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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease don't ban me but
was the stuff about Geo. Bush voting for Obama just a joke?
I'm just curious. It really seemed way too good to be true when I read it.
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Please don't ban me but (Original Post)
leftyladyfrommo
Nov 2012
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shraby
(21,946 posts)1. From what I understand, it was a joke..a play on Bush's incompetence to do anything right. n/t
BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)2. yes it's a joke
the currant is another onion.
codjh9
(2,781 posts)3. Ban you? No way. But I think it was just a parody.
MADem
(135,425 posts)4. Satire--an attempt at humor.
It was believable, though--this, after all, was a joke about the guy who kept reading MY PET GOAT while the nation was being attacked with commercial aircraft used as weapons.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)6. I thought it was hilarious.
The funny part was that with George it really might have happened. It was believable.
MADem
(135,425 posts)8. With Porgie (his native name is "Afraid of Horsies"), all things are possible! nt
sweettater
(729 posts)5. It was mentioned here
that it was satire. But it does seem like it could very well have happened.
Progressive dog
(6,904 posts)7. I believed it at first, too.
He probably practiced on a real machine for a couple of weeks, so he was too well trained to actually make that mistake.
SDjack
(1,448 posts)9. Yeah, but he snorts some coke, downs some shots, drives to the
polling station, and ...