# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/61 "2009-08-24T17:24:43Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > This. I guess the simpletons think I was probably making fun of Barney Frank. Well you would be the expert on what simpletons think. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/62 "2009-08-24T17:29:03Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Well you would be the expert on what simpletons think. It’s true, you and **Der Trihs** follow me around everywhere. I should get an honorary degree or some shit. 😉 But you know how that simpleton short attention span thing goes. Someone compares me to the lady who called Obama Hitler to Barney Frank, so I retort with the Rush Limbaugh response, and they are of course completely and blissfully unaware of the context. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/63 "2009-08-24T17:34:53Z")
So mswas is being willfully obtuse and trying to annoy people by saying controversial things he doesn’t necessarily believe. Check. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/64 "2009-08-24T17:36:28Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > So mswas is being willfully obtuse and trying to annoy people by saying controversial things he doesn’t necessarily believe. Check. I was just trying to point out the similarities between Obama and Hitler. 😉 I wasn’t actually trying to annoy people, but now that they’ve uniformly lost their shit I must confess that it’s pretty amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/65 "2009-08-24T17:39:16Z")
Moved from The BBQ Pit to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. **Gfactor** Pit Moderator ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/66 "2009-08-24T17:39:46Z")
So, what was the point of this thread? Do they require proof if you want a voucher to ride the short bus or something? ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/67 "2009-08-24T17:46:59Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > … so I retort with the Rush Limbaugh response, and they are of course completely and blissfully unaware of the context. As was I, but then again I don’t follow Rush that closely. Blissfully. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/68 "2009-08-24T17:47:45Z")
LOL a thread moved twice! I’m starting to feel like the shuttlecock in **Twickster** and **GFactor** ’s game of badminton. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/69 "2009-08-24T17:51:30Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > So, what was the point of this thread? Do they require proof if you want a voucher to ride the short bus or something? I think it tells us something about the opinion that members of the SDMB have, more than half of the responders were whooshed, only a few realized it was just a lame parody. But they all universally thought that I was dumb and they were smart. I have to say the only ones who I think have a credible claim to that are the ones who realized it was a lame parody. I’m going to have to actually give **Vinyl Turnip** the incisive commentary award. 😉 I can’t say I was actually stoned because I neither own a bong nor any pot right now, but that’s about the spirit of it anyway. Which is why I dropped it in MSPIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/70 "2009-08-24T17:58:58Z")
Well, I think this thread has taught us all a very valuable lesson. Uh, what is it exactly? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/71 "2009-08-24T18:01:19Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > LOL a thread moved twice! I’m starting to feel like the shuttlecock in **Twickster** and **GFactor** ’s game of badminton. Oops. I didn’t see **Twickster** ’s post. Returned to The BBQ Pit. G ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/72 "2009-08-24T18:04:14Z")
And back again. **Mahaloth** People like to get righteously indignant for its own sake? ---
**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, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/73 "2009-08-24T18:05:23Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > And back again. > > **Mahaloth** People like to get righteously indignant for its own sake? That you are one smuuuuuug sumbitch. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/74 "2009-08-24T18:09:26Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > That you are one smuuuuuug sumbitch. Sing it sister! ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/75 "2009-08-24T18:11:58Z")
Speaking personally, I’d annex the Sudetenland. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/76 "2009-08-24T18:14:20Z")
Jeezus, now he’s even congratulating himself on his cleverness. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/77 "2009-08-24T18:17:01Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Jeezus, now he’s even congratulating himself on his cleverness. He had to! Nobody else was going to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/78 "2009-08-24T18:19:42Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I’m starting to feel like the shuttlecock… Well … you’re half right. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/79 "2009-08-24T18:19:49Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Jeezus, now he’s even congratulating himself on his cleverness. Nah, I didn’t ever think it was particularly clever. Calling another person stupid != calling one self smart. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Krebbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@Mr.Krebbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Krebbs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/80 "2009-08-24T18:20:28Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Jeezus, now he’s even congratulating himself on his cleverness. That’s the best part of the thread, IMHO. Such irony is probably only available on the internet. [QUOTE=NicePete] Speaking personally, I’d annex the Sudetenland. [/QUOTE] Okay, so that’s pretty funny, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466.md?page=5)