Political Humor

Last week at the Tax Day Tea Party rally in Manchester, NH I had a display board with a picture of Barack Obama as Captain Obvious from a post back in January…

I offered pens and post-it-notes for people to come up with their quotes. Here are the ones I received:

“In some small village in Kenya they’re missing one IDIOT!”

“Insanity=Obamacare”

“Got a Birth Certificate?”

“Correction: Our Prez is Captain Oblivious”

“They dedicate their lives to running our affairs” (a twist on a line from the Metallica song “Unforgiven”)

“Socialized medicine is not about health; it’s about keeping you in line. (in more ways than one)”

“Look at all those morons paying their taxes-I paid mine over a year ago!” (homage to Homer Simpson)

“Like it or not we are the leading super power.”

“What’s all that yelling out there? Rahm go shut ‘em up already. Axelrod? Tell ‘em everything’s going okay.”

I think that last one was my favorite.

Now I turn it over to the readers here at RL. What is your quote? The winner gets absolutely nothing except the warm fuzzy feeling inside from knowing they won a blog caption contest. Awwww….

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Another Tax Day, another Tea Party rally. And what a good one it was in Manchester, NH Thursday.

Update: I planned on having time Friday afternoon to finish the recap but I got called into work so I had to rush to get it done. In my haste I completely forgot to give a huge huge shout out.

Skip I apologize for the unintentional slight. No matter the reason though, I screwed up.

For those who do not know him Skip is Skip Murphy, the man behind Granite Grok and also one of the NH Tea Party Coalition founders. He invited all of us conservative NH bloggers to Bloggers Row and coordinated everything. He set us up with tables, electricity, and introduced us to various state politicians and candidates.

Thank you Skip and Granite Grok for all the hard work you put in both for the event and making Bloggers Row happen. It is greatly appreciated.

The Republican candidates for the various offices they are running for made their presence known at the event, and more then just signs. They were out meeting people, shaking hands, kissing babies.

I kid about the kissing babies part because I don’t think anyone does that anymore. Do they?

Entrepreneurs were shopping their wares…

The crowd was attentive…

But clearly not happy with the current state of governmental affairs…

Gee, I wonder why they are angry? Why does that young man in the front row look so worried?

Oh yeah. Right.

NH Governor John Lynch looks worried that I am giving him the thumbs down and with good reason. I am one of the people who will be voting him out of office in November.

I really thought he was a lot taller too.

Another dig at NH politicians. You can’t see it in this picture but both Shea-Porter and Hodes have googly eyes.

It also looks like Obama’s plan to capture the youth vote is not going according to plan.

There I am representing Radioactive Liberty and Angry Seafood on Bloggers Row. Alongside me were: America’s Watchtower, Citizens for Reasonable&Fair Taxes-Croyden, ConChrist, GilfordGrok, Libertarian Leanings, News from the Northwoods, NH Insider, NH Watchdog, No Looking Backwards, One Voice In Gilford, Pun Salad, RedHampshire, TBONH, The Blogging Councilor, Weekend Pundit

That’s a lot of bloggers. Visit them. Check out what they had to say about the rally.

On the left and right sides of the display are political humor pictures. In the middle is a picture of Obama as Capt. Obvious with an empty word balloon.

Yup, it’s an old-fashioned caption contest. People at the event gave their quotes on post-it-notes.

I got to meet Karen Testerman, who is running for NH Governor, Ovide Lamontagne who is running for U.S. Senate, and Jeanie Forrester who is running for State Senate.

I’ve got a lot more pictures along with a recap video to show in a follow-up post here later this weekend and over at Angry Seafood.And I’ve got a round-up of what the other NH bloggers had to say on tap as well.

I’ll also have a wrap-up on my thoughts about the difference in this year’s Tea Party rally coming up as well over at Politics DMZ.

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Chris Cameron is a writer/reporter/columnist for Radioactive Liberty. He also has his own humor blog about everything, Angry Seafood.