So No One Told You Life Was Going To Be This Way

Big picture, the president was ill prepared.

It kinda served as a metaphor for his entire presidency.

Man, I loves the metaphors.

Actually I take the lead sentence back.

Kinda.

Obama prepared pretty well to debate Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney’s avatar that is.

You know the one, don’t you?

The avatar which represents all of the lies and outlandish miscontextualizations that Obama and his ilk have narrated about his opponent for the last several years.

Big picture (there’s that term again) the man truly is the embodiment of Zaphod Beeblebrox. He waltzes into a joint as the subject of his own creepy cult of personality and expects everyone to ooh and ahhh at the fact that he’s graced the audience with his presence.

Deep down, his real motive is to take off with the Heart of Gold, resplendent with a kick ass improbability drive.

That was a literary reference.

So what happens now?

I’ll tell you.

His sycophantic minions are still buzzing from the Kool Aid and will spin the President’s poor showing as symptomatic of the effects of Denver’s thin air, too many Xanex, and the audacity of the opponent not playing up to the narrative.

Like everyone watching the debate last night, I switched over to MSNBC to see what the biggest cheerleaders had to say. I only left it there for a moment. It was just long enough to hear Matthew Perry offer the dead-on summary of what had just happened.

Did I say Matthew Perry? I meant Rachel Maddow.

“Well I don’t know who won the debate, but we just saw the format of it die a horrible death.”

If good old Chandler didn’t know who won, that’s the key indicator that Romney had just trashed the mold which we were all supposed to believe about him.

At the same time, we were shown something else that not everyone knew.

We were shown that Zaphod was and is poorly qualified to hold the Presidency. The man voted present last night, just like we did when he started his political career and exceeded his own Peter Principle.