Humor in the campaigns

[Undertoad]

I hope we can locate humor on the campaign trail and reduce some of the partisanship, lighten the load of anger in the country. In that spirit I open this thread with two examples, one from each side, both of which happened yesterday, and both were decent one-liners, pulled off with fine comic timing.


Kerry is standing with Edwards, speechifying: "I want you to know we think this is a dream ticket. We've got better vision. We've got better ideas. We've got a better sense of what's happening to America. And we've got better hair."


Bush is being asked about the Edwards choice by a long-winded reporter asking how he would compare Edwards to Cheney. The question went on but Bush answered it with a tiny deadpan quip: "Dick Cheney can be President. Next?"

[Happy Monkey]

Seen somewhere on the blogs, paraphrased.

"Dick Cheney can be President. Next?"

That's one more reason to vote for Kerry.

[Undertoad]

I hope we can locate humor on the campaign trail and reduce some of the partisanship, lighten the load of anger in the country. In that spirit

And the spirit lasted 37 minutes.

[Happy Monkey]

Hey, I thought it was a funny one-liner.

[Cyber Wolf]

Someone should do this:

1. Get all four of them: Bush, Cheney, Kerry and Edwards.
2. Tell them this is a fun bipartisan publicity stunt, to show no hard feelings between party incumbents.
3. Have them dress in something they wouldn't mind getting dirty...Tshirt, jeans, whatever.
4. Line them up in front of a large patch of prepared mud, with four shovels sticking out of it
5. Distract them a bit, let them think they'll have to do something or other with that mud.
6. When they least expect it, pie them in the face.

While not a defining value, the reactions by each man would factor in a bit in my desicion to vote for them. I find the 'Show The World That He's Just A Regular Guy Too' campaigns are a little too scripted to really show what kind of person the Pres- and VP-hopefuls are. I want to see how they react to something they totally don't expect. But, regardless of my reasons for wanting this to happen, I think it'd be great fun to watch anyway.

[Happy Monkey]

Is this better?

[Undertoad]

[Radar]

Oh the humanity!! The Horror!!

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Hey, I thought it was a funny one-liner.

If you read it while pretending that Jay Leno is saying it during his monologue then it becomes pretty funny.

[headsplice]

Heehee. Does Colin Powell dressing up as a Village Person mean that the White House is dropping support of DOMA?

[Undertoad]

Via Dailykos, the humorous Kerry retort to Bush's line: Kerry said Bush was right one thing about Cheney. "He was right that Dick Cheney was ready to take over on day one, and he did and he has been ever since, and that's what we got to change."

OK, I'm game. Here's two I picked up off the net. One for each side in my best bi-partisen spirit:

Best anti-Kerry sound bite: Speaking about the Democrats in an address to the Republican Governors Association, Bush said, "The candidates are an interesting group, with diverse opinions: for tax cuts and against them ... for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act, in favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And that's just one senator from Massachusetts.''

Best campaign rally chant: At an Iowa campaign rally, Gephardt ticked off a litany of Bush administration failings and capped it off by saying, "And now he says we need to go to Mars!'' The crowd began chanting: "Send Bush to Mars! Send Bush to Mars!''

[Beestie]

A Michael Moore editing of W's State of the Union:

nucular is the least of your worries

(Quicktime format)

[slang]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I hope we can locate humor on the campaign trail and reduce some of the partisanship, lighten the load of anger in the country.

It would be a nice change. In this election, there will be a lot of pissed off people no matter who wins. Showing some good hearted humor here would go far to keeping the country together.

As irritating as many people are to me personally, just from their political views, I do recognize they are also Americans ( around here anyways ). Until there is a concerted movement to split the country up (again ), lets see something funny damnit.

If there is some type of secession though......all bets are off.

[xoxoxoBruce]

In the spirit of humor;