Special Needs Humor

The Democrats would like to run against George Bush. Unfortunately for them, Bush isn't running for reelection, so regardless of who wins in November, Bush will be out of office by next January. Apart from the purely political difficulties Bush's departure poses for Democrats in the election, it's also a crisis for our culture: with Bush gone, the high IQ-lifestyle demographic will lose one if its richest domestic reserves of entertainment, the "Bush is a Retard" jokes that never run dry. Where will the Bill Mahers and Michael Moores turn to serve working sophomores left hungry by the drop in opportunities for Special Needs Humor?

Those who crave a cheap daily hit of self-esteem can look to senility as a hot new disability issue liberals will include in their Comedy for America policy. For example:

Where did Barack Obama become such an expert on what John McCain doesn't know about American families, or doesn't get about them?

And regarding that deliberately misunderstood and misrepresented remark McCain made about the number of houses he owns--what's that Democratic ad about how McCain says he doesn't know how many houses he owns any more? Where did the any more come from? Not from John McCain. It must have been supplied by someone much more in touch with the special needs of the elderly, some caregiver or community organizer, or maybe a professional publicist in the pay of one.

Well, if any readers of the Post-Liberal missed the humorous insinuations about John McCain's senility, they needn't worry. The fun is just beginning. We'll be hearing plenty of contemptuous allusions to John McCain's cluelessness between now and November. And after November too, if the Democrats once again find that the voters still cling to whatever it is they cling to when they sense they're being patronized.