Thursday, November 6, 2008

love 'the onion'

Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job

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."

just brilliant.  they put the best spin on everything, and usually find a way to offend someone or everyone in the process.  not that it matters.  they dont take themselves seriously, so why should we?

4 comments:

a.k.a. Suga Jones said...

So basically they equated Obama's job to a janitor, which stereotypically makes some sense. They may be on to something.

Lindsey said...

We subscribe to the onion on tivo. Love it.

Tyler Brown (1.1.4) said...

The Onion saved me from dying of boredom in Insurance Law. This article was always my favorite:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54916

Caution: this article does contain some expletives.

Anonymous said...

Ha ha- I read this a few days ago on their site. He really has to be waking up saying- what have I done? I didn't actually think it was going to happen.