Funny line from Kerry

[BushGone04]

"5000 years ago Moses said:
'Hitch up your camel, pick up your shovel, mount your ass and I will take you to the promised land!'

5000 years later FDR said:
'Light up your camel, lay down your shovel, sit on your ass, this is the promised land!'

Today George Bush will lay off your camel, tax your shovel, kick your ass, and tell you there is no promised land!"
--From the DNC fall meeting

The video of Kerry's speech can be found here.

[tsipple]

1. Um, That's Not FDR

FDR was exactly the opposite of "lay down your shovel" and "sit on your ass," wasn't he? Dams, buildings, highways -- FDR generated a huge building boom.

[E_Zapata]

3. The reference is to 'wel-fare' I think

Or perhaps the creation of a stable middle class - who had time to smoke.

[jobycom]

5. Kerry's not dissing FDR, he's picking on an old Republican line

The first two lines are an old slam Republicans make against whatever Dem is running. Kerry's just picking on the Repubs by taking it a line further. It's hilarious if you grew up hearing the nonsense about FDR (or Kennedy, or whomever it was directed at. Not that I grew up under FDR or Kennedy. I wasn't born yet. But I still heard the line a lot.)

On edit: You're dead on about FDR. His works programs did require work, and built some of the best features of this nation. JFK, LBJ, and Clinton followed in that vein. It's just Repub nonsense. But I repeat myself...

[madmax]

2. I thought it was funny, too.

[RogueTrooper]

4. It is not his joke

My first girlfriend told me that joke in the mid-eighties. The Republican being skewered, at that time, was Ronnie R. Good joke, all the same. Nice to see it getting a new lease of life.

Ah! to be young and in love again :evilgrin: good times.

Full marks to John Kerry for bringing some fond memories back to the surface.