Please don't throw me into the briar patch...
Actually, I was thinking of the “Tar Baby”(nothing racist intended)! Every time the Brer Rabbit hit the Tar baby, he got stuck! Of course the other characters are in the bushes laughing to themselves!
Pretty soon, he was all stuck up in the tar on the Tar Baby, and couldn’t get free! That’s Obama and his campaign, just kicking at that Tar Baby, trying to get it to say something, and getting angrier and angrier. They also get themselves more and more stuck in the tar!