The Character of Bara Bama

Another White House Correspondents dinner has come and gone, and the only question that remains is, what's the point? At this event, the political leaders of our country intermingle with Hollywood elite and media snobs, creating a petulant blend of verbal diarrhea that could only come when you put that many liberals in one room and try to infuse comedy.

I don't know why we couldn't just stand them all in a line and laugh at them without a word being spoken; their records as bureaucrats, entertainers, and journalists is the ultimate joke.

I bothered to watch some of this event last year, when they had Wanda Sykes as the headliner. She is universally regarded by those who know as being not particularly funny in the way most comediennes are are not funny. Bama, on the other hand, was just not funny because he is a singularly humorless ass. It's well known that taxpayers pay a third party - this year it was the writing team of The Daily Show - to write his schtick, and it's always predictably anti-Republican. You only need to hear his delivery - using the same Shatner-esque phrasology that he speaks in at all of his campaign stops - to realize everything about this man is canned.

What's most revealing is Bama's total inability to to joke about himself. Last year, and again this year, all of Bama's nyuks came at the expense of others, including a couple stabs at the ordinarily cartoonish Joe Biden and Rahm Emmanuel and after that it was like listening to the hysterics of Bill Maher ranting against Republicans simply for daring to be the opposition.

This is important because a person who can't make fun on themselves is a person who can't take a joke. It is these narrow windows that we are allowed to see Bama's true character. He is arrogant, selfish, and most of all vindictive. It's not hard to imagine him in the 1920's shaking down speakeasys with a Tommy gun and then stomping through the bloody pools of those that met his glare. And his actions have done nothing to dispel this vision. His daft handling of almost every diplomatic venture in the last 15 months alone should be enough to castrate him in world opinion (and it's happening, the American media just isn't telling us).

Obama is just a bully. He displays no sincerity or remorse because he feels neither. All he is capable of is self-admiration, and he demands it from those around him. He honestly believes in the cult of his own personality. Is there a more disastrous compilation of traits for the man elected to lead the United States? No one should be laughing so long as that man is in the White House.

Edit 5/7/2010: This week it was revealed that the Campaigner-In-Chief used the term "Teabaggers" when referring to the Teaparty movement. George W Bush would never have disparaged his opposition like that. For some reason only Republicans are required to have class in politics, as the "teabagger" comment is getting zero media play from the "free" press.