Political News

Now and again it seems like we’re a nation split in two. There is a red half and a blue half, each feeling very strongly that they right and the other side is inaccurate. In advance elections, candidates’ signs litter our highways, streets and yards. Our mailboxes are stuffed with pamphlets, and negative campaign commercials and infomercials take over our TVs. Everyone has an opinion, still, truth be told, it often looks like we’re a nation of sheep, blindly following a party or a candidate, and unable to believe for ourselves. Well, fortunately not everyone has lost their independence and believe of humor, and what bigger way to gently poke fun at things or express a different opinion than with T-shirts?

Politics, of course, are imperative. We all have our views and opinions as to how the world should be and how it should be run. And some of us have the urge to express ourselves with clever imagery and wordplay. If you believe like we the people are really sheep in this whole political course, hey, maybe that makes us sheepol (rhymes with people and has “politics” thrown in) in this demockrasee of ours (yes, we do a bit of mocking here). And maybe we want to use sympols of our independence. And if you believe I am creating up words, I am not; the urban dictionary defines “sympol” as a unmistakable political symbol representing a rhetorical metaphor. And sheeple as folks unable to believe for themselves. Mix in “politics” and you have sheepol. Throw it all together and you have demockrasee T-shirts.

There are those who believe that miscommunication is the considerable problem in American politics today. Politicians say what people want to hear and what doesn’t offend anyone. Or they make a platform of issues that gives candidates a way of pontificating without really saying anything at all, or committing to anything. Seeing as punsters, we’d advise to keep things as sympol as possible, and we believe clever political T-shirts as sympols of our independence. Seeing as long as we’re all sheepols, why not a T-shirt that humorously shows that we at least believe ourselves as sheep that flock, or floc, differently? Or as long as the political parties view us as commodities, why not mock them a bit with clever commodatees Tshirts or younitee shirts?

There’s just plenty of ways to poke fun at the ultra-serious, angry and often sleazy tone of political debate. I’ve seen political T-shirts with red or blue barcodes that cleverly oppose the concept that we’re political party commodities with a human serial volume. Or clever use of signs and symbols to do anything from gently opposing a concept of idea all the way to letting the world know how you really believe. Hey, if there are green T-shirts, environmental T-shirts, and a trillion T-shirts with commercial messages or stupid slogans (I’ll never understand why that’s supposed cool), why not a brainteaser floc differently T-shirt, a protest commodatees T-shirt, or something else that gets the message across? That’s the least you can do as an independent member of the voting block, or floc. Life’s political and we live in a political culture, still no 1 says you have to be 1 of the sheep.

No matter how funny, cruel or lame they may be, no 1 can joke about the effects of political jokes on the popularity of US presidential candidates. With political humor and spoofs sprawled all over late night shows and the joke-opedia on the net, Barrack Obama, McCain, and their respective running-mates are saving some considerable campaign finances. Just like the old cliché, “bad publicity is still publicity”.

Famous for Being Joked About

McCain’s republican running-mate, Grace Palin, has become a household name all over the world after the much-hyped about SNL spoof. Then there’s the Leno joke (actually, everyone has joked about this) of her being clueless on the at first thing about foreign policies quoting “Up til now, the largest part of her knowledge about foreign countries came from watching the ‘Incredible Race.’ … She met with the presidents of Afghanistan, Colombia and Iraq. She was excited as these are all countries you can’t observe from Alaska.”

Ironically, she has gained more popularity all throughout America out of these jokes than out of being the governor of Alaska. Barrack Obama is never new to Popville. He has been popular as his senatorial years and now, being the very at first black presidential candidate. To say that he has been the hot topic of all these late night shows and even the male muse of political joke sites on the web is even an understatement. His fame has been all the rage this political joke season. “Barack Obama, you know has often of supporters here in America, still he’s very popular internationally. It’s quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper.

Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they’ve named a beer after him,” mused Conan O’Brien. McCain, often targeted for his age, has benefited considerably as of the jokes thrown at and about him like arguments in a presidential debate. “No, no, he said he’d like to postpone the presidential debate until he’s, you know, ahead in the polls,” said Leno in his show. The “Have-Beens” Being “In” Seeing as of Jokes Although already a earlier president, political jokes have never left Clinton ever as the Lewinsky scandal he has involved himself in. Now that his wife is in addition a strong name in the political rat-race, both of them have the butt of all late night jokes. Their relationship and political ventures have been intertwined in the jokes buzzing the internet. Conan O’Brien even joked, “This weekend, Bill Clinton said Hillary should not drop out of the presidential race. Yeah, when asked why, Bill said, ‘because then she’d come home’.”

Who Says Election Should Be so Serious?

November Four is Election Day. That day begins the end. Anything can happened between then and now—economies failing, running-mates getting themselves into more trouble, and the Congress being clueless as to what to do with the Wall Street issue. On the other hand, if you want to stay positive about these topsy-turvy election adventures and laugh in the course, don’t fret. More political jokes are being baked in the oven.