Humor in High Places: Conversation with God

Recently, there was a meeting between Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton, a common citizen fellow and All Mighty God.

God asked, “My children, is there something I can help you with?”

Said Mrs. Reagan, “My Lord, lately something bothers me a lot. These Republican fellows who are running for the presidency keep bringing up Ronnie’s name when faced with tough questions. Instead of saying what they would do in the current circumstances, they keep answering in terms of “what Ronald Reagan would have done.”  Ronnie became President not by talking about what others would have done, but by talking about what he was going to do for the people.”

“My Lord, How long will it be before these politicians start saying something meaningful about what they would do for the people?”

“Give it 100 years. They can work only in 100 year time slots” answered God.  And Nancy Reagan started crying. Asked worried God, “My child, why tears in your eyes?” Said Nancy, “100 years? Then it wouldn’t happen in my lifetime.”

Then God looked at Hillary. “All Mighty, it is highly likely that I will be the first woman President of the United States of America.” Replied God, “It is about time. Your gender deserves the recognition that is long overdue. But it seems you are worried, my child.” Hillary replied, “All Mighty, once I get into the White House, I will be very busy.  The thought of having Bill alone there and having nothing to do frightens me. As you know, even when he had a lot to do, he couldn’t stop from a sideline excursion. How long will it be before I can feel secure that Bill won’t pull another fast one on me?”

“His rehabilitation is on track, so give it 10 years” replied God. And Hillary started crying, “10 years? Then it won’t happen in my life time (in the White House).”

God looked at a common citizen and asked, “What are your problems my son?”

“All powerful, I work an honest day and earn a little bit of pay. After dinner I turn on the TV to hear what the news has to say. And this is how it goes every evening, “Good Evening, here is tonight’s news. After that greeting, most of the time goes in reporting crimes, horrors of war, politicians caught cheating, accidents, terror. And after all that negativity, the newscaster would say, “This is the end of tonight’s news. Have a good night.” 

“Have a good night? Got to be kidding. I get nightmares thinking about what the future holds for us and our children!” He continued, “95% of what happens in this world is positive, and these people spend 95% of the time talking about negative things.”

“Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get what you expect. The power to choose is my greatest gift to people.” said God, with a little concerned tone.

Asked the worried fellow, “So how long will it be before so called leaders, politicians and media will wake up and choose to talk more about good things in life?”

And you know what happened?

God started crying.

Worried, the fellow asked, “All mighty, why these tears in your eyes?”

Replied God, “Because that won’t happen in my lifetime”

Comments

[Andrew]

It will happen in our life time if we choose Barak Obama as our next President.

[a guy from china]

Political joke using religions. I only suggesting this kind of jokes to be distributed in small groups, when you surly know every one in the room has the same religion and political opinion.

At lease I did not laugh.

In this political correct environment, I don't know whether this should be distributed in something like "Friday Reflections"

[Archana]

Though this reflection sounds funny, there is a serious message for all of us here; parents, teachers, managers, coaches...How much time do we spend in reinforcing positive behaviors, give positive examples etc...We are so consumed in the day to day problems that we miss the big picture of Self Fulfilling Prophecy

[No Name]

In my company equivalent of evening news is meetings. Most of them deal with the subject of "Excursions"....They are just like the evening news in this article. At the end of grueling week that was consumed in Excursions, they say "Have a good weekend."

So many of us are working weekends, too doing...Guess what? On phone calls with workmates talking about Excursions....

[pradeep]

This is a very humorous piece which has bearing on what is going on currently with the politicians aspiring to get into the White House.

It is interesting to read such creative write ups. Best Luck!

Pradeep Joshi

[Guy from Manila]

To the guy from China
In very humorous and thought provoling way, this refelction delivers some key messages here:
1.Even the greatest of all can not solve our problems if we ourselves are not commited to improvement.
2. When people put thier trust in leaders, they expect the leaders to be focused on real issues and not divert the issues in speculations like, What some famous guy would have done.
3. There is obvious referene to not abusing power while in office and reminder of that in Clinton story.
4.There is a lot more postive in this world and all aspects of our life. It is how you want to look at it.
Isn't that All Mighty would want us to do?
I guess the stroy is written in Ronald Reagan style since the last refelction mentioned about this being Reagan/Lincoln humor month.

[Fred]

is this a republican blog?

[California Guy]

Thank you for this story during the Presidents Holiday weekend in the United States as an example of satiric comedy that "dramatizes the discrepancy between the ideal and the reality." It is up to each reader to interpret this story in a way that has personal meaning or to decide that this story has no personal relevance.

Personally, I am hopeful that my political or religious leaders are using my tax or donation dollars for the greater good of all members of society. So I get very frustrated when the reality shows willful favoritism or complete misuse of power to a privileged smaller section of society.