SNL's Obama: 'Nothing, nada'... Problem?

So SNL is clever and witty when it lampoons Sarah Palin, but when they dig at the Boy Wonder it's over-the-top and they must be silenced? Is that what you're saying? Just wanted to make sure I have that straight.

Is SNL trying to go after the Glenn Beck crowd with this childish and incredibly un-funny skit? Most folks still like Obama personally AND politically, you know...

http://www.political-buzz.com/

HAWWW ! ! !

NObama is finally getting some standard treatment from the MSM.

About damn time . . .

Et tu, SNL?

PS to Lorne Michaels - get someone who is better at impersonating The Won. This guy's impersonation of Obumbles is on par with Chevy Chase's impersonation of Gerald Ford.

"Liberalism is..." - Where does the article suggest SNL should be silenced? It merely discusses how influential it can be, and then provides the details.

And this 'plague' business? Really, be a grownup, please. Raise the level of discourse.

I have buyers remorse, not so much for the campaign promises listed above that have not been kept but for other promises made by Pres. Obama.
1) Transparency. Posting bills for the public to read before voting on them. NOT KEPT
2) Lobbyists - Obama promised lobbyists would not run his administration BUT THEY DO! No competition, no free choice, the Wyden-Bennett bill wasn't even let into the house for discussion.
3) Pork or Earmarks - There were plenty in the last stimulus pkg. Obama promised no pork or earmarks but caved in to the good ole boys.
4) Line by Line budget review - Instead of giving the taxpayers a break by getting rid of wasteful programs Obama is growing government so fast our next generation can't support it. College grads are running to Washington DC to get on the taxpayers' payroll.
5) Czars = Cronyism (although this was not a campaign promise, it is amazing the people chosen to be Obama's czars).
The list goes on..........I was hoping that we truly had a President that would protect and serve the people of the U.S. but he is more concerned with his buddies in Chicago and his lobbyist friends. My main concern is there is no one on the political scene that I can believe or trust anymore. We have to change the way Washington does business... We need a brave man/women with a centerpoint compass to clean it up. It looks like it is not Pres. Obama.

McKinnon said today on MSNBC's Morning Agenda. " I'm afraid that if civility, if it's not dead, it's in the Intensive Care Unit. ~ Mark McKinnon, strategist
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The Heat is rising. It's starting to get ugly up n here.

Posted by: Liberalism is a plague -- eradicate it! | October 5, 2009 12:18 PM

Is that what you got out of reading the thread? Wow.

I am 100% supportive of Obama and I thought the SNL skit was witty and delightful. It exposed the oppositions' exaggerated expectations and impatience!

@LIAP: Did you read the piece? He refers to the SNL sketch as "rather effective." How could you read that as an anti-SNL article?

SNL can be clever and witty when they lampoon Sarah Palin AND when they lampoon Obama. I was an Obama voter, and still strongly support him (yet acknowledge it has been a bumpy few months). The hallmark of a free society and free press includes the right to mock our leaders, no matter who they are.

While I agree that the skit isn't entirely accurate when it comes to Obama's accomplishments, let's not forget this is Saturday Night Live, not Meet The Press. They aren't necessarily known for their accuracy when it comes to the politicians they mock, nor do I think they really care.

And while I do think that Obama hasn't been without accomplishment during these past few months, I do think the skit hit a nerve, and for good reason. It reminded everyone how frustrating governmental gridlock and inaction can be, and yes, I do lay some of this at Obama's feet, yet would still vote for him again over McCain in a heartbeat.

Yeah, but the Wingnuts told me that Obama was going to turn us into a commie/fascist/socialist country that wanted to kill granny?

Yeah, but the Wingnuts told me that Obama was going to turn us into a commie/fascist/socialist country that wanted to kill granny?

Posted by: Wingnuts are a plague -- eradicate them! | October 5, 2009 2:39 PM

You confuse intent with ability. That bumbles has facist aspirations and has managed to take over a few car companies and banks is not in dispute. That bumble's chief health care advisor places minimal value, and therefore wants to withhold healthcare, from the young and the old is cause for concern. The positive to all this is the fool has shown his ineptitude with foreign policy, the environment, the economy and any other endeavor requiring more than a teleprompter.

"Where does the article suggest SNL should be silenced?"

It's implied -- Stalinist S.O.P. Give 'em time to get over the shock and put the machinery in gear. It is not wise to rub His Excellency's ego the wrong way. If he ever gets the full Palin treatment, he'll just dispatch some of his "community organizers" to adjust a few attitudes over at SNL.

You confuse intent with ability. That bumbles has facist aspirations and has managed to take over a few car companies and banks is not in dispute.
Posted by: Hans | October 5, 2009 3:13 PM
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Really? So you Repug clowns are mind readers now too? It was Shrub Jr who first demanded that the banks be bailed out so they wouldn't collapse. And saving the American automotive sector is communism? Are you saying that we should start out sourcing all of our manufacturing?

Try again...

The current mess that we're in is the logical conclusion of 30+ years of Ronnie Rayguns trickledown, tax cuts for the rich economic policies. The richest 1% now control over 50% of the wealth in this country and yet where are the jobs that Bushco told us they were going to create?

As long as the Plutonomy is able to continue to manipulate the stupid part of the US population (low IQ Teabaggers who make up the Republican base) to go out and protest for them, we will always have trouble putting policies in place that would take away some of their power and benefit the poor and middle class.

