During Obama’s Inaugural Speech
During Obama’s Inaugural Speech
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It’s supposed to say: “Paying attention to all the wrong words”
That was Border-line Rascist
that was borderline stupid, fallafel..
TRUTH.
Agreed.
I Assent… look it up if you don’t know the word.
Did you really just say that? Are you seriously that proud of your vocabulary, for the word “assent” of all things? Well, I guess congratulations are in order since you managed to correctly use a “difficult” word for the first time. No really, I don’t blame you for so blatantly trying to call our attention to your terminological victory. Maybe the moment is finally right for your triumphant return to seventh grade.
Lol.
Comeback win!
You’re my hero, BG.
He capitalized it no less.
Actually, he misused it. Assent means to give permission. He agrees, he does not assent (unless he’s secretly giving Kamikaze14 permission to do something to him?).
In his defense, “assent” is defined as “v: to agree or concur: and “n: agreement.”
i dis-assent to you defending him.
You dissent.
I really didn’t expect my plan for an argument to be so successful. I am
surprised some one would waste their time on ranting, over some one’s
use of vocabulary.
“Pact of lies”? LOL! What agreement did they make, Randy?
We’re free to look up all the words we want? I encourage
you to take your own advice.
this whole argument is even funnier just because
i randomly stumbled it
lol samsies!!
Everyday im stumbling. I love stumble.
Honestly, I just like all the boxes inside of boxes… inside of boxes that this makes when you reply to a reply of a reply.
I also stumbled this, though.
Blah Blah, random political comment, blah blah
Agreed.
Here’s to more boxes within boxes
stumbling is my favorite (b.t.w. I completely disagree- you’re wrong)
You fail, RANDY. Poor conservative. When will you realize everything you think you know is a lie?
Take the red pill RANDY.
You fail, RANDY. Poor conservative. When will you realize
everything you think you know is a lie?
Take the red pill RANDY.
POOR ME, I’M NOT THE IDIOT THAT VOTED FOR THIS
PIECE OF HUMAN EXCREMENT…. I WILL NEVER BE POOR
IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THAT THANK YOU…… YOU WATCH
TO MUCH SCIENCE FICTION mike? …. whenever the
liberal cant find a good agrument, a personal attack will
suffice….. again thank you for making my point…. stupid,
and yes that is personal….
a quick question to randy
are you maybe (and this is a stretch) just maybe a little bitter
Why does every person who feels even slightly disenfranchised feel the need to post a comment in all caps and hit send without looking it over for evidence of their obliviousness or general stupidity? Learn some grammar, RANDY, then bring forth your argument. Damn it.
no not bitter, just sad at the mind set of the sheeple that
voted for this sorry assed excuse for a president….
and that people , like you defend him not on his record
(or the lack thereof ) because it speaks for itself. but for
the emotion instead of concern for their country….
if this man turns the country around without destroying
the constitution and our republic, I will get in line for the
party. till then I am a against what he stands for.
the truth is that people like you want me to be bitter and
angry…sorry dumbass I dont have time , I have to speak
out against people like you and your ilk, that think barry is
the messiah, or a LINCOLN …… listen to him speak down
to people telling him he know what better for them, that
the government can cure all the evil of society….
what hogwash…. So mr demented if all you can do is asked
me if I am bitter, get a life and go elsewhere ….. your
opinion really mean less than mine to me….. idiot
I’m just glad you’re going to be miserable for awhile. Quit trying to drag others down with you. I thought you said only Liberals do that.
First of all, Randy ( the wannabe Rush L, don’t even know
that Rush is a rock band) As an active Democrat since 1980
I have been listening to your kind”s vitriol for too long. I
didn’t enjoy my losses over the years, but I still respected
the office of POTUS. If you can’t respect the first president
in 8 years to win honestly, then you have a problem that you
really ought to keep to your own bad self! If you have such a problem with our system, maybe you should try Russia, Saudi Arabia or Iran
where there is only one party. Better yet, try N. Korea where
there is no party! Why do Dems get laid more often than
the “Rs”? Whoever heard of getting a piece of elephant!
I can haz elephunt sex? wOOOT!
Okay, so you’re just so enlightened you’ve managed to find another use for the caps lock function.
There is one thing I love about outspoken conservatives; you can always tell they are losing an argument when they start yelling. I won’t even debate anything you said. All I have to say now is look where the last eight years of conservative politics got us…. a recession and an open ended war. Well done.
