I’ve just been a bit surprised at the McCain Gaffe thread in the pit that no one has mentioned that he is indeed a gaffer.
Also funny, this from above:
Not even close to funny:
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The idea of Obama as being “all talk” (and hence, in a sense, a hustler) is accessible to people of all political stripes. The idea of either him or a homeless person necessarily being “shameless” and “never having worked a day in their life” is not accessible except to a certain political viewpoint, and the latter point about work is only accessible from a demonstrably ignorant viewpoint.
Also, the parallelism is ruined by saying “homeless” instead of “a homeless guy.”
-FrL-
Buh? I agree about dropping the ‘guy’ to improve the rhythm, but whence comes the ‘never worked a day in his life’? Even setting aside Obama, about whom it’s patently false, it’s not necessarily true of homeless guys either. The reason Dio’s punchline is funny is because it’s rooted in truth. You might as well say “What’s the difference between McCain and a burglar? One breaks into your house at night and the other’s a thief.”
OK, so here’s my lame attempt at an Obama joke:
“Man, it’s hot out there!”
“Hot hot is it?”
“It’s so hot, I saw Barack Obama sweating.”
You know, because he just never seems to perspire. Reporters say they never see him sweat even when he’s working out at the gym. Maybe that perception is not well-known enough?
“One of them’s already in the White House?”
“Hookers and drugs. Oh wait. I mean just hookers.”
I would rephrase that as the idea is not accessible to a certain political viewpoint.
No, you are describing attributes of both. ‘Homeless guy’ is definitional. So you need to be describing attributes of both.
Not “homeless guy” - ‘bum’. This joke can’t be politically correct, since it is about a black guy.
And (unsurprisingly) you are missing the point. Jokes have to be exaggerated, or they’re not funny (even to those who are not grimly determined not to get it). The thing about Obama that is being parodied is that he has never held a job in the private sector. That’s why the “old” jokes about McCain exaggerate his age.
Obviously you can’t be forced to ‘get’ a joke if you don’t want to. It is always possible to snarl “That’s not funny!” thru gritted teeth. but then you leave yourself open to the jokes about “how many Obama supporters does it take to change a light bulb?” The joke works for feminists, who tend (often enough to make the joke work) to lack a sense of proportion about their sacred cows. The more stuff like this thread and the New Yorker cover thing go on, the funnier it gets about Obamaniacs as well.
Regards,
Shodan
This is false. He’s held several.
ETA, what job has McCain ever held in the private sector? Or W for that matter?
What do you get if you cross Barack and McCain?
Obomb bomb bomb, obomb bomb Iran…
You know what I like about Obama? Cognative Dissonance. No, seriously. I’ve loved it since day one. Chicago Politics, man. You know they’re filthy. You know they’re crude. And then this democrat comes out, he looks sharp, he dresses well, you know he’s a hustler… and his republican opponent hires someone to follow him around 24/7 with a camera. And they find nothing. Nothing.
That’s just messed up, you know? I say he’s one of them reptilian overlords. Probably eats mice when nobody’s watching. His wife? Robot.
From an article cited above:
Anyone able to fill us in on this?
-FrL-
I like Bill Maher’s quote in the New York Times:
“People keep asking if he’s black enough, what’s he gotta do? Dunk? The man bowled a 37, that’s black enough for me.”
It works better with Iraq:
Obomb bomb bomb, obomb bomb barack…
And here I thought he was different from all the other politicians.
[url=]Bullshit.
A job as a law prof is “private sector” even if the law school in question is part of a public university. Any law firm that is not a government agency is “private sector” regardless of its field of practice. Foundations are also “private sector” institutions. Obama never drew a government paycheck until he was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996.
Michael Feldman, or at least his writers, on NPR, take digs at Obama, a couple I recall right now include one in which he’s describing an Obama event in which the candidate was making grand promises and getting great adulation for it, and to which Feldman added: “then after the speech, he made it stop raining, healed several cripples, and fed the multitude with two energy bars and a bottle of vitamin water.” On another ocassion, after the McCain beer/earmark malapropism, Feldman said: “Meanwhile, Barack Obama announced he’s in favor of beer, which he explained he understands to be a refreshing fermented beverage, popular among the working classes.” Basically mockery of fan adulation and of the staid image.
Furthermore, the University of Chicago is a private university.
McCain, OTOH, has spent his entire adult life in the military or government, except for a brief stint as VP of Public Relations for his father-in-law’s Anheuser-Busch distributorship.
Obama was also a consultant for Business International. That plus jobs with three different private law firms, plus 12 years teaching at UC is a pretty good private sector resume. Not that being a community organizer isn’t working. That’s like saying being in the military or working for a municipal water department isn’t working. Oh, and does writing books count as “work?” He wrote his first one before he was well known. He doesn’t use ghost writers either, which makes him as rare as hens teeth among published politicians.
I know, right? It’s almost as if people are deliberately telling bad jokes with flat punchlines or something!
W held executive positions with Arbusto, Spectrum 7, and Harken Energy, but considering his track record there, those are items he’d be well advised to leave off his resume. Then there’s the Texas Rangers thing . . .
This is when you turn to The Onion.
Enjoy,
Steven