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01.05.2008
The Most Final Divorce

Andy Borowitz makes it official for Obama and Wright:

In an act that campaign insiders said indicated an irrevocable break with his former pastor, Sen. Barack Obama today de-friended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Facebook. ...

"Every day, Rev. Wright was sending Sen. Obama new Facebook applications like 'What Superhero Are You?' and 'What 1980's Toy Are You?'" Mr. Axelrod said. "After awhile, enough is enough."

 --Eve Fairbanks

Posted: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:57 AM with 8 comment(s)

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icarusr said:

Life immitating Art.  Now you know the answer to Jerry Seinfeld's most profound question: "How do you divorce a friend?"  Answer: You unfriend him/her on facebook. (I prefer unfriend to de-friend; it's doubleplusgood.)

Life immitating Art II: fifty years ago, Rodgers and Hammerstein captured the essence of Wright:

How do you solve a problem like Jeremiah?

[...]

A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!

Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her

Many a thing he ought to understand

But how do you make her stay

And listen to all you say

[...]

When I'm with her I'm confused

Out of focus and bemused

And I never know exactly where I am

Unpredictable as weather

He's as flighty as a feather

[...]

He'd outpester any pest

Drive a hornet from its nest

He could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl

...

May 1, 2008 10:33 AM

virginiacentrist said:

Obama was also insensed that Rev. Wright poked his wife last weekend. That may have been the final straw.

May 1, 2008 10:46 AM

dbhuff said:

VC, careful how you say that...  ;-)

May 1, 2008 11:03 AM

Wandreycer1 said:

I'd watch it VC - you'd be crazy to insult that one, accidentally or otherwise.

May 1, 2008 12:22 PM

teplukhin2you said:

Comin' after you, centrist

May 1, 2008 4:51 PM

ChanRobt said:

Let me get this straight.  The Obama campaign has been complaining that the media is fixated on trivial aspects of the campaign.  Yet, they managed to leak this story?

May 1, 2008 7:09 PM

cspencef said:

Um, you do know Borowitz is a comedian/satirist, right?  Or are you being satirical yourself?  Print is just a lousy medium to figure out these things...

May 2, 2008 11:26 AM

sgettler said:

Borowitz is neither comedian nor satirist.

May 5, 2008 10:19 AM