Radical film-maker Michael Moore announced today that he has begun filming a damning indictment of the first term of the 44th President of the United States. Although American voters have yet to decide which of the two candidates will lead their country for the next four years, Moore declared himself ‘already sickened’ by what he called ‘the new president’s pathetic toadying to big business and the war mongerers dictating domestic and foreign policy.’

‘The new president is a sick joke – whoever he is’, declared Moore, ‘he’s even worse than Bush.’ For the opening scene of his new film, Moore lined up some mutilated Iraqi war veterans with lung cancer, and got them to sing ‘God Bless America’ outside Wal-Mart before asking why smoking wasn’t yet banned in public places in Iraq. He then re-dubbed footage of the candidates’ campaign speeches, replacing their words with the sound track of Hitler speaking at Nuremburg to demonstrate how right wing they both were. The massed ranks of Nazi supporters then apparently sieg-heiled Obama and McCain to make the same point again.

Moore isn’t the only radical voice to express his utter disillusionment with the new regime before it is even elected. With the Democratic Party looking set to win both the Presidency and its first workable majority on the hill for a generation, a split is already opening up in the party over the anticipated causes of disappointment and disillusionment that will inevitably follow.

‘The right wing Democrats are claiming that the disenchantment is going to be over our leaders’ failure to change health care,’ said one Democrat activist. ‘I can’t believe that those schmucks think that we are not going to become more cynical over Obama’s failure to find an exit strategy in Iraq.’

‘Actually I don’t think the disappointment will be based around either of those issues‘ said politics graduate Abigail Fox, 23. ‘I start work as White House intern on Monday.’