The Onion: Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job

[marmar]

Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job
November 5, 2008 | Issue 44•45


WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."


http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/black_man_given_nations

[babylonsister]

1. ...

:spray: The title alone is hysterical!

[xochi]

2. Funny because so much of it is true...

Someone told me about a cartoon depicting Obama being told, "The good news is, you've won. And the bad news is, you've won."

[Bake]

3. LOVE THE ONION!!

Unfortunately, that sounds about right ...

Bake

[Kurovski]

4. K&R

And he'll be held to ten times higher the standard that pampered fratboy George W. Cornstool was held to when he was handed a government that was in surplus.