Oh…O_O
Dude. Kanye West called, he wants his caps lock back.
amen brother
obama wouldnt have gotten my vote if he were white and mccain would have if he would have been black actually if u put condi in the running it would be no contest
all bases covered
game over
we win
whiny libs
I USE CAPS BECAUSE IT MAKES ME LOOK SMARTER AND IT GETS MY POINT ACROSS FASTER.
This is the lulzy-est flame war I’ve seen in a while. Went from
a mediocre stumble to a great one real quick.
I approved.
WHEN RANDY CANT DEAL FROM FACTS, RANDY DO THE BEST RANDY CAN TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS AND IRONICALLY NOT PROOFREAD RANDY TIRADE.
P.S. way to use “Dude” in your academic political passage.
This has nothing to do with terminology. “Assent” is a word, not a term. As far as I can tell, it’s not a “technical or special term used in a business, art, science, or special subject”, is it?
They need a better definition for a word if the definition has the word in it, lol.
Holy hell. “When Word of the Day Calendars Go Wrong.” You, sirs, a a bunch of sycophants. By which I of course mean, one who informs against another for exporting figs. And if you didn’t know, then duh to you sir.
*snort*
I love you Kobe Bryant
whoa!!! had to go to the dictionary for that one did you!
“assent is a word not a term… it’s not a special term, ist it”
LOL!
classic
HAAAAAAAA! Best burn ever.
It wouldn’t have changed a fockin’ thing, the puppet master would just have his hand up Biden’s Ass instead!
That’s just ignorant and alarmist. How about enjoying the fact that something really positive was happening? I suppose that wouldn’t make a very funny of a pie chart though would it. Then again neither was this one.
Bubble bursting sound in 3, 2, 1…….
-pop-
-pop-pop-pop-pop- and on and on for millions of nutters who think things are going to get better because we elected someone “different”
but hey! i can’t criticize when in Cowlifornia, spending is out of control, and the frickin guy threatening to withhold my income tax return just spent 2million on cubicles!!
GRRRRRR-POP-
i enjoyed it, but i´ve met enough crazies out there that a part of me was afraid throughout the whole process… especially when my friends kept telling me about old presidential assasinations.
Ok do you mean really positive because the president is African American? Because this is one thing i am hating about Obama being the president, is that people are only happy, voted for, and supporting him is because he is part African American. Did 2 million people come out to any other presidential inauguration? No. People may say I am racist when i am not because i see Obama for who he is, not his race or part race…. I hate hypocrites.
Pretty sure he wasn’t. His speech was positive because, even though he laid out all of the problems we have, he still assured everyone that he would do his best, etc. However, he is not “part African-American.” This is what pisses me off. His dad was African (born in Kenya, never became a U.S. citizen), and his mom was American (born in Kansas). Therefore, he is truly African-American.
Wrong. By United States case law, a person is deemed to be an American citizne if the mother of the person is an American citizen. This is largely due to the fact that paternity could have been from someone other than the person believed to be the father. That is of course until paternity testing is done. However, further conversation on this point is superfluous as the mother being a native born citizen of the United States automatically confers citizenship onto the child. Though not codified by law, this is what the United States Supreme Court has held in the past, and unless they fail to follow stare decisis, then this would be the holding fo the court today.
Yeah, but how can they be sure that the woman is really the mother of the child?
the sickness is the fact that racism will never die until he can, and other
blacks can just become Americans….. why do they want to be
african americans, other blacks sold them into the slavery they are
always crying about….. the fact that he speech was plagiarized from 20 other great speeches will just over look……
Many people came out to vote for him because he gave them hope, and the same for the inauguration.
Noone called you rasict, but just be a little open minded. Everyone is a hypocrite at least once in their lives. think about it, and see if you can think of a time when you were, even if it was small.
Other African Americans have run for president through the primaries. They were not chosen as either party’s candidate because they did not have the right combination of policy, character, and personality. Obama did. If you think he was elected based on race, I think that is condescending toward the voters of this nation who chose him. You may not agree with their votes, but that does not mean they were not made in a careful and reasoned manner.
> If you think he was elected based on race, I think that is condescending toward
> the voters of this nation who chose him. You may not agree with their votes,
> but that does not mean they were not made in a careful and reasoned manner.
I _am_ condescending toward at least _some_ of the voters who chose him.
If you think he wasn’t elected based on race, I suggest you check out the exit polls and look at the results broken down by race.
I’m generally optimistic, but I think ignorance would best be reserved for people who didn’t fear for Obama’s life. I believe a good 90% of the population consists of decent people, but it only takes one crazy racist with a sniper rifle to screw things up.
