This week’s Political Humor Quick Hits, dealing with a traditionally slow news week is about Colin Powell, and North Korea…

But Powell Is a Republican Right?

For someone who says he is a Republican, Liberal Attack Dog Colin Powell sure has an interesting way of driving home the point:

He said the reason he endorsed Barack Obama for president last fall — a decision that prompted a wave of conservative discontent with Powell — was he believed Obama was “best-qualified” to lead.

Let me get this straight: a leader in the Republican Party voted for the candidate in the other party because he felt that person was the best leader?

Talk about a mixed message. Of course he voted Republican before he voted Democrat:

I am still a Republican,” Powell said, noting that he “voted solidly for Republican candidates” for president for 20 years, spent 10 years of his life serving in Republican administrations and spoke at two GOP conventions.

Notice all the past tenses? “Voted”, “spent”, “spoke”. Powell is still in the Republican Party in the present, he just hasn’t voted for any current presidential candidates.

Don’t believe Powell? Just ask him.

Bad North Korea!

So North Korea tested another nuclear weapon the other day. Not to worry because the U.N. is all over it:

In an AP interview in Copenhagen, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored the test as a “grave violation” of council resolutions and called on the council in a statement to send “a strong and unified message” aimed at achieving the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and peace and security in the region.

Quick Hits has obtained a copy of that letter:

Dear North Korea,

Please refrain from testing nuclear weapons in the future or we will be forced to send you another strongly-worded letter. Even though we said 2006 was the last time we would tolerate this behavior, this really will be the last time.

Sincerely,
Ban Ki-moon
U.N. HAIC

Maybe we should call upon the Super Rich Friends for assistance in this crisis.

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Political Humor Quick Hits is a weekly commentary on the news/current events written by Chris Cameron every Tuesday. You can also read his other weekly column here every week as well as his humor blog Angry Seafood.

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