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| Obama's cosmic 'Jedi mind-meld' blunder |
| 2013-03-02 |
| [News24] President Barack Obama couldn't bring two battling political parties together to forestall steep budget cuts on Friday, but he did manage a feat of more cosmic proportions. His midiclorians were acting up. The president brought two universes together, and he did it by boldly going where no politician should ever go: confusing Star Wars and Star Trek. "Dammit, Jim! I'm a president, not a dictator!" Obama's mixing of science-fiction metaphors crossed a final frontier, setting the nerdiest corners of the Internet ablaze. "A tempest in a teapot it is!" The president was answering reporters' questions on Friday in the White House briefing room, shortly after a last-minute meeting with the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate. "Aye. The haggis is in the fire for sure!" The meeting failed to ward off automatic budget cuts that will begin carving $85bn of government spending by day's end. "Help me, Obi-Wan! You're our only hope!" Obama rejected the idea of using burly Secret Service agents to keep lawmakers from leaving until everyone agreed on a budget. "Luke! Luke! I am your grandfather!" "I am not a dictator. I'm the president," he said, explaining that he wouldn't do a "Jedi mind meld" with Congress' top two Republicans to persuade them "to do what's right." "May the farce be with you!" |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Obama/Boehner cosmic 'Jedi mind-meld'. |
| Posted by: junkiron 2013-03-02 20:16 |
| #2 His head...its on backwards! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-03-02 19:37 |
| #1 Wonderful inline Fred! All that is missing is a reference to Scotty "givin' it all she'll take but i canno' say how much more the ol' girl will take, Cap'n." |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2013-03-02 16:15 |