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Friday Happy Hour: Life In an Obamatopia
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So, this week we’ve seen John McCain’s vision for the country in 2013, after he’s wrapped up his first term as president. Osama bin Laden will be dead and the American economy will be prosperous, he said.

Senator McCain’s speech was eerily parallel to a comedy skit put out by the Upright Citizens Brigade, which tapped into what some call the cult-like following of Barack Obama. It predicted what the world would be like in 2015 with Mr. Obama at as commander in chief.

As a man wakes up from a seven-year coma, his friends fill him in on everything President Obama has done for the country — from bringing peace (and baseball) to Iraq, curing cancer… and, um, taking the place of Christ.

Coma patient: Outsourcing?

Male friend: We enjoy all the benefits from it and have none of the consequences.

Coma patient: Jesus Christ!

Little girl: Jesus Christ?

Female friend: [nods understandingly] Barack Obama.

Some Web artists think the fact that Mrs. Clinton clinging to a sliver of hope and staying in the race is a riot in and of itself. Now they’ve added to the hilarity by taking that sentiment to the extreme in videos lampooning Mrs. Clinton’s unwillingness to drop out.

One group called Headzup, which has a whole collection of short, silly videos relating to the election on its YouTube channel, makes light of Mrs. Clinton’s search for technicalities to win the nomination.

“Oh, what’s this? I found it — the Golden Egg!” a half-animated Senator Clinton exclaims, supposedly on West Virginia primary day.

“Sorry, um, the golden what?” asks a reporter.

“The Golden Egg! The magical egg which means that all votes cast today and all delegates earned today will count by 100!”

Along those lines, here’s “Saturday Night Live’s” latest take on primary. In this skit, Senator Clinton makes the argument that she should be the party’s nominee because if she’s not, she’ll be the sorest loser.

“Unlike my opponent, I’m just not going to lose gracefully. It’s not a criticism of Senator Obama, it’s just a fact,” says the Mrs. Clinton portrayed by Amy Poehler, who brings out her yellow suit again for the role.

Well, here’s a conversation flip. One of The Onion’s mock newscast topics is based on whether politicians are failing their lobbyists, you know, the ones who put up the money for them to get into office in the first place.

“If you make a deal, you make a deal!” cries one pro-lobbyist pundit.


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