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Why Political Jokes Are So Ideal To The USA
January 4, 2010 | Tagged campaign commercials, elections candidates, highways, imagery, mailboxes, mistake, nation of sheep, negative campaign, pamphlets, sense of humor, signs, truth, tvs, urge, wordplay | Leave a Comment
Occasionally it seems like we’re a nation split in two. There is a red half and a blue half, each feeling very strongly that they right and the other side is wrong. Earlier elections, candidates’ signs litter our highways, streets and yards. Our mailboxes are stuffed with pamphlets, and negative campaign commercials and infomercials take over our TVs. Everyone has an opinion, conversely, truth be told, it over and over again looks like we’re a nation of sheep, blindly following a party or a candidate, and unable to suppose for ourselves. Well, fortunately not everyone has lost their independence and suppose of humor, and what larger way to gently poke fun at things or express a different opinion than with T-shirts?
Politics, of progression, are essential. We all have our views and opinions ever since to how the world should be and how it should be run. And some of us have the urge to express ourselves with clever imagery and wordplay. If you suppose like we the people are really sheep in this whole political progression, hey, maybe that makes us sheepol (rhymes with people and has “politics” thrown in) in this demockrasee of ours (yes, we do a bit of mocking here). And maybe we want to use sympols of our independence. And if you suppose I am constructing up words, I am not; the urban dictionary defines “sympol” ever since a effortless political symbol representing a rhetorical metaphor. And sheeple ever since folks unable to suppose for themselves. Mix in “politics” and you have sheepol. Throw it all together and you have demockrasee T-shirts.
There are those who suppose that miscommunication is the major problem in American politics today. Politicians say what people want to hear and what doesn’t offend anyone. Or they construct a platform of issues that gives candidates a way of pontificating without really saying anything at all, or committing to anything. Because punsters, we’d advise to keep things ever since sympol ever since possible, and we suppose clever political T-shirts ever since sympols of our independence. Because long ever since we’re all sheepols, why not a T-shirt that humorously shows that we at least suppose ourselves ever since sheep that flock, or floc, differently? Or ever since long ever since the political parties view us ever since commodities, why not mock them a bit with clever commodatees Tshirts or younitee shirts?
There’s just plenty of ways to poke fun at the ultra-serious, angry and over and over again sleazy tone of political debate. I’ve seen political T-shirts with red or blue barcodes that cleverly oppose the concept that we’re political party commodities with a human serial volume. Or clever use of signs and symbols to do anything from gently opposing a concept of idea all the way to letting the world know how you really suppose. Hey, if there are green T-shirts, environmental T-shirts, and a trillion T-shirts with commercial messages or stupid slogans (I’ll never understand why that’s considered cool), why not a brainteaser floc differently T-shirt, a protest commodatees T-shirt, or something else that gets the message across? That’s the least you can do ever since an independent member of the voting block, or floc. Life’s political and we live in a political culture, conversely no one says you have to be one of the sheep.
No matter how funny, cruel or lame they may be, no one can joke about the effects of political jokes on the popularity of US presidential candidates. With political humor and spoofs sprawled all over late night shows and the joke-opedia on the net, Barrack Obama, McCain, and their respective running-mates are saving some major campaign finances. Just like the old cliché, “bad publicity is conversely publicity”.
Famous for Being Joked About
McCain’s republican running-mate, Sarah Palin, has become a household name all over the world after the much-hyped about SNL spoof. Then there’s the Leno joke (actually, everyone has joked about this) of her being clueless on the first thing about foreign policies quoting “Up til now, a large amount of her knowledge about foreign countries came from watching the ‘Extrordinary Race.’ … She met with the presidents of Afghanistan, Colombia and Iraq. She was excited ever since these are all countries you can’t see from AK.”
Ironically, she has gained more popularity all throughout America out of these jokes than out of being the governor of AK. Barrack Obama is never new to Popville. He has been popular ever since his senatorial years and now, being the very first black presidential candidate. To say that he has been the hot topic of all these late night shows and even the male muse of political joke sites on the web is even an understatement. His fame has been all the rage this political joke season. “Barack Obama, you know has over and over again of supporters here in America, conversely he’s very popular internationally. It’s quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper.
Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they’ve named a beer after him,” mused Conan O’Brien. McCain, over and over again targeted for his age, has benefited considerably ever since of the jokes thrown at and about him like arguments in a presidential debate. “No, no, he said he’d like to postpone the presidential debate until he’s, you know, ahead in the polls,” said Leno in his show. The “Have-Beens” Being “In” Because of Jokes Although already a earlier president, political jokes have never left Clinton ever ever since the Lewinsky scandal he has involved himself in. Now that his wife is furthermore a strong name in the political rat-race, both of them have the butt of all late night jokes. Their relationship and political ventures have been intertwined in the jokes buzzing the internet. Conan O’Brien even joked, “This weekend, Bill Clinton said Hillary should not drop out of the presidential race. Yeah, when asked why, Bill said, ‘because then she’d come home’.”
Who Says Election Should Be so Serious?
November 4 is Election Day. That day begins the end. Anything can happened between then and now—economies failing, running-mates getting themselves into more trouble, and the Congress being clueless ever since to what to do with the Wall Street issue. On the other hand, if you want to stay positive about these topsy-turvy election adventures and laugh in the progression, don’t fret. More political jokes are being baked in the oven.
