America the butt of jokes around the world

[jmatthan]

With the religious right rooting for Scalito, I just received this from a village in the deep south in India all the way to the frozen Arctic:

VERY SAD NEWS

There will be no Nativity Scene in Washington, DC this year !

The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a

Nativity Scene in Washington, DC this Christmas

season. This isn't for any religious reason, they

simply have not been able to find three wise men and a

virgin in the Nation's capital. There was no problem,

however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.

I am getting many hundreds of jokes about America and Americans from all around the world. It has become the laughing stock around this planet!!

[RobertSeattle]

1. That's a really old joke

I think most of the world understand the difference between the citizen of the United States and our current US leadership.

[jmatthan]

2. Not really - not after Bush was "re-elected"

eom

[Burning Water]

4. They do understand that

the election was stolen, don't they? Have we failed in getting the message out to our allies in other countris?

[Autonomy]

7. We haven't gotten the message out in THIS country

forget other countries.

[Jed Dilligan]

8. True

I was just in Europe, and people there were shocked to learn about the electoral COLLEGE--let alone election fraud. As ignorant as we say we are, we know a lot more about our country than other people. Why should they care, after all? They have a pretty good life. I found the most important thing to tell Europeans is that Reagan was no hero; that he really started the forces behind Bush.

[Tesha]

9. If it was stolen, and we allowed it to be stolen...

...then that makes us dumb asses too.

Tesha

[Boojatta]

13. Before you judge ordinary voting Americans...

RobertSeattle: "I think most of the world understand the difference between the citizens of the United States and our current US leadership."

jmatthan: "Not really - not after Bush was 're-elected' ."

Suppose one thousand students at a particular school get to vote for the new principal. There are only two candidates who have a realistic chance of getting elected. The students hear all kinds of rumors and also soak up a lot of reliable but superficial information about the two candidates. The students have full schedules: study, part-time work, social activities, volunteering, their own personal hobbies, etc. No one student vote is likely to affect the outcome, so why should any student spend a lot of time and effort trying to gather meaningful and reliable information?

Would you judge those one thousand students based on which of the two candidates gets elected as the new principal?

[jmatthan]

14. When they go killing, invading and occupying countries

stealing elections, and then the people gives them a pass, then the world no longer judges the leader or the system, but the people.

Your example has no relation to what is happening in the US.

I have read almost everything that Gore, Conyers, Kerry, Edwards, etc. etc have said or written and it took a Congressman like Murtha to come out NOW to say he was wrong and the people do NOTHING.

Besides the leaders, there must be sonmething wrong with those people.

Even from Finland I have been writing and shouting, supporting people like Arundhati Roy, the Iraq tribunal, Cindy Sheehan, Talk Show Hosts as Mike Malloy, Peter Werbe, Thom Hatmann, Guy James - but the American public sits around like door mice!

You blame the holocaust on Hitler - do you give the German public a free pass?

[Autonomy]

6. Yeah, most of the world realizes that our leaders

don't shop at Wal-Mart and vacation at Disneyuniverse. We're so much better off for them making that distinction.

[Hardrada]

10. I've told variants of that joke

for years and it always goes over. Either that or people are scared not to laugh at my humor!!

[RobertSeattle]

12. I enjoy watching jokes morph over time

I bet many of our current "Bush Jokes" were former Clinton Jokes. The Internet just makes them get around even faster.

[Double T]

3. America has become the laughing stock of the world.........

and the Country of Poland and the Polish People thank us for taking a burden off their backs.

[Shadowen]

5. This isn't a new development.

Hell, half of Canadian comedy has been mocking American politics (traditionally Republicans, but American politics in general) for about fifteen years now.

[Hardrada]

11. O please, some examples. Or a link

or I will have to pester my old friend in Halifax!

[Shadowen]

15. It's like asking me to pick my favorite bullet out of a clip.

*shrug*

[chat_noir]

16. Australian joke

President Bush and Colin Powell are sitting in a bar. A guy walks in and asks the barman, "Isn't that Bush and Powell sitting over there?"

The barman says, "Yep, that's them."

So the guy walks over and says, "Wow, this is a real honor. What are you guys doing in here?"

Bush says, "We're planning WW III ".

And the guy says, "Really? What's going to happen?"

Bush says, "Well, we're going to kill 140 million Iraqis this time and one blonde with big boobs."

The guy exclaimed, "A blonde with big boobs? Why kill a blonde with big boobs?"

Bush turns to Powell, punches him on the shoulder and says, "See, I told you no one would worry about the 140 million Iraqis!"

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

17. Are there even 140 million Iraqis? n/t