If it were that easy to assassinate a POTUS, how the hell did Bush and Cheney survive eight years in office?
Because Cheney was just crazy enough to scare anybody away from assassinating Bush. Bush was the lesser of the two evils there (though, that doesn’t change the fact that I despise him).
Also because Cheney shot someone in the face. That would usually scare people away too
The matrix. Duh, idjet.
Where’s the ‘being unimpressed’ slice?
That’s the whole pie-chart for poem that followed.
The Democrats made even the smallest amount of dissent illegal, remember?
Oh yeah, I remember when the Democrats created “free speech zones” so that only sychophants could get near the President. Oh wait…
hehehehehe….good one….hehehehe
Hehe, I love it when conservatives (erroneously) accuse democrats of doing stuff they themselves were rallying for until last year.
Yeah, only that would be the ReTHUGS who wanted to make it illegal to disagree with the President until suddenly the President became someone they didn’t like. Oh teh ironiez.
I’m with amr2k. That was totally lame. I can’t say I was thinking that. I was busy trying to not to show the tears welling up. That was a beautiful day.
Yup, this one sucked guys. Try again (oh but they can’t!)……
*sings* [from Oklahoma]
Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh, what a beautiful day…..
Bubble……3, 2, 1………
Actually, I like Obama just as much as the next guy, but I am scared for his life when he makes public speeches like that. Enough people hate him for mutiple reasons that they’d shoot him.
And, on top of that, why is it so Beautiful that we elected a black president? I think the real reason it’s beautiful is because we elected someone who actually is going to do something good for this country.
I agree, it was a great thing but at the same time he isn’t liked by everyone (but then who is?) and the fact that he is black is nice but the over whelming reason is because he will be trying new ways to make our country better.
I concur. There are enough lunatics out there that still believe him to be a muslim that despite how much I like him and think he can do great things for this country, I was worried both at the inauguration and when he gave his victory speech.
Third the motion. I have some friends who keep Limbaugh and Co.
playing on the radio despite requests to change the station/turn it off.
Given the sorts of things being said … I couldn’t watch the inauguration
live due to work, but I was a bit worried about what I might see when I
got home and turned on the TV.
The high point of McCain’s campaign was when that elderly woman said that Obama is “an Arab” and McCain politely but very clearly told her that she’s wrong.
If there were any honor at all in the Republican Party, they’d have rallied around him – and the country – at that moment and put a stop to that Stalinesque whisper campaign against Obama. If they’d done that, I might have found myself voting Republican. Since they were unable to do that, I am unable to believe that the Republicans have any hope of supporting the United States.
In both that moment and again in his concession speech on election night, McCain showed himself to be far classier and far more patriotic than his supporters. The Republican Party would do well to follow his lead.
Completely agree with you. Had the McCain that spoke at the concession speach been the one that was campaigning, he might have had a chance.
Using the word fragged to describe an RL shooting is made of WIN.
“Frag” is a military term for killing a superior. Had Bush been headshot, it likely it likely would have been a fragging. (And he only didn’t get it ’cause then Darth Cheney would’ve been in charge.)
Agreed! No one would risk putting that psycho in charge for even a day.
If “frag” means killing one’s superior then Bush is completely safe from fragging, by definition.
I lol’d. Win.
Nope…we decided it would be much easier to have Obama take Cheney’s place. It’s much easier to shoot a real loon…especially given how rare – or extinct – they are said to be.
Only reason they didn’t frag Bush is because he had all the crazies on his side.
Does nobody remember the flying SHOE!! Bush’s greatest and quickest personal decison… DUCK! In my opinion, how did a guy get a chance to take off BOTH shoes and chuck em at our FORMER (relishes the word) president?
!!!!!
THANK YOU OH SWEET JESUS FOR SPEAKING RATIONALLY!!
I think your caps lock is broken.
No, I’m pretty sure when you’re talking directly to jesus, caps lock is required.
looks like somebody misspelled “hoping” as “fearing”
Really? You hope Obama gets shot in the head? How very Christian of you. Or, in case you’re not Christian or affiliated with any major religion, how very American and patriotic of you. Yes, let us all hope that our President gets shot in the head. That’ll prove we’re true Americans.
While I agree, if you’d replaced the word “Obama” with “Bush” I doubt many people would argue just as passionately.
I’m going to go with Two Sides on this one. While I freely admit I wouldn’t have shed a single tear to hear news of G Dub’s death, that doesn’t mean I wanted him to get assassinated.
