Opinion: Faux Report: Obama, at 6, once pretend-shot a pal, appeared to enjoy it

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We’ve got something really special this morning, possibly the last Sunday this spring The Ticket will be able to use the words ‘Keystone State.’

As you know if you’ve been awake at any time since Texas and Ohio, Tuesday is the Pennsylvania primary, which seems to have been ‘the next one’ for about eight months now. To get everyone warmed up for that and the usual laugh-riot Sunday morning talk shows, The Ticket is steering loyal readers to some political humor.

Sheigh Crabtree, one of our creative LATimes.com blogging pals over at Show Tracker, has come up with a pretty hilarious collection of online political parodies. They erupted from last week’s, shall we say, much-discussed Democratic debate on ABC-TV, where a former top Clinton presidential aide helped question a current Clinton presidential aspirant and her opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Here’s one of Show Tracker’s gems, a fictitious exchange between George Stephanopoulos and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama:

STEPHANOPOULOS: ‘Senator Obama, your childhood friend Jimmy Choi told us that as a six-year-old boy living in Honolulu, one day you were both engaged in a typical game of cops and robbers, running around your yard with plastic guns, when suddenly little Jimmy tripped and fell.

‘Before you helped little Jimmy back to his feet, you stood over him and said, ‘Pow! Pow! Pow!’ over and over again, seemingly taking great pleasure in unloading your fake gun into your supposed friend. How can Democrats vote for a candidate who has shown, beginning at the age of six, to have such little regard for human life?’

OBAMA: ‘You’re serious.’

STEPHANOPOULOS: ‘Yes, Senator, I am serious. But not bitter.’

CLINTON: ‘If I may, George, I feel Senator Obama’s response, to what I consider a legitimate question, is once again indicative of an arrogance and elitism that has offended many, many hard-working and proud Pennsylvanians. By the way, Charlie, my father once shot a man dead in Scranton just to watch him die.’

You can also nominate your own favorite parody at Show Tracker. But, first, check out this newly uncovered ABC-TV program promotion video just below. Then, click here to visit Show Tracker.

--Andrew Malcolm