Comedy Is Not Pretty

Agree with McCain. We’re being feminized and lobotomized. Go cold.
Ever watch an Eddie Griffin movie? There is good taste then there is funny. We need more laughter and less posturing for polls.
The point of ‘hurrah’ is to control the news cycle and create emotional emphasis. The content is secondary as long as it generates air time. The press seizes on the bits fed to them from the usual sources and spin up whirlpools of attention getters. They do not affect the state of the nation; they spin the dynamic.
This is all simply emotional vectoring. It is only as important as it reveals hypocrisy in character. It’s better to let it go than to react and then be forced to hold to that position later. The whole point of hurrah is to trap the opponent three moves ahead.

It’s alright for a presidental candidate to have a sense of humor, but there must be a limitation.
“Bomb bomb bomb Iran” is not humorous.
Laughing at a supporter calling Hillary a b!tch (someone whom he calls a friend) is not humorous.
Calling Chelsea Clinton ugly is not humorous.

obama does have a sense of humor like when he said america already has one dr phil thats funny but mccain bomb iran kill them with cigarettes wife beating those are not funny but sick minded the man is sick sick i dont know for the life of me why anyone would want hin potus and agrees with his sick sense of humor bye bye mccain!!!

Mary,
Obama’s “poor judgement” leads him to beleive that we should talk to our enemies. McCain had a field day with that, saying Obama is naive. But wait…what are we doing…talking with our enemies!!! Shows Obama has good judgement and McCain is, well, confused!

len
The Bush Admins “pre-condition” for talking to Iran was the confirmation that they were not enriching uranium. They have not done that yet, and we are still going to have talks with them.
So I guess “without preconditions” is exactly what we are prepared to do.

You don’t get it, Jane. It’s not the face value of the card. It’s whether or not it has value to your own hand.
Cluetrain:
1. They are enriching uranium and they do intend to weaponize it.
2. They will join MAD. They can’t use these weapons without being anilhilated.
3. These are expensive to build but more expensive to own.
The question is not when they will build nuclear weapons. Now you have to figure out what the value of the hand they hold is to our hand. Letting go of the preconditions card at the right time bought time. Time was the high value card. What did we do with it?
Well, you have to figure that out. Obama is an amateur and high stakes games with amateurs fatten the pot for the professionals. The Iranians are pros. Note we are not the only players at this table. Liar’s poker is played with partners. Note the Turks. Obama’s self-enriching plays take value from the partner’s hand and give it to the opponents.
Not smart poker. His lack of experience is what this demonstrates, not his ability to see what ANYONE knows who plays.

Obama must not have a sense of humor, otherwise he surely would have thought the New Yorker cover showing his wife with an Ak-47 strapped on was hilarious.
He needs to take lessons from McCain, who knows that treating women with disrespect is a lot of fun.

“Perhaps Obama has something else in mind. Just maybe Obama doesn’t consider this to be a game. Rather than liar’s poker, maybe he prefers behaving and treating others like adults.”
Perhaps Obama prefers pigs that can fly but you know, that only works in football when the pig can’t object.

The reason political candidates make appearances on Leno, Letterman and the Daily Show in the first place is that a sense of humor makes them seem more human and appealing. And an candidates who are willing to laugh at themselves seem even more so.
That is why Team Obama did so much damage with their humorless response to the New Yorker cover, which, as Jon Steward humorously pointed out, is—after all—just a cartoon.
Give me John McCain’s flawed sense of humor over a humorless candidate any day of the week.
I do not trust political candidates who take themselves too seriously. They are a little too tightly wound.

McCharacter has flaws, humour or lack of humour is not one of them. That’s Obama’s flaw.

Right Buford. And his supporters are his albatross. The tighter they are wound, the further they scatter when they unwind with all the focus of that explosion being directed at the central thread: Obama. It isn’t so much about his inflated sense of self-importance; it is about their’s. When they find out no one cares, they unwind explosively. I saw that happen recently at a family gathering. Ugly.
Obama should have done with the New Yorker cover exactly what Obama’s supporters told Clinton she should do with the nutcracker: buy them and give them away as joke presents.
Monsters Inc had it right: laugh at the monsters underneath your bed. They will go away and you can go back to sleep.

Oh my, whatever will we do if our President doesn’t have a sense of Houmor….focus on the ISSUES?

McCain, like Bush, tends to be “funny” when he doesn’t intend to be. Really not so much “funny, ha-ha”, as “funny, what was he thinking!”
I agree that McCain is stuck in the 20th Century (if not the 19th, even), and we no longer have room for a dinosaur in the Oval Office.
The problem with the New Yorker cover is not its intention as satire — most thinking evolved people get that. The problem is — as we’re seeing, the right wing-nuts ability to take that image and run with it using their own copy to extend the reach of their racist, sexist, evil message that led to the piece being satire in the first place.
Obama 2008 — Yes, WE CAN!!!