Had he choked to death on that pretzel, on the other hand…
Mental note: cancel my enrollment in the ‘JJ’s sensitivity classes’.
You wouldn’t have? What’s wrong with you!? Do you have any idea what that would have meant!?
Two words: President Cheney.
Yikes… I forgot about that. All crazy vice presidents aside though, my point still stands.
But yeah… I may have to retract my statements just a little.
President Cheney….
*shudders*
Two words was also the reason why McCain wasn’t elected: President Palin
agree++
even though many Republicans I talked to said that her
nomination helped McCain. :-/
I believe I actually said point blank that I would NOT have wanted him to get a head shot. If for no other reason, his death by assassination would have made him a martyr, and that was the last thing we needed.
Also… seeing as how I do not know the man personally, and politically is the only way I know him, and how I feel about his politics, then yes, I can say with absolute certainly his death would not have fazed me one bit.
Very true (that we wouldn’t have argued as passionately about an online comment threatening Bush). However at the same time, this is not a situation in which both sides are just mirror images of each other. We in fact live in a country in which there are many thousands of angry talk-radio stoked pseudo-patriotic right-wing extremists who honestly believe that it would be a good thing if Obama were assassinated, and who would in fact make a hero out of a person who assassinated him. There is no equivalent on the left.
Add to that the fact that many of those pseudo-patriots own arms, and you’ve got a very clear difference. I think that we are way past the point at which that problem needs to be addressed. This PC “we can’t offend the extremists” stuff is really leading us into danger. We’ve already had one admittedly inept, vague and poorly planned threat against Obama, and worse, we had the election night attacks on blacks by a gang angered by Obama’s election (they were just convicted the day before yesterday, I believe). This is real.
It’s also good to remember that after before 9-11, Bush was just the bumbler who took too many vacation days. No one “hated” him, no one wished him ill will, people just joked that he’d be a one-termer like his dad. Then after 9-11, the whole country rallied around him. The WHOLE country. Conservatives like to forget that little nugget.
Yup. I even sat with one of my colleagues and talked about how important it was to support Bush.
Bush managed to throw away all of that goodwill in a matter of weeks. Biggest lost opportunity ever.
I also get a kick out of right-wingers claiming that attacking Iraq indicates that Bush is “willing to do the right thing even when it’s unpopular”. Um, attacking Iraq WAS popular. Next to 9-11, it was the biggest boost to his popularity in his entire Presidency. Bush attacked Iraq as his post-9-11 popularity was fading, and he did so knowing full well that starting a war would boost his popularity.
ok, don’t start with the whole “holier than thou” speech of “How very Christian of you..” Nobody said they HOPED it would happen, but as quite obvious as it is just because he is black, and it is a very wonderful thing that how far we have come as a nation that we now have our first black president, there are just as many radicals that would love to see that happen. So i definitely don’t WANT it to happen, just know that the attempts and possibility for it TO happen are far greater than with any other president. That’s all this graph is saying. People really need to learn quit reading so much into these things & just take them for what they’re worth and go on.
Welcome to the internet, … free speech WIN, even for the over-analyzing, outspoken people who really don’t have much to say or do than to criticize.
Yes, somebody said “Hoped”. Look to the parent post of the one your replied to.
Hm. Nice catch Elly.
“Jeff” was implying with his comment, (which was being replied to in the “holier than though” whateverness) that he was “hoping”, rather than “fearing” the same situation.
So yes, someone did say they “hoped” it would happen, just not the graph maker.
I took the graph for what it was worth. I even agreed with it as it was how I felt during the inaugural address.
Then someone stated “looks like somebody misspelled “hoping” as “fearing””, and I took that for what it was worth, as well. That is what I was replying to. So before you start accusing people of being “holier than thou” (I will not point out the irony here), learn that if something is surrounded by a gray background, it means it’s a reply.
I….I love you
oops wrong one my apolgies
Lots of people learn that lesson much more slowly, and at much greater expense.
^ the truth. You win the Internet
you are a sick sick man… i hate bush but i would never want him killed. wishing for someone´s death based on their politics is just barbaric.
I thought it would be ironic if a black man was the one with the gun.
100% true!
Absolutely true. However, wishing and longing for someone’s incarceration (as I do for Bush/Cheney) is a whole different story.
Dude, I tottally agree with this. I was scared that some nut job would try to shoot him, I only paid attention to the words when I heard the speech on NPR.
i was totally in the same state of mind…well maybe it was more half and half
OMG me too! I kept waiting for the spatter and the chaos.
