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NYU Republicans try to punk Obama supporters
By Ned | March 13, 2008
On the ground floor of NYU’s Kimmel building, there’s a totally hilarious prank going on right now. See, a few guys are hanging around trying to get signatures for Obama’s The Hope for Obama’s Change Bill (S.827), which would form a Department of United Hope and Department of Independent Change. If you ask them what those two departments are for, they say that the funding for the departments will be dedicated entirely to “hope” and “change.” Specifics on what that means in real-world terms are vague - or non-existent.
Sound vapid in the extreme? Looks like it’s just another example of Obama’s dewey-eyed, light-weight feel-good message.
Except - Sike! - it’s not a real bill. This is the real S.827, introduced by Senator John Kerry and pertaining to something completely different. The petition for the phony bill is actually being manned by NYU college Republicans - those same hysterically funny pranksters who brought us “Find the Illegal Immigrant” last year. Oh, those rascals.
The point of the whole exercise is, apparently, to demonstrate how Obama is deliberately obfuscating real issues by talking in vague terms about things like “change” and “hope.” Because the only thing worse than misleading people with vague rhetoric is actively making shit up. Like, say, inventing a fake bill just to make people who sign the petition for it look dumb.
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