This sketch clearly makes fun of BOTH sides equally...actually, in this case they seem to stick it to the dems even harder than the republicans.They clown on "Code Pink," who show up places and you can never understand what they're saying -- they clown on Robert Byrd, D, who's old, and they clown on both Hilary and McCain, and clown on the fact that Barack is assuming he's already winning the election.That said...the sketch was a little long to be that funny...but to say that they're acting as a "left-wing mouthpiece" is a little inaccurate.

Freakin' Fantasticuolously Funny!!!

Not funny at all, when SNL picks a candidate as it has with Obama they don't really make fun of him and it just goes down hill from there. The Hillary and McCain satire is pretty lame too.

There's a difference between having a Political sketches & being Politicized. Let me be clear: great things can come from television shows with the courage to engage political subjects in the current world. (Assuming they have a decent dose of intelligent writers and fresh ideas). SNL has been know for such a willingness to engage. And I've enjoyed watching it because of that.However, when a show becomes politicized - when it is no longer engaging in equal-opportunity satire & commentary, but is instead manifesting a clear political agenda and worldview, that's when things go downhill. No doubt, you can grab some short term gains from such a move. Clearly, many in the audience that evening thought it was amusing.It's not the immediate political position that the show is pushing that matters - in this day and age, clearly, a left-wing liberal agenda. That is NOT my criticism. I would be writing the same thing if the show was a powerhouse of conservative jokes targeting the current crop of liberal establishment.The point is that you want your satire, your criticism, your comedy, your 'lens unto the world' to be an open platform with the flexibility to mold its program dynamically in the name of satire and humor and plain ole' comedy.SNL no longer does that. It's become a politicized mouthpiece of the writers, and, to a lesser extent, the show-runners and actors. Which is why, by and large, its ratings are down and the quality of the comedy is pathetic in comparison to what was coming out of it in the 70s and 80s (and hell, even the 90s)

No wonder why this show sucks. Not funny.