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“Black guy asks nation for change”

From The Onion…

CHICAGO—According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change.

“The time for change is now,” said the black guy, yelling at everyone within earshot for 20 straight minutes, practically begging America for change. “The need for change is stronger and more urgent than ever before. And only you—the people standing here today, and indeed all the people of this great nation—only you can deliver this change.”

It is estimated that, to date, the black man has asked every single person in the United States for change.

“I’ve already seen this guy four times today,” Chicago-area ad salesman Blake Gordon said. “Every time, it’s the same exact spiel. ‘I need change.’ ‘I want change.’ Why’s he so eager for all this change? What’s he going to do with it, anyway?”

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By GodHatesTrash

June 9, 2008 7:17 AM | Link to this

WTG, Jay. Your few intelligent posters will see this as the satire that is, and the knuckledragging Woo-ten Klanners will modify it to fit their own gutter tastes…

By WFC

June 9, 2008 7:31 AM | Link to this

The changes I want to see are as follows:

  • The Republicans wandering in the wilderness for eight long years.

  • “W’s” daddy buying him an oil company to run to ground.

  • Cheney, Rove, Coulter, Ingraham, etc. yapping on Fox News about how awful everything is.

  • Haliburton going bankrupt.

  • Somebody who actually understands the Middle East working for peace.

“The future is so bright I have to wear shades!”

By Stand up

June 9, 2008 7:50 AM | Link to this

Change?

A dime is now worth what a penny was worth during Camelot.

A plug nickel is now worth what a bottlecap was during Watergate.

Two bits is now worth what a rat’s patoot was worth in the summer of love.

A two dollar bill is now worth what a continental was worth in 1776.

2 large is worth what a confederate C note was worth during the battle of Shiloh.

A fin is worth what a sheckle was worth during the exodus.

A ton of money is worth it’s weight in gold during the……I know, you get the bit.

By Copyleft

June 9, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this

Funny stuff! Almost worthy of the Onion.

Thanks, Jay.

By Donovan

June 9, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

Gosh, just maybe a black junior senator who is the least accomplished and least experienced man in U.S. history running for the office of the president, can CHANGE everything with his pixie dust. Get serious you idiot left wing day dreamers.

By Copyleft

June 9, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

Really, Donovan? Obama already has more experience than Lincoln did… not to mention Gee Dubya.

By Eric

June 9, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

Jay,

I like the analogies of a loud black man. No conservative wants to hear a loud black man speaking intelligent and positive messages. It is like a Freddy Kruger type movie to the repukes.

By Abomi Nation

June 9, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Here is another example of the liberal media. Jay gets all liberal and heartfelt when it comes to a Black man searching for change in a big city, but ignores the plight of the White man that begs for change in small town USA.

What liberal Jay chooses to ignore is just another example of why liberals are so out of touch and will turn us all into Communists.

What Jay fails to mention in his super liberal media screed is that on that very same day a very old decrepit White man in Kenner La. was also asking for change. Of course this old decrepit White man gets no sympathy from Jay. I myself counted the decrepit old White man asking for change 26 times that evening. Thats a lot of change!

Now I realize this decrepit old White man was begging for change from a crowd of only forty or fifty people but thats not the point. Jay only sympathizes with the Black man. Hater.

Not all in Lenner La, wanted to be bothered by the old decrepit White man asking for change. When asked how he avoided the decrepit old White man that was begging for change one Lenner resident eating a snack in the park said, “I just sit near that Bush over there, that decrepit old White man won’t come near. He won’t come close to that Bush. Its weird.”

By Dude

June 9, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

So can we expect to see a follow-up story: “Crotchy old white guy resists change” ?

“Neighbors rolled their eyes once again as that crotchy old white guy down the street once again restated his belief that change is bad. He then turned off his Victrola, started up the Model T and drove to a nearby soda shop for a malted.”

By Frederick Douglass

June 9, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

I’m back from my triumphant “Change America” tour, Chicago isn’t as windy as I’d imagined.

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