Political Joke ( Archived) (5)

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, while visiting a high school class, found themselves in the middle of a class discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked them both if they would like to lead the discussion of the word 'tragedy'. So, the articulate Barack Obama asks the class for an example of a 'tragedy'. One teenage boy stood up and offered: 'If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the cotton field and a runaway tractor comes along and runs him over, killing him, that would be a tragedy. 'No,' says Barack Obama, 'That would be an accident.' A teenage girl then raises her hand: 'If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would surely be a tragedy.' 'I'm afraid not,' explains the boisterous Hillary Clinton. 'That's what we would call a great loss.' The room goes silent. No other students volunteered. Barack Obama searches the room. 'Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?' Finally at the back of the room, Johnny raises his hand. In a stern voice he says: 'If a plane carrying Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were struck by a missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy.' 'Fantastic!' exclaims Clinton and Obama, 'That's right. And can you tell us why that would be a tragedy?' 'Well,' says Johnny, 'Because it sure as hell wouldn't be a great loss, and it probably wouldn't be an accident either.'

(I thought it would just be a pic of Bush posted... )