Oh FFS, people. HAve a little faith in the Secret Service. This is not Joe Blogs who pissed off the Mafia and is now a marked man. This is the most well-protected man in any democracy in the world! (Of course, dictators who don’t even have to appear in public ever are a little safer.)
Too be fair, the graph is mostly trying to address an irrational paranoia. Even so, there’s still a lot of possibilities to worry about. The secret service isn’t omnipotent, and all it takes is one slip up.
Their response time could use a little work too. That reporter did had time to lob both shoes at Bush, remember
You never heard of Garfield? what about JFK, McKinley, Lincoln, Roosevelt, etc? All were shot while surrounded by Secret Service. Unless Obama was encased in a lead box, he could have been shot. The Secret Service do not have matrix-bullet-dodging powers. I think everyone was scared to even say ‘assasination’ out loud on that day for fear of jinxing it. I didn’t even watch it live for fear of having a Zapruder-style view.
that muslim reporter got both his shoes off at bush… what if there had been explosives inside?
the secret service isn’t too amazing…
I have no use for Obama or liberal politics, but there’s no chance I’d get any gratification from an Obama assasination. That’s just sick. Honestly, I felt the same nervous feeling but much of that was watching millions of Americans get snowed by a lib spouting change when its exactly the same thing democrats have done for what, 100 years?
i think when liberals mean change, they mean they get to be in charge… for the first time in 8 years.
Yes, and when liberals are in charge that means that Science is going have a place in this country, women and minorities will be ensured their rights as full citizens and maybe even two people that are in love might have a chance of both the spiritual and financial benefits of marriage… even if they aren’t of opposite sexes. That is, if the liberals are in charge, the white Christian “good ol’ boys” won’t be able to press their personal beliefs on others – the horror!
America doesn’t need a well educated, well spoken, well rounded, world-traveled, black man who cares about the nation AND the world. We need a conservative, God-fearing run nation based on the belief that people are ONLY good citizens if the fear of God is in them (after all, if someone isn’t watching over your shoulder from the cloud world, you might not be a ‘good’ person). Let’s have this nation instead run by rules/laws set forth in a book written over 2000 years ago (oh, and let’s pick and chose which rules to follow from that book and which ones to ignore) – nothing needs to change EVER. Gays should be stoned to death, and I can own slaves – oh, and let’s get REALLY conservative and put women back where they belong – in the kitchen with the babies that I am allowed to force them to birth. Oh, and interracial couples? Come now, the conservatives were (and probably still are) against that too.
Take a look at history and imagine if the conservatives won on the issues that they were in support of and imagine the sort of country we’d have. White Christian males would be sitting pretty while everyone else would be suppressed in a supposedly “free” nation. Free for who I ask? Because as it stands, it’s still not free for all.
I don’t condone the assassination of anyone, especially Obama.
Two words: President Biden : 0
Science is just a long series of REVISIONS.
In elementary school, on a test, if I answered that there are 8 planets in our solar system, it would have been marked INCORRECT.
WTF happened to Pluto? A note for all of you who follow science: PLUTO.
Change= marching down the road of Socialism. FAIL.
Bubble bursting in 3, 2, 1………
You know what’s funny? McCain at one point is on tape condoning socialism. I don’t know the exact date or his exact words, but it is out there. But sure, only Obama would have advocated socialism as he is, as I have actually seen people write out, the “anti-christ”.
Oh, and while science does revise old standards, they do also try to find new methods to solve old problems to which the solutions that are in effect are not making better. Sure, Pluto is no longer a planet. I should point out, though, that that is a specific science that deals with what is a planet and what is not. There are other sciences that deal with things on Earth that might actually be beneficial to us.
Bubble reinflating in 3, 2, 1…
*pop*
follow me through this one for instance:
In the 7th grade. My answer is there are 8 planets. It is marked Incorrect.
That one answer tips my grade from a A- to a B+
I miss the cut for advanced science in high school and don’t get accepted into college science courses. Now I am not a scientist. Science has failed me. : )
As far as socialism is concerned, we got a huge jump start on Obama already with the banks nearing nationalization. Now, all Obama has to do is escort us in, saying it’s the only answer left.
However, if you backed up your answer with what you thought a planet was and WHY you believed there were only 8, then you would be a good student and probably given a better grade for thinking. BUT, had you only put 8 because you truly didn’t know, then that lower grade would have been deserved.
I’m still a little lost on the connection between Pluto and politics… except that one belongs in the solar system, but is not, while one doesn’t belong in the solar system but is anyway.
