In case you’re not a Jeopardy fan, let us explain who Ken Jennings is. You’re typically considered a very successful Jeopardy champion is you can win five games. Ken Jennings won 74 straight games back in 2004. He didn’t just win the games, he destroyed his opponents.
Turns out that winning a game show now qualifies you to be a Democrat senator.
TheHill.com has the details:
In an online forum, Jennings told readers: “[Sens.] Chuck Schumer [D-N.Y.] and Harry Reid [D-Nev.] both called me back personally in 2004 to try to get me to run for Orrin Hatch’s Senate seat.”
Schumer went on to become head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2005 and earned a reputation for recruiting top candidates.
Jennings continued: “I am not making this up. Win on a game show and you can apparently run for the US Senate. That was when I realized the Democratic Party was f@#$ed in ’04.”
C’mon, guys. If intelligence was a prerequisite for being in the Senate, the Democrats couldn’t get quorum.
Source: TheHill.com
This post was last modified on November 10, 2021
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This makes me ask myself, who would be more qualified to lead the free world?:
freshman Senator/community organizer/light skinned black man with no negro dialect unless he want to have one
VS.
freshman Senator/74 straight Jeopardy wins/light skinned white guy with no hillbilly dialect unless he wanted to have one (with 74 Jeopardy wins, I will assume he does a good Bubba)
Screw it, we should have went with Lindsay Lohan in the last election and go with Charlie Sheen in the next one. May as well run this Republic into the ground and get it over with.
If Owebama was on Jeopardy, he'd win every show forever.
"I'll take 'states' for $100, Alex."
"The U.S. has this many."
"What is 57."
He is the smartest man alive.