Obama juice
Another day another Obama post – this will probably be the last for a while, but it was just too good to overlook!
Poor Obama – being the most powerful and popular man in the world has its disadvantages. You suddenly acquire friends you never knew you had! Keep an eye out for the most cringe worthy examples of people grappling for a sip of Obama juice in the hope that, like some sort of secret potion, a tenuous connection to the man will provide a little personal boost. Old “friends” and acquaintances will be lining up with their improbable versions of Obama’s endorsement.
The first example of gratuitous Obama slip-streaming comes from Labour MP Dawn Butler:
The image above was on Dawn Butler’s website until it started to attract some unwanted attention. The story has been floating around the UK political blogs all day. It’s just so embarrassing! It is completely obvious that Obama didn’t come up with this awful text – his soon to be adopted dog would have barked a better paragraph. It’s also odd that when visiting the UK as Senator Obama he wrote a note on House of Commons headed paper?!
It gets worse! On her website Dawn Butler MP recounts a meeting with Obama, but unfortunately constantly refers to him as Barak Obama! How do you manage to incorrectly spell the name of the most famous man in the world?!
That’s appalling! The first sentence, in isolation, doesn’t sound like an endorsement but the very opposite: it sounds as though he’s saying, “If all black women are like her, no wonder you only have two.”
I see that he did actually sign it, but that Butler’s staff wrote it. How embarrassing. He has a cool signature though.
Private Eye, I think, has started an ‘Obamaballs’ column to quote people looking to sip a little Obama-juice, as you so … evocatively put it!