John McCain was agitated; he beckoned his two co-Presidents to their small open office in the corner of the building where all the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. activities took place on St. Kitts. "I'm hearing disturbing reports about the AROB group," he said sternly, "and I think they might be getting out of control. And that "Hammy" fellow - I understand he's gotten into the gauncy pretty heavily while he goes around promoting legalizing drugs. And Doc's tour encouraging the legalization of gaming machines and a ban on smoking bans - well, I hear he's becoming a little contumacious. I wonder if all this is good for the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. image?"
Barack Obama and Colin Powell stared at McCain intently, without saying a word. Finally, Powell asked, "What are they doing, John?" McCain replied that he had no specifics, but rumors were floating back and forth about wild parties, drunken orgies, pot-smoking marathons, and other illicit activities. He kept pounding away at the "O.U.T.R.A.G.E. image" and how it was being tarnished. "I think it's time we divorced ourselves from the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. organization," Powell announced, "and begin recognizing our responsibilities to the governance of the people of the United States. O.U.T.R.A.G.E., remember, was a band of revolutionary rebels that did its job and now needs to be disolved. We were elected by the a popular vote of the people, and we are subservient to them - not to the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. organization." Obama agreed: "In the first American Revolution, the soldiers eventually returned to their homes and families and turned over the business of government to those officials elected to run the country. Now, this second American Revolution is complete. The people won the war. We've been charged with establishing a new, true democracy - perhaps the most challenging social-political experiment ever on Earth. If all these 'splinter' groups want to continue with their passions to persuade people's perspectives, so be it. We've got a government to run.....and a people to please."
"The AROB group has done a comendable job at organizing celebrations, rallies, and memorials that, I believe, were necessary to boost the morale or our people," said Powell. "They've accomplished some exasperating feats; why shouldn't they be allowed to blow off a little steam whenever they can?" Obama added: "Doc and 'Hammy' are doing their own things, chasing after issues they passionately believe in; eventually their efforts will result in referendums, and the people will decide whether drugs and gaming machines should be legalized. The people will decide whether smoking bans should be banned."
As McCain groused about it more, Powell finally said, "John, we have to remove ourselves from this mode of organization and control. Everyone in the country must come to accept that there will no longer be a central government on Capital Hill that dictates to the populace. From now on, the populace will dictate to us, and that's the way it was supposed to be all along. We just got drunk with power, and the voters didn't know how to handle us. The O.U.T.R.A.G.E. movement rebelled about all the excesses in government and in our country. It was the right thing to do, and the time for such a revolution was overdue. We need to respect the people's wishes and get down to the business of government and political reform. We don't need to worry about the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. image." McCain relented,