September 17, 2009

All I Want for Christmas

So, Barack Obama's popularity rating has plummeted faster than with most of his predecessors. Must be because of Afghanistan and the continuing failure to find Bin Laden, right? After all, he's had nine months now, and with the benefit of all those years of useful groundwork that Dubya did as well. Or is it the banks? We know that the average US voter brings a wealth of perspicacity into their evaluation of this administration's inadequate measures to rein in the wild horses of Wall Street.
No, it's because he's been so impudent - and imprudent - as to try to steer America away from the most glaring trait in which it proudly displays its barbarism, i.e. its healthcare system. Free universal healthcare is apparently not a mark of civilisation, but of fascism. And, as fascists are all foreign, Obama must indeed not be American, as they knew all along, and what up to half of the electorate in some states now believes. Meanwhile, turds like Glenn Beck continue to be vindicated by the kudos of the platform that the Fox network still gives to their xenophobic rants.
Labour will soon be losing power in the UK, and deservedly so, if for nothing else than keeping Peter Mandelson in charge against all rhyme or reason. But we won't be able to withstand more than one term of the Tories any more. There must be some way we could kidnap and naturalise Obama...it would clearly be both what we sorely need and what the Americans deserve.

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