LEPRECHAUN WITHDRAWS ENDORSEMENT OF OBAMA
Alleges Abuse, Announces Intention to Work with Local Man on Tell-All
Play Detailing Experiences with Illinois Senator

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WASHINGTON, DC – Citing a long history of abuse, a leprechaun who once lived in Sen. Barack Obama’s closet and supported his presidential candidacy today announced that he is withdrawing his endorsement of the Illinois senator. Rusty the Leprechaun also unveiled plans for collaboration with a local man to write a “tell-all,” one-act play about his experiences in the Obama household.

“Me support for Senator Obama ‘tis no more,” stated Rusty the Leprechaun in a high-pitched brogue. “The senator abused me somethin’ horrible during me days of livin’ in his wee closet, and he’ll pay a dear price indeed for what he done when the world reads me one-act play.”

According to Rusty, Senator Obama battered him both emotionally and physically, frequently calling the six inch-high leprechaun “Li’l Honky McNugget,” and once pinning him against a wall while demanding he donate his pot of gold to Obama’s campaign coffers. Rusty says he was pressured into endorsing Obama’s candidacy when the senator threatened to give an eloquent, highly-charismatic speech on the Senate floor lampooning the leprechaun’s many drunken misadventures. Rusty abruptly moved out this week after Obama came home and blamed the frolicsome troll for his failure to secure Rev. Al Sharpton’s endorsement. “After that, he ridiculed me March Madness picks” said a tearful Rusty.

In response to the allegations of abuse, Sen. Obama’s office has acknowledged that there was a “minor incident” between the presidential candidate and his former house-mate. An Obama spokesman claimed that the altercation stemmed from the senator’s growing frustration with Rusty’s decision to regularly defecate in the senator’s shoes during his daily drinking sprees. Obama’s office also claimed that the senator sought to help Rusty with his very obvious drinking problem, urging him repeatedly to get counseling after finding him floating and nearly-drowned inside a pint glass of Bulmer’s Irish Cider last fall.

Rusty admits to having left a few “snicker-doodles” in Obama’s shoes, but noted that Sen. Obama’s inexperience in national politics prevented him from recognizing this as “simply the traditional way a leprechaun lets someone know they be supportin’ their candidacy for president of the United States.” The inebriated leprechaun characterized Obama’s other claims as “loads of shite.”

Rusty has chosen to collaborate with Nick Curran, the author of “Hot Tubbin’ I: Bringin’ It,” an intensely poignant play about an epic Capitol Hill battle over slight modifications to wastewater infrastructure legislation.
“Mr. Curran clearly knows what the grand people of Washington be demandin’ so far as dramatic theater goes,” Rusty stated. “Upon readin’ his tender, spell-bindin’ portrayal of the corrupt monkey blackmailin’ the cocaine-lovin’ congress-fella, I knew I’d be up to me neck in shamrocks with him as me partner.”

When asked about the new partnership, Curran said, “I applaud Rusty the Leprechaun for having the courage to tell his story, and I am honored to have been chosen to collaborate on his one-act play.” Curran says he immediately agreed to the project when approached by Rusty, as he was “completely outraged” by the report of Obama’s behavior.

Critics are already anxiously anticipating the completion of this play. Said one critic: “This alliance between Mr. Curran and an angry, drunken leprechaun will almost certainly produce the finest one-act play in the history of Washington theater. Any critic who doesn’t recognize that is a liar or a damned fool.”

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