A Cheeky Salute to Obama + Open Thread
By Steve_in_KC on January 19, 2009 at 10:15 PM in Current Affairs
I hope we are all educated and/or civilized people here. I hope we are mature enough to have a frank and open discussion about the bum.
I’m speaking, of course, about the human posterior. The word “bum,” indicating the buttocks, is used primarily in British Commonwealth countries. It’s short for “bottom.”
You know how the English are, dropping T’s all over the place. You hear it in phrases like “I’ve go’ a loverly bunch of coconuts” or “wha’ a shi”y day!”
Today is the “historical” inauguration of Barack Obama as the new POTUS.
I know! I keep shaking my head in disbelief too!
Today, millions of people will be cheering in ecstasy that we have finally elected a…
Oh, screw it! I’ve heard this crap till I’m ready to start projectile vomiting. I’m about one superlative away from hurling right now.
The Anointed One will be sworn in to defend the very Constitution that he has said has “deep flaws.” Unlike himself, I’m sure.
The best thing about living in a free society, of which America is the greatest, is that we have the right to not like the president and to say so publicly. In fact, some of us take great pleasure in doing just that.
We all have different way of expressing our feelings. The one I’m focused on right now is how best to salute this great man and his remarkable achievement. I’ve decided I’m going to moon him!
I hereby declare, in the spirit of freedom of expression, that today is Bare Your Bum for Obuma Day!
In keeping with this most unique and hallowed occasion, when this great nation of ours will be forever changed, I wish to welcome our new president with that most ancient and irreverent custom: turn around, drop trou’ and bow.
I guess I shouldn’t make him the butt of my jokes. But once I start, sometimes I can’t stop. I’m kind of anal that way.
But tell me this: if I called him an ass, might some people think that’s a dirty crack?
I had hoped to start a real movement with this idea. It’s just something I felt from the gut, something I had to get out of my system.
But even if I go it alone, as I usually do, I hope there will be plenty of you right beside me. Preferably down-wind.
So if you’re with me on this (and who could blame you if you weren’t?), do as I plan to do… and do and do and do. Every time they repeat the film clip of Backtrack Obuma swearing the oath of office, making another round of promises he won’t keep, do a little swearing of your own. But by all means, stand up when he is speaking! And show your respect by taking a deep bow… in the opposite direction. Undies at your ankles.
To those about to moon, I salute you!
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