Fade in to Barack Obama at his desk in the Oval Office.

Obama: Take me to your leader!

Voice offscreen: Cut!

David Axelrod enters from left.

Axelrod: No, no, no! The space alien says “Take me to your leader!” and your line is “I am Barack Obama, Leader of the Free World!”

Okay?

Obama: Okay.

Axelrod: From the top, people!

Axelrod exits left.

Fade in to Barack Obama at his desk in the Oval Office.

Obama: Take me to your leader!

Voice offscreen: Cut!

David Axelrod enters from left.

Axelrod: What the heck is wrong with you today? First you ordered a complete withdrawal of all NATO forces from Afghanistan, and we had to use the Time-Warp Obliviator to suck it back off TV! And now you keep flubbing your lines!

And we still have to wrap the scene where you announce $300 billion in tax-cuts for corporations.

Obama: What’s my motivation?

Axelrod: Your what?

Obama: Michelle signed me up for some acting classes, and we’re supposed to understand the character’s motivation. So what’s my motivation for giving $300 billion in tax-cuts to corporations that are already sitting on a mountain of money that they won’t invest? And why am I still wasting blood and treasure on that crazy war in Afghanistan, when everybody knows it’s unwinnable? And how can my character authorize assassinations of American citizens?

Axelrod looks at Obama suspiciously. Muffled noises are audible under the desk.

Axelrod: Omigod! It’s the President’s sock-puppet Jacob Freeze again!

Axelrod seizes “Obama’s” head and pulls off a mask, revealing Jacob Freeze. Secret Service agent enters from right.

Axelrod: How the heck did that idiot get in here again?

Agent: He must have used the Sub-Space Defrongulator!

Agent exits right with Freeze in handcuffs. Axelrod pulls the real Obama out from under the desk.

Axelrod: From the top, people!

Axelrod exits left.

Obama: I am Barack Obama, Leader of the Free World!

If the Democratic Party stands for anything today, it stands for the remnants of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, and if a Democratic administration with majorities in both houses of Congress simultaneously attacks New Deal Programs like Social Security and Great Society programs like Food Stamps, then the Democratic Party stands for nothing, and even the name of it is just a noise.

And… surprise!

Obama and his playmates are simultaneously attacking food stamps and Social Security.

President Obama in August signed a $26 billion bill to save teaching jobs and pay for Medicare. It included a $12 billion — or 14 percent — reduction in food stamp funding scheduled to kick in during 2014.

This is at a time when more than 41,000,000 Americans depend on food stamps, an all-time record, and an increase of about 8,000,000 since last year.

And while Obama’s “Deficit Commission” continues with its formerly secret plan to cut Social Security benefits, you may very well wonder…

How the heck do the Democrats think they can win an election with out-of-control unemployment and a platform of gutting food stamps and Social Security, and the answer as always is…

Because the Republicans are worse!

And how the heck do the Republicans think they can win an election with their legacy of extremely unpopular wars and an economic meltdown?

Because the Democrats are worse!

This never-ending “bipartisan” scam is the push-me/pull-you engine of American politics.

The Republican platform of yesterday is the Democratic platform of today, and the Republican platform of today is a previously inconceivable further reversion toward the dog-eat-dog primitivism of 19th Century robber-barons and the miserable impoverishment of almost all of us.

Agence France Presse, September 3, 2010…

Although the initially slow pace of aid had improved since a visit by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in mid-August, the UN said it has “almost stalled” since the beginning of last week, rising from 274 million dollars to 291 million dollars — about two thirds of funding needs.

That’s a total of $17 million in about two weeks, from the whole world, for at least 8,000,000 Pakistanis with no food at all and nothing but dirty water to drink.

And in the same two weeks the United States has spent about $26 billion on “defense,” $13 billion per week, out of a military budget of $663 billion for 2010.

“Today, old adversaries are at peace, and emerging democracies are potential partners.”  -Barack Obama, August 31, 2010

AFP/Baghdad, August 25, 2010… More than a dozen apparently co-ordinated car bombs targeting Iraqi police and other attacks blamed on Al Qaeda killed 53 people yesterday, just days before the US military ends its combat mission.

BAGHDAD, Aug 17… A suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded army recruitment centre in Baghdad killing 61 people Tuesday, officials said, as violence coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan raged across Iraq.

And so on.