I think the premise that SNL somehow has played a role in the fortunes of politicians is flawed. Do you really think that the American people wouldn't have noticed that Al Gore had a wooden delivery when speaking, or that Sarah Palin is a ditz if SNL hadn't pointed it out? I don't.

It's implied -- Stalinist S.O.P. Give 'em time to get over the shock and put the machinery in gear. It is not wise to rub His Excellency's ego the wrong way. If he ever gets the full Palin treatment, he'll just dispatch some of his "community organizers" to adjust a few attitudes over a

Posted by: Liberalism is a plague -- eradicate it! | October 5, 2009 4:01 PM
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Teresa,
Sounds like you need to adjust the Wingnutty tinfoil on your head again.
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http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/3983339.html#cutid1

Sometime this year, we taxpayers will again receive an Economic
Stimulus Payment. This is a very exciting program. I'll explain
it, using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?
A. It is money the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a high-
definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy..

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China?
A. Shut up.

Below is some advice on how to best help the US economy by spending
your stimulus check wisely:

* If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to
China or Sri Lanka.

* If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to Arabs.

* If you purchase a computer, your money will go to India, Taiwan
or China. .

* If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico,
Honduras and Guatemala .

* If you buy an efficient car, it will go to Japan or Korea.

* If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan.

* If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to
management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

Instead, keep the money in America by:

1. spending it at yard sales, or

2. going to ball games, or

3. spending it on prostitutes, or

4. beer, or

5. tattoos.

(These are the only American businesses still operating in the US.)

Conclusion:

Go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that you met at a yard
sale, and drink beer all day.

Fred Armisen left another Obama campaign promise out of the list:

Windfall profit tax on the Big Oil.

Souds to me like Obama was taken in the back room and set straight.

Go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that you met at a yard
sale, and drink beer all day.

Posted by: Flagrante Delicto | October 5, 2009 9:04 PM
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More cut and paste propaganda (see above) from Wingnut Central Command.
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http://www.okshooters.com/forums/showthread.php?p=819047

You can't satarize someone you're in love with.

Doesn't work that way.

Obviously not me folks, but some Loony Lefty Imposter . . .

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Really? So you Repug clowns are mind readers now too? It was Shrub Jr who first demanded that the banks be bailed out so they wouldn't collapse. And saving the American automotive sector is communism? Are you saying that we should start out sourcing all of our manufacturing?

Try again...

The current mess that we're in is the logical conclusion of 30+ years of Ronnie Rayguns trickledown, tax cuts for the rich economic policies. The richest 1% now control over 50% of the wealth in this country and yet where are the jobs that Bushco told us they were going to create?

As long as the Plutonomy is able to continue to manipulate the stupid part of the US population (low IQ Teabaggers who make up the Republican base) to go out and protest for them, we will always have trouble putting policies in place that would take away some of their power and benefit the poor and middle class.
Posted by: Bobbie Mobbie | October 5, 2009 4:02 PM

Waaahhhhhhhhh! They can't make fun of our leader, even if it is all true.
SNL should have done a list of Obama's successes. There was..., and then there was.... Oh, well, I guess blank pages don't make for comedy.

Real Bobbie: It's Janet, who is I Wanna Be An Idiot, who is John EE, who is Teabag Arkansas, who is Antacid, who is K, who is Rico Sauve, who is Lars, who is Planet Wingnuttia, who is Former Republican (which is a lie), who is Drain You, who is a hundred other names but always the same liberal stupid posts. He posts the identical dung after every story complete with the same errors and blathering. Let's hope he rediscovers HALO someday.

Obama: A momentary lapse in judgement.....
This is the new slogan for all those voters out there who now see voting for hope and promise perhaps was a bad idea and most certainly an empty one....
Friends don't let friends vote for Obummer.....

Real Bobbie: It's Janet, who is I Wanna Be An Idiot, who is John EE, who is Teabag Arkansas, who is Antacid, who is K, who is Rico Sauve, who is Lars, who is Planet Wingnuttia, who is Former Republican (which is a lie), who is Drain You, who is a hundred other names but always the same liberal stupid posts….
Posted by: Will the Real John EE Please Shut Up | October 6, 2009 1:11 PM
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John E/EE, are you really all of these folk? How do u do it? I am impressed. There is a certain standard of crudeness to a lot of these pseudonyms that u so faithfully use, but apparently more than a few of us can recognize the handiwork. Hey! It’s a Swamp. Be Swamp-like, and That u are. For this, though, I do thank u: I can do an asymptotic approach to Django Reinhardt on most days, but jimmy carter will never be confused as a statesman on any day. That’s a true statement that I like a lot.

This is NOT the Partisan Leftist Press making fun of Obama. It is NOT true that he has done nothing. He has destroyed whole companies and industries, and plans for much more. He is purposely crippling our economy and way of life, so that we are a) dependents of the Government and the Democrats in perpetuity, and b) no threat, and certainly not a leader in the world, and the last bastion of freedom, and champion of personal rights, especially the right to life and to have children, against the oncoming of the New World Order. This is the left saying, screw the approval polls, get on with it with a vengeance. And SNL does not want someone who can really nail an imitation of this guy. They don't want anyone using their own tactics against them as they did to Bush and Palin. He is already a good enough parody of himself, and a buffoon, by any presidential standard. But the show MUST go on.

But wait a minute, THIS JUST IN....in case anyone notices all this, let's give him the Nobel Peace Prize, or something. There's just SO much hope coming right at cha, can you feel it? You betcha! Or, Yes, we can!