Obama's 1.1 million

[Anonymous]

dollar Big Black Monster Bus. Unconscionable, when unemployment is 9.1 percent and there could well be an even deeper recession!

Obama looked at Michelle, chuckled and said, "You know, I could throw a $1,000 bill out of the window right now and make somebody very happy." Michelle shrugged her shoulders and replied, "I could throw ten $100 bills out of the window and make ten people very happy". Hearing their exchange, the pilot of plane said to his co-pilot,"Such big-shots back there. I could throw both of them out of the window and make 256 million people very happy."!!

[Anonymous]

Oh for Chrissakes! Secret Service bought them for security, and they bought one for the Republican nominee as well. Too many death threats. Consider it a wingnut tax.

Maybe they should just go around in open limousines. How did that work in the past? Oh...

[Anonymous]

OP, your little "joke" is beyond tasteless and really not funny. I say that as someone who typically votes Republican.

[TheManWithAUsername]

Maybe if OP's leaders and his favorite propaganda channel didn't spend so much time inciting potential presidential assassins and other domestic terrorists, there wouldn't be such a need for security.

[Anonymous]

OP doesn't get it. We can't keep cutting govt when there is no aggregate demand out there. That bus created a few jobs, so finally Obama did something for jobs. We need more govt projects like the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, your little "joke" is beyond tasteless and really not funny. I say that as someone who typically votes Republican.

The jake has been making the rounds since the Clintons. Bet you didn't think it was tastless then, did you. I voted for Clinton twice (and would do so again if there was a way he could run) and thought it was funny. I also thought it was funny when I heard it about Bush and Cheney and I still think it is funny about the Obamas. I will, no doubt, find it funny for the new president elected in 2012, which ever Republican it may be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, your little "joke" is beyond tasteless and really not funny. I say that as someone who typically votes Republican.

The jake has been making the rounds since the Clintons. Bet you didn't think it was tastless then, did you. I voted for Clinton twice (and would do so again if there was a way he could run) and thought it was funny. I also thought it was funny when I heard it about Bush and Cheney and I still think it is funny about the Obamas. I will, no doubt, find it funny for the new president elected in 2012, which ever Republican it may be.

I don't find it funny at all, for any of them. After Kennedy, this kind of thing is not cool to me.

[Anonymous]

I had high hopes for Obama when he became President but I will be glad when he's out of office.

[Anonymous]

I dont get the joke (or the jake) at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had high hopes for Obama when he became President but I will be glad when he's out of office.

That's OK, but that doesn't condone joking about the death of a sitting President who racked up more death threats than any other in history, starting before his inauguration, and for the most part because of his race.

[TheManWithAUsername]

It's a joke. It hits my ear a little differently with this president because the opposition contains many gun nuts who are regularly egged on, but I think the overwhelming majority of people repeating it don't see it as any different than similar lawyer jokes.

The striking thing to me is the hypocrisy of pundits on the right in the way they refer to Obama, after all their talk of "respect for the office," etc. during the last administration.

Of course, it's largely Obama's fault for just accepting all of this. Even now, he continues to pretend (or delude himself? - I hope not) that he's dealing with reasonable people. As Cornell West said, if a left-wing interviewer had treated him like O'Reilly did, Obama would have slapped him. (And why the hell did he do that interview in the first place? Alright - I've gotten a little off-topic...)

[Anonymous]

The joke sucks for several reasons. First, OP starts off talking about a bus, so the assumption is that the first couple are talking about throwing money out of a bus window. It's thus jarring when the joke then refers to the pilot of a plane. Second, you can't throw money out of the window of air force one, or anything other than a very small, low-flying plane, so that part doesn't even make sense. Even if you could, the chances someone would find it are small, so the Obamas' "joke" wouldn't make much sense in the given context. Third, thousand dollar bills are extremely rare, so the President isn't likely to have one or ever have seen one, much less make an offhand joke about it. Finally, the joke dates itself because there are now about 300 million people in the US, not 256 million.

[takoma]

One odd thing is that you can find it about Obama and Oprah or Obama and Michelle, but either way it always seems to be "the pilot of plane" -- I guess everyone is just cut and pasting.

BTW, 256 million was the population about the time Clinton was inaugurated, so I suppose it's a Billary joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The joke sucks for several reasons. First, OP starts off talking about a bus, so the assumption is that the first couple are talking about throwing money out of a bus window. It's thus jarring when the joke then refers to the pilot of a plane. Second, you can't throw money out of the window of air force one, or anything other than a very small, low-flying plane, so that part doesn't even make sense. Even if you could, the chances someone would find it are small, so the Obamas' "joke" wouldn't make much sense in the given context. Third, thousand dollar bills are extremely rare, so the President isn't likely to have one or ever have seen one, much less make an offhand joke about it. Finally, the joke dates itself because there are now about 300 million people in the US, not 256 million.

There is one thing to which no one will ever admit and that is that they have no sense of humor.

[Anonymous]

Whine whine whine, OP. Tedious. And stupid.