The
New York Times
yesterday published a piece quoting Obama aides as saying the president
often fantasizes about having a Bulworth moment. Obviously, that will
never happen because while Obama would be shooting from the hip, he'd
also be shooting himself in the foot because he's also the cause or at
least the owner of many of the problems facing us today.
However, to liberals who have longed to hear Obama speak his mind about
Republicans, it's just as tempting as it is to the president to
speculate on what he'd say. George Washington delivered a memorable
farewell address loaded with advice we've, tragically ignored. Dwight
Eisenhower, just a few days before he made way for Kennedy, warned us
about the "rise of the military-industrial complex", another lesson
we've, even more tragically, ignored.
Yet, while Obama has done absolutely nothing to significantly change the
country he'd inherited from a walking brain stem (and in some ways,
he's made it worse), it can't be said the Republican Party has been
going out of its stumble-footed way to help him achieve some lasting and
meaningful legacy. The Republicans yesterday voted for the 37th time to
repeal ObamaCare without once during this 113th Congress passed or even
proposed a jobs bill. They screamed about birth certificates, gay
marriage, about a fictional national registry for gun owners (which
isn't a bad idea, btw), death panels, everything but the one thing
Americans are most concerned about: Jobs. Solid gun control measures (As
of this writing,
4154 Americans have died from gun-related violence just since Sandy Hook last December.).
The idea of Obama going all Bulworth at the end of his presidency is to
a writer like me like a slow hanging curve ball or a fat, batting
practice fastball to a slugger. So let's just pretend Obama isn't the
worst president in American history and blithely pretend, as all too
many of us do, as if drones, the NDAA, a perpetually high unemployment
rate and caving to the GOP's every whim never happened. Let's all
pretend that Obama is a legitimate victim, a statesman who really just
tried but failed to do the right thing purely because of Republican
obstructionism. This is what I imagine he'd say in his farewell address
in January 2017:
"My fellow Americans:
"For
these past eight years, it has been my distinct honor and privilege to
serve as your president. As my career in public service winds down, I
have taken this opportunity to deliver this farewell address.
"This administration had achieved several great things in the time
allotted to me but so many more great things could have been achieved
were it not for the pin-headed meat puppets of the Koch brothers, Wall
Street, NOM and other evangelical nutjob organizations, Goldman Sachs
and the National Rifle Association. And by pin-headed meat puppets, I mean the Republican Party.
"Now, the racist cock goblins of the Republican Party have been
throwing every stumbling block and conspiracy theory out there and
hoping they'd make at least one stick regardless of how detrimentally
this would affect the nation. During my first term, I had to endure
charges of being Muslim, being born in Kenya and et cetera. In my second
term, I had to hear conspiracy theories about Benghazi, about the IRS
in Cincinnati, about my Justice Department seizing the AP's phone
records.
"None of them stuck even while they tried to
undermine my initiatives for sensible immigration reform, job creation
and modest gun control measures. Instead, they gave us sequestration
then voted for exceptions to sequestration so they could make their
flights in time while unemployment benefits got cut by 11% and children
in Head Start couldn't go to class.
"Fucking doofuses like
Paul Ryan voted to cut well over a quarter of a billion dollars from the
embassy security budget then when Benghazi got attacked, suddenly it
was my fault. Like Jackie Robinson his first two years in the majors, I
had endure this bullshit with good grace and act presidential so the
aforementioned racist cock goblins of the GOP wouldn't string me up on
the nearest elm like it was 1800 Alabama instead of 1600 Pennsylvania.
But now, in the waning hours of the presidency, I give this farewell
address to say first and foremost that the Republicans can suck my black
10-inch cock.
"Yes, suck on that big black puppy, for
helping to keep America in the Dark Ages, for trying to deny women
reproductive health care and contraception, for trying to deny same sex
couples the right to marry, for trying to repeal even the watered-down
Affordable Care Act, child labor laws, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting
Rights Act and for outsourcing so many American jobs that they've
practically turned this once-great nation into one of minimum
wage-earning drones selling beef jerky at 7-11. Buff my black bishop and
take it easy on the back stroke.
"The 111th, 112th and 113th
Congresses will go down in history as the three worst in American
history thanks in large measure to the Grand Old Party. Thanks to
upholstered fossils like John McCain, this country that used to lead the
planet in science, medicine, mathematics and a whole spectrum of
scientific and technical disciplines has become a mockery. As with the
previous administration led by a dry drunk, wet-brained freak, they've
waged war on all the sciences including but not limited to meteorology,
medicine, astronomy, anthropology to the point where I was amazed every
day of my administration the Republican-led House didn't try to make
official an Act proclaiming the fucking earth is flat. Really, kudos for
recognizing it isn't and for accepting gravity.
"And instead
of working with this administration on a jobs bill that would put
Americans back to work and off unemployment and welfare and food stamps,
instead of actually acting on the jobs platform they'd run on in 2010
and 2012, all we heard were 'Tax cuts!' and 'Benghazi!' and a whole raft
of hood ornament issues designed to obfuscate the truth from being
known and to supplant real legislation that could've pulled this country
out of the mess that my special needs predecessor got us into.
"So every Republican from John Boehner on down can suck on my Alabama
blacksnake until it spits all over the Capitol for doing their
level-headed best for trying to take down my administration over trifles
and Tea Bagger conspiracy theories oozing from Alex Jones' sweat
glands. The right wing portion of the Supreme Court can polish my big
black newel post for Citizen's United, erroneously redefining the 2nd
Amendment and for wiping their fat asses with the Constitution. Justice
Clarence Thomas can swallow my Dannon cannon in complete silence. He
makes me ashamed I'm half black.
"My fellow Americans, we
still have many different tough roads to travel and they're made rockier
and darker than ever by the highwaymen of the Republican Party who will
not be satisfied until they've filched and pocketed every last penny
from your pockets and off the eyes of your dead relatives. These
ventriloquist dummies of the Koch brothers, white shoe Wall Street firms
and virtually every billionaire on the planet have held this nation
back for so long it's a miracle we still have the capacity to make fire.
They should all go down on the 99% one at a time so we can all cum
together in righteous rage and indignation at what these prehistoric
peckerheads have done to you.
"In conclusion, my fellow
Americans, it has been my honor to serve you as your president these
past eight years. Good night and God bless."