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Friday, October 19, 2012

Spinning the ‘Pile of Manure’ Economy



Jonah Goldberg recalls Ronald Reagan's famous joke ...
It was arguably Ronald Reagan’s favorite joke. In one version, two kids — one an optimist, the other a pessimist — rush downstairs on Christmas morning. The pessimistic kid gets a new bike and weeps that he’ll probably break it soon. The optimistic kid is presented with an enormous pile of manure and squeals with delight: “There’s got to be a pony in here somewhere!”

Here's Obama's version ...
Barack Obama, who always wanted to be a liberal version of Ronald Reagan, has his own version of the joke. It’s not particularly funny, alas. In Obama’s telling, the kid runs downstairs, sees a huge pile of manure and yells, “Yay! Manure! Who needs a pony!”

Obama, having reduced the economy to a pile of manure, a crowing about how great the manure is. Read the whole thing.

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