Okay, but here’s the spooky bit:
Cook said when she told Obama she loved him, he
responded: “Thank you.”
Thank you?! Oh, I understand there are times when saying “I
love you, too” is a commitment too far, but I can think of a dozen
ways to say that that aren’t quite so…malignantly narcissistic. Phew.
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Scrolling down a few posts, we come to one titled "Barack Obama's Big
Stick!," in which a commenter tells this joke:
Joey and Barry find themselves in the men’s room taking a leak at
adjacent urinals. Joey looks down and says, “Wow, looks like what they
say about black men is true. Do all you bros have such big ones?”Barry replies, “Yowza, but we’re not all born this way.”
“What? Really? How do the, uh, disadvantaged ones get big?”
“Well,” says Barry, “It’s a secret passed around only among my people.”
“Tell me, tell me!” pleads Joey. “As you can see I need to know!”
“OK. Seeing as how you’re my veep, I’ll tell you how. At night when
you go to bed, tie a string around it, tie the other end to a brick,
and let the brick hang down off the end of the bed. After a week or
two, you’ll see a major improvement.”Some days later, Barry asks Joey how it was going.
“Great!” enthuses Joey. “I’m doing what you said and I’m halfway there!”
Barry thinks to himself, “If it were anyone other than Joey-the-dope I
wouldn’t believe he’d actually try that trick. Anyone else would’ve
known I was just funnin’ him.”“What do you mean ‘halfway,’ Joey?” he asks.
“Well, Barry, it may not be any bigger yet but it has turned black.”