Obama Post Election Satire: A Look At Ourselves

"I can do whatever I want " Obama Spoof Whatever you like original video



This video is a take off on a popular hip hop song " You can have whatever you want". The original video shows a superstar stopping off in a fast food place and giving the girl behind the counter his phone number. The main focus of the video is the young girl's fantasies of fame and fortune.

The spoof version has Obama flush with satisfaction at making history. It shows a wild optimism and excitement. All obstacles seem destined to melt in front of the fictional Obama's smug self assurance.

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I imagine that the real Obama now realises that he has signed on for some daunting tasks. It is hard to imagine that he is as giddy and smug as he is portrayed in the video. Even with a majority in Congress, Obama faces a tough economy and a world that has become a rough neighbourhood.

The public who elected Obama is another story. Those who eagerly await a government gravy train are not only sitting in welfare offices but in corporate boardrooms as well. Union organisers should be giving unions a lease on life and credibility by cooperating with management in improving productivity. Instead they want to steamroll their way into shops across America by stripping union ballots of their secrecy.

Obama waged a tough and ruthless campaign. The voters have spoken. The confetti has been swept up. The champagne bottles have long been put in recycling bags. In past generations we had the benefit of sober counsel about "blood, sweat, toil and tears." Such voices are sadly lacking in this generation.

The voters had the facts available to them before Obama was elected. They made their choice. We can live with it. We have no choice. There are a lot of other choices we as citizens make between elections. Are we going to demand expensive "goodies"? Are we going to demand expensive tax rebates or golden parachutes? Are we goiung to quietly wink at more money being printed? Or are we going to consider the impact on the society and the economy of our expensive preferences.

We invest childish hopes in our leaders and deny the impact of our personal choices on society. Roe vs. Wade was passed by the Supreme court in 1973, legalising abortion in America. How many hundreds of thousands were aborted in that year? Had they lived, they would all turn thirty five this year. The majority would be working and paying into Social Security. If you add in every year since then in which individuals chose to abort, you have a major factor in America's economic equation. Our personal decisions have an impact on society. You can be an atheist and see the truth of this in entirely materialistic terms.

When I laugh at the Obama video with this posting, I am laughing at America's expectations of its leaders and its negation of personal responsibility. This attitude reaches from the shop floor to the board of directors, from the cradle to the nursing home.

Obama's slogan was "We are the people we've been waiting for." Where are we?

Gun Control and Peace on Earth in One Easy Lesson

One of the biggest mistakes of the Clinton administration was the embargo on the sale of arms to warring parties in Bosnia.

Bosnia Herzegovina in the late eighties did not lend itself easily to a neat map with interlocking pieces. In many parts of Bosnia, the various ethnic groups were mixed together, much as are Hatians and American Blacks or Poles and Italians in America. Intermarriage was high. Bosnian Islam was (and usually still is) a very relaxed form of observance in which liquor not infrequently found a place. Only ethnic cleansing made establishing borders between Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims possible.

Arms embargoes gave the Serbs a disproportionate advantage. Croats had Croatia arming them and the Bosnians only had the Muslim world to turn to for arms. The disparity in arms emboldened aggressors.

In retrospect, it would have been far preferable to allow unrestricted arms sales to all parties, none of whom had any particular edge in the sanity department. Had there been a stalemate in arms among the combatants and a sufficient level of fear on all sides, it is quite possible that outside intervention would have consisted not in sending in ground troops but in negotiating local arms reduction.

There are states that have normal gun laws. New York is not one of them. A normal gun law would permit a firearm to anyone who is not a nut job or a felon. This is an excellent law to implement as foreign policy. Ahmadinejad is a nut job and a felon. If Obama invites him to dinner, he should get plastic cutlery. Someone should light his cigarette if he wants to smoke, and hand him a flame retardent cardboard ashtray.Nuclear weapons? Fuhgeddaboutit. Give the man some Thorazine.

The communist world has privatised state industries. We should take it a step further. Let’s privatise foreign policy. Let the arms dealers have a free hand in arming everyone who wants to fight. Get everyone armed to the teeth. Whoever has money can walk out with some groovy weapons. No money? No problem. Send them some of those credit cards that America maxed out on. (Don’t get mud on that gun son, I still own it.)

Click here to read the rest of my article on The American Sentinel

Schnappi The Crocodile

The video with this posting is "Schnappi , das Kleine Krokodil." (Schnappi the Little Crocodile) It is one of those children's videos that actually built up a strong following, not only in Germany where it originated in 2004 but in much of Europe. the lyrics are as follows in German and in English.

Ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil,

komm aus Ägypten das liegt direkt am Nil
zuerst lag ich in einem Ei,
dann schni schna schnappte ich mich frei.

Refrain

Schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp
schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp

Ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil,
hab scharfe Zähne und davon ganz schön viel
ich schnapp mir was ich schnappen kan
ja schnapp zu weil ich das so gut kann.

Refrain

Schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp

schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp

Ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil,

ich schnappe gern das ist mein Lieblingsspiel

ich schleich mich an die Mama ran

und zeig ihr wie ich schnappen kann!

Refrain

Schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp

schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp

ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil

und vom Schnappen da krieg ich nicht zuviel,

ich beiss den Papi kurz ins Bein

und dann dann schlafe ich einfach ein.

Refrain

Schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp (ja! )

schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp (schnapp!)

Schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp (ja! )

schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp

The English translation is as follows

I am Schnappi the small crocodile I come from Egypt right by the Nile.
First I lay in an egg, then schni schna snatched myself I freely.

schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi snatch schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi snatch

I am Schnappi the small crocodile I have sharp teeth and a lot of them
I snap at whatever I can, and do it because I because I can.

schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi snatch schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi snatch

I are Schnappi the small crocodile, I snap gladly that is my favourite way to play.
I creep to the mummy ran, and show it as I to snatch can!

schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi snatch schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi snatch

I are Schnappi the small crocodile, and from snatching there war I not too much.
I bite the Papi in the leg, and then, then I just fall asleep.

schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi snatch schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi snatch
schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi snatch schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi snatch

I got the original lyrics and a very rough English translation which I was able to smooth out a bit.


When I set out to write this article , I was collecting a couple of East German children's songs which captured the spirit of childhood in East Germany. By accident, I found this video. Some of the best children's videos appeal to adults on one level and to children on another. I have no insight into why this video works for me. It just does.

There is a Wikipedia article with a lot of source material on Schnappi the Crocodile. I am including it below.

I will present the East German material that I have collected. But Schnappi was too good to pass up.

What is the point of all of this? Sometimes good things happen when you're trying to do something else. And sometimes you have to just let those good things happen, and return to your original objective later. Schnappi puts a very cute face on this idea. Thank you Schnappi.