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Is Obama Becoming a Joke?
RealClearPolitics.com ^ | 10/8/2009 | David Paul Kuhn

Posted on 10/08/2009 5:00:26 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies

Most presidents become a joke at some point. It's a matter of when and how. Both points should concern this president. In Winston Churchill's words, "a joke is a very serious thing." Or it can be, when the joke is about a very serious thing.

"Saturday Night Live" has long been a comedic benchmark. Last weekend, SNL took its first hard hit at President Obama. Fred Armisen, who plays the president, gave an Oval Office address: "When you look at my record it's very clear what I've done so far and that is nothing. Nada. Almost one year and nothing to show for it."

Political satire matters when it is larger than the joke. The growing rap on Obama is that he is a man both ineffective and meek; a man who is loved by all and feared by none.

Bill Maher hit the punch line first in mid-June: "You don't have to be on television every minute of every day. You're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'... TV stars are too worried about being popular and too concerned about being renewed."

Soon Maher came to his key point: "You're skinny and in a hurry and in love with a nice lady, but so is Lindsay Lohan. And just like Lindsay, we see your name in the paper a lot but we're kind of wondering when you're actually going to do something."

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; emperornoclothes; jumpedtheshark; obama; olympicfail; palin; sarahpalin; theegohaslanded
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1 posted on 10/08/2009 5:00:26 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

a joke?

Yeah—like a bagfull of dead babies!!!!!


2 posted on 10/08/2009 5:01:39 AM PDT by gunnyg (SUFFER NO FOOLS -Gunny G)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

If he’s a joke it’s an unbelievably filthy one!


3 posted on 10/08/2009 5:02:12 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholic voters were true to their faith there would be no abortion and no President Obama.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

I just returned from a 3rd world country. The first thing I saw was Obama surrounded by socialist Docs in their White Coats...Reminded me of Dukakas in the Tank. What a joke.


4 posted on 10/08/2009 5:02:35 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

The Emperor has no clothes, and the little children are starting to talk about it.


5 posted on 10/08/2009 5:02:43 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

You can’t become what you already are.


6 posted on 10/08/2009 5:02:53 AM PDT by jonboy
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7 posted on 10/08/2009 5:03:26 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

There's nothing funny about this idiot!

8 posted on 10/08/2009 5:03:48 AM PDT by Zakeet (Central Park Zoo vs. White House -- one has an African Lion -- other has a lyin' African)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

It’d have been nice if SNL could have found someone who could actually do a decent Obama impression.


9 posted on 10/08/2009 5:04:03 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

A major political party put up a guy with no resume, all his history hidden and full of marxist garbage. The dimrat party is the joke and ozero is the punchline. But we are not laughing.


10 posted on 10/08/2009 5:05:07 AM PDT by Texas resident ( It's us against them. And we're on our own.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

“When you look at my record it’s very clear what I’ve done so far and that is nothing. Nada. Almost one year and nothing to show for it.”

Considering what an ignorant, misguided and extreme Leftist he is, this is, on balance, probably a good thing.


11 posted on 10/08/2009 5:05:57 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (w)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Becoming?


12 posted on 10/08/2009 5:10:03 AM PDT by Badabing Badablonde (New to the internet? CLICK HERE)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

He’s the joker! Jokes on everyone who voted for this POS and on America!


13 posted on 10/08/2009 5:11:41 AM PDT by timetostand
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To: gunnyg; IbJensen

I think here the term “joke” is defined not as a humorous anecdote but as someone who is the object of ridicule.


14 posted on 10/08/2009 5:11:47 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (For good judgment ask...What would Obama do? Then do the opposite!)
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is becoming?

The sad fact is ... the Americans that were fooled into thinking they were voting for something good have been reduced to a laughing stock and thus are innefectual.

Those of us who heard zero at the 2004 DNC sat up immediately and mobilized our paranoic thought patterns and prepared for what we intuitively felt was a major blind side comin' our way.

Like Jimmeh Cahtah, most of America knew nothing of zero until he was foisted on us by a presidential electoral cycle.

There is no shame in being taken by a master.

Stand up straight, and get back in rank, Amderica ... we're at war and need you.

15 posted on 10/08/2009 5:11:58 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Badabing Badablonde

the “one” is deliberately taking American society into chaos. His cronies planned and fully intend to destroy us.


16 posted on 10/08/2009 5:15:02 AM PDT by Broker (Pakikisama)
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To: paulycy

Roseanne Roseannadanna was not a real commentator! It was Gilda Radner (an actress) falsifying herself by pretending to comment on current events. #CNNfactcheck


17 posted on 10/08/2009 5:15:29 AM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he would'nt and not doing what he said he would)
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18 posted on 10/08/2009 5:15:43 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (For good judgment ask...What would Obama do? Then do the opposite!)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Yeah, he's a freaking Joker alright...

19 posted on 10/08/2009 5:15:49 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: mainepatsfan
It’d have been nice if SNL could have found someone who could actually do a decent Obama impression.

Indeed. That guy is so bad it's actually hard to see the humor. I almost think they do that on purpose, hoping for evidence that "Obama jokes don't work".

Gerald Ford tripped a few times and it became comedy gold. Obama is a walking punchline, but so far no good comedian has really stepped up and rubbed his face in it (yet).

20 posted on 10/08/2009 5:16:31 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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