Obama and the Fake Tag
By Kevin Jackson
AmericanThinker.com
The election of Obama reminds me of years ago, when I
bought a fake Tag Heuer watch while visiting Manhattan. Normally I walk
right by street vendors, but this watch caught my eye. It was sleek and
clean, and some described it as gorgeous. Only true Tag aficionados could
tell that the watch was a fake.
The thing that
impressed me about my fake Tag was that it had the "weight" of a real Tag.
It didn't feel like the lightweight replicas I had seen in Mexico, China,
and Africa. And the best part? My fake Tag cost me $7!
My fake Tag
was made of a high-gloss "white gold" electroplate -- okay, stainless steel
-- with a sea-blue oyster shell face. It had a curved glass bezel, not
plastic. The contrast between the high-gloss steel and the face gave my fake
Tag a regal appearance.
My fake Tag
had all the real Tag markings on the back, though I certainly wasn't given
papers to authenticate my fake Tag. However, if I had asked, the salesperson
might have produced them.
I wore the watch everywhere and
received numerous compliments, and I was so confident about my fake Tag that
occasionally, I would allow questioners to inspect it firsthand. I was proud
of my fake Tag. People would see my fake Tag and say things like, "I didn't
know Tag made anything except diving watches. That is an
exquisite
Tag! Where did you get it?"
"Oh this
thing..." I would deflect to keep from outright lying.
"Diving!"
I thought. I didn't dare get my fake Tag near
anything moist, for that would mean certain death. In rainstorms, I took off
my fake Tag, placing it in the driest available pocket. If I were in a high
humidity climate, I kept fake Tag near a de-moisturizer packet, again in my
pocket. I treated fake Tag better than I did my real Tag, which was a true
Tag diving watch.
One day a few
months after acquiring my fake Tag, I found it lying on my nightstand,
lifeless.
"Not for
long," I panicked aloud.
I rerouted a
few errands that day so I could visit a watch repair kiosk at the mall,
hoping to have them breathe life back into fake Tag. I had gotten accustomed
to the look of fake Tag on my wrist. Without it, I felt naked.
I approached
my fake Tag's potential life-giver with mixed emotions. Would fake Tag be
good enough to fool a watch expert? Would the sales clerk unknowingly
compliment me as others had on my fake Tag? Or would he "out" me as a
pretentious sellout for having purchased what I knew was not the real thing?
I laid my
fake Tag on the countertop, and the young salesperson said, "Wow, nice Tag!
You're gonna want a Tag battery for this."
I said,
"Well how much is a Tag battery?"
The salesman
said, "Twenty-four dollars. But you wouldn't want to skimp on a Tag by
getting a Chinese battery, or you could ruin the inner workings."
Now I had a
dilemma.
"Just out
of curiosity, how much is the Chinese battery for a
Tag?" I inquired.
The
salesperson said, "Three dollars. But again, you could ruin a Tag if
you...because Chinese batteries are...blah blah blah."
I didn't even
hear the rest of his education on fine watches and cheap batteries. Circling
through my mind was the fact that I had a $7 watch that I wanted people to
believe was a $2,500 watch and the idea of putting a battery in it that was
costing me more three times more than the cost of fake watch!
Liberal America in electing Obama
bought a fake Tag. And the batteries have run down in less than a year.
Obama may still
look good,
but he's draining his political juice.
The
Liberals feel trapped, because they simply can't admit that they have bought
a fake Tag, and maintenance of their fake costs
more than the fake himself!
As for that
battery salesman, I suspect he knew my Tag was a fake. Why not take
advantage of somebody who was a poser? I was ripe for the picking.
The moral to
the story: Don't settle for the fake, as it will cost you three times more
in the end.
That's my
rant!
Kevin Jackson is author of
The BIG Black Lie
and The Black Sphere
blog.
He is a regular on Fox News programs such as Glenn Beck, O'Reilly, and
others.
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