{"id":572283,"date":"2023-03-01T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T04:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=572283"},"modified":"2023-03-01T23:55:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T04:55:16","slug":"brilliant-political-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=572283","title":{"rendered":"BRILLIANT POLITICAL HUMOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Elva<\/p>\n<p>If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.<br \/>\n~Jay Leno~<br \/>\nThe problem with political jokes is they get elected.<br \/>\n~Henry Cate, VII~<br \/>\nWe hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office<br \/>\n~Aesop~<br \/>\nPoliticians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.<br \/>\n~Nikita Khrushchev~<br \/>\nWhen I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I&#8217;m beginning to believe it.<br \/>\n~Clarence Darrow~<br \/>\nPoliticians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.<br \/>\n~John Quinton~<br \/>\nWhy pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.<br \/>\n~Author unknown~<br \/>\nPolitics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.<br \/>\n~Ronald Reagan~<br \/>\nPolitics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.<br \/>\n~Oscar Ameringer~<br \/>\nI offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.<br \/>\n~Adlai Stevenson, 1952~<br \/>\nA politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.<br \/>\n~ Tex Guinan~<br \/>\nInstead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.<br \/>\n~Doug Larson~<br \/>\nSadly this last one.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d all like to vote for the best man, but he&#8217;s never a candidate.<br \/>\n~Kin Hubbard~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Elva If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno~ The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII~ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=572283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}