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Obama Kills Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion in Kenya…and a Lot of Other Animals

 

By Dr. Donald W. Hendon
DonaldHendon.com

That lovable couple, Barry and Michelle, were watching TV. Barry was bored watching reruns of Black-ish. He starts looking through CDs of old TV shows. After 10 minutes, Michelle asks him: What are you looking for?

Barry: Reruns of the Bill Cosby Show.

Michelle: I threw all those out. It’s not politically correct to watch Cosby anymore.

Barry: I don’t care. Cosby will always be my hero.

Michelle gets up, rummages through the CDs and pulls out a CD of the TV series Daktari, which ran on CBS in 1966-1969. She says: Why don’t you watch this instead? It is set in Kenya, near Mombassa, where you were born in 1961—just before the series started.

Barry: Shhhh. Don’t let anybody hear you. I think the CIA has bugged our bedroom.

Michelle: You liked this show. It had Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion, Judy the Chimp, and a lot of outdoor scenery. And it was filmed in Africa. Let’s watch it and see if you recognize any places in the land of your birth.

Barry: Not the real Africa. It was filmed in Africa USA, an animal park in Acton, California, near Palmdale.

Michelle: How do you know that?

Barry: I’m the President of all 57 states. I know everything.

Michelle: You just know what the CIA and the NSA wants you to know. Tell me this, smart guy. You’re from Kenya—what does Daktari mean?

Barry: That’s easy. It’s the Swahili word for “doctor.”

Michelle: Yeah, I forgot—you speak fluent Swahili. You learned it in Kenya when you were a baby. By the way, did you ever do any lion-hunting in Africa?

Barry: Yeah, I did. It was one of those long weekends I took by myself earlier this year. I told you I was going to Camp David, but I went on safari in Kenya instead. And I also went on safari in Australia.

Michelle: What did you hunt down under?

Barry: I hunted koalas and kangaroos. Koalas were easy to shoot. They just hung around in the trees, high on eucalyptus leaves. Kangaroos were hard to shoot—they kept jumping around.

Michelle: Well, I’m glad the CIA hushed it up so well. Remember what happened to that dentist, Walter Palmer. He went on safari in Kenya and killed an old lion named Cecil. The hunting party lured the lion out of the Hwange National Park, and Palmer killed him with crossbows, then skinned and beheaded him. The media is raising hell about it. Even the Empire State Building put up a video of Cecil the Lion on the side of the building on August 1.

Michelle: Yeah, it reminded me of the gay rainbow you put on the White House on June 27, the day after the Supreme Court upheld gay marriage. That reminds me, why didn’t you put red, white, and blue lights on the White House on July 4?

Barry just smiled. Michelle smiled back, knowingly.

All of a sudden, there’s a knock on the door. A voice yells, “Hey, Barry, let me in. Big news.”

Barry recognizes Valerie Jarrett’s voice. He opens the door.

Valerie: There’s trouble, right here in River City. With a capital T, and that rhymes with B, and that stands for Blackmail and Bribery. .

Michelle: I don’t understand.

Valerie: Wayne Allyn Root’s latest column came out. He said “Many key Republicans are being blackmailed…the NSA, SEC, IRS, and all the other 3-letter government agencies are watching every Republican leader. They know everything.”

Barry: So what? I’m glad I have my people in control of the National Security Agency, the Security and Exchange Commission, and the IRS. The Republicans will never impeach me—I know too much about them, and they know I know it. They know I’ll blackmail them if they try to do to me what they did to Bill Clinton when he had that affair with Monica.

Valerie frowns and continues: Well, that senile Jimmy Carter got back into the headlines. He said that “unlimited political bribery” subverts the nation.

Barry: Subverts the nation in my favor, thank goodness. I’m glad I have rich groupies like Warren Buffet. He does what I tell him to do. So do my other major contributors—Bill Gates, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Marc Lasry, Marc Benioff, James Crown, Tom Streyer, Julian Robinson, and Penny Pritzker.

Michelle: Let’s get back to Kenya. How many lions did you kill when you were on safari there earlier this year?

Barry: Around a dozen or two. Can’t remember. I named one of the lions I killed Clarence. I named him that because he was cross-eyed. Just like that 1965 movie, Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion. I always liked that movie. By the way, the TV series Daktari was based on the movie. Hey, Michelle and Valerie, let’s go down to the underground living quarters. I wanna show you something.

The three partners in crime go downstairs. They all get into an old-fashioned pay phone booth. Barry puts in a quarter. They fall into the sub-basement, just like Maxwell Smart Hanging on the wall are 12 lion heads, 16 stuffed kangaroos, and 9 stuffed koala bears.

In the next Stupid Frogs, Obama dreams about the kangaroos and koala bears he shot while on safari in Australia.

Copyright (c) 2015 by Dr. Donald Wayne Hendon


 

Dr. Donald Wayne Hendon is a consultant, speaker, trainer, and author of 14 books, including Fractured Fairy Tales, published last year by Spectrum Books. Look for it on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble—and at other book stores. He’s also written several business books, including The Way of the Warrior in Business, Guerrilla Deal-Making (with Jay Conrad Levinson) and 365 Powerful Ways to Influence. Deal-Making contains the 100 most powerful tactics from 365 Powerful Ways—along with 400 winning countermeasures. There are 121 aggressive tactics, 92 defensive ones, 24 cooperative ones, and 16 submissive ones to get what you want from other people. Plus 81 dirty tricks to watch out for and 31 tactics to prepare you for your interaction with them.