Obama
How many Obama campaign workers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: An infinite number, because they change the light bulb every second.
McCain
How many McCain campaign workers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: McCain don’t need no light bulbs, and he’ll nuke anybody who says he does.
What’s the difference between the Elephant Party and the Donkey Party?
Republicans believe in the exploitation of man by man. Democrats believe in the opposite.
To deal with the rising price of oil, Bush, Obama, and McCain gathered in a secret meeting room in a high-rise office building in Houston. Before them flashed a video screen showing the price of oil — rising, rising, rising.
“I’ll take care of this problem,” Obama said. “I’ve gathered the nation’s top oil executives in the room next door. You know I’m a great orator. Best since Reagan. Change you can believe in. I’ll exhort them to have the audacity of hope and cut the price of oil.” Obama opened a door, went into the room with the oil executives, and closed the door.
A few minutes later, he returned to the room with Bush and McCain. All three watched the video screen. The price of oil just kept rising.
“My friends, you’re just a couple of pansy chickenhawks,” McCain barked. “You never fought in a war. I have. I’m an authentic war hero. We need to go to war against these greedy oil executives. I’m just the guy to do it. We’re in it, let’s win it.” He pulled an M-16 from a U.S. Navy duffel bag and marched to the adjacent room with the oil executives, shutting the door behind him.
A few minutes later gunshots and screaming were heard. Then McCain, covered in blood and huffing, returned to the room with Bush and Obama.
“That’ll take care of the problem,” McCain wheezed. “The oil executives wouldn’t cut the price of oil, so I executed all of them. With those greedy cheaters out of the way, the price of oil quickly will come down.”
The three men sat and looked at the video screen. The price of oil kept rising.
“You guys are mere senators, rank amateurs who misunderestimate the situation,” Bush said. “You’re not qualified for a higher job. I’ve been president for almost 8 years and know how to handle these crises. Let me take care of it.”
Bush walked over to the TV monitor and pulled the plug. The screen went blank.
“See,” Bush said. “The price of oil isn’t rising anymore.”
Let me again point you to the new animated site by my friends Mike Shelton and Jocelyn Leger: PoliticalBastards.com.
The latest animation — which pops up right away — is one of Obama’s new “change you can believe in” policy on taxes. I’m still chuckling about it. A snapshot is above; the actual animation is the real thing.
President Obama is going to be a rich vein of humor for our two animators. It almost makes me look forward to paying higher taxes.
Editor and Publisher, a newspaper industry magazine, just wrote a nice feature on their site:
“Animation is where the future of editorial cartooning is heading,” Shelton told E&P.
“It’s an exciting time as political cartoonists animate, take it to the Web, and hope the art form doesn’t die out,” Leger added during a separate phone interview.
As followers of the newspaper business know, the number of staff cartoonists at print dailies has dropped sharply in recent years.
Animation IS labor-intensive; Leger said each new weekly offering can take as much as 60-80 hours to create. But she hastened to add that “we have a passion for it. It’s fun.”
Shelton agreed, noting: “It’s been a lot of fun and it’s been a lot of work”….
The duo hopes the new site — designed by Leger — will eventually become self-supporting via ad revenue after traffic for PoliticalBastards.com grows. “We think there’s an audience for it,” she said.
Currently, the site includes faux ads. Visitors will, after a minute or so, see caricatures of Joseph Biden and Fred Thompson emerge out of the lower left corner of the home page and run across the screen into the faux beer ad in the upper right corner.
“Jocelyne’s a wiz at special effects,” said Shelton.
This is the future of political animation and their site is going gangbusters. Don’t miss the laughs.
(Here’s my original article on PoliticalBastards.com.)
Why did Hillary lose the nomination?
Because they wouldn’t let the flying monkeys vote.
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