Election almost over

A fabulous video.  We should have had shortened versions as TV advertisements.  And they should have been running months ago.

All weekend, I have said one thing to my wife and co-workers: I want the election to be over...and at the same time, I wish we had six more months.  No, I'm not a glutton for punishment.  It's just that media fecklessness has propelled Obama to the Presidency and it's only now that we're discovering so many things that should have been part of the national discussion for the last year.

Consider Saturday Night Live.  They've actually complained that they don't know how to parody Barack Obama because he's so, you know, perfect and dreamy and awesome.  For a while, all they could do was make jokes about how Obama's Presidency is undeniable and so Hillary and McCain are just ridiculous for even kidding themselves.  Ha ha, so funny. 

They couldn't perhaps make a joke about how his prepared speeches are so eloquent but if you ask him a question every other word out of his mouth is "uh"?  News of his oratorical excellence is greatly exaggerated.  I belong to Toastmasters International and I was disappointed to see that the latest issue praised Obama to the hilt for his ability to deliver his speech...which is odd, since every Toastmasters meeting we have a Table Topics session where we are asked to speak extemporaneously and there's a grammarian counting every utterance of the words "uh", "um", "and" and "so."  Obama would fail such a test miserably.  Why couldn't they make fun of that?

Of course, the truth is that Saturday Night Live has always been very partisan and uses their comedy to actively support one candidate. I believe this has always been true, but it was nice to see Chevy Chase come clean in admitting that the SNL writers are working hard to bring down Sarah Palin.



So, nice of Chevy to admit the blaringly obvious. One has to wonder if anyone in the press will ever make such an admission in public.