{"id":191221,"date":"2009-09-11T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/11\/obama-to-switch-parties\/"},"modified":"2009-09-11T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T03:51:00","slug":"obama-to-switch-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/11\/obama-to-switch-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Switch Parties*"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>President Obama stunned the political world today by announcing he will switch political parties, and soon become a Republican. &#8220;It seems the only way we&#8217;re going to get bipartisanship in this town is if I lead the way,&#8221; he said, in brief remarks before leaving for vacation. &#8220;The Republicans have refused to work with me because I&#8217;m a Democrat, and Republicans&#8217; biggest strength has always been the ability to fall into line with whatever their leaders tell them, unlike other certain unnamed political parties in America&#8230;&#8221; (the president appeared to cough several times at this point, although one of his coughs sounded suspiciously like the word &#8220;Democrats,&#8221; if truth be told&#8230;). The president, clear-throated now, continued, &#8220;So I will now be the leader of the Republican Party, and they will fall in line with what I tell them to we&#8217;re going to do. The Democrats who are interested in bipartisanship can join us to pass Medicare-for-all, instead of the Rube Goldberg machine which they have been attempting to construct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.democraticunderground.com\/ChrisWeigant\/57\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">For the humor impaired, this is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">satire<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama stunned the political world today by announcing he will switch political parties, and soon become a Republican. &#8220;It seems the only way we&#8217;re going to get bipartisanship in this town is if I lead the way,&#8221; he said, in brief remarks before leaving for vacation. &#8220;The Republicans have refused to work with me &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1100,978,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-funny","category-politics","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}