Via Linkiest, I read this article at the American Prospect website. In it, the author Paul Waldman makes the argument that Obama is able to pull off an aura of cool, while Mitt Romney does not. So far, so good, right?
Well, Matt Welch over at Reason got a hold of Waldman’s article, and proceeded to point out the obvious problem with such a world view. That is, that Waldman thinks that it’s pretty nifty to have a gap between the president and everybody else, but didn’t much care for it when someone who wasn’t on his team did it in the previous administration.
Waldman then spends more time explaining that that isn’t what he meant, that what he meant was that Obama is so cool and calm and collected.
Here is where things get good and hilarious.
Waldman then links to an article that he wrote almost two years ago stating that Obama is hard to parody because of this coolness.
Yes, really.
Obama. Hard to parody.
Let me repeat that: Waldman believes that Obama is hard to parody.
The same guy who bowed to a Saudi king...
and a Japanese emperor
and a Chinese President
and an American governor...
and an American mayor...
who had trouble getting into the White House...
and with pesky umbrellas...
and hung curtains as a Memorial Day project...
who thinks we have 60 states....
who thinks the correct pronunciation of corpsman is “corpse-man” ....
who thinks that we have an intercontinental railroad
who thinks that there is a Austrian language...
who thought that ten thousand people died in a tornado...
who called business leaders into his office and told them that he is the only thing that stood between them and the “pitchforks” of the American people...
whose wife takes a few vacations a month...
who admitted to eating dog (link complete with audio!)...
But Waldman can't make fun of Obama at all because he's entirely too cool to be made fun of.
Right. That's believable.
As easy as it was to make fun of Bush 43, Obama has multiplied that factor by at least 10. If you can't make fun of at least the dog thing, then there is no hope for you. You are completely humorless.
Which gives me the opportunity for this, my first Photoshop ever...
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