As for making fun of the US elections, here's one bit from our local newspaper. Of course, it looses in the translation (especially when I do it without good knowledge of all the legal terms, but here you go:

Everybody now prints 'what has happened so far' articles, we publish today what will happen:

18th of December, 2000: The Supreme Court decides that it is illegal to recount only a part of the votes and decides that all votes from all States have to be recounted manually.

31st of December, 2000: 2 states have finished the recount, 17 states have started the recount, 11 states are still searching for the ballots, the other states have filed legal action against the order to recount. The number of pending court cases has risen to 37.

15th of January, 2001: The Senate decides against the Constitution that Clinton has to serve for another term until a president is found. The number of pending court cases has risen to 91.

16th of January: Hillary Clinton starts the 92nd court case against yesterday's Senate decision. She argues, she needs Bill for the household as he has promised eight years ago. She proposes to give the Vice-President of the last term the job. Applause from the Democrats, less so from the Republicans.

1st of January, 2002: The number of court cases pending has risen to 148. 1500 new judges are appointed. The law faculties see an unprecedented rise in the number of students applying.

14th of July, 2004, the candidate for the Republicans, Bush, asks that the winner of the presidential election to come may be declared also president of the past four years (and that the salary for the past 48 months will be fully paid). The number of court cases pending has risen to 259.

31st of October, 2004: The Supreme Court decides that there will be no elections before the votes from the last elections are not fully counted. The number of court cases has risen to 314.

6th of June, 2008: The Supreme Court, in a bold decision, declares all court cases still pending (536) for closed. It states that whoever was the actual winner in 2000 doesn't matter anymore, since the winner will soon have virtually served two terms and therefore may not be president any longer. The new elections will proceed as planned, but Bush and Gore may not be candidates.

9th of June, 2008: Both Gore and Bush file legal action against the decision claiming that the court may decide that they have lost the election in 2000 and are therefore eligible for the 2008 election.

Wolfgang