Rhetorical Flourishes

We get a pretty steady stream of link requests here at All American Blogger. A few we have to deny, most we link to, and once in a while we get an email asking for a link and the site really stands out. I got one of those rare requests today, from Jim at “Dude With Tude“. It’s a conservative humor blog, and it’s the kind of thing that we love. Check out this post that I’ve totally ripped off from his site…

Joe Biden, United States Senator.
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When Joe Biden said Obama as President would be quickly tested by our enemies and Americans might not like the way he responds, Barack explained that his running mate is often given to “rhetorical flourishes.”

That was nothing new to Biden’s dentist, who came to the same conclusion during the veep candidate’s last checkup. (The following conversation was leaked to me by a dental hygienist.)

“Open wide, Senator. Wow, that’s the widest I’ve seen in my 30-year career. Close a lot, close a lot, close a little…good. Darn, Joe, this is really bad!”

“What is it, Doc — gingavitis?”

“I wish it were, Joe. What you’ve got is an advanced case of bullcrap.”

“Oh no, not rhetorical flourish!”

“Only politicians call it that now, Joe. To dentists and everyone else it’s just plain old bullcrap.”

“But I floss every day.”

“Flossing won’t touch serious bullcrap, Joe. In advanced cases like yours, it gets under the gums, burrows into the bone and spreads from there throughout the entire body.”

“You mean there’s no cure, Doc?”

“I’m sorry, Joe. You’re just full of bullcrap now — and I’m afraid you always will be.”

Run, don’t walk, over to Dude With Tude and subscribe to the RSS feed! If the polls are - God forbid - any indication of the outcome of the election next week, we’re going to need every laugh we can get.

Andrew Riley is an idealist, a dreamer, and occasionally a real son-of-a-bitch. He spends his days webmastering this blog, writing for this blog, and more importantly filling his four year old son's head with silly nonsense. He is an Army veteran, a conservative Libertarian, and gets bored with most people pretty quickly. 4 out of 5 dentists agree that he is way cooler than you.
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