Obama the CEO, on SNL

Via theblogprof, I saw this recent clip from Saturday Night Live making fun of Obama as CEO of our nation:

Is it just me, or was this not so much as 'funny', but sad? I didn't laugh at the idea that Obama will start to personally control businesses in our country- I really didn't find it humorous when he said that he hoped businesses that he deemed fiscally bad would go bankrupt 'voluntarily, but by force if necessary'. I know there was a joke there- I know that some in the audience were laughing- but I wasn't.

Maybe it was easier to mock Bush- everyone could call him names, mock his accent, mock his personality, mock his policies, because they were doing so from a safe place- they knew that he wasn't going to really do those outrageous things and they knew that he wouldn't take personal offense at the jokes. Maybe it's just because I'm a conservative- I could laugh about Bush, but I am scared that the jokes might be true about Obama.

What would be really funny is if this joke was true- if the joke was on the American people, and that the joke about Obama being CEO and running companies and saying 'yes' and 'no' to winners and losers in the marketplace was true. That would be funny, in a sort of gallows humor sort of way.