Satire is hard – during times when life is almost too ridiculous to witness.
The Onion has occasionally encapsulated a moment in time.
Like W following Clinton with this speech
Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’
.Or Edwards’ campaign in 2008:
John Edwards Vows To End All Bad Things By 2011
Like with everything, Obama was spared from attempts of satire until installed. Now finally he got his headline
Obama Revises Campaign Promise Of ‘Change’ To ‘Relatively Minor Readjustments In Certain Favorable Policy Areas’
Who would have thunk it?..
And another reason for my choice of illustration – the miracle: NYT has a non-acrimonious Bill Clinton profile.(I guess now, that the right puppet is installed, it can be told).
here’s one of my favorite excerpts, – the ending
Still, as he boarded the plane in Medellín one night, he posed on the tarmac with the local security officers who had been guarding him, as he dutifully does at every stop. He seemed tired and not particularly interested, but he did not complain. Climbing the stairs to leave, though, he noticed some other officers. “Were you in the picture?” he asked. Then to an aide, he said, “These guys weren’t in the picture.” He came back down the stairs and posed again.
Update
Over at the Widdershins, MadamaB has the best analysis of the NYT article. She points out all the reasons that made me feel uncomfortable reading it and made me use the term “non-acrimonious” instead of “positive”. She plucks out the talking points embedded in the article
Talking Point: See? Obama has only been in office five months and already he’s got an Age. An Age, I tell you! He is the most historical-est, bestest Preznit EVAH! And did Bill have a clothing line and his own TeeVee station? I don’t THINK so! Obama Roolz, Bill Clinton Droolz!
7 comments
May 30, 2009 at 10:39 am
SweetSue
How refreshing was it to read a long piece on Clinton that wasn’t a hit job? I was waiting for the de rigeur sock to the gut and it never came.
What a pleasure.
May 30, 2009 at 10:48 am
chatblu
Oh, to have Bill back in the picture in a meaningful fashion again. Great links to The Onion.
May 30, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Mrs. Bucket
CHUMP
CHANGE!
May 30, 2009 at 10:09 pm
insightanalytical
It may be “non-acrimonious” but I take issue with a couple of things…
“They marvel at Obama’s discipline and roll their eyes as they remember Clinton’s agonizing before making decisions. They admire Obama’s cool as they recall Clinton’s “purple rages” at his staff behind closed doors. “Obama respects the process,” said an aide to both men. “Clinton always had to do the math himself.””
OK, Clinton really knew what was going on…Obama respects “the process”–and uses the teleprompter a lot more. Other people are feeding him the agenda..
Also:
“reining in climate change. “So why didn’t more happen?” Wirth asked, repeating his own question when I tracked him down after the forum on climate change. “That’s the first question that has to be looked at. It was not very high on their political list, and I think they were somewhat afraid of the issue politically.” Clinton was right that he did not have the votes, Wirth said. “But they didn’t try to get the votes,” he said. “When we were doing Kyoto, they weren’t really helpful in driving the issue at all, the White House. We were sort of hung out there on our own at the StateDepartment. So we lost all those years.”
When you’ve got Democrats like David Boren screwing around with the Energy Plan, how far can you get??
Part II: Obama’s Adviser David L. Boren–How He Screwed Us Long-term in 1993 re: Energy and More
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/part-ii-obamas-advisor-david-l-boren-how-he-screwed-us-long-term-in-1993-by-ruining-clintons-economic-plan-re-energy-and-more/
And read Part III, too.
May 31, 2009 at 6:00 am
edgeoforever
Thanks for this. I noticed a few things too. Truth is the daughter of time, isn’t she? We got a little more of it than we used to on Clinton. It would have to be years past Obama’s usefulness to them to get those comparisons straight as well.
May 31, 2009 at 11:15 am
insightanalytical
Yeah, and we read in the story how Ruddy is now OK with Clinton. He thinks he was doing a proper “journalists” job back then. Really? If he HAD been doing a proper job, he wouldn’t have become one of the vultures.
This piece if full of this glossing over the SHIT that Clinton took from all sides. No matter what he did in the Oval Office, it’s nothing compared to the engineering of all the crap they threw at him. And that includes some Democrats we all know and detest.
And the Ruddy crowd capped the era by helping to steal an election with the Supreme Fart complicit.
June 8, 2009 at 6:56 am
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