President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina 10/19/08. (photo: Jim Young/Reuters)
23 November 12
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Rule: Now that he's been reelected, President Obama must get back at
all those right wing hacks who tried to paint him as an angry black man
pushing a liberal agenda by becoming an angry black man who's pushing a
liberal agenda.
Now, I have been mostly holding my tongue about the
president this past season, because I didn't want to muddy the waters in
a country where you only get two choices, but Mr. President, there are
two ways to look at your 51 to 48 percent victory: One is, we love you.
The other is, we like you three percent better than Mitt Romney.
And by
the way, let us never speak that name again... Mitt... let it be a dark
and buried memory of a close call with a creature equal parts pure evil
and excellent posture, like getting dry humped in a crowded subway by
Roger Moore.
I like this president. In all those secret strategy
meetings we had, with me and him and George Soros and The New Black
Panthers, I found him to be very agreeable, Allah be praised. But it's
now the job of progressives to hold his feet to the fire for causes
important to us. If not now, when?
There's no third term, Mr. President, so you may as
well throw caution to the wind, 'cause it's not like we're using it to
produce energy. Yes, clean energy, that's just one of many issues, like
civil liberties, the drug war, the drone war, the war war, gun control
-- that have been on my mind these last four years, and let's just say
I've been waiting to exhale. And by that I mean, I've been holding my
nose.
But you're free now -- with no more elections to win,
you are free to never again have to kiss the ass of coal miners and say
the words "clean coal." There is no such thing as "clean coal." It's
like saying "Internet Privacy" or "Tea Party Intellectual." Or "Fox News
Journalist."
Another priority should be cutting the defense budget
-- we're the home of the brave, let's prove it by getting by with one
less submarine. Yes, we were involved in a struggle against a radical
enemy bent on our destruction -- but the election is over, and we need
to recognize that America has the same problem with the defense budget
that Mrs. Petraeus has with her husband's penis: it's swollen, and we
can't bring ourselves to touch it.
And as far as Afghanistan goes, I know you said we're
leaving in 2014, but look at it this way: enemies are always on guard
for a surprise attack, but they'd never suspect a surprise retreat.
Really. We can leave right away. Because we've figured out something the
Afghans haven't: air travel.
And as long as we're ending wars, how about the War on
Drugs? Two states, Colorado and Washington, have actually legalized pot
now, which gives you as president the rare opportunity to improve the
world by doing... absolutely nothing.
Just tell Eric Holder to stay the
hell out of Boulder, and if the conservatives bitch about it, throw
states' rights back in their face -- isn't that their big theme, send it
back to the states, the will of the people? Well, this is the people
who, in those two states on election day, got up off the couch and drove
their 1987 Toyota Tercel with the "Visualize World Peace" sticker on
the back to the polls, and voted to stop the drug war. And then drove
home and got back on the couch.
And finally, instead of rewriting Social Security, how
about rewriting the Patriot Act? How about another look at rendition,
and warrantless searches and wire taps? And how about stop listening in
on our phone calls and reading our e-mails. I'm not a teenager and
you're not my mom, ok? And besides, there's a better way to confirm your
suspicions that I'm smoking weed and hanging around the wrong people:
just watch my show.
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