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The Bright Side Of Hell: Obama's win has its good points
The Shinbone: The Frontier of the Free Press ^ | November 19, 2012 | Daniel Clark

Posted on 11/20/2012 2:54:39 PM PST by Daniel Clark

The Bright Side Of Hell:Obama’s win has its good points by Daniel Clark

In the wake of President Obama’s reelection, conservatives are reacting as if America as we know it will no longer exist. And you know what? They’re right. Obama promised to “fundamentally transform” America in 2008, and he’s got the job well underway by now. The question is, why does that have to be a negative? Evidently, a majority of voters don’t think it is, so maybe they’ve got a point. If you can’t understand how, just take a minute to consider the following list of reasons why a second term of Obama’s fundamental transformation can be seen as a good thing.

* Now we’re just like the Europeans, which makes us ever so fashionable and pungent.

* Under Sharia law, we’ll finally have a Democrat president who isn’t soft on crime.

* We have the honor of being served for four more years by the vice presidentiest vice president in American history.

* As long as we don’t address our national debt, the government will compensate by printing even more money! More money’s a good thing, right?

* When you’re euthanized, some evil one-percenter will have to foot the bill for the poison.

* If you couldn’t bring yourself to vote for ideologically impure GOP establishment candidate Mitt Romney, you’ll have plenty of time to congratulate yourself for staying true to your principles, while standing in line for bread.

* Electricity rates will “necessarily skyrocket,” which at least will give us some semblance of a space program.

* In order to avoid Obamacare’s mandates and fees, some employers are cutting back their workers’ hours in order to make them part-time employees. Of course, they’ll have to hire more part-time employees than they would full-time employees, which means that Obamacare is creating jobs!

* Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez can now die happy, but at least they’ll be just as dead.

* As long as Obama is president, jihadist attacks like the one in Benghazi are barely even newsworthy. That means we can ignore them, and go back to reading celebrity tweets until further notice.

* If Obama’s position on marriage continues to evolve, Michelle will soon cease to be First Lady.

* Maybe Dick Morris will shut up now.

* Since Obama’s reelection occurred during the NHL lockout, the absence of hockey serves as proof that we haven’t actually turned into the Soviet Union.

* Bill Maher will still manage to find some excuse not to be happy.

* With Obama in Washington until 2016, the golf courses throughout the rest of the country will be relatively uncrowded.

* If we didn’t continue to kill millions of children in the womb, they’d only grow up and kick the crap out of us for what we’ve just done to them.

* An abundance of new material will rekindle Yakov Smirnoff’s career.

* We needed to reelect Obama in order to find out how Obamacare will turn out to be George W. Bush’s fault. * When the gas mileage standards have been doubled, you’ll be able to fold up your car and carry it with you.

* If Obama gives a bailout to the major news publications, then at least that would lend some justification to all of their sniveling suckuppery.

* Sonia Sotomayor will not be the most unqualified and embarrassing justice on the Supreme Court for very much longer.

* It’s only a matter of time before Obama gets around to blaming you for something, and you’ve always wanted to see your name in the papers.

* The greenhouse effect will not bake the earth into an apocalyptic wasteland like in Soylent Green, although most of the rest of that movie will still happen.

* The Chris Christie 2016 campaign is already doomed.

* For the second time in her life, Mrs. Obama is proud of her country. As long as she’s in such a good mood, this would be an opportune time to ask her for some of our food back.

* Wiping Israel off the map will remove a major sticking point in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.

* Now that Obama has been given that increased flexibility he told the Russians about, he might actually become good at basketball, so then he can stop lying about it.

* Those jobs ought to become shovel-ready any minute now. No, really.

* You’ve always wanted to buy more expensive cuts of beef, and now you will.

* Had Obama lost, he’d soon have enough time to write another pretentious memoir.

-- Daniel Clark is a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author and editor of a web publication called The Shinbone: The Frontier of the Free Press, where he also publishes a seasonal sports digest as The College Football Czar.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fundamentally; obama; reelected; transform
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To: Daniel Clark
Just picked a random line from the article. Actually the only one I read.

you’ll have plenty of time to congratulate yourself for staying true to your principles, while standing in line for bread.

I make my own bread. There's this conservative principle called self-sufficiency.

21 posted on 11/20/2012 4:19:53 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: Daniel Clark

The takers will be taxed

A man on TV this morning said that Cap and trade was applicable to carbon emittors who would raise prices on everyone whould actually provide the money.

I favor tax fairness and am thinking this might be a way to get more people to pay taxes.

I now, I know no new taxes


22 posted on 11/20/2012 4:20:22 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: supremedoctrine

Are you Daniel’s mother?


23 posted on 11/20/2012 4:22:47 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: GeronL

It is a masterpiece of sardonic writing, but you have to be careful how you approach it.


24 posted on 11/20/2012 4:24:49 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: Daniel Clark

What makes him think that the 0bama Regime will last only four more years?


25 posted on 11/20/2012 5:18:56 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Daveinyork

And all those part-time employees will still qualify for food stamps and other government hand outs!


26 posted on 11/20/2012 5:48:27 PM PST by Average Al
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To: steve86

Yes I am Daniel’s mother, and some of his blogs I DIDN’T agree with would always find

me saying “Daniel Patrick Clark, HOW could you SAY that?????”


27 posted on 11/20/2012 9:06:53 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: Daniel Clark
Now it will be a tad harder for the Rats to say: We didn't give Obama enough time to implement his plans!

In four years, after the collapse, we will know who to blame. And it won't be Bush.


28 posted on 11/20/2012 9:31:54 PM PST by garjog (Heroes Died. Obama Lied.)
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To: Jim Robinson

This is a perfect opportunity to thank you and all the other principled conservatives out there who didn’t vote for Romney for not only shooting yourselves in the foot, but the rest of us as well.


29 posted on 11/22/2012 10:52:43 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Rockitz

Don’t blame me. I voted for him in the general. The blame goes to those who pushed him on us in the primaries. Don’t run RINOS!


30 posted on 11/22/2012 11:00:30 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Daniel Clark
Those jobs ought to become shovel-ready any minute now. No, really.



31 posted on 11/22/2012 11:15:27 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Jim Robinson

I’m glad you came around in the general (Sorry, I must have missed your eventual endorsement) and I am in full agreement with you with regard to the primary. Unfortunately, I’m not sure anyone else could have run any stronger that Mitt. As bad as Zero is, incumbency is hard to overcome.


32 posted on 11/22/2012 11:46:55 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Daniel Clark

The takers will be taxed

A man on TV this morning said that Cap and trade was applicable to carbon emittors who would raise prices on everyone whould actually provide the money.

I favor tax fairness and am thinking this might be a way to get more people to pay taxes.

I now, I know no new taxes


33 posted on 11/24/2012 5:48:24 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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