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Blog Guy, it looks to me like those Government Death Panels you write about still aren’t popular. Is President Obama doing anything to help sell them as part of his health care reform?
Sure. I guess you haven’t seen his promotional video based on the classic kids’ movie, “Mary Poppins.”
It features an updated version of the film’s iconic umbrella scene, remade with Barack and Michelle taking off and floating over Washington, DC.
Amazing! Do the Obamas actually sing?
Do they ever! They’ve done a great job on the movie’s beloved song, “A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine go Down.”
Plus, it’s uncanny how appropriate the actual lyrics are in selling the Death Panel concept:
“In every job that must be done,
There is an element of fun,
“You find the fun and SNAP!
The job’s a game…”
Um, SNAP?
Yeah, just a very quick-cut to a masked Death Panel guy breaking some sick dude’s neck, and then right back to the Obamas, floating over the Potomac River.
Jeez, I don’t know, Blog Guy. Is this video going to give my children nightmares?
Only if Julie Andrews comes knocking on your door very late on a dark night…
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Left: U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk through a gate in the Columbia Parc Development to visit newly built homes in New Orleans, August 29, 2010. REUTERS/Jim Young
Right: Scene from “Mary Poppins”
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Oooh this reminds me of the ‘Scary Mary’ trailer where Mary Poppins becomes a horror film! Gives me goosebumps!
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I looooooooooooved Mary Poppins!!!
.. I used to like to think Mary Poppins made those.. 
We used to have this hard candy back in the 90′s which were called Poppins…
Umbrellas on the brain after the last post, BG. That’s ok, it isn’t raining on your parade.
If the Death Panel guys have the flying umbrellas and we let Unca and Cam know their flight path, would we then have a bumbershoot?
Yeppers, those Death Panel guys could become cereal killers for sure.
Snap goes the neck,
Crackle goes the zapper,
Pop goes the gun…
Very nice, One! You’re one of the VERY few people who know the word bumbershoot. I’m impressed.
The only others I’ve heard use it are my two good friends, Sol Mason and Sol Johnson, or as I refer to them, my pair o’ Sols….
Clever play of words there, Mr.B! I like!
Pair o’Sols indeed!
Nice … picture of the POTUS with an umbrella. Last time it was the POTUS on a bike. Maybe you could get Lamar to take a pic of the Prez with an umbrella on a bike? Very Mary Poppins-ish.
@Shra … Julie Andrew’s bag was full of those (magic) candies. How do you think she could fly!
@Onedoor … be careful, that’s bordering on educational.
BG … only Sol I know is a nice, cold Cerveza. Cheers!
Unca, I suspect that’s because she didn’t realise you meant a brolly…
“..promotional video based on the classic kids’ movie, “Mary Poppins.”…features an updated version of the film’s iconic umbrella scene, remade with Barack and Michelle taking off and floating over Washington, DC…
I don’t care what anyone says, THAT’S funny!
LOL Michelle is thinking:?
“God is he gonna make me feel wet again!”
Oohh… and I can see some shoes!
Fwd, you officially have a one track mind now!
@fwd…LOL how did you get away with that one? :p
hehehehe thanks Shra
Would any of the guys here agree with me that Julie Andrews is a hottie? Something about her and her prim and proper ways. A spoon full of sugare indeed!
Unca, like, she meant that she was dumb!
Poor old POTUS looks to be having an ‘under’ or ‘over’ moment.
I can readily imagine him with an Ozzy Osbourne-like accent saying something like ‘Michelle, Michelllleee – I can’t the f***ing umbrella under the f***ing gate, Michelllleee’.