http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily…

even as my gut tells me it already post-honeymoon time for Obama and those he has already brought in. There'll be the expensive inauguration and the regalia and speeches, but after, there is just the same bankrupted country as BA, before inauguaral speeches… and the promises made pre-election are, most all of them, impossible to effect in any timely manner. I feel certain that individuals taking initiative to do/develop/build where they live, rather than waiting on Washington, will be the medicine that cures most… not everything… but what can be cured without killing the patient. Just my two cents worth. I have a pathological belief in American inventiveness and the freedom here to enact that without waiting… and waiting… for big gov, which clearly, even with well over 500 elected officials in senate and house cannot keep reins on AIG men who even in four weeks' time have granted themselves not one, but two Spa Adventures for Executives to the tune of nearly half a million dollars— our dollars– and now their profoundly greedy Christmas bonuses for AIG execs, also from our money… whilst AIG literally owns billions of dollars of upscale office buildings worldwide that make the Taj Mahal look like a cabin.

dr.e

(I doubt he'll take seriously for one minute the _city_ of Detroit's request for a multi-million-dollar federal bailout. What a joke…)

My friend in DC just wrote and asked if Obama will become a liberal (or Democratic) Reagan. I replied that this is the subject of highly exaggerated expectations and assumptions by far too many in this country, but certainly someone so relatively young as he with his smarts might work with the best people to craft a contemporary form of liberalism (and Dem agenda concept) that takes, say, the best of the Clinton years (1990s) judged in terms of success as viewed by the Left. Needless to say, in any case she is relishing the coming inaugural festivities. I suspect it will be better than 2000 when she was repelled by the Presidential motorcade and she was not amused by the fur-coat-wearing Texan crowd in the restaurants downtown. This year it'll probably be filled by a lot of giddy childish types plus a broader cross-section resembling the anti-war, anti-Bush large organized protests that were conducted there in DC (I had attended one of these as well as been downtown on Inauguration Night 2000).

We'll have to wait for the halo to vanish and for Obama to make errors that displease the Left rather than the Right before comedy at his expense becomes politically acceptable rather than Verboten!

What makes this annoying to some people? Seriously. It always struck me as being a flaw in the observer as being someone who just has to attack every other human being for some reason. It also sounds like the anti-intellectual, “elitist” attack of the failed Republican campaign. Smart? Focused? Disciplined? Why, it must be some kind of elitist snob who thinks they're better than we are. Well, maybe they are. I can live with that. Why is it so hard for some people?

YMMV.

AngelaWinters said: “Let’s say that Obama will get a 2-year honeymoon.”
Bill Clinton got, I believe, a month honeymoon. George W. didn't get any (until 9-11). A two year honeymoon would embarrass even the MSM that put him in the WH.

As that noted wit Homer Simpson observed, comedy often works when: “It's funny cause it's true.”

But I think the election fever will have to fade before many Democrats accept any even humourous observations of realities of Obamania.
PattonGuy cites “The One” . . . but that is probably too close to the whole “Celebrity” meme that got Democratic hackles raised during the election.

I do like Pacatrue's “historicalness” meme: “Today, President-Elect ate his historical bowl of Wheaties. Then played some ball with an historic team of opponents. . . ” Hahahahahahha…
Yes, the media have been flinging that term about with regard to just about everything O does these days..

Problem is, this joke is really at the expense of the media. As the SNL skit about the MSM being in the Obama-tank in the primaries indicated, the MSM have a VERY thin skin about their own foibles.

Thus, I think “Crazy Uncle Joe” Biden will be the fallback guy for this Adminstration for comedy. With Biden, who needs Obamacomedy?
The Obama team will take off his muzzle and let him run leash-free on Pennsylvania Ave. . . . to the delight of us all!

Also I don't think the SNL parodies are funny at all, just because Fred Armisen's Obama is totally not at all like Obama. It's just boring. Dave Chappelle, where are you and your white guy voice? Your country needs you more than ever!

One joke line to use with Obama is his historicalness. Seems like everything he does lately is a historical first. Today, President-Elect ate his historical bowl of Wheaties. Then played some ball with an historic team of opponents, whom some have called his “pick-up” team.