On an earlier post, Burl shared this link to The Onion:
Obama Visits South-Carolina-Ravaged South Carolina
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 | ISSUE 47•38
COLUMBIA, SC—Calling the devastation “heartbreaking and appalling,” President Barack Obama toured South-Carolina-ravaged South Carolina Tuesday, vowing never to turn his back on the 4.6 million residents whose lives have been turned upside down by the horrors of South Carolina. “For decades, citizens from Columbia to Walterboro have suffered a kind of pain and anguish that most Americans could never fathom,” said Obama, who later led a silent prayer for the countless victims of the Southern state. “But I’m confident you will rebound. Maybe not in a month. Maybe not in a year. But South Carolina will one day emerge from the ashes of this South-Carolina-torn land.” Obama will reportedly be traveling to Charleston next, a city the president said has miraculously escaped the devastation of South Carolina.
Yeah, that’s pretty much us. I wish it weren’t. I wish it were some outsider view that unfairly stereotypes us as something we are not, but that’s us.
There was a time when we could have blamed “the Yankees” for keeping us down economically and otherwise. Laughably, some still do (see, “Tea Party,” demands that Congress quit “stepping on our rights,” move to ban U.S. currency, etc.).
But nowadays, we have ourselves to blame for the fact that we lag behind their neighbors. And inexplicably, we keep marching down the path that has brought us to where we are.
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ROTFL, then crying.
Brad,
Didn’t you know we officially became “The Onion State”? The flag will soon be altered to remove the Palmetto and put a big ol’ Vidalia smack in the middle. The moon stays, since it represents lunacy. WIS is changing its call letters to W NYN (pronounce it), since Iodine stocks have fallen, and SC seems to only invest in laughing-stocks.
Yeah. Funny, and then not so much.
And on a related topic, don’t miss Cindi’s column today dealing with the return of the insufferable narcissist.
So where’s the punch line?
In the immortal words of the great political commentator, Pogo: We have met the enemy, and he is US!