I still haven’t made up my mind on this. Compare:
Obama To Enter Diplomatic Talks With Raging Wildfire
Obama Signals Willingness to Negotiate With Wildfires
WASHINGTON (AP) – In response to reports of deaths and widespread property damage allegedly caused by so-called “wildfires” in California, President Obama said that he wanted to the let the more moderate and peace-loving flames know that “America is willing to negotiate without pre-conditions”.
It is a very close match in basic theme – if not in tone – but balancing that is that the joke is obvious. I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt on this one, but I can see why others won’t.
Moe Lane
PS: “Nothing funny about this Presidency” my eye.
I’m voting for “purely coincidental”. In my piece, fire is a metaphor for terrorists in general. In the Onion piece, it’s more a metaphor for Iran.