WASHINGTON – During this morning’s press conference, President Obama suddenly seized up, standing completely motionless when questioned by a reporter about tonight’s ‘Earth Hour’ event.

The brain lock-up error, eerily familiar to daily users of Microsoft Windows products, occurred when a reporter posed the following question:

“While switching off lights and other electrically-powered devices for an hour may indeed help out the environment, won’t the energy industry suffer major losses due to this simultaneous worldwide event?”

The President’s initial response – a signature, sheepish megatooth grin – was followed by a sudden, violent head spasm that left the President standing frozen at the podium. Obama’s eyes then glazed over, staring blankly above the heads of reporters gathered on the White House Lawn.

After a moment of puzzlement, Secret Service agents wrestled the reporter to the ground, later calling the question “a clear, if not until now, unknown, threat to the President.”

Is Obama a Microsoft product? Only time will tell...

‘Earth Hour’, now in its third year, is a worldwide gesture that began in Australia in 2007. People are encouraged to turn off all lights for an hour, each switch-off to count as  a ‘vote’ for an end to climate change. This year’s festivities begin tonight at 8:30 p.m., local time.

“It’s all about saving the planet, one light bulb at a time, er, um…going green, global warming. That stuff,” said Melanoma Nubnub, college freshman and worldwide ‘spokestweeter’ for the event.

Critics are denouncing Earth Hour as “nothing more than fashionable activism” and “an act comparable to trying to stop a hurricane by blowing out birthday candles.”

Meanwhile, President Obama remains standing at his podium at the White House, in what doctors describe as an ‘indefinite catatonic stasis’.

No word yet as to whether Vice President Biden will be asked to step in until technicians can reboot the frozen President.

Originally posted 2009-03-28 15:32:57. Republished by Blog Post Promoter