Skip to main content

Will Barack Fumble The Ball?


Can't you just see the announcers tonight:

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to opening night of the 2011/2012 season of the 
National Football League. Tonight's match up sees last year's Super Bowl champs
 the Green Bay Packers, this year's top-ranked team,
 take on a real underdog, President Barack Obama. 
What? Wait a minute. Guys, is this right?"

Well, yes and no. The season opener is tonight. It will include Green Bay. But they will be playing New Orleans. The Saints won the Super Bowl the year before. Barack Obama has never won a Super Bowl. In fact the only cup he has is his athletic supporter. But they will both be on TV tonight. Um, Obama and football. Not Obama and his cup.


The President was to have made his so-called "jobs speech" to a joint session of Congress Wednesday. But I think Congress preferred to watch America's Got Talent last night (for some pointers, perhaps)  because they said they weren't available and could he please come back Thursday. Fine. Except Thursday - today - will interfere with the NFL's season opener. A compromise was reached and now the President will address Congress - and the nation - an hour before kick-off.


Now I'm a Canadian and I don't quite get the American political landscape. But this little quagmire really helps me get a grip on things.

You see, to start with, many Americans have been on the sidelines for some time now.

Obama's bench strength hasn't been great.

More often than not he's been pummelled by his opposition.

I don't know that it's entirely his fault but when things appear to go wrong his defense is weak.

The opposition has many interceptions to their credit, even though they've often been charged with pass interference.

Quarterbacking his team hasn't been easy. Often there've been fumbles.

And more often than not, the Democrats seem to blow a fourth and goal situation.

Sadly, fan support is down considerably.

Republicans have been quick to call his efforts offside.

The President's won/loss record is abysmal. (I'm glad I didn't pick him in my fantasy league!)

Although he thought himself an able leader of his team sometimes players like Hillary Clinton, one of his wide receivers, go off in different directions.

And if things keep going the way they are, he may not be back to play in the second half. 

Dammit, Hillary. I said button hole LEFT!

Football. 

Who knew it could aid in explaining, in simple terms, just what's wrong with America!


Labels:

Comments

quirkyloon said…
Clever post! And funny too.

I feel sorry for the man. However, I felt sorry for Dubya too. (ducks tomatoes)

Too many people to please in this country.

I'm thinking more and more about Costa Rica.

Stable govt. Neutral. And....SOCIALIZED medicine!

Sounds like the ticket for me!

hee hee

(plus they accept pre existing conditions and yeah, I have just a couple teensy weensy of those!)
8 September 2011 at 11:50
nonamedufus said…
I've been to Costa Rica! Loved it. Hot. But the beaches are fabulous.

How are you doing these days, health-wise? Got everything under control?
8 September 2011 at 13:25
meleahrebeccah said…
"Now I'm a Canadian and I don't quite get the American political landscape."

I'm an American and even I do NOT get the American political landscape!

Funny post!
8 September 2011 at 15:10
nonamedufus said…
Wow. It's that complicated, eh? So then I guess my analogy was helpful? To sum up, would you say Obama often drops the ball?
8 September 2011 at 15:22
Nicky said…
Ha! Well done sir. I have a feeling his whole campaign is going to be a Hail Mary play.
8 September 2011 at 20:23
nonamedufus said…
Oh, good one, Nicky. Wish I'd thought of that.
8 September 2011 at 22:11
Mr. Jones said…
Let's see. Stop giving tax breaks for companies that take their employee base to other countries. Stop using tax money for every stupid, grass roots based, feel good ideas. Actually tax us wealthy like everyone else and close the loop-holes. Don't spend Government money to try(and fail) to protect Intellectual Property rights, the law say's that a company has to protect it's own stuff. Don't give breaks to a company and say "please" to create jobs. Stop having "Absolute Values" that are "Bend Over" policies. Go represent you real constituents and not the people who fund your campaign. Get reps to spend a bit of time to represent their neighbors and not care if they have to go back. An elected rep should be happy that they did their time and got back to work.
9 September 2011 at 22:01
nonamedufus said…
Holy crap. You should run!
10 September 2011 at 08:34
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Polka Dot Door

A long time ago, when I was 22, my first child was born.  That kid grew up on a little Canadian kid's show called Polka Dot Door, produced by the TV Ontario network.  And Dad, more often than not, sat through those shows with his little one. Nine or so years later when a brother, and a year after that when a sister came along number one son was moving on to Knight Rider and The Dukes of Hazzard.  But there was a nice overlap where his siblings picked up where he had left off with Polka Dot Door.  And Dad was right there to welcome them. So you're looking at a Polka Dot Door veteran.  The show began in 1971 and ran to 1993.  I didn't watch the full run but I did get in my fair share.  The formula was pretty simple.  A young male and female host, which seemed to change every week, sang songs, told stories, made crafts and generally did their best stimulate little brains.  The show opened as follows... Imagination Day!  Oh boy! ...
41 comments
Read more

Hello Goodbye

Today a bit of a reflective piece. Rather than being funny, this is  about the funny. It's a day of mixed emotion at nonamedufus . You see, after several months of inactivity I've dropped a couple of former blogger buddies off my blog roll. I kept hanging on and hanging on hoping they'd return to active blogging but, alas, after waiting in one case five months I've decided to let them go. I'm going to miss - going to? I have been missing - Margo at the Screaming Me-Me . She was one funny lady. From time to time she and I would engage in a feud or two for several days at a time but it was all in fun both for us and, I think, for our readers. And we'd leave each other funny comments, poking fun at each other. I miss her friendship and our humorous exchanges. The other blogger I'm letting go is Chelle, The Offended Blogger . Chelle was a special lady. In addition to her own blog she created and managed Humor Bloggers Dot Com where humour bloggers like m...
16 comments
Read more

The Dangling Conversation

There's a debate underway in my household between my wife and I. I say "underway" because it hasn't quite reached the "raging" stage. If you want raging, my wife (a Francophone) and I (an Anglophone) from time to time (usually in a weak moment of my own making) slip into our number one discussion around why we don't speak more French at home - ergo - when am I, a former public servant who learned French at the expense of our gracious taxpayers and was technically rated bilingual (even though I hardly used it), going to improve my use of Canada's other language? This one never gets resolved, hence it's ongoing nature. But the current debate is over a remark I casually made the other day. I'm no geek, but with a lot of time on my hands I surf the web, converse on Facebook and such and - I have to admit - "I'm nonamedufus and I'm a Twitterholic". In an epiphany-like moment I was struck by the apparent impact of social networkin...
15 comments
Read more