Tonight’s Funny – A Look To The Future
A great post from a blog called “this e-mail may be confidential”
<Feb 15, 2009 Int: Air Force One. Barak Obama is discussing his trip to Canada with his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel>
Obama: Okay, a trip to Canada. Who are we meeting with here, who’s the guy? Hooper?
Emanuel: Harper, but no-
Obama: Mr. Hooper?
Emanuel: No, that’s Sesame Street, the name is Steven Harper.
Obama: Hooper.
Emanuel: Doesn’t matter. He’s not the Prime Minister anymore.
Obama: What, really? Didn’t I just talk to him like 3 months ago?
Emanuel: You did, but he’s since been succeeded by a coalition government consisting of his political opponents.
Obama: <pause> Come again?
Emanuel: <reading from file> 7 weeks after Harper was legally elected to a minority government, the opposition parties requested that the Governor General support and approve a “Coalition government” consisting of leadership from the Liberals, the NDP or “New Democratic Movement” and a fringe local separatist movement called “The Bloc”. They were enraged that the 2009 economic recovery plan slashed party funding from taxpayers.
Obama: <long pause> Not one word of that made any sense.
Emanuel: Apparently within the Canadian parliamentary system, if the opposition parties are unhappy with what the Prime Minster is doing, they can call a vote of “no confidence” and have him replaced with a Prime Minister of their own choosing. In this case, they’ve chosen a man named “Stephan Dion” who was the recently disgraced leader of the Liberals who had lost all support within his own party and was about to be replaced in May.
Obama: Come on.
Emanuel: <reading> This is what it says.
Obama: <looking around> I appreciate this would be an enormous breach of protocol, but.. am I on Candid Camera for some reason? Is this a joke?
