Eric Alterman's Joke

Things that would demonstrate the weakness/incompetence/wimpiness/out-of-touch-ness/elite effeminism, etc., of the president of the United States were he a Democrat:

1) Gas prices

2) The dollar

3) Iran thumbing its nose at the international community

4) North Korea thumbing its nose at the international community

5) What used to be Burma thumbing its nose at the international community

6) The deficit

7) The housing crisis

8) Hamas winning the Palestinian elections and taking over Gaza following a failed, U.S.-directed coup

9) Israel building more settlements

10) Bin Laden, still partying like it's September 10, 2001

11) The Taliban, ditto

12) Pakistan, cutting deals with the above, saying "screw democracy"

13) Failure to pass a presidentially supported immigration bill

14) Failure to pass the Colombia free-trade bill

15) Russia thumbing its nose at the international community

16) China refusing to cooperate in Darfur, North Korea, wherever the hell else it doesn't feel like cooperating

17) Record-setting vacation time

18) Vice president actually running country

19) Botched prosecutions of a supposed terror cell in Miami, of Jose Padilla, etc.

20) Add your own here ...

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