penumbra

Just heard this one today:

The Pope is visiting presidential candidate John Kerry. They are sailing a river on the family yacht, discussing issues that the Pope disagrees about Kerry's platform, particularly abortion issues. They're admiring the sights when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat (zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water. Secret service guys start to launch a boat, but Kerry waves them off, saying, "Wait, wait. I'll take care of this. Don't worry."


Kerry steps off the yacht onto the surface of the water and walks out to the Pope's hat, bends over and picks it up. He walks back across the water to the yacht and climbs aboard. He hands the hat to the Pope amid stunned silence.


The next morning the topic of conversation among Republicans on the Hill, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Fox News, and the Washington Post:
"Kerry Can't Swim."

Dark Jedi

niiice.

jester2459

I think it was Truman that coined that joke, saying something to the effect of "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"

But I always thought it was funny anyway, so why not update it?

Kevin Dorner

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Should be "Washington Times."
[/nitpick]

extinctionist

Nah, Washington Post. As in the WSJ neocon mouthpiece.