I make my pilgrimage a week from tomorrow. After Hillary phoned in an interview with Jon Stewart prior to Texas/Ohio (Part 1 here, Part 2 here), I don't think my dream of seeing Obama make a cameo is all that impossible. It's probably too much to hope that he sit down and go tête-à-tête, in front of Pennsylvania and the whole world, with Stephen "The Nailer" Colbert. Still, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. My brain tells me "no." My gut tells me "maybe." Obama is, after all, the satirist's candidate:
The impossible dream, of course, is that Barack Obama might someday appear opposite Stephen Colbert, who, via his know-it-all know-nothing character, engages in true, niche-market satire... Obama has already engaged Colbert on his own terms, publicly sending the host a letter on the eve of his delivering a commencement address at Illinois' Knox College. "Don't forget to bring the Truth," Obama wrote. "I'd recommend putting it in your carry-on bag rather than in your checked luggage. O'Hare Airport is notoriously unreliable." The letter is droll, the tone poker-faced. At one point, Obama refers to his constituents as germy ("a few words of advice ... use hand sanitizer") in a way that subtly acknowledges the disgust that all politicians must feel, at some level, for the public. It's very funny, and you can't do that on television.
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