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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Onion: Obama Openly Asks Nation Why On Earth He Would Want To Serve For Another Term
PITTSBURGHCiting three years of exhausting partisan politics, constant gridlock in Congress, and an overall feeling that the entire nation has "completely lost it," President Barack Obama openly asked a campaign-rally crowd Tuesday why he'd want to serve another term as president of "this godforsaken country."
"My fellow Americans, I come to you today to ask, why?" Obama said to 1,200 people gathered inside a gymnasium at Taylor Allderdice High School. "Why can't our congressional leaders work together to create jobs? Why can't Wall Street ever be held accountable? And most important, why on God's green earth would I voluntarily subject myself to this nonsense for another four years?"
"I'm dead serious," the president continued, saying that any reasonable person would have walked away the moment the Senate minority leader announced his main priorityabove creating jobs and improving American health carewas to make Obama a one-term president. "I'm asking if anybody out there can come up with even one reason why I'd want to endure this unmitigated shit show for another minute, let alone through 2016. What's in it for me, exactly? Can anyone answer that? Anyone at all?"
After a long silence during which crowd members mostly just shuffled their feet and stared at the ground, Obama said, "Yeah, that's what I thought."
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"I have a pen and some paper right here," Obama said Wednesday morning at a town hall meeting in Ohio. "Let's list the pros and cons of being president. Con: There are people out there who literally want to shoot you dead. Con: We live in a country seriously considering a Newt Gingrich White House. Con: You can help 40 million Americans receive health care, sign legislation that regulates a financial system run amok, give the order to kill Osama bin Laden, help topple Muammar Qaddafi's tyrannical regime without losing the life of one American soldier, end the war in Iraq, repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, stave off a second Great Depression, take out more than 30 top al- Qaeda leaders, and somehow everyone still calls you the next Jimmy Carter."
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If Obama actually felt like this, I would not blame him at all.
Edit to add link (sorry, folks): http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-openly-asks-nation-why-on-earth-he-would-wan,26933/
FSogol
(45,529 posts)onpatrol98
(1,989 posts)Hmm...I take it, being the next Jimmy Carter is a really bad thing to have happen. I don't really remember Jimmy Carter as President. But, I was expecting a slightly different ending.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Swede
(33,288 posts)boxman15
(1,033 posts)Staph
(6,253 posts)Thank you!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I love the onion
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)my2sense
(2,645 posts)I wouldn't blame him either.
deacon
(5,967 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)"Con: We live in a country seriously considering a Newt Gingrich White House."
:ROFL: Too true!