I
will watch Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with President Obama eventually.
I dread it, I have to be in a v
good cheerful and forgiving mood to see it and come to it with a more
neutral disposition, somehow temporarily deactivating my prejudice about
politicians making lobster salad of the office ppl gave them the
legitimacy to occupy, especially if they're going to behave like they're
celebrities instead of civil servants.
Y'knowhat
I expect at the moment when I think of it? For Jerry to be too pally
with Obama and for Obama to erroneously interpret that as a good thing.
It's not a good thing. A president is not supposed to be 'pals' with
anyone in public. But I realize this makes my butt look like an archeological finding.
And
pluswhich that train has long sailed since President Obama in his 2nd
mandate played friendly basketball with Batman and Spiderman -- or
should I say Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker? -- in a fundraiser for the
Democratic Party.
It's better than taking money from corporations, but
by comparison with how Bernie Sanders' campaign is being funded ? It's a
joke -- or should I say Joker? -- since Sanders has so far collected more
money from individual donors only, averaging $30 each (as of 23, 24 or 26, I can't quite remember which, December, 2015 according to
MSNBBCNN), than Obama did in his last campaign, even accepting corporate 'packages'
(previously known on 24 as bribes).
There
is one thing that still gives me reason to suspend judgment: Obama is, after all, a professional politician, so even if Jerry Seinfeld
behaves like they're formal equals, the truth is Obama will most likely
be 411 steps ahead. Not that I think Jerry would be out to 'catch'
Obama in anything since it is an entertainment show.
Yet this is
precisely the problem. The informal quality of such 'interviews' tends to
give bad ideas to the less astute politician. Relax? And all Hell hits
Pandora's fan mailbox.
Be
that as it may, sooner or later I'll bite the 30 pieces of
SilverBulletSpoons I wasn't born with, slay this vampiric dragon
hanging over all our mixed metaphoric heads once and for all time, and kiss this episode of
CCgC & of historic shame on the cheek before the cock crows thrice.
Then I'll sit down and write a truly bombastic paragraph about it.
Given the superhero smorgasbord above, it could reasonably start:
"Once upon a time, a Marvel comic walked into a White House and saw a professional DC comic..."
