http://www.statenews.com Drew Robert Winter’s column Obama could help U.S. see its faults (SN 11/10) brings up many good points about people’s hope for President-elect Barack Obama’s upcoming presidency in reversing damaging U.S. domestic and international policies, and with this feeling I could not agree more. Many of his statements regarding Great Britain’s political history, however, are misguided and downright fallacious. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:21:39 -0500 webmaster@statenews.com http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27798 winter claims his article was supposed to be funny, but he hasn’t realized yet that his humor is nonexistent. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:15:09 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27798 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27811 You’re right, it is absurd. That’s the point. Promoting the idea that Great Britain should be an Empire, and that America should join, is completely absurd, which is why it is funny. It is why it is just another point made in the article. I know you are really excited because you learned something from your history class Michael, but frankly it is common knowledge and the article is playing off of that. Good day, pardie! Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:54:25 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27811 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27815 no, drew just isnt funny. the article had comical implications and we all got that, but i would venture a guess that it warranted zero lol’s and an equivalent number of insightful “hmmmms” Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:43:16 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27815 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27817 I got the point, but that doesn’t mean the article was even remotely funny. The premise is not funny and the ostensible punch lines were pathetic. Jokes about Tickle me Elmo, Gushers, Hannah Montana, and crying in the queen’s bosom did not add anything to his argument and just made the writer look like an egotistical, self-important prick. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:45:31 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27817 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27832 TS, you forgot that his picture and using his first, middle and last name as a signoff already make him an egotistical, self-important prick. This latest piece of garbage just added idiot to that list. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:20:18 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27832 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27833 What’s all this cry about a little satire? This reminds me of those people taking Onion articles seriously: seriously? Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:21:39 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/27833