Interviewer: Congratulations on the Nobel. I mean the second one.
Obama: Thanks. I really feel like I earned this one for Physiology or Medicine. It took getting another doctorate degree, but I made it happen.
Interviewer: What I’d really like to know, Mr. President--looking back now, why did you do the whole become the president thingy?
Obama: Hindsight is 20/20, right? Now that I’ve found my true purpose, which is defeating cancer, I do look back some times and wonder about the circuitous route I’ve taken. Why did I waste so much time fighting Republicans and ISIS when cancer is the real enemy?
Interviewer: Why did you?
Obama: Well, when you look at it, I may never have come to Sand Hill Rd had I not been president of the U.S. first. It was a stepping stone. What I . .
Interviewer: And did . . . oh sorry, go ahead, Mr. President.
Obama: That’s ok. And call me Barry. I’m a scientist and entrepreneur now. Look at me: I wear hoodies.
Interviewer: (silence)
Obama: So, going back, yeah, the presidency was a necessary step. What I feel a tinge of regret over is running that second term.
Interviewer: Had you realized your ambitions to cure cancer in your first term?
Obama: Hmm, you know, maybe not. I haven’t thought that one through. In any case, here we are.
Interviewer: And just where is that?
Obama: We’re extending lives with our three new drugs based on revolutionary technology. What could be better than that?
Interviewer: I know what you mean. Let me ask you this, if you could choose, how long would you like to live?
Obama: That depends on how long Michelle wants to stay around.
Interviewer: That’s beautiful.
Obama: But if she wants to, I’m actually up for one more career.
Interviewer: Really?
Obama: Yes, give me twenty more solid years, and I think I could get in the NBA in five and play the other fifteen.
