Rockin' Barack: The Swamp

Posted December 7, 2007 10:38 PM

by John McCormick

The night before he is to campaign in Iowa with Oprah Winfrey, Sen. Barack Obama stopped by a rock concert fundraiser in Chicago and expressed confidence in his standing in the primary race.

"It turns out, we might win," he said, as the audience cheered. "It's possible. It is possible. They said it wasn't possible, but it is possible."

The "Change Rocks" event at the Riviera Theater featured musical guests Macy Gray, Stephan Jenkins, Jill Sobule and Jeff Tweedy, as well as other members of his band Wilco.

A security official at the theater estimated the crowd at between 600 and 800, although the campaign said it sold 2,000 tickets, ranging in price from $35 to $500.

Obama, wearing his signature suit coat over a shirt with no tie, gave a fierier version of his standard stump speech for an audience that was more unruly than those he typically faces in places like Iowa and New Hampshire.

When someone yelled a swear word about something he had said about the Bush administration, he reminded the crowd "this is a PG-rated event."

The speech was similar to a well received one he gave at the Jefferson Jackson dinner in Des Moines nearly a month ago that is now being used in television ads in Iowa.

"Chicago, our moment is now," he said at one point. "This is our moment."

Obama also made mention of a press release Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign recently sent out that made mention of a paper he wrote as a child expressing interest in being president.

"Senator Clinton has been looking through my kindergarten papers," he said. "It's silly season in politics."

Despite his big upcoming weekend with Winfrey, he made no mention of the pending appearances.

Earlier in the evening, Obama stopped by Second City to finally see a performance of "Between Barack and a Hard Place," a spoof on his place in the political world.

Obama's wife, Michelle, and his sister from Honolulu, Maya Soetoro-Ng, saw the show in July. Tickets to tonight's show cost $750.

Comments

WOW! .... $750.00 per ticket!
And, Oprah is very,very,very wealthy and stumps for Barack?
Yep! These two know the common liberal democRATic needs.....like, food stamps,section eight housing,medicade and the perils of posting from mommy's basement.

And now,let's add some universal heathcare for the losers on our tax dime, while (O)prah-(D) and (O)bama-(D) eat prime steaks,lobster--dipped in lemon butter,and drink fine wines.

Thank-You President Bush for keeping America safe,while the loons-(D)- purge on you daily as they enjoy the fruits of freedom, but have an ignorance of what history taught us and have a blind eye for the future of this country.

Paulo

Posted by: Paulo | December 8, 2007 1:17 AM

Rock the Casbah!!!

Posted by: Barack & Roll | December 8, 2007 4:54 AM

Paulo-

What??? Do you understand the words coming out of your mouth???

Posted by: Rory | December 8, 2007 11:09 AM

"losers"

Paulo,

Leave it to you to hit a new low.

Posted by: Doug Zook | December 8, 2007 11:48 AM

Get back on your medicine freak boy!

Posted by: Republitard | December 8, 2007 12:46 PM

Paulo are you by any chance brain dead???

Posted by: The Undertaker | December 8, 2007 2:32 PM

Fellow Martians, I have been delinquent in filing my reports. I have no excuse other than to say that its hard work monitoring world events on earth - a very confusing place...

Latest Events:

The earthlings saw fit recently to require one of the leading contenders for the presidency of the most powerful nation on their strange planet to give a speech about his religious beliefs. This is because many inhabitants of USA think that Mormonism may be a cult because it is based on the belief that 150 years ago their prophet found a set of golden tablets in Binghamton NY which were put there by God for him to find. Apparently this is considered cultish and perhaps irrational by the majority of Americans who believe that God actually sent his son to earth through an immaculate conception and then when he was killed resurrected him to show them the path (or something like that). Apparently if something is supposed to have happened 2000 years ago most earthlings think its real but if it supposedly happened more recently then most do not. This is a difficult distinction for Martians to grasp because based on our time perspective there is very little difference between 2000 years ago and 150 years ago - thus to us both group's ideas seem equally plausible or not depending upon whether you are a believer Martian or an atheist Martian.

This Mitt person made his case that his beliefs are so close to the other people's beliefs that the other people no longer care about the golden tablets in Binghamton thing and because he has such great hair and square jaw (and has been married only once and did not use local police to escort him to his girlfriend's house in an exclusive region of earth called "The Hamptons") he is now likely to run against either Hillary or Obama. What is interesting about that is that its is a known fact that in order to win the general election one candidate has to have some votes from the other party. While Hillary will probably get the most votes among Democrats some believe that not a single Republican will vote for her whereas some would vote for Obama (these beliefs can quickly become facts on earth due to something that the earthlings do every five minutes - its called polling and those polls say that all Republicans (and even some Democrats) would sooner eat live worms than vote for Hillary - to a large extent the reason for this is that her husband does not know what the meaning of is is and Hillary did not explain it to him).

Thus, some Democrat earthlings now believe that Obama is more electable than Hillary in a run against Mitt.

All will be known soon because on earth the two main candidates for president are selected at house parties in a rural state. People show up at their neighbor's house and stand in a corner of the living room with each corner designated as a particular candidates corner. If any corner does not have at least 15% of the people at the house party then that candidate's people have to go to one of the other corners. This is known as "the second choice thing that happens in Iowa". Because of the polling mentioned earlier in this report it is known that Obama and Hilary will each get at least 15% of the party goers. Polls indicate that the second choice for almost everyone who is not in favor of either Edwards, Hillary or Obama (for example supporters of our Martian manchurian candidate, Dennis Kucinich) will pick either Edwards or Obama as their second choice and that none will pick Hillary as their second choice. When the earthlings figured this out our monitoring of their private conversations and e mails (made easier for us now since all we have to do is tap into the Patriot Act central switchboard) indicates that almost every earthling has said at least once in the last two weeks "Hilary is not inevitable".

Also of note this week: The earthlings have experimented with different political systems. The most successful so far appears to be something they call democracy. In order to make sure democracy lasts they have a constitution which is kind of like the golden tablets in Binghamton except it was written by people - most of whom, interestingly, were in their 20's when they wrote it except for one, Ben Franklin, who was the only old guy in the group. Anyway, in order to protect this democracy there has to be some spying on the various groups and individuals who wish to undermine the democracy. Sometimes the spys even do things that the Constitution does not permit such as destroying video taped evidence. The earthlings often hold something they call hearings about these things. They may have hearings about the video tapes in question and I will report back on the results.

Until my next report - greetings from sunny earth (weather report - increasing warming).

Posted by: Uncle Martin | December 8, 2007 3:18 PM