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\"\"<\/a>I know a few friends who after a lovely burst of excitement with the election are now feeling oddly dejected. I suspect the Onion<\/a> explains all in an article titled \u201cBlack Man Given Nation\u2019s Worst Job.\u201d

<\/span>African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation\u2019s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, \u201cIt just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can\u2019t catch a break.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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I know a few friends who after a lovely burst of excitement with the election are now feeling oddly dejected. I suspect the Onion explains all in an article titled \u201cBlack Man Given Nation\u2019s Worst Job.\u201dAfrican-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Onion Explains the Election<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I know a few friends who after a lovely burst of excitement with the election are now feeling oddly dejected. 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