It seemed to be pretty clearly satirical to me as well. I'm actually surprised that others are arguing your point, I didn't realize people interepereted it othe

It seemed to be pretty clearly satirical to me as well. I'm actually surprised that others are arguing your point, I didn't realize people interepereted it otherwise. Fyi, reading the first linked reference in Wikipedia brought me to a page talking about "the satiric straddling" in regards to the speech, which makes me think it also considers it satiric.