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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton met her match while appearing on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" to deliver the show's trademark opening line and provide an "editorial response" to a mock presidential debate.
During the opening sketch -- which featured SNL actors playing Clinton, rival candidate Barack Obama and the debate moderators -- Clinton complimented the performance of Amy Poehler, who regularly lampoons Clinton with her impersonation of the senator from New York.
"I simply adore Amy's impression of me," Clinton said, providing the cue for Poehler to enter the stage, wearing the same two-button brown jacket and sporting Clinton's medium-length, layered hairstyle.
Poehler giddily thanked Clinton for appearing.
"I love your outfit," the identically dressed Poehler told Clinton.
"Well, I love your outfit," Clinton responded, putting her hand on Poehler's shoulder, "but I do want the earrings back."
During the opening sketch -- which featured SNL actors playing Clinton, rival candidate Barack Obama and the debate moderators -- Clinton complimented the performance of Amy Poehler, who regularly lampoons Clinton with her impersonation of the senator from New York.
"I simply adore Amy's impression of me," Clinton said, providing the cue for Poehler to enter the stage, wearing the same two-button brown jacket and sporting Clinton's medium-length, layered hairstyle.
Poehler giddily thanked Clinton for appearing.
"I love your outfit," the identically dressed Poehler told Clinton.
"Well, I love your outfit," Clinton responded, putting her hand on Poehler's shoulder, "but I do want the earrings back."
It seems that especially this election many candidates are throwing away the previous grave mood of debates. When I first witnessed the Youtube debates I thought it was a step forward on the road to practicality. I thought candidates were throwing away the milieu of pretense, and ready to be more realistic about elections. But I'm a bit worried that perhaps this was instead an experiment in taming a new dimension of demographic, pop culture. Are we going to see cameo appearances by presidential candidates in the next Marvel block buster movie?
Edited, Mar 2nd 2008 10:35am by Allegory