Things that make you go “hmmmm”

By Cordeiro

Filed Under POTUS on Nov 4 

I’m usually too busy to wonder what celebrities do in their down time. With a wife, two kids, a mortgage, grad school (again), and a dog I’m not sure when it was that I had time I didn’t know what to do with.

That said, as a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia I paid fairly close attention to the election returns last night. I can now proudly state that I live in a Red County. Memo to Congressman Gerry Connelly: Don’t get too excited about getting settled in your office. Bob McDonnell carried your district by an average of 55%.

But I digress.

You’d think that, after having invested so much time and political capital into the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, The One would be interested in the outcome and would check the returns to see if his aura had rubbed off on either Creigh Deeds or Jon Corzine. Sadly, The One couldn’t be bothered to pay attention.

It wasn’t as if he had domestic obligations to attend to. Michelle had packed the girls off to see Hannah Montana in concert. He’d brushed off German Chancellor Merkel’s invitation to visit the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. All things considered, The One pretty much had the run of the White House for the night. As a politician, you’d think he’d be getting regular updates.

Well, dear reader, The One did watch a show about election night on election night. However, it isn’t the election night you’re thinking about. The One spent prime time last night watching an HBO documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama. In other words, he watched a movie about himself.

Now, in defense of The One, it may have been difficult for him to find a news channel carrying a live election feed. Evidently, MSNBC gave up on live coverage at 10pm eastern last night. If my only choice was to watch a Keith Olbermann re-run or watch a documentary about myself, I’d probably do the latter.

Comments

4 Comments

  1. Red State Eddio on 04.11.2009 at 15:57 (Reply)

    I’m a guy. I love possessing the clicker. And when nobody else is bothering me about watching HSM3 for the 347th time, or ice skating, then I am flipping the channels faster than Hamm in Toy Story 2. If I had DirecTV (which I don’t) and their 500 channels, I’d want to know (with a few obvious exceptions like the porn channels) what is on each and every one with my own eyeballs. It’s my ADD side.

    Every guy instinct inside me is saying he watched, in rapt attention, those returns as they came in. Or flipped around and got live feeds from the drones who kept clicking refresh on their RCP blog pages, racing in with screaming Corzine updates like “he’s only pulling 50% in Hudson county!!”.

    Imagine the doppler effect on that one. But I digress also.

    Bottom Line: The O went back and forth between narcissistic indulgences(HBO) and gut-level indigestion(any channel but Fox). That’s my gut call, despite whatever Baghdad Bob Gibbs pontificated about on stage publicly.

  2. kristen on 04.11.2009 at 16:01 (Reply)

    Oh he was totally watching. He brushes it off because his team didn’t win. Kinda like the ACORN scandal that he claimed he wasn’t too aware of because he had so many other pressing matters. Right.

    Besides, you know he gets FoxNews. How else can he declare an all-out war on that network? That, and Anita Dunne (or someone) is watching it 24/7 so they can unsuccessfully find errors with its broadcasting.

  3. Alaina Segovia on 04.11.2009 at 18:35 (Reply)

    So let’s so he’s telling the truth and didn’t watch the election results, which I don’t believe one bit, what does it really say about him that he was watching a documentary about himself? He had too many more pressing matters to concern himself with ACORN, but I guess they aren’t quite as important as a documentary of himself.

  4. Gadsdenista on 05.11.2009 at 22:01 (Reply)

    Cordeiro, I’d much rather watch the documentary about you than that about our dear POTUS.

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