July 27, 2008
‘As word spread throughout the land about the Child’s wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.’
Posted in Politics tagged Barack Obama, John McCain, Messiah, Middle East, The One at 2:50 pm by Katharine Lackey
Gerard Baker, an editor at the Times in London, created a hysterical retelling of Obama’s trip to the Middle East.
(To see video — go to Jeff Jarvis’ post.)
Among memorable quotes:
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”
In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.
And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them.
And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child’s journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.
And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again.
Go read the rest!!
Jim said,
July 27, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Reading it doesn’t do it justice. You HAVE to watch the video version.