Well now, would you believe that some people took offense to my last article? I was asked to predict the outcome of the presidential election… it was NOT my fault! How was I to know that more perfectly sane people would all of a sudden turn into “Electacians” (ee-lek-tay-shuns)?

Like one of my best friends, Olive Oil for instance. She’s engaged to Brutus… yeah Popeye is out; he’s probably buried in the back yard somewhere! She said that my article sounded like I was angry… humm that’s just what an Electacian would say, but no, not Olive Oil, she’s too smart to fall for that crap.

Then again, the day after the election I was invited to Olive’s for a “grubinmovie”, that’s short for “grub and a movie”, and during the movie Olive starts googling Obama on the internet. All during the movie she’s asking us, “Did you know that he was this…, and he did that… and on and on and poor Brutus and I just looked at each other and shook our heads in disbelief!

Yeah that confirms it, she has caught the “Electotarium Disease”! I can’t believe it… I thought I immunized all my friends and family, damn must have been a week batch!

However Olive Oil is not alone in her suffering, I’ve noticed a lot of google-eyed newly formed Electacians all spouting how wonderful Obama is and how he’s going to bring us out of the eight year puppet show with a wave of a magic wand and everything is going to be so marvelous… life is going to be so grand!

I’m just waiting for the press release that tells us that he’s officially changing his name to “Jesus Obama” and how he’s going to turn water into “Mad Dog” every Thursday at Ten! (mad dog is a brand of really cheap, really nasty wine)

I can just hear the radio commercials for that one…

“He’s amazing!”

“He’s astonishing!”

“He’s fantastic!”

“Heeeeees Jesus Obama!”

”Watch as he turns your jug of water into wine right before your eyes!”

“You’ll be amazed at the choice of flavors, astonished at the beautiful labeling with Jesus Obama’s smiling face!”

“You’ll feel fantastic after consuming several gallons of what was once just plain ordinary water!”

“Stay tuned for your chance to win two free tickets to the Jesus Obama Road Show coming to your neighborhood soon!”

“Just be caller number seven when you hear three mourning dove “coo’s” and you and a friend will get front row seats when the Jesus Obama Road Show comes to your city!”

Then there will be one of those really fast disclaimers saying:

“Be sure to bring plenty of cash because now you’ll have to pay the over inflated wine tax for what was once your water, and let’s not forget the newly passed miracle tax, and there’s the astonishing beautiful label tax, and of course your local state, county, city, and or rural sales taxes!”

Pa-leeeeze people wake up! He is first and foremost a p-p-p-politician, and what do p-p-p-politicians do? Find new creative ways to get more of that dirty old cash out of your wallet! It’s been that way for thousands of years for thousands of governments.

We just need to find new and creative ways to get some of it back… just like we’ve always done!

~ Snarp

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