SNL mocked Barack Obama’s inability to get the economy back on track Saturday night. The opening sketch had the President at an Ohio town meeting taking questions from attendees asking what he when the economy would improve.
“I really don’t want to vote for Romney, but I really thought things would be better by now,” a woman asks Jay Pharoah in character as Obama, noting she had been laid off in 2009.
Obama responds saying he understands her frustration and that fixing the economy will take more than one term or one president and that they both might be dead by the time the economy turns around.
“Look we’re in a deep financial hole,” Obama says. “The numbers are bad and 23 million people are out of work, but things are getting better.
“Remember that movie ‘The Sixth Sense,’” Obama continued. “I’m like that kid in that movie; I see employed people.”
Things then turn to mocking the sorts of jobs that Obama’s economy has created as the camera turns to the audience and a guy stands up to say he is a manager at Burger King.
“There you go having it your way,” Obama says invoking the fast-food chain’s marketing slogan. “Where were you four years ago, probably working the counter right?”
But small problem, the guy had been a vice president at Obama’s hated Bank of America. Yet Obama tries to spin the man’s downward mobility as a success story, calling Burger King “one of America’s largest companies” and saying the guy probably gets free burgers.
“Nobody gets free burgers,” the guy says. “ Actually, I had to fire a guy for eating a burger on the clock.”
Obama then points to a blonde-haired woman in the audience who stands up to say she works at the “Apple Store,” but it’s not the computer store.
In her case, she sells “real apples” from a shack by the highway to immigrants and the occasional mule.
Another guy makes light of the foreclosure crisis, saying he’s made a living chasing raccoons out of foreclosed homes that had people in them four years ago.
“Can we at least agree that Mitt Romney would be worse?” Obama concludes asking.
