# Did I ever tell you about the time I met Barack Obama? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466 "2009-08-24T04:37:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/21 "2009-08-24T12:10:39Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > He was saying that we needed to reclaim the Fatherland. What - Kenya? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/22 "2009-08-24T13:34:57Z")
I find this “parody,” if that’s what it is, way too offensive for MPSIMS, so I’m moving it to the Pit, where folks can discuss it with the gloves off. twickster, MPSIMS mod ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/23 "2009-08-24T13:41:10Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Yeah when I met him he called it his Beer Hall Push. He was trying to get support by campaigning in bars. Apparently it worked, look he’s President now. I hope we get the change he promised us and see a vivification of the Fatherland! I’m sorry: I’m not very intelligent, so often I am confused over whether someone is being serious or not. Would you, therefore, mind explaining just what the fuck you are going on about? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/24 "2009-08-24T13:57:45Z")
I’m glad mswas is opposed to gay marriage. It shows I’m not on the same side as an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/25 "2009-08-24T14:05:12Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Oh, oh, I know this one! > What is the Theory of Gravity? > > [sub]If you were serious it’s called Godwin’s Law, it means the longer a discussion continues the chances of a comparison to Nazis or Hitler approaches 1[/sub] Doesn’t apply, of course, in cases where the discussion **starts** from that point. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/26 "2009-08-24T14:07:24Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I’m sorry: I’m not very intelligent, so often I am confused over whether someone is being serious or not. Would you, therefore, mind explaining just what the fuck you are going on about? It’s about an Obama/Hitler comparison which, for some reason, has had vigorous life on the Intertubes for the past eight months despite having no application to anything in the real world. ---
**Author:** ![Sinaijon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sinaijon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaijon)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/27 "2009-08-24T14:12:40Z")
Hey, wow! I met Obama one time too. He was fundraising at the time, although he looked a little down and out. Street corners must not be too productive, even when you hold out a cardboard sign that says: “ **Change** ” As I dropped a quarter in his violin case, he was muttering about his 5 year plan, and how the NKVD had betrayed him. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/28 "2009-08-24T14:23:04Z")
You know who else is charismatic? Toejay Nelson. Cool guy. Had half the fifth grade doing his homework for him. “Now there”, I remember thinking, “there is a guy who would be a perfect middle manager.” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/29 "2009-08-24T14:38:27Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > It’s about an Obama/Hitler comparison which, for some reason, has had vigorous life on the Intertubes for the past eight months despite having no application to anything in the real world. That, I knew. What baffles me is whether **mswas** actually agrees with the comparison or is parodying it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/30 "2009-08-24T14:53:32Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > That, I knew. What baffles me is whether **mswas** actually agrees with the comparison or is parodying it. He’s been on a huge “I’m so much better than the rest of you smug pseudo-intellectuals” kick the past couple of months, so quite honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if it was simple shit-stirring. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/31 "2009-08-24T14:54:47Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > … Beer Hall Push. … Putsch moran, [putsch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch). > [@](#): > > [putsch](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/putsch) > –noun > a plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow a government, esp. one that depends upon suddenness and speed. > Origin: > 1915–20; \< G Putsch, orig. Swiss G: lit., violent blow, clash, shock; introduced in sense “coup” in standard G through Swiss popular uprisings of the 1830s, esp. the Zurich revolt of Sept. 1839. > [@](#): > > The Beer Hall Putsch (also known as the Munich Putsch, but in German referred to as the Hitlerputsch or the Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch) was a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8 November and the early afternoon of 9 November 1923, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff, and other heads of the Kampfbund unsuccessfully tried to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, and Germany. Putsch is the German word for coup d’état. … CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/32 "2009-08-24T14:56:28Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > That, I knew. What baffles me is whether **mswas** actually agrees with the comparison or is parodying it. It doesn’t matter. If he agrees with it, he’s an idiot. If it started out as parody, then he told it badly and clung to it despite it obviously not being funny, and is therefore an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/33 "2009-08-24T15:01:48Z")
Wouldn’t it have been cool if this had gotten no replies and slid quickly off the page? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/34 "2009-08-24T15:04:20Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Wouldn’t it have been cool if this had gotten no replies and slid quickly off the page? Nah, it’s way better when someone writes something this dickish for it to stay around for a while so a larger number people can read it, and think “fuck me sideways, mswas really is a complete cock” ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/35 "2009-08-24T15:20:55Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Yeah when I met him he called it his Beer Hall Push. He was trying to get support by campaigning in bars. No, he wasn’t campaigning in bars, he was eating bars. Fortunately, he’s stopped and now he only eats guitars. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/36 "2009-08-24T15:27:15Z")
He skipped the middle ‘eating cars’ step? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/37 "2009-08-24T15:30:23Z")
On what planet does the OP spend most of his time? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/38 "2009-08-24T15:31:44Z")
> [@ArrMatey](#): > > He skipped the middle ‘eating cars’ step? Cash for Clunkers, dude! That’s what it was really all about! Cadillacs, Lincolns, Mercurys, Subarus, the whole nine yards! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/39 "2009-08-24T15:33:45Z")
I’m sure it seemed a lot more clever before the bong hits wore off. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/40 "2009-08-24T15:47:46Z")
If so, then a couple of such things (“bong hits”, I think you called them…) would make them funny again. We may need to recruit a volunteer to test this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466.md?page=3)