I Hate Humor

Last night President Obama continued a long standing tradition of Presidents appearing at the annual White House Correspondence Dinner and delivering some jokes. Personally, I thought the event was very funny and the President got in some good lines. I was curious how Jimmy Kimmel would fare since he isn't really known for his political humor but I thought he nailed it as well.

I was curious to know what those on the right thought about the dinner and the comedy so I checked out Paula Priesse's wall on Facebook. She is known as a conservative comedian to her followers and she has a public figure page on the social network. Several of my friends on Facebook are "friends" or "fans" of Paula and her wall. Today Paula posted about the correspondence dinner and listed some "jokes" of her own about our president. Within the first hour of her posting there were over 600 "likes" and 150 comments. Here are some of my favorites:

Linda Bartlett I dislike barak husin Osamabama and all for which he stands.

Matthew Tretler What a narcissistic piece of trash...

Jerry Nevil he is a lying corrupt communist union goon who shou[d br impeached and sent back to africa

Wayne Burnside There was an article i read that took a stab at trying to pin the 40+% approval rating for Obama as racial. they did this, (We see race does still matter) right after they showed his approval rating.

Dale Leischner Demented

Mark R. Heath Ha ha!! What a card! And his moron voters think he is funny. The joke is on them!

David Kosak Past presidents respected the idea that the office was bigger than the man who occupied it. Obama has managed to reduce the office to the man. Unfortunately what a small man he is.

Larry Murray Geez no jokes about his 13 year old daughter's spring break to Mexico? No Michelle and kids go sking in Colorado on the taxpayers dime?

Joe Downs Lord Barack is such a total douche. I don't know why I let myself get so worked up about the stuff he says.

Connie Stephens Hunnings Saw this on TV last night. BHO is very flippant about America's problems. Reminds me of Marie Antoinette who said "Let them eat cake!" And you know what happened to her. That was not a threat, BTW.

Jason Knick puke

Diane Donovan I'm going to throw up now. He is so dillusional it's not even funny.

Shannon Clark I watched last night, made me sick. What to do about these parasites.

Robert Kendrick Let's see, that would be President Marx, President Lenin, President Stalin, and President Obama.

Bruce Riffle HATE THAT PIECE OF GARBAGE!! NAZI COMMIE!!

Shirley Cagle Bossbach Didn't see anything particularly funny and couldn't force myself to sit through it again. No Thanks!

Meredith Gray Truly and honestly makes me sick to my stomach. Such an enormously embarrassing fraud.

William S. Gatlos Jr hes so damn arrogant

I'm far from a being a Democrat. I believe I have Libertarian beliefs, even though I'm not on board with the idea of no government and anarchy that is represented by some of those that currently belong to the Libertarian Party. Having stated that, I don't hate our President. He seems like a guy that is doing his best to try to make this a better country. I think he's made mistakes. And if his healthcare law, especially the mandate part, gets overturned by the Supreme Court next month then I'd be willing to say he's made huge mistakes. But he's done a lot of good as well. 

The idea that we have to hate the "other" guys and the "other" side should be troubling to everyone. When people can't even find humor at a roast then what does that say about them and their state of mind? Simply because you aren't a fan of President Obama or you want to elect someone else doesn't get my ire. However, when people have no desire to honestly evaluate his performance and only wish to attack him and challenge everything about him, even things that aren't relevant to his job, then I find it alarming. 

I love the fact that everyone has an equal vote in our democracy, I wouldn't want it any other way. That is why I feel it necessary to ridicule this type of conduct that is only motivated by ignorance and fear. We know stupid people outnumber smart people. We understand these people will out breed the smarter people and will always have the numbers. That is why it is so important to call out this behavior and make it uncomfortable for them to spout this ignorance. I'm not trying to change the mind of these people at all, that would be pointless and a waste of time. However, I am trying to show those of you that I think are smarter than the average person how foolish this hate and anger is and how it shouldn't be the motivator when we go to the polls.

The number one reason, listed in every respected polling survey, for people who turned out to vote for Romney during the primaries was the fact they want to beat Obama in the next election.  They didn't list values, ideas, policies, etc... they simply mentioned their dislike, distrust, fear, and hate of our current president as their number one reason for supporting Romney. They tune into a "news" network that only confirms what they want to hear, Obama is horrible for this country. The tune into a.m. radio channels (what does that say about someone and their propensity to move forward when they tune into a.m. radio?) to hear people tell them our country is doomed if Obama wins another term. They search out people on social media that will hate on Obama the same way they want to hate on him.

This way of thinking can't be the answer. If it is, we truly are doomed. We have to demand intelligent conversations about meaningful subject matter if we want to continue in the tradition of forming a more perfect union.