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Is Obama in the fast lane on the road to perdition

 

Obama being lampooned on Saturday Night Live (click to enlarge)

Or is he just on the exit ramp?  In our Friday post on Sarah Palin, I touched on the inconvenient truth that the polls are headed south for the won !, but also how that was no sure sign of any decline in his status as a sacrosanct pop-icon, who in the opinion of the late night comics never! did anything worthy of spoofing, in addition to his standing as the pope of post-racial, post-partisan, political correctness.

Well, one of the most important indicators of that status has revealed a marked decline indeed.  Saturday night live weighed in, by firing up Obama over his ebbing domestic credibility, with respect to his ambitious statist agenda and profligate spending, as well as tangentially mocking the lack of respect he gets from the very adversaries he so desperately wants to court.  And recall that it's only been little more than a month since SNL skewered the President for accomplishing nothing; Just Words!   But, in the interest of fairness they also had a spoof on Palin as well, done in the form of a movie trailer for, "A DNC film from the mind of Kieth Olbermann", one where Glenn Beck was VP; and so the nation would go from an unofficial clown in Biden to one that at least has professional bona fides.

But truthfully, the ridicule of Obama by SNL may not be as viral as the goof on Palin; owing to SNL's mediocre ratings as well as the won!'s many, many, water carriers allies in the legacy media.  InstaGlenn wryly quips:

I eagerly await Wolf Blitzer’s fact-checking

Still, this is strike 2 for Obama on SNL, strike 3 of you count the primaries.  And while ridicule of the President hasn't reached the levels of Bush as of yet, this skit reveals a tectonic shift in comedic attitudes about Obama's untouchability.  I guess the "spoofing" light is now lit...

Here are Ace's and AllahP's respective takes on the skit.

(H/T Instapundit)

Rocketman