I seldom touch on political topics on this website. However, I had to share this latest political joke, being circulated as a chain-mail-type message on various web forums and via email across the internet:

There are less than four months until the election, an election that will decide the next President of the United States. The person elected will be the president of all Americans, not just the Democrats or the Republicans. To show our solidarity as Americans, let’s all get together and show each other our support for the candidate of our choice. It’s time that we all came together, Democrats and Republicans alike. If you support the policies and character of John McCain, please drive with your headlights on during the day. If you support Obama, please drive with your headlights off at night. Thank you for your participation in this patriotic endeavor!

Snopes.com had fun with this one, sharing that the item “isn’t likely to cause any confused recipients to miss their dates with the ballot box (unless they’re gullible enough to actually go driving around at night with their headlights

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Author: Micah Hanks

Micah Hanks is a writer, researcher, and podcaster. His interests include areas of history, science, archaeology, philosophy, and the study of anomalous phenomena in nature. He can be reached at info@micahhanks.com.