Hey Obama, Rev. Wright’s holding on the bat-phone…
Barack Obama: Hello? Reverend Wright?
Rev. Wright: Let me just say this to you my good man, my good friend, my good member of the flock — you make me proud today!
BO: Um, well, thanks Reverend. I don’t–
RW: Yes you do. Yes you do! ‘Typical white person.’ Barack WELCOME HOME! Welcome home. At last, welcome home.
BO: No, well, you see, Reverend, I was just trying to point out that some people–
RW: My eyes tear up today. My lips quiver with the hope that–
BO: Hang on, Reverend. That ‘Typical white person’ thing sort of just slipped out the wrong way. We gotta keep this one down. I don’t need another shovel, Reverend.
RW: Shovel? Shovel? My son you ain’t in no hole. You are rising up that hill. Hey, that ’shining city on a hill’, you can use that. It worked for the actor.
BO: No, thank you Reverend, but this isn’t, I mean, Bill Richardson’s decorating the mahogany today and, and–
RW: I’m booked on Oprah tomorrow and I am gonna make you proud by–
BO: No! Cease! Reverend, no! Oprah? Don’t. I need a typical cigarette. I’m irrevocably tied to our tragic past. Gotta go, Reverend. Senator Kerry’s on line two. He just nominated me to ‘bridge the divide of religious extremism’!




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Friday, 21 March 2008 at 13:53
Fr. J.
clever.