May 11, 2008

Certifiable Obamaniacs: Food Tasters for Obama

If I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes on the official Obama site, I wouldn’t have believed it (which is why I screen-capped it; if the Obama people have any sense left at all, they’ll scrub this page faster than you can say “Tony Rezko”):

In a post that reads like an Onion article, a pro-Obama blog reports:

Tuesday’s primaries made Barack Obama the “presumptive nominee”. Now there is increasing speculation that Hillary Clinton will be his running mate. But some pundits warn that Obama better watch his back should Hillary become his Vice President. Concern was heightened after Bill Clinton recently invited Barack Obama for tea with some of Vladimir Putin’s “associates” at New York’s famous Russian Tea Room.

The danger of having the Clintons, who know their way around the White House kitchen, too close for comfort has motivated some Obama supporters to launch a new group seeking to protect their candidate from any close encounters with a bad oyster. Die-hard Obama supporters now have the opportunity to serve and make the ultimate sacrifice by joining Food Tasters for Obama, which is awaiting approval from site administrators at MyBarackObama.com (they are apparently worried that the group will be cast by the media as some sort of weird suicide cult).

“Some some of weird suicide cult”? How about just “off da hook crazy”?

Come to think of it, I’ve seen Obama supporters, in their compulsive poo-flinging, demonstrating fervent belief in those oldie-but-goody right-wing tales of Hillary murdering Vince Foster (I think the current version of the story ends with: “…right after she had Ron Brown’s love child”), so I guess imagining Hillary padding into the White House kitchen to slip cyanide into the tomato bisque isn’t too far a stretch for some of these folks.

While the piece might be parody (the author bills himself as “a registered Fan of Andy Borowitz at the Huffington Post”), the fact remains that there is a Food Tasters for Obama group awaiting approval on Obama’s site.

That’s… NUTS