If I have to explain why this is so gut-bustingly funny...

[robkelk]

... then you don't know as much about US politics as you think you do. Or you're under 40. Or both.

http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/Dewar/ ... /dewar.jpg]Ottawa Sun editorial cartoon - the day after the election
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

Okay, I'm definitely wrong era. To me, Oval Office + Plumber = Watergate. I'm clearly missing a reference somewhere.
ETA:  Oh.  Never mind.  Esprit d'escalier struck and I got it as soon as I posted that reply. 
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Murmur the Fallen]

It was a wonderful meme, one that made Halloween costumes around the country.

There is something really . . . really American about the idea of Joe the Plumber. It kind of says it all, doesn't it?

Democracy in action.

-Murmur

[Wiregeek]

yeap. Tax evasion is totes democratic.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Fidoohki]

*Sarcasm on*

Yeah.. how dare he do something so horrible as to ask a question of a presidential canidate

that happened to walk down his street then disagree with the canidates answer. There

should be a law!he deserved to have his life torn apart and embaressed by the media

BEFORE he bacame part of McCain's campaign. Makes you yearn for the days of the Soviet

union where they took those that disagreed with the leadership out and shot em huh?

*Sarcasm off*

[Wiregeek]

assuming you're replying to me, that wooshing sound you heard was the point going way over your head.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Star Ranger4]

Debates? McCain and his "Joe the Plumber'?

I found it gut bustingly funny, actually. painfull, cause I had a stoumach flu 24 hours ago and my sides still hurt.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children