# The following political jokes are no longer funny **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 19, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247 "2008-09-19T01:54:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/41 "2008-09-19T20:38:58Z")
> [@gaucho](#): > > Seriously. And if I ever hear “Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine! Continental liar from the state of Maine!” again, it will be too soon. Besides, Blaine has been upgraded to the stool capital of the world. ---
**Author:** ![initech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/439d5e/32.png) [@initech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/initech)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/42 "2008-09-19T20:58:10Z")
“Never underestimate the ability of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.” I swear to God, I’ve heard this six hundred times in the past six months. Each time, the speaker seems to think they just thought of it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/43 "2008-09-19T21:02:23Z")
In the spirit of bipartisanship, “Change!” jokes still make me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/44 "2008-09-19T21:41:58Z")
> [@initech](#): > > “Never underestimate the ability of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.” > > I swear to God, I’ve heard this six hundred times in the past six months. Each time, the speaker seems to think they just thought of it. No kidding. And it doesn’t even make much sense to me. Does anybody else remember 2006? When the Democrats won control in the House and the Senate? I guess people would say they won in spite themselves. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/45 "2008-09-20T07:55:03Z")
Change, schmange ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/46 "2008-09-20T20:14:03Z")
Did you Abraham Lincoln was Jewish? Well he was shot in the _temple_. :smack: (Yeah that is a bad one isn’t it?) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/47 "2008-09-20T20:21:42Z")
“Well, that aside, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/48 "2008-09-20T20:26:05Z")
So Clinton was walking with Yassir Arafat into the Oval Office after the photo-op, and Clinton says “Hey, Yassir, you want a cigar?” And Arafat says “Can I have one still in the wrapper?” ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/49 "2008-09-20T20:27:59Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > So Clinton was walking with Yassir Arafat into the Oval Office after the photo-op, and Clinton says “Hey, Yassir, you want a cigar?” > > And Arafat says “Can I have one still in the wrapper?” Look, Yas-baby, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/50 "2008-09-22T12:35:19Z")
We have our own Down Under. Take our Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. Or, K. Rudd for short. Anyone who played the Donkey Kong games will appreciate the insult. But enough is enough, guys. And I’m just glad that (former premier of New South Wales) Morris Iemma is gone. ‘Dilemma’ was getting old _years_ ago. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/51 "2008-09-22T14:06:22Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Palin killed a bear when she was only 3. > She shot a moose in her pajamas. How a moose got in her pajamas I will never know. I’d like to get in her pajamas. Giggity. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247/52 "2008-09-22T21:23:37Z")
Not a joke, but a political phrase I’m sick and tired of hearing: whenever a situation goes to hell, the politicans in power and their supporters say, “let’s not play the blame game.” Well, Nimrod, when _should_ it be played? Its corollary: When politicians are reminded about their past fuckups (WMDs, imminent threat, etc,) their supporters spout, “that’s ancient history. What counts is what’s happening _today_.” Way to have it both ways, guys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-following-political-jokes-are-no-longer-funny/464247.md?page=2)