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Obama Starts National Conversation Among White People (About How They Hate Him)

A new Pew poll measures the effects of the Wright scandal on the Democratic race-to-hell. Everyone loved Obama's speech, it seems! Especially these hippies: "In particular, white Democrats who hold unfavorable views of Obama are much more likely than those who have favorable opinions of him to say that equal rights for minorities have been pushed too far; they also are more likely to disapprove of interracial dating, and are more concerned about the threat that immigrants may pose to American values. In addition, nearly a quarter of white Democrats (23%) who hold a negative view of Obama believe he is a Muslim." It is Typical of White People to think these things after Obama's Christian church scandal, however. [Pew]

5:52 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Jim Newell
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  • does this obama guy have any friends he can chat with? why the fuck does he have to drag us into this national conversations all the time.
    geez, i just came here for the free beer.

  • I cannot wait until Obama is elected, because I am pretty sure he will pardon me when I start shooting people who say they hate him because he is Muslim.

  • There's always a percentage of morons in any poll. 13% of people forgot what the questions were and 'Christmas treed' their mark-sense answers! Whatevs.

    At least 10% of subjects were interrupted during sex (Latin: coitus interruptus) and didn't care what answers they gave as long as it got the pollster off the phone. Which brings to mind the 'Yes, yes! Oh, YES!' reply.

  • I started looking at the little boy graphic and next thing I knew, it was time to go home.

  • First they came for the Harvard graduates, and I said nothing...

  • I love how even though our sons and daughters are dying overseas in a stupid war, how the treasury has been plundered, how we're conducting interrogations in the style of the Soviets in those Cold War movies and we're quickly no longer a global superpower, people are all tied up into this weird "negro" with a funny name and hasn't been once caught shouting in a restaurant for some "mother fucking iced tea".

    We Americans deserve everything we have coming to us. Historians will be writing frantically over us assholes like we did the Fall of Rome.

  • My grandparents and uncles and aunts are all convinced that he is Muslim and will not relent.

    But they also get all of their news from Fox and Rush Limbaugh. And my grandpa once told me that Cheney is a "good man."

    Somehow my parents both support Obama, gay marriage, and believe in global warming. I don't know how it happened-- but I'm relieved that they're the ones that raised me.

  • @FloraWay: ...I always thought that using the word good and .Cheney. in the same sentence would cause an inter-dimensional tear in the universe(hence the liberal use of periods in this post)

  • I imagine the people who imagine that the guy currently trying to distance himself from his Christian pastor is also a Muslim are the same people who think that Hillary is a lesbian who killed Vince Foster to cover up their affair.

  • @AngryBlakGuy: There is a rule-- enforced by my mom-- that I'm not allowed to stay in the room if my uncle and grandpa start talking politics.

    The funny thing is, after my cousin went to jail for selling weed-- my grandparents decided that pot should be legal. It is the only thing (other than a hatred for Hillz) with which we agree.

  • 40% of Democrats responding will have to vote for Hillary, but a stronger 60% are still energized towards Andrew Jackson as the Democratic nominee.

  • ...Jim you can thank shit like this [abcnews.go.com] for confusing otherwise semi retarded people into believing its possible to be a Muslim and attend a church at the same time.

    ...some people wouldn't believe he was a Christian if he was nailed to a cross and was magically resurrected. On second thought I take that back. Because next thing you know he'll have his own religion.

  • Nothing like a genocide to take care of those 23%. I mean shit, I thought bigotry was a red-state motto.

  • @AngryBlakGuy:
    damn, if obama died and came back to life in three days i'd be all over that shit --writing letters to the romans and whatnot.
    it's too bad i'd have to write michelle off my book of obama story line just to make sure he stayed all celibate for future worship.

  • Well, a lot of our stupider citizens sort of allow "Muslim," "wild black guy", "Black Nationalist," "radical Black activist," and "controversial Black preacher" to melt together in their feverishly bothered little minds, so no, there is no contradiction in their 'minds' between Obama having a controversial Christian preacher and theories that he is a secret Indonesian-trained Muslim terrorist trying to sneak into power so that he can surrender to Al Qa'ida In Iraq's Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

  • I like that this race has revealed that at least a quarter, possibly a third, of democrats are too retarded to do a fucking connect the dots puzzle.

  • @SuperUnison: True enough,but just because Republicans can do a word search whilst fucking the neighbor's 10-year old son,how does that make them superior?

  • Just goes to show, if Bush were a Dem, and he'd pulled all the same lame-ass shit, he'd still have the same approval numbers. About a quarter of every party (or room on most nights) is full of assholes.

