NEW YORK, NY — In what promises to be a real boost for the US presidential incumbent, a team of doctors has devised a “miraculous” new method of brain surgery that purportedly will enable thousands of radical leftists, progressives, and revolutionaries to vote — on purpose — for Barack Obama in the fall election.
The operation involves slicing through the cranium of a typical “latte-sucking socialist” to disconnect the normal part of the brain from the enlarged ultra-left temporal lobe, or “cerebral meshuganut center,” that has become repeatedly traumatized during the past four years of the Obama administration.
This prefrontal “l’Obamamy,” though still in experimental stages, seems to relieve patients of the grandiose delusion that they are personally responsible for stopping federal policies that have produced a range of “atrocities,” from the killing of multiple thousands of civilians overseas to the continued destruction of the biosphere.
“I heartily endorse and recommend this product,” stated Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz at a recent pre-convention press conference. According to reports from Fox News, however, Ms. Wasserman Schultz appears to have invested heavily in National Public Radio, a major funder of the research that went into developing the l’Obamamy
No one is quite sure just how the l’Obamamic procedure works, but it seems to remove some of the waxy buildup in an area of the brain known as the “Kumbayah Oblongata,” so that psychotic illusions pertaining to the existence of viable third parties, the Revolution, hope-and-change, etc… are eradicated. But whatever its why’s and wherefore’s, the operation results in cutting through ethical conflicts experienced by left-wing radicals who complain of blinding existential pain at being pressured by their less radical peers to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate, merely because he is “better” than the Republican.
“My more liberal friends all told me I had to vote for Obama to save us from Romney’s terrible domestic policies,” said Dave Weiner-Vegan, who underwent a l’Obamamy last Tuesday. “But I just couldn’t. I mean, who could ethically choose between a corporate shill/ war criminal who favors gay marriage and abortion rights and a corporate shill/ war criminal wannabe who doesn’t?”
Mr. Weiner-Vegan, a former peace activist, paused while a nurse adjusted his IV drip and then continued, laughing, “I see now that I was totally deranged. When November comes, I will be proud to vote for … to vote for … that guy we thought was going to close Guantánamo.”
Mr. Weiner-Vegan went on to express his gratitude that he was able to afford this operation because of the new national healthcare plan that forces employers to provide “free” l’Obamamies to all workers. This plan, warn Beltway insiders, may be pushed to the limit once the public learns of the operation’s cosmetic side effects.
“My l’Obamamy is more effective than Botox — and P.S., it’s way less bourgeois,” quipped trend-setting photojournalist Libby Chardonnay at George Clooney’s recent fundraiser for Mr. Obama.
Admitting to having had “work done,” Ms. Chardonnay went on to say, “It’s like my superego just got a tummy-tuck. I’ve regained the apathy I thought I’d lost in my youth. All my grief and worry lines that came from covering the Persian Gulf are gone! Now, when I’m on assignment and need to snap a photo of some Pakistani kid being hit by a drone, I just close my eyes and visualize a gay wedding. Hell, I’ve already turned in my absentee ballot. Thank you, L’Obama Care!”
In addition to a sense of apathy, three out of four postoperative patients report getting a “real nice feeling” when exposed to random sound bites from the president’s campaign speeches. According to trained medical personnel on the graveyard shift at Bellevue Hospital, such actual campaign aperçus as “The great thing about our democracy is you get to be the tiebreaker” cannot be fully understood or appreciated unless a listener has recently had extensive brain surgery.
Despite this surgical breakthrough, however, national security experts speak of the need to remain vigilant against those who do not evince “real nice feelings” about either presidential candidate. As part of the fight against terrorism, law enforcement officials advise anyone who sees a person or persons demonstrating politically motivated discontent to notify authorities.
For example, this reporter just alerted police to the annoying presence of Iraqi war veteran Steve Schellschoken, who is sitting right now in Zuccotti Park holding a hand-scrawled cardboard sign saying, “VOTING FOR THE LESSER OF 2 EVILS IS ITSELF EVIL!!!”
Now, as the police handcuff him and lead him away, Mr. Schellschoken is heard to say: “How come you people aren’t outraged? Our best choice for president is some fascist-lite dude whose military attacks destroy more lives than Bush; who spies without warrants on millions of Americans; who’ll frack our brains out if we let him. This election is fucking wrong, man. We have a duty to remember it’s wrong, remember that every day. So that someday we can maybe do something about this.”
Subsequent tweets from OWS activists that Mr. Schellschoken has been added to President Obama’s “Kill List” have been widely denied.
