Posted by
Sgt Relic on Friday, March 27, 2009 7:42:12 AM
We live in confusing times. According to a statement by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, given during a joint news conference with the deservedly maligned U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, blamed the current financial crisis on "white people with blue eyes". There's a real statesman for you.....whitey did it!
This revelation very likely took Mr. Brown, a blue-eyed white person, and the proud possessor of 25 brand new DVDs he can't play in Britain, totally by surprise but it is thought that he gets a pass because he only has one real eye and is affectionately referred to by members of Parliament as the "One-Eyed Scottish Idiot". It's also good news for whitey here in the U.S. where only about 1 in 6 Americans have blue eyes. Soooo, the good news is that most of us are off the hook for this disaster since we are not genetically predisposed to be responsible for financial difficulties. Brazilian genetic science must be very advanced to have made this connection but I guess it could just be racism.
Who knows, there might be something to this. According to a President's Day piece by Medved, the TH guy not to be confused with the evil Russian President, I know it's easy to get them mixed up, only five presidents have had brown eyes and they are not usually mentioned among the great leaders in history. What can we infer from this information? Obama definitely doesn't have blue eyes putting him in a category with the not so great LBJ, long hailed for his financial acumen and the Great Society, and Tricky Dick who gave us the price and wage freeze, took us off the gold standard, and it is rumored set this whole chain of events in motion by borrowing 50 bucks from Zhou Enlai.
Using the Brazilian's presidents reasoning Obama should be a financial wunderkind!
Anybody seen any evidence of that yet?
I think El Presidente may be eating mangoes that have been out in the sun too long!