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President-Elect Barack Obama has been preparing for his new job of President of the United States by talking very fast, using incomprehensible acronyms, showing his human side, losing a small battle but then making a principled moral stand an hour later (or 40 minutes if you were watching the DVDs).

His training session begins with him walking in a suit down a corridor, with a number of dedicated, principled and occassionally witty aides bringing him a number of confusing but important sounding updates; ‘Sir, here’s that data for the CPR claw-back on the Titan project!’ or ‘Get me code-G status defense briefings on Dahrain!’

When his training started he kept stopping and saying ‘Sorry, I haven’t got the faintest idea what any of this means, everyone just slow down and explain one thing at a time.’ Also he objected to the fact that they had to keep walking round and round the corridors of the West Wing. ‘Haven’t we gone down here three times already? Can’t we just stand still and have this conversation?’

Now when we say to him ‘Sir, the gig-fish banana house is looking bra-wise on RSPCA’ he just nods and looks concerned. Then he quotes Benjamin Franklin or Aristotle and we see a life-affirming moment with his wife and daughters. The only problem was when we put the wrong DVD in the player, and he spent the rest of the day being interviewed by David Frost denying there had been a cover up.

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Posted: Dec 18th, 2008 by NewsBiscuit