As Obama’s momentum continues to build, I hear message board and talk radio voices whispering things like “Who’s behind Barack?” and “Who’s pulling the strings behind the Obama campaign?” and so on and so forth.
I think it’s only fair to everyone here to reveal that it is I-- Happy L. Lendervedder-- who is in fact holding the strings behind this phenomenal rise to national and international prominence.
You see, it all began on a sweaty July night in Aught-4-- I was just finishing off my third snifter of brandy and a bag of Crazy Bread. The phone rang. I answered it, and I turned on my television as instructed by the voice on the other end. I then made a few phone calls myself. Shortly thereafter, I posted this. The rest, as some say, is history.
If not for quick decisions made by me that night, there would be no “Barack Obama, presidential candidate.” I’m as sure of that as I am of the hair on my balls.
A handful of you can boast that you were right there with me from the beginning-- I’ll acknowledge you all in my “auto” (that’s insider for “autobiography”), which will be published immediately after I finish my first term as President Obama’s Labor Secretary, in early 2013.
I’ll now take questions, which I may or may not choose to answer.
That’s much more impressive than Stephen Colbert’s claim to have “created” Mike Huckabee. However, it sounds like in 2004, you were actually supporting Barak Obama, who is a part-time janitor at a junior high school in Moline, not the candidate for President.
On the other hand, I was a little off, too.
While I wrongly stuck to “political reality” (Senators lose! Experience matters!) for a long time, I did eventually get this right:
You kid, but I was living in Australia when you posted that thread. I remember reading it and watching the link. So you actually did provide my very first exposure to Obama. Go Obama!