Animatronic Obama

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/07/03/obama.disney/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

What a total gift to cartoonists. Thanks, Disney. For letting us in on what's been going on - the way it keeps repeating that sound byte about the economy getting better, I knew something was up. The W series had the same flaw after 9/11 but it said "Spend all of your money". Maybe they will have worked out some of the bugs by President v.2.5.

But seriously, thanks to Obama for cooperating, or initiating, or whatever. But how did they forget to throw in a dancing teleprompter? Maybe with the animatronic version, its built in.

They could just loop the words 'Uhhh"...'Ummm'...'Uhhh", but if it were me, I would just animate Obama ordering a hamburger in that ultra controlled, curt rhetorical manner. "Uh...I'll have, a...uh...hamburger (rising inflection)...uh...with pickles(very curt)...uh...ketchup...uh, and no mayo." And then he would kiss Michelle lovingly and wait for applause. An adoring Euro mob would begin hurling fries at his feet and a strobe light would start flashing to simulate the press.

Always wanted to hear Bush ordering a hamburger in his crazed god, dogmatic sermon style. "I will have...a hand-burger (downward inflection, almost threatening). There will be...ketchup. There will be...mustard. No onions, heh. No, onions...EXTRA mayo, heh."

Then the head of Dick Cheney would rotate around and snap into place where Bush's face was previously and mutter something about a Diet Coke and then whirl away again, leaving W's face, just blinking and maybe licking his lips unconsciously, like Pavlov's dogs anticipating that burger.

Or the Imagineers could loop Obama in a deep bowing motion in sync with the Saudi King who stands behind him grinning and repeats pelvic thrusts with an intermittent slap to the flank while Michelle honks Queen Elizabeth's tuchas, maybe in ring-around-the-rosie fashion, like some kind of symbolic merry-go-round calliope flow chart.

Maybe they will stage an Obamabot battle vs. John Mecha-Cain for old time sake in the Hall of Presidents. Here comes the Palinator with her 12 gauge auto-loader, Uzi nine millimeter, and forty-five long slide, with laser sighting.

Who else? Now that it's the Hall of Presidents and special guests.

But you know, maybe this is the way of the future. Perhaps the Hall of Presidents is not just commemorative. Maybe they're prototyping.