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[shuffling noises continue as the Debate Forum audience retake their seats]
WUFFY: "Thank-you, thank-you. I will now turn the next line of questioning to my co-host, Banana Dash, who will now address Senator Barry Oblama."
BANANA DASH: "Thaank-you, Wuffy. Barry, some one from I believe the Rummney Campaign suggested that some of your ---"
BARRY OBLAMA: "Barrak, -- the name's Barrak. (flashes white teeth to the white women who pack the first several rows) -- "Rummney ?? --- Americans will never elect a Gordon Gecko who's been scrambling to buy the White House with the millions he'd preened from the troubled companies he's pillaged."
BANANA DASH: "And you --- why does Barry Oblama with to --- rule the world ??"
BARRY OBLAMA: "Barrak -- the name's Barrak." (coughs, wipes brow with hankie) "I wish to rule the world -- because -- because its there." (a Rousing Roar of Applause fills the Convention Hall) "You see, Mizz Dash, the World understands me. Do you think the World understands that Aridzona Whacko, -- Major T.J. 'King' McKong?" (more war-whoops from the stands).
BANANA DASH: "Yes, well you've repeatedly emphasized as one of your main assets as being more "Worldly" than the others; being seeded from a Third World Afrikan heritage --- as well as having been raised in the Pacific Outback and a Muslim Asian Nation that nobody knows the capital of."
BARRY OBLAMA: (bitting eye-daggers are launched at Mizz Dash) "I'd like the audience to be informed of the rumors that you are, in fact, a Widget in Frau Klinton's campaign."
BANANA DASH: (nervously) "Well, that's just silly. -- I am a 'journalist', afterall." (smiles to the audience Sisters) "In any case, there are many Americans who believe that some of your "Worldly" views sound rather -- unsound -- and nay, dare I say it --- un-American."
BARRY OBLAMA: (stuttering, beading sweat) "Oh yeah !! -- well -- it takes -- a Village -- to know a Village, -- you know." (crickets roar from the auditorium)
BANANA DASH: (again self-asserted & ready for the media 'gottcha') "In fact you were long known as BARRY Oblama, isn't that so? So why 'BARRAK' now?"
BARRY OBLAMA: (blushing) "Oh come on, it's just a guy thing." -- (over-spilling with blarney) -- "Oh, Darlin, tis the 'Roots' of Me Paddy, ya know."
BANANA DASH: "And what's with the refusal to wear a Jingoistic Flag on your lapel? -- Didn't you ever see how Denzil and his Bruthers stormed against the showers of bullets behind that Flag to wipe slavery from the land of your ancestors -- A half-million died under those colors in order to de-colorize you into a colorblind society."
BARRY OBLAMA: "Well but, but, but" -- (now sweating profusely, whispers) "well -- thanks for not mentioning the line of slave masters in my clan."
BANANA DASH: "Anyway, it seemed to most "Thinking People" that your non-challance about wearing a simple flag was a rather Sophomoric ruse to ween the Angries for their votes; something more fitting for one running as president of the school's student coucil than one who is to take office as the Commander-in-Chief."
BARRY OBLAMA: "Well yeah but, the Sophisticates at Saloon thought it was kool."
BANANA DASH: "Yeah -- and so will your cousin, Dick Chainy, Carl Rover & his Goons in November. Dont'cha think its about time you grew up a little before becoming "Barrak-Hussain-Oblama-Never-Even-Been-An-Eagle-Scout presidential wannabe of Amerika? -- Huh ??"
[Barry's widened eyes begin to rapidly dart to & fro between the smiling Frau Klinton and Ronald McPaul]
BARRY OBLAMA: (gulps with a weird smile) "Hey, is this a Trick Question? -- I mean, how many guesses do I get?"
BANANA DASH: "Just remember Mister-Tied-To-The-Third-World-Philosophy-Senator what Amerikans remember."
BARRY OBLAMA: "errr, and what's that?"
BANANA DASH: "That the Corsican, Napoleon wasn't French -- that the Macedonian, Alexander the Great, wasn't Greek -- that the Austrian, Herr Hitler wasn't German -- and that the Georgian, Uncle Joe Stalin, wasn't Russian; -- outsiders all, come in from beyond to save the nations they ultimately deestroyed, -- but all in good faith."
BARRY OBLAMA: (looks to the audience) "Hey, anybody got a Flag?" (pulls out a kazoo while marching offstage) -- "My Country, Tis of Theeeeee, Sweet Land of Libertieeeeeee, -- of Thee I Sing --- Land of the Pilgrim's Pride--- Land where yo Daddies died --- blah, blah, blah, blah-blah O-blama-side, May Freedom Ring !!!! "