This tale from Texas lore comes from Chicago Law Dog Michael Brennan, Esq.!
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old Texas rancher, who‘s
hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a
conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to
Obama and his bid to be our President.
The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'post turtle'.'
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post
turtle' was.
The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you
come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post
turtle'.'
The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he
continued to explain. 'You know he didn't get up there by himself, he
doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up
there, and you just wonder what kind of a dumb ass put him up there.'
Mel, over at Larry Johnson's No Quarter explains - click my post title!
Off to see Senator John McCain at Martin Luther High School in Greendale, WI - get some Straight Talking to there.
Surely, you must realize the original version of that joke was referring to Bush, right?
ReplyDeletesurely, you must realize this is really just a prescient descriptor of Sarah Palin
ReplyDeleteSurely nick and jjcooper are the same sockpuppet.
ReplyDeleteSteve is cool!
ReplyDeleteAhh the old post turtle joke. Here is the Bush version of that joke:
ReplyDeletehttp://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljokebushpostturtle.htm
Here's a canadian version for Steven Harper:
http://www.canadaka.net/modules.php?name=jokes&op=ViewItems&vid=81
Yep it's a tried and true good old joke. The old timers love it.
Bush flew jets
ReplyDeleteBarry played basketball
bush was a rhodes scholar(and smarter than Kerry)
barry went to harvard (they got a really great record these days)
bush owned stuff(rangers)
barry owned a house(next to dirty lobbyist)
bush ran against a sitting vice president in a time of prosperity and peace
barry ran against replacement from another state
bush was reelected in a time of economic uncertainty and foundering war
barry won barely with, get this, nearly one billion dollars from
God knows where, a fauning press, an old opponent, and the best timed economic crisis in the history of politics
Yah barry is the post turtle