Obama unable to explain what these elections are about

Barack Obama’s success in the American Primaries met with an unforeseen setback yesterday when he was unable to answer a simple enquiry about the point of all these elections and how exactly they worked.

British journalists following the American elections apparently witnessed a historic result last week when Obama was elected something-something of Iowa with the result that he may be elected to the post of Official Primary Caucus of New Hampshire or something.

But when Mike Harris of the BBC asked the Democrat front runner to explain what precisely was happening at the moment, the Illinois senator stumbled and prevaricated. ‘Er, well all the registered Democrats go on a man-date with their delegates which a lovely convention except in some states where you can even be a registered publican or others where you don’t have to be at registration at all… no hang on, that doesn’t sound right…’

Rival candidates leapt upon Obama’s confused answer as evidence of the candidates apparent youth and inexperience; ‘This shows that Obama does not a sufficient grasp of the issues to become President’ said former first lady Hillary Clinton. ‘Everyone knows that the primary colored caucasians go to the national conventions on a Super Tuesday, no, wait, I know! The winner is the one with the most balloons…’

Meanwhile the Republicans have agreed to do away with the whole charade. ‘We thought it would save a lot of time and effort if we just all got out our bank statements and whoever was richest automatically got the nomination. The result would be exactly the same, but we could stay at home between now and November and just read all those comedy Christmas books we got saying that George Bush is really dumb.’ said John McCain. ‘This one has a cartoon of him looking like a chimp!’