Weekend Economists Take Five: December 7-9, 2012

[Demeter]

55. Make up your own jokes!

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Why didn’t Obama cross the road?

What are you, a purist?

Here is the formula:

{set up} Why didn’t Obama cross the road?

{punchline, always Obama fan rationalization or word salad}

So herewith:

Why didn’t Obama cross the road?

Because we didn’t “make him do it!” (JH)

Don’t question his motives this close to the election! (VL)

And of course the classics:

Why do you hate Obama?

You’re a racist!

Also too:

What, you’d rather have Mitt Romney cross the road!? (VL)

Nobody could cross the road in their first term!

Because his heart was in the right place!

Obama went near the road, and it was historic! (VL)

Historic indeed, also too transformational.

OTHER READERS SUBMITTED:

Because many of the places are already on this side.

Because it is owned by the banksters, and they voted for Mitten’s “Gordon Gekko” Romney.

He didn’t have to because everyone believed he did.

‘Cause he already claimed the middle of it.

Because it’s easier to send a drone to the other side!

Because the road was filled with IEDs

He was spending his time fixing his fences, because that’s where he sits most of the time.

There wasn’t enough stimulus!

Because Bowles and Simpson told him we can’t afford the price of road-crossing tokens any more.

It was recently privatized and the toll was too high.

“Look, first of all JPMorgan is one of the best-managed banks there is. Jamie Dimon, the head of it, is one of the smartest bankers we got and sometimes even he can’t get to the other side of the road.”

He did cross part of the road....You see… um… the middle, neither right nor left… um… is where compromise and incremental progress can be found. By… um… standing in the middle… um… he shows what a great chicken… um… *SPLAT*

Because there was too much money to be made by letting the road continue to fall apart as the infrastructure was sold off to banks and other private equity interests.

He took one step into the road and called it a day. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good!

The rhetoric was soaring. On a chill day in January it kept us warm as we were witness to history. But reality is cold. Perhaps we were naive. We underestimated the intransigence of a Republican party that had grown increasingly extreme. Was there ever any chance that that road could be crossed?

He didn’t have 60 Senate votes to get him there.

The Republicans obstructed him.

He will. Obviously, you don’t understand 11-dimensional chess.

Obama has always wanted to cross the road, and once the election is over, he will finally be able to do so. That’s why we all must vote for him.

The Republicans wanted him to remain on the right side of the road. Obama had often stated how he wanted to cross to the left side of the road, and skillfully maneuvered the Republicans into getting them to agree to his staying on the right side of the road.

It was an Overton road. Obama didn’t need to cross it because it moved to the right on its own.

Bush didn’t cross the road and he was widely criticized for this. So when Obama didn’t cross the road, it was obviously the right thing to do, or rather not do.

Obama didn’t need to cross it because it moved to the right on its own.

He DID cross the road, he just doesn’t get any credit for it.

We must remember not to let actually crossing the road be the enemy of promising to cross the road.

Because he is waiting for the road to cross him.

Because the Republicans wanted him to cross the road and he wanted to stay where he was.

If you listened to what he said in 2008, he never said he would cross the road.

Because he was already on the other side .. (arm pump) BAM!!

*sigh* That’s just not how the road works!


AND SO MANY MORE AT LINK














AND FOR VARIETY'S SAKE:
“Romneys such a liar, it’ll turn out he didn’t strap his dog to the car roof after all”