Monday, October 6, 2008

Today Seems The Right Day For This

How many Republicans/members of the McCain campaign does it take to change a light bulb?

1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed;

2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed;

3. One to blame American voters for burning out the light bulb;

4. One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs;

5. One to give a One trillion dollars to Wall Street for the new light bulb;

6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush or McCain, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner: Light Bulb Change Accomplished;

7. One campaign insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how McCain/Bush was literally in the dark and out of touch with the American Voter

8. One to viciously smear #7;

9. Sarah Palin to campaign on TV and at rallies on how John McCain has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along;

10. And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.


From the Rabbit.

14 comments:

  1. More I think about it, the more I think that a principle cause of the jittery market is the fear that McCain could be elected. Four years of McCain's high-rolling, crap-shoot economics, with the very real possibility of the economic subtlety that a Palin presidency would bring in its wake, is enough to scare the hardiest free-market economics fanatic. Phil Gram for Treasury Secretary? Fox? Hen-house?

    We'll test the theory, one way or another, in four weeks time.

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  2. Like all good jokes, it's sometimes hard to tell where the humor ends and the reporting begins. It all sounds so plausible.

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  3. Counterlight, I give you:

    The Daily Show
    The Stephen Colbert Show
    Saturday Night Live

    Better than the news shows.

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  4. Lapin, the many fools operating on Wall Street are right to be concerned now, but they're a tad late waking up.

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  5. So. Let me get this right: when he was eight, Obama knew somene who went on to be a terrorist. We know this to be true because Palin said so.

    The Republicans must be terrified to be stooping so low.

    And people are taking this seriously?

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  6. DP, the man in question, William Ayers, was a member of the Weathermen during the 60s, and the group carried out several bombings. Ayers is now rehabilitated and is a professor at the University of Illinois/Chicago and a community activist. Obama served on a charity board with Ayers, and Ayers donated to Obama's campaign. That's a pretty thin connection.

    Some fools take this seriously. At one of McCain's rallies, a member of the audience called out "Obama is a terrorist!" Most folks are getting sick of this sort of tactic and see it for what it is.

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  7. Mimi, this would be funny if it wasn't so true! Marilyn

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  8. Marilyn, the laughs surely leave a bit of a bitter taste.

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  9. Brilliant-and so true to the Anglican tradition!
    You've gone from being the Republican party at prayer to being NPR/Patagonia at prayer.
    But at least you're still grossly over-represented in the Senated and in posh suburbs. Musn't take this egalitatian thing too far, must we!

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  10. Hi Fred, My church struggles to make ends meet every single year. Folks living in posh suburbs is hardly descriptive of our congregation, nor can I fit them into the NPR/Patagonia box, because most of the people in my church lean toward the conservative side. That's our Anglican tradition.

    I don't understand the reference to the Senate.

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  11. Thanks for the goodie Mimi

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