As campaign fever intensifies President Obama went on the Tonight Show to lighten the scene.
Mr. Leno goaded Obama into commenting on Donald Trump, who said earlier in the week he would donate $5 million to a charity of his choice if the president would “release his college and passport records.”
Obama replied that Trump’s beef with him dates back to when he and Mr. Trump were growing up in Kenya.
“We had constant run-ins on the soccer field. He wasn’t very good and resented it. When we finally moved back to America I thought it would be over,” he explained with a straight face.
The president couldn’t stay funny when it came to Richard Mourdock, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Indiana. Mourdock is the guy who said a life conceived by rape was “something God intended to happen.” That was an idea Obama said made absolutely no sense to him.
A commentator on the Net helped him out. Matthew Carnicelli of Brooklyn explained:
“Here’s where the tortured logic espoused by Mr. Mourdock ultimately leads: If the birth was willed by God, as primary cause of all things, then so must have been the rape. Therefore, the rapist is neither a moral free agent who acted despicably nor an unhinged sociopath or misogynist, but rather the instrument of a despotic, malevolent God. I take strong exception to the notion that God either compels rapists or pregnancies. Give the immense size of the universe, I’d argue that God already has His/Her/Its hands full and is almost certainly not actively involved in the areas of human impregnation or birth.”
To which it should be added that the good people of Indiana should reject Mr. Mourdock. Not because of his views on abortion, but because his mind doesn’t work well.
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
