Posted on 11/14/2009 10:55:20 PM PST by This Just In
Obama: The Woody Boyd Candidate Posted By Matt Patterson On November 14, 2009 @ 6:10 pm In Featured Story, Political Humor, Politics Earlier this year, I rented and re-watched the entire series run of Cheers. Towards the end of the series, the hayseed junior bartender Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson) decides to run for city council. He is encouraged in this endeavor by psychiatrist Fraser Crane (Kelsey Grammer), the bar’s resident elite, who acts as Woody’s campaign manager.
Fraser masterminds Woody’s campaign as a social experiment: He is convinced that anyone, even a bumpkin, can get elected, simply by spouting vague cliches. His advice to Woody? Don’t be specific on the campaign trail – just repeat empty slogans like “change.”
When I saw this, I burst out laughing – perhaps this is where Axelrod & Co. received their inspiration for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign theme, I surmised. In the show, Fraser’s guess proves accurate. Woody is elected. But in the aftermath of Woody’s victory, Fraser has a terrible foreboding of the future – Woody’s election to city council begins a long climb up the cursus honorum, and he eventually becomes president of the United States. Because Woody is stupid (in Fraser’s mind), this of course leads to a nuclear holocaust.
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The problem is that Cliff is smarter than Gibbs and Norm is smarter than Axelrod. That’s why chheers was on longer than 4 years.
Well than I would encourage someone to give him the finger.
"Hope and Change!"
I’d feel a lot better if Kelsey Grammer was President, or Rob Long was scripting our future...
NORM!
Woody: What are you up to Mr. Peterson?
Norm: My ideal weight.... if I were eleven feet tall.
Incumbent Councilman: “Hope and Change”
Sam: “He’s got my vote”
Frasier: “But he didn’t SAY anything!!”
It’s hilarious isn’t it? In a laugh to keep from crying kind of way. Or life parodies satire. Over half of our country has the intellectual and emotional depth of Sam Malone.
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