The Laws Of Physics Do Not Apply To Me

Back in the 90's a young man by the name of Hugh Gallagher won a national writing contest with a very creative college essay.  Over the years it has popped up in numerous email chains.  You've very likely seen it at one time or another.  Here are a few excerpts to jog your memory:

"I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru."

"I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail."

And my favorite line of all:

"The laws of physics do not apply to me."

This got me thinking.  If essays are necessary to get into college, why not the presidency?

And because I'm feelin' a little guilty about not supporting the president, I'm going to lend him a hand by taking a first cut at a draft essay.  That's the kind of giver I am.

Here it is...

Barack Obama
Application Essay for the position of President of the United States

I am an effete intellectual, skilled in condescension.  I build model bridges to nowhere out of toothpicks lifted from Air Force One.

 

I excite constituents with my jaunty jogs to the podium, and take over entire industries with the swipe of a pen.  I can bowl a 37…left-handed. 

 

I bow down to dictators and persecute allies.  I’m loved in third-world countries…and in all 57 states.

 

I give healthcare waivers to unions and the shaft to corporations.  My Attorney General is Fast and Furious.

 

I’m a uniter who divides; a role model who smokes; and an environmentalist with an enormous carbon footprint.  I look awesome in a bicycle helmet.

 

I’ve been known to throw out the first pitch…and get it almost halfway to the plate.  I can beat Sarah Palin three out five falls.

 

I give a 10 minute speech in an hour, and answer three press conference questions in 90 minutes.  I read a teleprompter with one eye tied behind my back.

 

I can change the tone in Washington.  Acoustical engineers marvel at my genius.

 

I walk on water in Hollywood and eggshells in Israel.  My administration has more czars than a Romanov family reunion.

 

I can golf after a tsunami, and down a large cone on Martha’s Vineyard while the economy is burning.

 

I'm cool as a cucumber and smart as a whip.  Just ask anybody and MSNBC.  I’ll send a thrill up your leg and a shiver through your wallet.  Fat cats tremble in my presence.

 

I can't go to my right on the basketball court, and won't in the court of public opinion.  In college, I dated Warren Buffett.

 

The Laws of Economics do not apply to me.

 

I’m your boogie man.  That’s what I am.

Sincerely,
Barack Obama

 

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