There
are times, when humour is not doled out as it's meant to, having a bit
of harmless fun or making light of a somber or unpleasant situation, but
as they say, below the belt. That sort of humour seems to occur
precisely more in the political circles.
One of the legendary and well remembered joke was made by Winston Churchill, rather blatantly cruel in my opinion, about his unexpected successor, Clement Attlee, after the war:
"Mr. Attlee is a modest man - he has enough reasons to be."
Another well known and well circulated joke of the sharp-tongued Churchill, again aiming at Attlee, was when he once talked about a taxi:
"... an empty taxi stopped in front of No. 10 Downing Street and from which Mr. Attlee descended."
When Harold MaCmillan lost the government he asked the House of Commons: " Is there life after death? "
It was rumoured that one day Lord Salisbury was dreaming that he was talking to the other lords in the Chamber; when he woke up he realized that he WAS talking to them!
George Bush also resorted to humour when he was at the gala dinner in Washington with the foreign press. He remarked on Hillary Clinton's absence with irony, that the reason why she was not able to enter the room "because of the crossfire at the door.", referring to the invented episode of her visit to Bosnia, which she described as a serious danger for her life because of enemy fire.
He didn't spare Barack Obama either, excusing his absence at the dinner "because he was at
the church listening to the racist Reverend Wright."
As to MacCain he did not joke this time but told the truth that "He couldn't come because he would lose votes."
As humours go, that reflection of Ronald Reagan was not bad at the end of his presidency: "I have said it many times before, that politic is the 2nd most wretched profession in the world, and I just realized it sure resembles closely to the first."
Current Mood: 
Amused
Amused
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