Jon Lovitz goes off on Obama, calls him a F'n A'hole

Hilarious video of Lovitz going off on Obama. (warning: offensive language)

I don't necessarily agree with Lovitz comments, as I believe the real issue facing society today is corruption. There are good rich people and there are bad rich people. There are good politicians and there are corrupt politicians. There are good companies and bad companies.

So yes, class inequality is a problem, but you can't generalize that all rich people are the problem or that all poor people are the problem.

The real problem is that the US is teetering on becoming a fascist state or a banana republic (some would say it already is) where a segment of government officials and big corporations (mostly the banks in this case) are destroying the entire system that everyone else is living in.

The whole rich versus poor debate, which Obama is fuelling as much as he can, is a total red herring. The real issue is corruption.

While Lovitz is not going to sink Obama (he's not that popular after all), this is the kind of thing Obama failed to consider in his messaging strategy in promoting rich versus poor. He failed to recognize that not everyone is down with the 'let's start fighting indiscriminately amongst ourselves' strategy.

Now, having said that, it would have been great if Obama had fuelled a 'Stop Corruption' campaign, but if he did that then half the companies that give him millions of dollars to get re-elected would bail on him. So I guess that wasn't an option (Jon Corzine is thankful for that, steals $1.2B from customers and walks around a free man today).

C'est la vie I guess.

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