And A Step, And A Kick…
By Mitch Berg
Some folks never get the word:
A musical about Barack Obama’s “Yes we can” election campaign premieres in Germany this weekend, including love songs by the president to his wife Michelle and duets with Hillary Clinton.
This doesn’t entirely not make sense; “The world” was perhaps Obama’s biggest constituency.
The venue for the premiere seems appropriate since the optimism of Obamania remains largely intact in Germany, about a year after Obama, an accomplished public speaker, became America’s first black president. One campaign highlight was a July 2008 speech to some 200,000 people in the heart of Berlin about the world, the U.S. and its place in it.
To be fair, “Peanut Farmer From Plains” just closed last year in Munich, after a 32 year run.
January 14th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Max Bialystock is producing.
January 14th, 2010 at 9:46 am
I’ll bet this production is being produced and directed by Mel Brooks, with Matthew Broderick as Rahm Emmanuel, Nathan Lane as George Soros and Uma Thurman as Hillary, right?
January 14th, 2010 at 9:48 am
You can make fun of the Germans if you like, but you forget the spectacular success of “Springtime for Hitler” in the U.S.
No wait, that was just a Mel Brooks comedy movie.
Nevermind.
Go ahead and make more fun of the Germans.
January 14th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Perhaps with a cameo by Dick Shawn as Bill Clinton.
January 14th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Woody Allen is playing Amy Klobuchar.
January 14th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
They should do it all in drag and call it “The Financial Horror Picture Show”.
January 14th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
They should do it all in drag and call it “The Financial Horror Picture Show”.
With the big, full-cast dance number, “Let’s Do the Bail-out Again!”
January 14th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
“It’s just a huge jump to the Left”
January 14th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
“It’s just a huge jump to the Left”
“And a stab at the riiiiigghht!”
“So put your hands over your mouth.”
“And just shut the hell uh-uh-uuup.”
“Let’s Do the Bail-out Again!”
January 14th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Just as long as Tim Geithner doesn’t ask any of us to come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab.
January 14th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
To be fair, “Peanut Farmer From Plains” just closed last year in Munich, after a 32 year run.
Mitch is lying again! There is no such production! I defy you to show us a playbill for this play. That’s two defammatory, inflammatory posts in a row. Until you cease this behavior you will continue to have no credibility with the Reality-Based Community, Mitch.
/Peev off
January 15th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Reality-Based Community
He keeps using those words. I do not think they mean what he thinks they mean.