  • In addition, nearly a quarter of white Democrats (23%) who hold a negative view of Obama believe he is a Muslim.

    Yes, John, Americans are ignorant retards. In related news, water is wet, the sky is blue, and Senator Boomdog is a self-loathing alcoholic. Back to you.

  • Equal rights for minorities have indeed been pushed too far. The next thing you know, they'll be as equal as us regular white people.

  • Wow! Good thing Obama stopped concluding his speeches with "Where the white women at?"

  • fucking hippies! I for one want a 'white people for obama' tee shirt

  • I look forward to a similar survey of Republicans.

  • I hope when he gets elected that all the white people who think he's a Muslim will move to Canada. Or do the most ironic thing ever, move to Mexico.

  • @BluntObjects: Oh, I didn't mean to insinuate that republicans are superior. Our side is simply that dumb. Also, word searches are giving them too much credit. Sudoku with only one square is probably more their speed.

  • When I was a teenager I thought the Democratic party was the party for smart people, worldwise people like teachers and dentists and shit.

    I was 23% wrong.

  • Maybe if Obama waved more shiny objects around. I bet that 23% eats that shit up with a Wendy's spork.

  • Stupid fucking people, all around the world, and getting stupider by the minute. Can't even keep themselves from becoming morbidly obese, or their children. What do you expect. Corporate mental pollution of the soul. Ten thousand years of culture trashed.

  • I think any Democrat who disapproves of interracial dating needs to be taken for a short drive into the Jersey woods by Silvio Dante.

  • Take PBS's 'national conversation' for example -surely under all that f***ing freedom we'd find some intelligence?
    Jim Leher's 1hr show just spent one entire sentence at the very end of the show -on the Presidential race, " Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama discussed the economy this week. Good Night".
    Judy Woodruff sub-hosted 3 religous scholars and one old white guy and discussed Wright for the rest of the show -the three scholars wanted to positively make nice, the old white guy wants to pass the torch on....discuss.

  • @hazmaq: "....discuss."

    PBS is owned by neoliberal globalist foundations. Try Guns & Butter for a taste of independent media:

    [www.gunsandbutter.net]

    Nevertheless, I wake up to NPR every morning. But I don't donate to them.

  • People who afraid of people [who don't look like them] are the pussiest people in the world.

  • @AngryBlakGuy: He doesn't already?

  • Can we convince James K. Polk to run again? Please? He's a white male with lots of foreign and domestic experience and is still younger than McCain.

  • @Prozac: No shit! Double-U Tee EFF? Us crackers so crazy!

  • So... Bill Richardson's a Democrat?

  • @Naked Bunny with a Whip:"Can we convince James K. Polk to run again? Please?"

    Nah, he'd be all up in your grill with that "54-40 Or Fight!" shit of his. You're not doing so well with the Iraqis and Afghanis as it is. Do you really want to open up a third front with Manitobans? Or jeopardize your supply lines of BC Bud, Moosehead brew and Timbits?

    Didn't think so.

  • This democracy stuff is scary! 23% of antique Democrats think Barry is a Muslim with a hell-fire and brimstone anti-white christian minister. 31% of GOPers think W is doing a GREAT job. (If they join together is that 54% of the electorate?) And, now, Pope loving, anti-choice, pro-gun Bob Casey, Jr., is backing Barry. Meanwhile, we got a former First Lady and regional law firm associate running on her superior experience, and, if Sinbad doesn't save us, ensuring the election of a guy who made a few to many landing without putting down the landing gear. He can't tell a Sunni from a Shiite, but figures they all look the same after you bomb 'em. I think I shall lie down and drink a cool beverage, or two.

  • Just to put this in perspective, per the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation research, in a given year, 28% of Americans have a mental disability. Not to say that all people with mental disabilities believe hateful crap like this, but I'm just sayin'.

  • @Yellowbug2001: you need to do a Venn diagram showing the intersections of that 28% and the 23% and 31% in 2Goats answer.

  • posting, I mean, not answer. But whatever.

  • Traslation/Simplification;
    Obama may loose Pennsylvania because he's having trouble securing the Racist vote.


  • @heathen:
    Comment on Obama Starts National Conversation Among White People (About How They Hate Him) You wrote: "fucking hippies! I for one want a 'white people for obama' tee shirt" We don't have t-shirts, but we have bumper stickers :) www.whitefolksforobama.org

  • Haha, any excuse to show some love to the "that's racist" kid.

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