“In the 7th grade. My answer is there are 8 planets. It is marked Incorrect.
That one answer tips my grade from a A- to a B+
I miss the cut for advanced science in high school and don’t get accepted into college science courses. Now I am not a scientist. Science has failed me. : )”
Er, assuming that you were in 7th grade back when Pluto was still labeled a planet, you can’t blame science for your failure to put down the correct answer.
It’d be different if you’d written “There are 8 planets. I’m aware that the textbook says that there are 9, but in fact Pluto does not really belong because it is really a member of the large collection of comets and proto-comets making up the Kuiper belt rather than a planet formed in the same manner as the other 8″. But that’s an entirely different matter, and a completely hypothetical one with no connection to reality: you would not have written that.
Ah, but I did put done the correct answer. 8 Planets. It’s true today, don’t know about tomorrow.
But that is a great answer you give, back in the 60’s they would have laughed and marked it Incorrect. : )
If you put “8 planets” as the answer back in the 1960s, you put down the wrong answer. During the 1960s the correct answer to the question “how many planets are there in our solar system?” was “9″. “8″ was a wrong answer.
Follow me through this one.
In 7th grade, your teacher teaches that there are nine planets, you put on the paper that there are eight, you get it wrong, blah blah teh horror and you end up on the streets.
However, if you’d paid attention when your teacher was teaching and put down the answer your teacher told you to put down, amazingly enough, you get it right. Apparently you seem to have been (or possibly to be?) one of those students who doesn’t listen in class, read the material or study and yet you still expect to be “given” good grades.
Here’s a note from your 7th grade science teacher: pay attention and do your homework.
Yeah, and I learned in 3rd grade abount Manifest Destiny. That was 1965, before “Bury my heart at Wounded Knee” And the AIM movement. The most important thing to remember is to keep an open mind. Sometimes, what you learn is wrong. Ask Galileo about that!
First of all, your comments show how everything in this country’s political system has come down to “us VS. them.” It is the reason that we need a legitimate 3rd party in this country, but that is a whole different issue. I want to address your narrow-minded (yes, I said it) comments. I don’t think anybody here is trying to hold up slavery or any of the other examples that you have attributed to “white Christian males” and conservatives in general as what we should go back to. I am a conservative white male, but I am not particularly a religious person. However, I do think that the moral code laid out in the Bible still applies. I do not believe that one should believe every thing that happened in it (after all it has been edited for, what, 1800 years or so?), but it is a good set of standards to apply to your life. I’m not quoting scripture to shoot down gay marriage even if I don’t agree with it. Your comments sum up what has really ticked me off since the election. Is this the peace and understanding and togetherness liberals are always preaching about? What you just said: “Everybody can have free speech and their own opinions except for people that I disagree with!” Whether you like it or not there are different shades and degrees of conservatism. Not all conservatives are far-right wingers just as I hope and, yes, pray, that all people on the left are not as fanatical as you.
New Graph:
0%
Amount that I read
100%
Amount that I didn’t read
Reason: It was too long
Which is why I wondered why Republicans were so angry during this election…they were in power for 8 years. They had their chance. It was also puzzling that McCain tried to jump onto the “change” bandwagon…it’s hard to say you’re an agent of “change” when you’ve been quoted as saying you agreed with Bush more than you disagreed.
You know what they say. The only constant thing is change.
If you were afraid of that then you didn’t quite understand the total security crackdown that covered any area in which Obama was in public that day.
Sorry, but people were allowed in without being searched. Many just ‘regular’ citizens. They could search all they wanted for a week with hound dogs, and not find anything. As soon as they let people in, it takes two seconds in the middle of that chaos, to pull out a gun and kill someone. And with 2 million people there, they probably wouldn’t have any idea where to look.
True or not, I don’t see anything “funny” with this…
Yes.
Actually, it was more like:
25%–Being really impressed with Obama’s speech
75%–Being really appalled at that stupid poet that came after him. Her poem was 1) horrid, trite, cliche, and poorly written. 2) She read it with the worst possible reading voice ever.
After that, we all switched the channel.
Oh, and this graph you made isn’t funny. At all. Really. I gave it a 1.
Good god yes.
Why did they have to include that inane poem and that self-promoting nonsense from that Rick Warren character? What were these people thinking?
Skipping the speech because it’s all going to be tossed in the dumpster within the first three months — 100%
yeah… i was afraid of that too, but even more afraid when he suddenly got out of the limo and walked. i´m putting as much faith as possible in the security, but i can´t help but be suspicious.
