"I think people feel a disappointment in that there was a sense that Jesus will walk on water and no you are looking at it like, 'Oh look at that, he's just treading water' … I thought he'd do a better job," said Stewart.
Think about that. Why would anyone have thought of a Chicago politician as Jesus? And remember, this guy makes his living sneering at other people.
Better still, Stewart seems baffled about another aspect of the Obama administration:
"I thought we were in such a place [in 2008], much like the Tea Party feels now, that the country … needed a more drastic reconstruction – I have been saddened to see that someone who ran on the idea that you can't expect to get different results with the same people and the same system has kept in place so much of the same system and same people," he said.
This link is from Animal House is NSFW, but it pretty much answers that question, although I'm thinking that Jon Stewart never thought of himself in the Flounder role.
Let me lay it out for you, Mr. Stewart. Barack Obama wasn't about your wish fulfillment. He was about Nancy Pelosi's wish fulfillment. And Ted Kennedy's. And David Obey's. And John Dingell's. The waxworks up on Capitol Hill had been waiting 40 years for someone who would sign their bill of goods and Barack Obama was just the guy to do it. It's not that complicated, really. Even a rube like me who lives on the wrong side of the Hudson River understands it.
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