Barack Yawns For Change

I was watching cable news and saw some fun footage of Barack and Michelle Obama enjoying a little holiday down-time. It showed them on the sidelines of one of their kids' soccer games, appearing quite normal. Barack was yawning here and there, in-between the kicks of kids' feet upon the black and white ball. I suppose he is yawning because he is in that summer down-time phase of the election season when his policies have to move toward the center somewhat. He has just finished an exhausting, exciting Democratic primary process full of college kids screaming and young progressives believing they have found the Messiah. In other elections this "moving toward the center" phase for a candidate is quite normal and uninteresting; but when Barack does it it seems to have drawn shock, outrage and disillusionment from his fans. Barack just yawns because he knows it is the doggie days of summer, that football season is yet to begin. The general election is yet to really heat up, and he knows that despite protests from unrealistic liberals who think he can win with a perceived extreme leftist agenda, this boring de-radicalization of his image during the summer when only the die-hard are watching is a key to his success. Once football season starts and the "low-info" voters start watching his commercials during the big games, his message will be fine-tuned. He will be perfectly prepared to draw big, burly hairy beer-drinking football fans into his web of Obamamania. So in the meantime give Barack a break. He knows this "moving to the center" thing is kinda boring and that it's not quite as cool or sexy as giving big rallies and yelling about hope and change with women fainting and grown men crying at the sudden re-emergence of their childhood idealism. He needs to do this "moving to the center" stuff in order to win and I trust his and his campaign's judgment. You DO want him to win, don't you?

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