throw the babies out with the bathwater and hand the Right what it so earnestly yearns for in all of its pores, permanent one party rule. I have no desire to live in a right wing version of Cuba.
I don't mean to ignore or diminish the good that the Obama administration has accomplished. No one could have brought the country back from the mess left by the Bush administration in less than two years. Still, folks who lose their jobs or their houses will blame the president for not doing enough to help them. Politics is personal.
ReplyDeleteBorowitz's satire simply expresses the reality of what a good many of the left-leaners who voted for Obama are feeling and saying.