Obama Jokes

[Kevin]

And indeed the reps choice of candidates is just ridiculous and an insult to the world seeing that the US president often has more to say in other countries than the local politicians have.

Heh. I'm a Weebl and Bob fan and I quite like the latest one which relates to your comments. http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/Satire/

I actually mostly agree with the rest of your post as well. I've thought about ways to make other parties viable in this country and can't figure one out. The 2 behemoths just co-opt everyone. And it's not that our political spectrum is narrower than other countries, it's just what is presented on a national level is shrunk. The parties each encompass a wide range of ideals and members of both parties can disagree strongly with major ideals of their party but the power the party has to get them elected is too great. If they don't pick a side they don't get in. If they do pick a side they can't be as vocal about all they really care about.

I think I'd like more parties and I believe if the Democrats and the Republicans actually let themselves be split into the smaller groups with the ideals that the members of those 2 parties really have we would see a lot of parties just like many of the European countries and that many would have very viable candidates for Congressional seats and state positions. But getting a president elected by the general populace (even though we don't technically vote for a president we vote for electors still) in that system would get interesting to say the least.

I think you would have to completely change the way we select presidents before you would be able to see more parties be viable in this country and I just don't see that happening any time soon either since while our system certainly has issues (I've yet to see a political system that doesn't) it does still seem to work well enough and a lot of people can live with that even if they don't really like it.


So um to be back on topic here are some bad Obama jokes I've heard recently.

Here's an interesting fact: If you add John McCain's age and Barack Obama's age together you'll get the number of times Obama usually says "uh" when answering a question.

And one more that kinda pokes fun at both the candidates, though again it's not really any good.

After Barack Obama claimed to have campaigned in 57 states, John McCain should have sent him the name of a good Alzheimer’s specialist.