Thursday, October 28, 2010

Obama's 15 minutes of comedy fame, compliments of John Stewart

Previous sitting American presidents have never bowed and scraped and lowered themselves to the smallest degrees that Barack Obama has since taking office. And now comes his Daily Show appearance with John Stewart. Call it his fifteen minutes of comedy fame if you like.



I thought I had seen it all back in 1992 when then candidate Bill Clinton appeared on the Tonight show and played his Saxophone.

Now it looks like Obama is dead set to make the rounds on every TV show that he can get invited to, including make believe journalism interviews, compliments of Comedy Central and John Stewart.

I would think that times are tough for the man to even consider stooping this low in his attempts to bolster his flagging party. But the reality is, this is not stooping to a man and a party who have fostered and embraced this new wave of angst campaign politics in America.

Call it digital campaigning, aimed at the MTV generation of liberal followers, but the bottom line is, the man and his party are no more interested in courting the broad spectrum of American voters, than they are interested in seeing our borders secured and closed to illegal invaders. It simply isn't in their play book.


Some may have noted of late, the president's seemingly oblivious and obtuse approach to addressing main stream Americans as it concerns next Tuesdays elections. Make no mistake, the man hasn't misspoken or stumbled inadvertently in his pitch or approach to the midterms. He has in every instance addressed his constituency and those he really sees as his supporters as he always has. From his appearances on exclusively black radio stations this week, to his appearance last night with John Stewart and Comedy Central. The man knows his target audience and how to work his crowd.

The only problem is? He lost the so called moderates and independents months ago (that elected him) and they aren't listening to black radio stations or watching the Daily Show or the Colbert report to get his latest updates.

Five more days and the comedy tragedy ends........

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