Tag: Politics

Jon Stewart just mentioned on the The Daily Show about how Barack Obama is the first African-American president to hold a press conference to lay out his financial plans, and then added that he would be breaking a lot of records.

The thing is that everything that Obama does breaks a record if you tack on “first African-American president to…” For example, he’s the first African-American president to drive to work, the first African-American president to eat Cheerios, the first African-American president to pee standing up, and so on.

In fact, you can extend this to anyone and anything if you’re specific enough: I am the first me in the world to sleep tonight, ever! Say, that’s not a bad idea. Good night.

I’m watching The Colbert Report right now and Stephen made an interesting analogy. He is talking to Congressman Phil Hare from “The Fighting 17th” of Illinois and compared the civil war in Iraq with the American Civil War. He played his roundabout game of confusion by saying that America is the Union in this analogy.

In fact, if the civil war in Iraq is like the American Civil War, then America is sort of like the British, in that they are not really part of it at all, but rather an enemy from a former battle—well for the most part, America’s got it’s nose in Iraq’s conflict.