Mo' Onion

Otto ottosell at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 5 09:38:07 CST 2008


"The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee
of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it."

that's great...

2008/11/5 Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>:
> Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job
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> November 5, 2008 | Issue 44•45
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> WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the
> least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected
> president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress,
> low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely
> overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling
> infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million
> Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his
> duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the
> messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny
> and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even
> bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just
> goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a
> break."
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> Henry Mu
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