Nope, not funny. That one person was right, if Bush never got it, Obama won’t. Even considering or fearing something like that is more than a little silly, people don’t seem to understand the security that goes into our President. And who said they were scared because of their friends describing old president assassinations? It’s been since Kennedy, right? Things have changed. And finally, to the douche bags ‘hoping’ for a kill, wtf is wrong with you? People like you are the reason other countries are unsure about America.
America FTW.
REAGAN
The reason Bush never got a lead sandwich:
Those with political motivations were put off by the possibility of a President Cheney.
The reason people are currently afraid for Obama:
The completely insane, zealously religious, deplorably racist, and tragically ignorant fundamental reactionaries that dwell in the far, far right of our political spectrum were considerably less angry about Bush (bland, white, aging, Christian man that he is) than they are about Obama. We’re not talking garden variety conservative here. Said nutbags are less likely to realize, probably due to their ludicrously poor education and low average IQ, that assassinating Obama won’t actually accomplish a major political goal aside from creating a martyr.
So yeah, get a couple psychos a high powered rifle, and all it will take is one security slip up.
When Gore and Kerry ran against Bush, there weren’t nut jobs in the audience shouting, “Kill him!”. There were plenty of people that didn’t like Bush, but Obama attracts the hatred of crazies…armed crazies.
i have to echo previous comments, and state my faith in the secret service. i dont think it would be so much that our president is black, so much as he is real change that would make some people uneasy. even joking, saying you HOPE someone is shot is not funny. i did not support bush at any point in the last 8 years, but i never once said i hope he gets shot.
and one quick comment, to those who say they are “unimpressed” with president obamas speaches. thats probably because you wonder why hes not saying real words like misunderestimated.
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Yeah, or not using proper punctuation. *cough*
OMG JUST F’ING LAUGH. that’s all you need to do. Humor, get a sense….
I think someone already posted something like this.
You mean, secretly fearing that GREAT TV was in order! Really, how much more exciting can you get? You know you liberals would’ve loved to see W get iced. Hypocrites
Wanting someone dead and wanting someone to get killed are two very different things. I’m sure a few liberals entertained the thought, but then thought better of wasting a perfectly good bullet… I mean come on… it would have just rattled around in that empty space, really…
I didn’t realize they had access to the internet on your planet.
Actually, you could probably take a poll of all liberals and discover that nine and a half (give or take) out of ten liberals don’t want to see ANYONE get iced. Amazingly enough, we’ve been doing our best to try and put up with the nutjobs you “conservatives” have been electing. So now that it’s our turn, why don’t you take the advice you’ve been spouting at us for the last 8 years? Shut up and support your President, whether you like him or not.
Do you think they’d have planned quake sounds?
FINISH HIM
(forward, forward, back, down A)
FATALITY
YOU WIN
I think a chatbox popping up on the bottom of the broadcast saying something like : PWNZRD!!!111!!!eleven would go along with it
Wouldn’t like Obama to be shot. Would just give the left a martyr. But Hillary on the other hand…
That was supposed to be a joke but now I’m waiting for the liberal outrage…
Harumph. Get off the stage and try to actually be funny.
Harumph. Get off the stage and quit trying to be a pretentious ***hole…
who in the right mind would intentionally portray themselves as a pretentious asshole?
I think you’re right though joke or not
Amen. A freakin men.
*sigh* if only…
Everybody who is commenting about headshot fear = alarmist forgets it says “a headshot.” That could also have been Bush
I was more afraid of Heath Ledgers ghost…
I was fearing that I was about to see a headshot, but that’s only because I was playing a FPS (first person shooter) game most of the day…
You guys are all so engulfed in this. It is a f***ing pie gragh to give some comical relief on a very big turning point. Learn to laugh a little and stop being so serious about everything, especially with politics. One needs to laugh a little when dealing with damn politics.
Why does everyone think this guy is the second coming of Christ? He’s just another crooked machine politician. Three appointments SO FAR with big honking tax “oversights.” And don’t start with what Bush did. He was just as bad and probably worse.
And I wasn’t sure what a head shot was. I thought it was it was a photographic portrait, which it actually is.
You don’t play a lot of Shooters, do ya?
(Pictures another pie chart: one tiny slice representing number of people who think that Obama is the second coming of Christ. One giant slice representing the number of people who think that “everyone thinks that Obama is the second coming of Christ”).
what’s interesting is that this graph is incredibly true. It is more true than most people admit to.
watch the videos. At two points during the inauguration ceremony there were sirens. One was during the first prayer and obama opened his eyes and looked around for the only time during the prayer. The other siren was exactly at the point of the famously flubbed line. Both videos are on youtube.
