A cowboy from Texas attends a social function where Barack Obama is trying to gather more support for his Health Plan. Once he discovers the cowboy is from President Bush’s home area, he starts to belittle him by talking in a southern drawl and single syllable words.
As he was doing that, he kept swatting at some flies that were buzzing around his head. The cowboy says, “Y’all havin’ some problem with them circle flies?”
Obama stopped talking and said, “Well, yes, if that’s what they’re called, but I’ve never heard of circle flies.”
“Well Sir,” the cowboy replies, “circle flies hang around ranches. They’re called circle flies because they’re almost always found circling around the back end of a horse.”
“Oh,” Obama replies as he goes back to rambling. But, a moment later he stops and bluntly asks, “Are you calling me a horse’s ass?”
“No, Sir,” the cowboy replies, “I have too much respect for the citizens of this country to call their President a horse’s ass.”
“That’s a good thing,” Obama responds and begins rambling on once more.
After a long pause, the cowboy, in his best Texas drawl says, “Hard to fool them flies, though.”
Thanks Gene
LMAO thats too funny,Paul I look foward to your comment
That was funny–I might have to steal it.
Sometimes the fly’s so big it just walks right up to him.
Two thumbs up! Great story, probably NOT reported by AP. 😉
that’s not really that funny.
This joke has been around for decades, at least. Good one, for sure. It’s part of a whole suite of wily farmer-stupid politician jokes. The best one I’ve heard is where after talking for a while, the farmer looks down to see the politician is standing on some cow shit, and begins to chuckle. When the politician asks what’s funny, the farmer says, “You’re melting!”
In this case, the sad thing is, Obama is smarter, more principled, more dedicated, and more of a genuinely nice human being than anyone who has achieved high office in this country at least since FDR. And many of the folks who will most benefit from the changes he is beginning to bring about are among those who can’t see it because of his race, and because they blindly take to heart the rants of the viciously dishonest and idiotic wingnuts like Beck, and Hannity, and Limbaugh.
Acorvid, glad to see you can take a joke.
I see him as a piece of sh!t myself…lol
I hear that the mighty ‘O’ might have a scheduling conflict soon. His Nobel ceremony could be interferring with his Heisman Trophy award ceremony.
The Koolaid hasn’t worn off yet on Acorvid.
I stand by what I said, folks. And rather than drinking Koolaid, I’m paying close attention. One interesting thing I notice is that everyone who has ever met Obama, even those on the other side of the political spectrum, likes and respects him. That’s just a plain fact. Whenever I hear anyone articulate WHY they don’t like Obama, rather than just engaging in smug name-calling or character assassination, not to mention outright racism, it quickly turns out they are, to put it most generously, grossly misinformed. If there’s a chance you haven’t been squeezing your eyes shut for so long you’ll never get them open, do yourself a favor and start paying close attention yourself.
Infi,
I laughed, it’s funny, but as Acorvid said, it’s been around for a long time. And I also stand behind Acorvid’s statements.
Funny how you can live, work, and socialize with black people for decades, and could always have meaningful discussions about differences. But if you disagree with the big B.O.–on any issue, you’re suddenly a racist. Give it a rest Acorvid.
hahaa
I find it kind of curious that we hear the term wingnuts ascribed to Hannity, Limbaugh, and Beck, but not to Matthews, Olberman, and Maddow. Now in addition to ‘wingnuts’ we seem to also have repugs, libtards, and sindependents (well, I just made that one up for ‘fair and balanced’ reporting)
Everything we know about Obama, the man, is, as with other political or public figures, filtered through the perceptions of the media. Do we ‘like’ someone and build respect and respectability for that person based on what is reported? Seems like we don’t really have anything else since few are going to meet or work with them personally. It’s hard for me to believe someone is honorable, respectable, or good based on filters of others I don’t know or respect. Similarly, I don’t believe someone is garbage based on these same filters. Years ago, I spent some time as a reporter and decided to leave when the editor slanted a story to meet the editor’s beliefs rather than the facts reported by the experts I’d interviewed.
I have to agree, the snippets we see show him to be personable. But to believe or even state that all disagreement with him is based on racism, ignorance, jealousy, or greed is an egregious mistake. If, IF, the ideas are good, the public will back them.
But the primary complaint I have seen in most issues is the short-sighted or poorly presented nature of the solutions. I hear X number of people are uninsured. Then the next time it’s stated, it’s X-13 Million. Hmmmm….13M is not a rounding error. Next, there is over $500B in waste in government medical programs. Wellllll…fix that and prove it before implementing another government medical program. Health care reform became Health Insurance reform. Bailouts to banks give huge bonuses to the bankers and the Administration denies/admits previous knowledge. Veterans are now terrorists. But the old terrorists are now…I don’t know, misunderstood Evangelists? The stimulus is working so well we’re thinking about another one even when we admit we don’t know where the original one is actually going. Every baby born today goes down one chute into a hole of over $40K. Basing decisions on flawed premises may lead to a huge Global Warming…no, wait, it’s Climate Change…oh, shoot, let’s just say Cap and Trade Bill. Excuse me while I go get my gloves and jacket.
Stop with the rhetoric of the “previous president was the worst president ever and the reason we’re in the mess we’re in is because of his policies” because as long as blame is pointed in one direction, it will be thrown right back. It is not Bush’s problem, it’s not Obama’s problem, it’s OUR problem. And if I believe something’s wrong for the country, I’ll say I don’t support it, no matter who decides to present it. If it’s right for the country, prove it. And you don’t prove it by just stating the sky is yellow every minute of the day. You prove it by providing evidence or a sound business case. And you can’t say we don’t understand something if you don’t let us see it. Believe it or not, there are some very smart folks out here with and without degrees from major universities and great GPA’s that can read and interpret the evidence at least as well as our elected officials. And the difference is, we actually WANT to read it before we enact it.
But…other than that, I really liked that joke when I first heard it about Bush I.
You know, I consider myself a pretty even guy. I don’t believe in voting for the party, but rather the individual who’s running. However, if the Democrats don’t stop labeling as ‘racist’ every person who disagrees with Obama, I swear I will never vote for another democrat again.
As for Obama, he sure talks pretty, but I ain’t seen nothin but talk yet.
This fly in your eye stuff works best with Texas and Texas politicians going back in my time to LBJ. After visiting – once –
it became obvious that there is so much b.s. in our second biggest misstate because you cannot tell the cattle from most of the people squatting in high cotton.