{"id":103,"date":"2008-11-07T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hongyu.org\/wordpress\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-11-07T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T18:06:25","slug":"why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongyu.org\/wordpress\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poll: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?<\/p>\n<p>BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a<br \/>\nchange!\u00c2\u00a0 The chicken wanted change!<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">JOHN MCCAIN<\/span>: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he<br \/>\nrecognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the<br \/>\nchickens on the <span id=\"lw_1226081146_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">other side of the road<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SARAH PALIN: That chicken never crossed the road.\u00c2\u00a0 You betcha!\u00c2\u00a0 I shot<br \/>\nthat liberal buzzard before it had a chance to sneak into Russia.<\/p>\n<p>HILLARY CLINTON: When I was <span id=\"lw_1226081146_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">First Lady<\/span>, I personally helped that little<br \/>\nchicken to cross the road.\u00c2\u00a0 This experience makes me uniquely qualified<br \/>\nto ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the<br \/>\nchance it deserves to cross the road.\u00c2\u00a0 But then, this really isn&#8217;t about<br \/>\nme.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">GEORGE W. BUSH<\/span>: We don&#8217;t really care why the chicken crossed the road.<br \/>\nWe just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not.<br \/>\nThe chicken is either against us, or for us.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no middle ground<br \/>\nhere.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_4\" class=\"yshortcuts\">DICK CHENEY<\/span>: Where&#8217;s my gun?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_5\" class=\"yshortcuts\">COLIN POWELL<\/span>: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the<br \/>\nsatellite image of the chicken crossing the road.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_6\" class=\"yshortcuts\">BILL CLINTON<\/span>: I did not cross the road with that chicken.\u00c2\u00a0 What is your<br \/>\ndefinition of crossing?\u00c2\u00a0 What chicken?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_7\" class=\"yshortcuts\">AL GORE<\/span>: I invented the chicken.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_8\" class=\"yshortcuts\">JOHN KERRY<\/span>: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am<br \/>\nnow against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about<br \/>\nthe chicken&#8217;s intentions.\u00c2\u00a0 I am not for it now, and will remain against<br \/>\nit.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_9\" class=\"yshortcuts\">AL SHARPTON<\/span>: Why are all the chickens white?\u00c2\u00a0 We need some black<br \/>\nchickens.<\/p>\n<p>DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won&#8217;t realize<br \/>\nthat he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before<br \/>\nit goes after the problem on the other side of the road.\u00c2\u00a0 What we need<br \/>\nto do is help him realize how stupid he&#8217;s acting by not taking on his<br \/>\ncurrent problems before adding new problems.<\/p>\n<p>OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is<br \/>\nwhy he wants to cross this road so bad.\u00c2\u00a0 So instead of having the<br \/>\nchicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across<br \/>\nthe road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_10\" class=\"yshortcuts\">ANDERSON COOPER<\/span>, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but<br \/>\nwe have not yet been allowed to have access to the <span id=\"lw_1226081146_11\" class=\"yshortcuts\">other side of the<br \/>\nroad<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.<\/p>\n<p>MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was<br \/>\ngoing.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a standing order at the Farmers Market to sell my eggs<br \/>\nwhen the price dropped to a certain level.\u00c2\u00a0 No little bird gave me any<br \/>\ninsider information.<\/p>\n<p>GRANDPA: In my day we didn&#8217;t ask why the chicken crossed the road.<br \/>\nSomebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_12\" class=\"yshortcuts\">BARBARA WALTERS<\/span>: Isn&#8217;t that interesting?\u00c2\u00a0 In a few moments, we will be<br \/>\nlistening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming<br \/>\nstory of how it experienced a serious case of moulting, and went on to<br \/>\naccomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.<\/p>\n<p>ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.<\/p>\n<p>JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads<br \/>\ntogether, in peace.<\/p>\n<p>ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road<br \/>\nmove beneath the chicken?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"lw_1226081146_13\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">COLONEL SANDERS<\/span>: Did I miss one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? 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