Obviously he was afraid of something. Whether it was justified or not, we may never know
I was openly hoping he would get shot.
no outraged responses! Anger-the-mob FAIL!
Definitely not funny, but true. I think a lot of people were worrying about the same thing.
I agree with azeiau. I was hoping he would get shot. Personally, I think if they added, “Secretly hoped I was going to witness a headshot” to the graph, it would’ve been the whole pie.
Had exactly the same thought while i was watching the speech.
I actually did NOT watch the inauguration for fear of seeing someone shot.
Headshots can’t hurt a liberal. You have to have brains for that to work.
Let’s just get out the cleverness scale here and see how you did…
That was so mind-blowingly well thought out that my brain nearly imploded as I was trying to wrap my fingers around the sheer blatant ingeniousness that is your comment.
I didn’t watch it, I had a class, but I was half expecting to hear that there’d been an attempt. The Secret Service is pretty damn good, but there are some determined people out there.
Ok…140 messages of tripe is a lot to rifle through. Many of you here forget that the Triple K was a DEMOCRATIC group, and that a REPUBLICAN president freed the slaves (Lincoln). Plus, Obama is not a real ‘black’, so I feel sorry for the real blacks in history and today who have had made great strives to have a half-baked mulatto that was probably not even born in this country throw it all away (sorry, Rosa Parks!).
Ooooh, and thirdly, after Soop’s other comments: Lincoln never wanted the slaves freed. He had slaves of his own, he didn’t want to give them up. But he was offered a nice little sum of money, and suddenly a hypocritical prick’s going down in history as a great guy.
RED THE COLOR OF HOPE…. THE SPEECH CRAP……
what a bunch of mental turds you all are. kill yourselves and do the world a favor.
Is it bad that I actually *was* silently scared that I was about to see it? I kept thinking “Please, God, protect this man. Don’t let this happen, especially not on national live TV.” and seeing the images of JFK in my mind.
I’m glad to know that I am not the only person who thought it.
I was seeing images of KFC in my mind.
OMG, I was thinking the EXACT same thing!
thank u kevin!!!
Evan,
I gave you 5 stars.
-Nicole
Wow, I too was expecting exactly this!
I was more expecting a suicide bombing rather than a sniper shot. The main object of terrorism is publicity. There are enough people who are automatically aroused to sympathy for it to have been a no-lose situation. “Someone had to have been terribly oppressed to do such a desperate thing!!” *snif*
What we all really should have been thinking is what are we going to do when this whole mess finally hits bottom. Your quality of life as you know it may be a thing of the past. No one person can fix what really took decades to come to a head. Can you say Hey Big Brother. Line up and get your RFID implants. Open your eyes the big picture will scare the hell out of ya
holy crap there really is an end i thought i had found some sort of infinity loop
some really funny posts up there
I’m so guilty i feel sick xP
What colour is Obama again?
i dON’T bELIEVE iN sENDING aLL cAPS. tHat, tO mE iS sILLY sTuff.
Hahahah. The pie chart is kinda funny, but the comments are priceless! I <3 stumbling. XD
STUMBLEUPON, ILU.
Why? Because that was the greatest string of comments I have ever read.
Actually, I never watched the speech because I had class, but I almost expected someone to tell me he was sniped.
Also stumble…I fell on my ass with this one!…..
I think the only reason I watched the speach was because I was covinced that there wasn’t a single crazy-nazi in the country that would let him get into office…
All Hail Satan
my dark lord and master
Lincoln didn’t have secret service. I believe that the secret service came about as a direct result of Lincolns assaination.
I could be wrong!
I believe that Obama could cure every disease known to man, bring about world peace, and perform miracles and there would still be haters.
the same people who blame the worlds or the country’s problems on him.
he didn’t start a war in iraq bush did it. you all talk about communism and dis-mantling the constitution, take a look at the patriot act, compliments of bush/cheney. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING!
Oh yeah about health care!!, my company moved overseas and i lost my job, it would have cost me 700.00 a month to keep my coverage, i could see that happening {not} as my unemployment benefits only allowed me 500.00 a week.i am not worried about myself because i served in the military so i have medical. my son was diagnosed with crohns disease. the hospital turned us away three times sending us home with a script for antacid we had to apply for public health. thank god. what would i do with-out government health care!?
maybe he would just die and decrease the surplus population?