Thursday, August 07, 2008

PARIS DEFLATES OBAMA
Paris Hilton, until now, known as an airhead Hollywood celebrity, has deflated the Obama hot air balloon. A poll this week at pollcode.com shows that eight times as many Americans say they would vote for Paris Hilton to be president over Barack Obama. Many thought that Obama’s summer intern tour of Iraq, Afghanistan, Berlin and Paris was the beginning of the end of his campaign of ‘hope’ and ‘change’ devoid of content. But it was not Paris, France but Paris, the Hollywood airhead, who has called attention to the vacuousness and superficiality of Barack’s highly vaunted "Energy Plan."

Ms. Hilton was first injected into the presidential campaign by a McCain Campaign ad that showed Obama receiving mindless rock star adulation from adoring Berliners and then added fleetingly the faces of Ms. Hilton and pop star Brittany Spears. The connection was that all three are all celebrity and no substance. No one ever suspected that in the clash of a demigod, Barack, and a celebrity, Paris, that Paris would reveal the better energy plan. Acknowledging that she has been thrust into the role of presidential candidate, Paris put her own campaign commercial on the popular internet site Youtube. Adorned in a leopard print bikini and reclining in a lounge chair, Paris expounded a two-fold energy plan that called for drilling for domestic oil with proper safeguards and encouragement of research and development of energy alternative sources such as wind power and electric.

Contrast this with Obama haranguing college audiences, enthusiastic but uninformed, about his plan. "We could save all the oil that they are talking about obtaining from drilling if everybody would just inflate their tires and get regular tune-ups." In other words, if we rubes would quit driving our jalopies on flat tires the U.S. would not need to drill for oil and we would have ‘energy independence. His figuring that the nation could save 3 to 4 % in oil consumption by proper tire inflation is laughed at by all automotive experts. It proves that Obama fares better promising ‘hope,’ ‘change’ and ‘pie in the sky’ than proposing stupid, liberal ideas unattached to facts.’ In her ad, Paris Hilton, hot, blond and in bikini, looks more presidential than Obama. Shortly after she threw her bikini into the presidential ring, an internet site, pollcode.com asked the crucial question: "Who would you support for President?" Choices were John McCain, Barack Obama or Paris Hilton. Republican John McCain got 72% of the votes, followed by Independent Paris Hilton with 24% and, bringing up the rear, Democrat Barack Obama with 3%. The voters chose an airhead celebrity speaking commonsense by a margin of 8 to 1 over a liberal Barack spouting psychobabble and nonsense.

Paris’s profession is being a celebrity and entrepreneur, not a thinker, she is known to be savvy in gaining attention. In a few days she, and probably a publicist and her agent, put together an energy plan very close to John McCain’s and what the American people have been demanding. No geniuses, a few staff and a couple days yielded a workable policy. On the other hand Barack, who has been gearing up for his presidential bid since 2006, has over 800 full-time advisers all claiming to be geniuses. They come up with a plan telling Americans how inflate their auto tires. There is an old proverb that "1,000 fools do not make a wise man." Now I grant that Obama only had 800 advisers but I doubt that another 200 would have helped.

In trying to salvage Obama’s ridiculous position many news anchors and commentators have tried to prove that if Americans all get together and inflate our tires then no oil drilling or nuclear power plants will be necessary. I see Obama standing tall on inauguration day in front of the White House blessing the crowd with a tire gauge after he takes the oath of office. As a first act he could create the Energy and Tire Inflation Department which would employ thousands of officials as a bicycle patrol ( green friendly) that would stop vehicles or check cars in garages for properly inflated tires.

What accounts for Paris Hilton’s commanding lead over Obama? First, she is better looking. Second, she has earned her fortune by self promotion and profiteering on her celebrity status in contrast to Obama who has been dependent on the government lard bucket for his whole career. Third, a sense of fun. Don’t forget Americans not only have a sense of humor ( where’s Obama’s? ) but also believe that entrepreneurs trumps bureaucrats.
Good news for Obama! Checking the closing internet poll numbers I see that he is up to being the choice of 4% but Paris is still at 24%. Some suggest that John McCain, who is the choice of 72%, offer Paris the Vice-presidency. I suggest the 4% who believe in Obama’s ‘Energy Plan,’ go to your local Obama Campaign Headquarters and get your free tire gauge and donate a tire pump to help re-inflate your candidates’s ego with his greatest strength - hot air.

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