"A Parody on Obama as the Would-Be King" by mj
Setting: Anywhere USA
Audience: Thousands
Cast of Thousands: The Audience
Actor: The Would-Be King
Action: Stage Left, Enter The Would-Be King
(Gazing down at The Audience-Cast of Thousands the Would-be King begins his soliloquy.)
Would-be King Soliloquy
"When I am King of America and the world----- everything will 'change'. I will define and refine the change. All troops will be removed from Iraq---I forgot, it will 'only take two years."
(He ruminates, gazing away from the thousands,and speaks in sottoe voce---"Just think of everything I will control and do when I am King of America and the World")
(Turning to The Audience-Cast of thousands)
"Ah, yes my loyal subjects----during those years there will be no more airplanes flying in America, no more cars-----only the President and loyal members of Congress will be allowed to fly or drive.
(Harumph}I keep my plane. I will need my plane to fly to Iran to negotiate----yes you know, you know, I think you know what negotiation means. Yeah, the King, me, declares that America will give up nuclear arms first.
No preconditions, I will close our nuclear power plants to show I am serious. Afterall, we can live with the sun and wind, we must lay down arms first then I know, you know, that all of those really nice terrorists will do the same."
(Suddenly, Would-Be King looks around and sees no crowd of people, his audience and cast of thousands are gone.
The war he said he would end is no-more, brought to its commonsense end by BushKing. The Would-Be-King is alone. Would-Be King removes his crown and slinks silently away exiting Stage Left.)
Inspired by the following link ---posted by Kenneth
blog.washingtonpost.com
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"I have also consistently said, once we were in, we had to be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in, because once you get in, you've got to make sure our troops are safe," he said. "You've got to make sure the country doesn't collapse so what I've called for is a phased withdrawal, a phased redeployment." He continued: "Now, assuming that I take office in January, then that means that we would still have our troops there for about two more year from now. There's nothing rushed about that... When I hear John McCain saying we can't surrender, we can't wave the white flag -- nobody's talking about surrender. We're talking about common sense."
Obama said: "I am going to bring this war to an end. So don't be confused: I am going to bring the Iraq war to a close when I am president of the United States of America." |
