The Ironic 2008 Political Year

By Kris

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Barack Obama, an African American community organizer from Chicago’s south side is accused of being an elitist snob; Hillary Clinton, a white, privileged Wesleyan Graduate became the Coal Miner’s Daughter.
Hillary Clinton was going to be president; Hillary Clinton isn’t going to be president.
Bill Clinton, the first black president, was accused of being a racist.
Hillary Clinton won 18 million votes in the primary, Joe Biden 18; Obama chose Biden for his vice-president.
The year of the Democratic woman became the year of the Republican woman.
The Democrats used sexism to defeat a woman; the Republicans are using sexism to elect one.
Moose burgers and elk meat loaf were once only strange delicacies of the far away state of Alaska; they’ll now be fed to heads of state visiting the White House.
A gun-toting hockey mom from Alaska could be our future president.
I now like Bill O’Reilly and thought Pat Buchanan was the only rational commentator on MSNBC and that’s not good!
FOX news was more fair to Clinton than the liberal news networks.
I started the year watching MSNBC and ended it watching FOX.
I started the year a Democrat; I’m ending it a strong Independent!
I still think Rush Limbaugh is a pig; no ironies there.
In 2008 Puma stood for more than a shoe.
This may be the first year I won’t be canceling out my Republican brother’s vote.
And I was actually looking forward to this year’s election! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Categories : Humor

Comments

Sue Barnhart says:

September 21, 2008 at 3:12 pm

The financial mess we are in today IS the result of deregulation and less government oversight of the financial industry – EXACTLY what John McCain and the republicans have been consistantly BIG supporters of. Now all of a sudden all the free-market – get the government off our back – laize-faire republicans are changing their 30 year tune. And now when it all crashes the taxpayers are bailing them out. This is the result of game playing with the numbers. And many people have made big bucks doing it. Any suggestion that McCain stands for “change” on the economic front is totally dishonest.
Sue Barnhart says:

September 21, 2008 at 3:27 pm

On a local level – how has the republican deregulation of the last 30 years hurt Decatur and other medium size towns like us? Deregulation of the airlines is the reason we have trouble keeping and airport open. Wasn’t that a great idea to let the airline industry just keep flight in the areas where they can make the most money and cut them to rest of the country. Is it really beneficial to the country to allow only the biggest cities be the only place major industries want to locate because that is only place the airlines serve. For years our country believed the transportation industry, the financial industry were important enough to our country’s health that they needed to be regulated. To expect the companies that benefit from this country to give back in some way is in my opinion reasonable and fair. My other countries do the same. Of course they are flocking to those who don’t Mexico, India, China. But do we really want to copy those counties?
Sue Barnhart says:

September 21, 2008 at 3:29 pm

“My other countries do the same.” was supposed to say “many other countries do the same”
Kris says:

September 22, 2008 at 4:17 pm

I agree with you Sue. There needs to be regulation! McCain’s sudden reversal doesn’t impress me a whole lot. I hope the Republican’s have learned an important lesson but…it’s at the taxpayer’s expense.