We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough sci-fi comedy movie sensation “Spaceballs.”

President Skroob leads Planet Spaceball.  One of the features of Skroob’s presidential office are beverage cans filled with air, branded “Perri-air.”  President Skroob seems to have a leadership style similar to Star Wars’s Emperor Palpatine — but is more more like a modern president without any supernatural powers. His name is an anagram of “Brooks,” but also resembles the verb to screw (to cheat) and Ebenezer Scrooge.  President Skroob is once forced to jog to the bridge in order to arrive before the end of the film. He references this by saying “This ship is too big. If I walked, the movie would be over.”  This kind of surgical wit and sarcasm comes right out of Barack Obama’s playbook, which he prefers over the decidedly more broadly physical humor of Hillary Clinton.

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