Queen's Riddle

Barack Obama met with the Queen of England.

He asked her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?"

"Well," said the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people."

Obama frowned, and then asked, "But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?"

The Queen took a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle." The Queen pushed a button on her intercom. "Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?"

Tony Blair walked into the room and said, "Yes, my Queen?"

The Queen smiled and said, "Answer me this please, Tony, your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?"

Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answered, "That would be me."

"Yes! Very good," said the Queen.

Obama went back home to ask Joe Biden, his vice presidential choice the same question. "Joe, answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?"

"I'm not sure," said Biden. "Let me get back to you on that one.." He went to his advisors and asked every one, but none could give him an answer. Finally, he ended up in the men's room and recognized Colin Powell's shoes in the next stall.

Biden asked Powell, "Colin, can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?"

Colin Powell yelled back, "That's easy, it's me!"

Biden smiled, and said, "Thanks!" Then, he went back to speak with Obama. "Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It is Colin Powell!"

Obama got up, stomped over to Biden, and angrily yelled into his face, "No! You idiot! It's Tony Blair!"

And that is what's wrong with our government. 

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Birthdays on November 9th

1934 - Carl Sagan
1926 - Hugh Leonard
1914 - Hedy Lamarr
1918 - Spiro T. Agnew
1915 - Sargent Shriver

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This day in History

Lead Story

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American Revolution

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Automotive

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Civil War

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Cold War

East Germany opens the Berlin Wall, 1989

Crime

A Sunday school teacher murders his family and goes undercover for 18 years, 1971

Disaster

Fire rips through Boston, 1872

General Interest

Roosevelt travels to Panama, 1906

Nazis suppressed in Munich, 1923

Sartre renounces communists, 1956

The Great Northeast Blackout, 1965

Hollywood

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Literary

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Music

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Old West

Followers of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse identified as hostile, 1875

Presidential

Teddy Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines, 1901

Sports

Army and Notre Dame fight to a draw, 1946

Vietnam War

Antiwar protestor sets himself afire, 1965

Captain Lance Sijan shot down over North Vietnam, 1967

Supreme Court refuses to rule on legality of Vietnam War, 1970

World War I

Australian warship Sydney sinks German Emden , 1914

World War II

"The Night of Broken Glass", 1938

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