
The breakdown began as he left page upon page of writing scattered across the Oval Office floor with the words: “All work and no play makes Barack a dull boy.” Moments later, he attacked daughters Malia and Sasha in the West Wing, slamming through the door with an ax, as he yelled: “Here’s Johnny!!” Secret Service agents immediately restrained the President before he could do any physical damage to his daughters.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs held a press conference mere hours after the President’s arrest to shed light on his breakdown.
“President Obama snapped under the considerable pressure to make sure everything he does is ‘historic’.”
Gibbs then went on to list the several ways in which his campaign had been historic.
--He was historic as the first African American Democratic primary candidate who wasn’t a Reverend.
--He ran an historic campaign against Hillary Clinton, who was vying to be the first woman President.
--He had an historic, come-from-behind victory against Clinton.
--He gave an historic speech on race at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
--He was historic as the first General Election African American candidate for presidency.
--He ran an historic campaign against John McCain, with an historic message of ‘hope and change.’
--He held an historic inauguration after taking an historic train trip from Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station to Washington DC.
“President Obama, seeking to fulfill the momentum of his campaign, has faced considerable pressure to make every decision based on what would be the most ‘historic’.”
Gibbs then listed the several ‘historic’ activities of his Presidency.
-- He traveled to the historic G20 summit.
--He passed an historic $800 billion dollar stimulus bill.
--He made an historic agreement with the medical industry to lower medical costs.
--He made the historic choice to choose the first Hispanic woman for the US Supreme Court.
--If not for the breakdown, he would have left on an historic trip to Egypt today.
Gibbs continued: “The US economy really only needed a $500 billion stimulus bill, but that was far less than President Bush’s $700 Billion TARP bailout. President Obama, therefore, demanded a pricetag that would be historic -- $800 billion.”
Gibbs also sited another example. “The President’s administration had planned to balance the budget in 2010, but President Clinton had already done that in the 90’s. President Obama therefore decided to run up an historic 1.8 trillion dollar deficit instead.”
Gibbs said it was this pressure, to make everything historic, that had caused Obama to snap, even though the press did everything it could to prop up his presidency as ‘historic’.
--(New York Times) President Obama wears an historic necktie.
--(USA Today) President Obama’s nap historic.
--(LA Times) President Obama gets historic haircut.
--(Washington Post) President Obama takes historic mid-briefing bathroom break.
Gibbs concluded his speech with these words: “The stress the President felt really only necesitated a five minute break from Presidential duties. Still, if he was going to have a breakdown, he needed to make it historic.”