Big transition coming: a president who's hard to make fun of

http://www.miamiherald.com ^ | By James H. Burnett

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Dear Leader Zero
Borat Obama
Prefident* Zero

* “prefident” means “overconfident” Online Dictionary.

[edh]

I hear Obama is changing the name of the unit of electrical resistance measurement from “Ohm” to “Uhm” ... BADDA BING! DAMN I AM FUNNY! :-P

[stockstrader]

How can you possibly make fun of a far-left, liberal extremist, and socialist with big ears, terrorist (Ayres) and racist (Wright) friends and no executive experience--who believes in class envy and class warfare and also believes that big government is the key to economic prosperity and the solution to all of our problems?

For the MSM--that's an impossible task.

[massgopguy]

When they see the front five rows are full of Obama’s Civilian National Securty Force, they will mind their tongues.

[TruthWillWin]

It's been much easier to pick on his speech. It's not political -- not for us comics, anyway.''

BS! It's the norm for punch lines of jokes about Repulicans to be Dem talking points. The reverse is very rare.

[Wil H]

a president who’s hard to make fun of = Humorless

[RichInOC]

Seriously? No, seriously?

[avacado]

LOL! True!

[thecabal]

If Bush had said those same words, we’d be hearing about it for the next 20 years.

[RobinOfKingston]

Big transition coming: a president who's hard to make fun of

There is some truth to that. A persons flaws are most easily lampooned. obama's flaws are, unfortunately, deadly serious.

[Callahan]

The refusal of cowardly comedians to goof on this guy is one of the oddest things to hit our popular culture in a long time. Black, Muslim, Jesus complex, cultish followers, jug ears, bleeding heart, crazy religious background, wife who looks like the missing link, hypocrite polices, etc. Sure - no material there.

[AU72]

SNL has no problem making fun of sitting Governors be they black, blind, or female.

[Lucky9teen]

I was thinking it...but didn’t want to say it. Maybe Obama’s stumbles are too serious to be made humor.

[weegee]

It’s hard to make fun of OBAMA(TM) because there is nothing funny about Marxism and political reeducation camps.

[Jackson57]

95% of “political humor” is plain ridicule. The fact that most of these comedians happen to agree with Obama and therefore can’t find anything to ridicule is cause for them to refrain from Obama comedy. There IS the racial side of it, too, but I don’t honestly believe that would stop a lot of them if he were a conservative. If that weren’t the case, you’d find black comedians busting on Obama (they can get away with racial humor ... it’s a fact and we all know it).

[ryan71]

We can make fun of Slobama. We just have to refer all jokes to his white side.

For instance, Slobama is so white he looks black. Funny yet politically correct.

[weegee]

Grigioni says that Obama aside, comics at the South Beach Comedy Festival have plenty more to choose from, including the recession and the entire election season.

The election is over. What are you gonna do? Keep telling Sarah Palin jokes?

[NCC-1701]

I beg to differ with one part of this story. Sarah Palin’s good looks are not hype. They are genuine and real. The wench that said that must have an excrutiating inferiority complex. To put Pamela Anderson above Sarah is pure ca ca. And Sarah’s morals are far superior to Pam’s.

[Lucky9teen]

Well, comedians may not tell jokes about him, but this website here, is pretty dang funny.

http://barackobamajokes.googlepages.com/

[sporkgoddess]

Matt Stone and Trey Parker sure had no problems finding something. ;)