Blind Man's Bluff

Move over Barack Obama, American just might have found a politician that is a much better fit! Yes, it was shocking for a lot of Americans to deal with the fact that their next commander-in-chief might indeed be an African American. This of course blew over in a matter of moments when we as a country realized that even more unexpected was the fact that Mr. Obama treated his electorate with dignity and kindness and led his followers with a tone of encouragement. This was perhaps too much, for any one individual to truly be able to deal with.



"It's rare to see a black man in national politics, it's rarer still to see national politicians treat voters like grown-up human beings." - Anonymous Voter (Chicago)




Mr. Obama's lack of contempt for the voting populace, and his ability to articulate policy above a three-year-old level of understanding puts him high and alone on the pedistal of American politics. This "articulation" is truly the white elephant in the room that nobody is willing to mention.

Some conventional wisdom and some unconventional street polling led us to see the entire Obama affair in a whole different light.

The Question: Is America ready for Barack Obama?

"Southside" Jerome Watkins (professional dice player): Yeah, naw, the man is definately ready to run America, but we ain't ready for him. He's too much, too good and I don't see how we as a nation will be able to run if we dont' learn to crawl first. Also i'd hate to see a man as smart as Barack Obama be shot down. Electing a brother to office should be done with care. Let's let somebody a little less brainy in first, so we don't lose all of our best people!


Gerry Sanders (Star Trek Future History Pre-re-enactment Society): Obviously we can't have a commander and chief like Barack Obama running for president. Listen, things like these have procedure. In star trek we had captain Johnathan Archer, Captain Thomas Pike, James T. Kirk, Jean Luc Picard, Bejamen Cisco. Each captain brought a wide variety of new knowledge to the field of deep space exploration, which future captains would build off of. We can't just go from Johnathan Archer (George Bush) to Captain Benjamen Cisco (Barack Obama) like that over night. Especially if we've never even had a LT. commander Geordi Laforge working as a chief engineer!

Whistles LaBlonque (Professional Mime): Mr. LaBlonque's response to the question was answered completely in pantamime. For some reason he appeared to have a look of extreme agitation and frustration when he shat his own pants. He then began crying silently, all the while pretending to be stuck in an invisible box. PMW staff did their best to assure Mr Leblonque that it was all a figment of his over-active imagination.


This highly accurate and random sampling of American voters could easily be any one of PMW's millions of readers. Today we heard from just a few brave souls who believe that America is simply not ready for Obama. Perhaps A better candidate would be the newest blind/black governor of New York. His expression is aloof and his long-winded diatribes are ridiculous and nonsensical.

PMW says, vote this guy from President of the USA, Democratic Darkhorse 2008!