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After the VP Debate, Obama Dreams About The Joker and the Altar Boy—A Fractured Fairy Tale

 

Dr. Donald Wayne Hendon
DonaldHendon.com  

On October 11, 2012, Obama decides to watch the Vice Presidential debate between Biden and Ryan in his Choomobile at Camp David. That’s the replica of the 1970 VW Bus that he and his buddies from Punahou School smoked weed and did cocaine back in Honolulu in the 1970s. The nostalgic Obama had it built for him by the Secret Service, and it’s his favorite hideaway—whenever he wants to get away from Michelle and the kids. This time, he takes four of his Chicago buddies with him—Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, former terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, and “Little Dick” Daley, the former mayor. Here’s how the conversation went:

Ayers: Hey, Barry, what’s that hanging on the rear-view mirror?

Obama: My Nobel Peace Prize. Hey, you want a few? I had the Secret Service make 1,000 duplicates. All 24 karat gold! Malia and Sasha use them to play checkers all the time.

Daley: Sure, give me a bunch.

Emmanuel: Me, too. And, hey, I hope Biden does better than you did, Barry. You sucked when you debated Romney on October 3.

Obama: Yeah, I know. I sucked big-time! Even one of my biggest fans, Chris Matthews over at MSNBC, thinks so. He called me after I screwed up my debate with Romney. He told me, “I didn’t have a tingle up my leg this time, Mr. President. I had a tingle down my leg.” I said, “What do you mean?” Chris said, “You were so bad, I wet my pants.

Lots of smoking and drinking. After everybody is high as a kite, the VP debate begins. The TV screen is hard to see with all the smoke. Everybody is quiet. After about 5 minutes, Rahm Emmanuel yells, “What the hell’s going on with Biden? He reminds me of the Joker in those Batman movies and comics.” Bill Ayers adds, “And Paul Ryan looks like an altar boy!”

Bernadette Dohrn says, “You know, I always had the hots for Batman, but I never did like the Joker. And you’re right, Rahm, Biden has a very evil smile. And he’s always smirking. He looks like a jerk. What do you think, Bill?”

Her husband replies, “Yeah, he looks like a jerk and acts like a bully! Why the hell did you pick Biden for VP this time around, Barry? Hell, Sarah Palin would have been a better pick than The Joker.”

Then, “Little Dick” Daley chimed in with this comment: “Biden’s a jerk, all right. And he sounds like an evil jerk—just listen to that evil laugh of his!”

After the debate is over, the Chicago gang head back home on Air Force One, and Obama decides to sleep at Camp David. Disgusted with Biden’s imitation of The Joker, he has a hard time going to sleep, so he drinks two six-packs of beer. Here’s his dream:

It’s the day before the VP debate. Obama has a party for all the garbage men in Washington. He hugs each of them as they come in. There are two party-crashers: Movie star Jack Nicholson, in his Joker makeup from his 1989 Batman movie, and Joe Biden, dressed as Robin the Boy Wonder, come into the Oval Office. Biden is drinking from a bottle labeled Joker Juice. He hugs them, too.

Obama: Hey, Joe, what’s that you’re drinking?

Biden: A witch doctor made it for me. I’m tired of being Batman’s sidekick. In fact, I’d like to kick Batman’s side. The witch doctor told me if I drank enough of this Joker Juice, I’d turn into the Joker and beat the hell out of him! 

Nicholson: You stupid-looking sissy in those short pants! You’ll never be able to beat me up. Not with all the Joker Juice in the world! You give up too easily. Hell, you could have won the Democratic nomination in 2008 if you had tried harder.  

Biden tries to throw a punch at Nicholson, but an angelic-looking altar boy bursts into the room and breaks up the fight. It’s Paul Ryan!

Ryan: Hey, Joe, quit causing trouble. I don’t want you to hurt yourself. I don’t want you to have any excuse to miss our debate tomorrow night. 

Biden chug-a-lugs the rest of his Joker juice and turns into The Joker, green suit and all. He says with an evil, sinister laugh, “I’ll beat the hell out of you tomorrow night, you sissy!”

Obama gets the Secret Service to break up the fight. After hugging all the several hundred garbage men goodbye, he meets with John Galvin, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here’s how the conversation went:

Obama: John, I’ve got to get unemployment below 8 percent. I’m desperate.

Galvin: Is that why you haven’t had a press conference in seven months? To hide from reporters?

Obama: No, I’ve got the press corps in my pocket. Nobody except Fox News asks me tough questions. And I always ignore Fox News anyway. I don’t do press conferences because I’m just plain lazy. You know that!

Galvin: That’s for sure. 

Obama: Anyway, John, I’d like you to cook the books for me. Get unemployment below 8 percent. It’ll be the first time it’s below 8 percent since I was elected. And it will help me win the election. If you do, I’ll give you a bunch of 24-karat replicas of my Nobel Peace Prize. 

Before Galvin can answer, the ghost of Obama’s hero, Saul Alinsky, the author of Rules for Radicals, comes into the room. What did he and Obama talk about? The answer is in my next fractured fairy tale.

 Copyright (c) 2012


 

Dr. Donald Wayne Hendon is a consultant, speaker, trainer, and author of 8 books, including 365 Powerful Ways to Influence and the forthcoming Guerrilla Deal-Making. Deal-Making, co-authored by Jay Conrad Levinson, is now available for pre-purchase on Amazon.com. It contains the 100 most powerful tactics from 365 Powerful Ways—along with 400 countermeasures. There are 121 aggressive tactics, 92 defensive ones, 24 cooperative ones, and 16 submissive ones to get what you want from other people. Plus 81 dirty tricks to watch out for and 31 tactics to prepare you for your interaction with them. Download Chapter 1, free of charge, at www.DonaldHendon.com. Play his free online Negotiation Poker game by going to www.DonaldHendon.com/NegotiationPoker. Apps will soon be available.