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I’ve been purposely avoiding writing about politics or highly controversial topics in this blog, but this year’s worth of political news has just been too much for me to avoid talking about.
I just cannot fathom what is going on in these peoples’ heads. Seriously. What are you thinking? Anyways… you won’t find an Obama joke in here — not because I am an Obama supporter but because it’s just so hard to find a good Obama joke these days.
Onto the jokes… Here we go:
- First up… Jesse Jackson wants to cut Obama’s nuts off castrate Mr. Obama. You can watch the video here. Why is it that powerful people (including Obama himself) always forget that if a microphone is around, it is probably on? Note the “cut his nuts off” gesture Jackson makes after he says it. Haha. Awesome.
- Next. Phil Gramm, one of McCain’s top economic advisers, says that we are a “nation of whiners” and that this is not a real recession but a “mental recession.” That’s right. While McCain is out trying to promote his “new” (and, quite frankly, ambiguous and ridiculous) economic plan for the nation if he gets elected, his economic adviser is saying we just need to shut up and stop whining.
- So how did McCain take this? He said that if he was elected president, he would make Gramm an ambassador to Belarus. Belarus? Yes. Belarus — the country so repressive that we have a special act against it and we also do not have any ambassadors. The country is also kinda still a big nuclear fallout. Notice in the video that no reporters laughed. Probably because you don’t really kid about opening up communications with a country like that.
- Ahh… Then there’s our president. Yay for Bush. First, President Bush goes to the G8 summit (which, really could have been considered the G9 this year). The G8 summit consists of 8 (kinda, 9) of the most powerful heads of state in the world and they discuss global problems. So imagine everybody’s surprise when they learned that the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was described as one of the “most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for government corruption and vice” by the administration. Yes. Our administration just publicly used that to describe the head of Italy at the G8.
- As if calling him names wasn’t bad enough, President Bush referred to Berlusconi — the head of ITALY, where they speak ITALIAN — his “amigo.”
- And the best part for last… Making a joke out of his track record of poor environmental policies, when he left the G8, to the shock of the rest of the world leaders, President Bush said (and I quote), “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.” That’s right, America. This is the man who represents you. He just made a joke out of an issue that the rest of the world leaders consider very serious. He is no stranger to the G8 summit — this is his 8th and (thankfully) last.
Soooo not proud to be an American right now,
Mathew
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Bush’s decision to lift the executive ban on off-shore drilling. I laughed pretty hard when I read that he decided to “leave it in the hands of Congress.” The same Congress that has both houses controlled by Democrats. It’s like… come on, man.
What’s even MORE hilarious is reading the responses to CNN’s question “Is Off-Shore Drilling the Answer??” I was hoping to find some intelligible responses from the “Yes!” faction… but all I found were conspiracy theorists, logical fallacies and really really bad spelling/grammar. When the majority of people voting “Yes!” seem to be idiots, you have to wonder if it’s a good idea.
I’m not saying there aren’t pros and cons to both — there totally are. But it’s disconcerting to see so many people that are for lifting that ban are also incapable of producing coherent arguments as to why. Other than “It wont take 10 yrs to produce oil, just like 3. Then all international countries will see that we lowrd prices and they’ll see how self-relient on oil we are. Then there will be lower gas for everyone.” Wow. Genius, much?
I should be less critical. Just because some people on the vast intarwebs can’t come up with a good argument doesn’t mean none exist. =) Hope you’re well, Sir Kiang!