# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Salix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Salix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salix)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/121 "2009-08-24T20:49:52Z")
I can imagine the birthers actually coming up with a conspiracy theory that says Obama was born in Germany. His name is actually Baräck Öbama, and on all the official White House stationery, he prints the umlauts in his name in a special kind of invisible ink that will only become visible “when the time is right,” whatever that means. Remember, you heard it here first. ---
**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, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/122 "2009-08-24T20:50:55Z")
> [@Salix](#): > > I can imagine the birthers actually coming up with a conspiracy theory that says Obama was born in Germany. His name is actually Baräck Öbama, and on all the official White House stationery, he prints the umlauts in his name in a special kind of invisible ink that will only become visible “when the time is right,” whatever that means. Remember, you heard it here first. 😃 fnord ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/123 "2009-08-24T20:59:46Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Perhaps he never offered to take me to dinner because I made him go around to the back door at my house… Another opportunity missed for a free meal. 😛 Well, he always sang that he was a back-door man… the boys don’t like it, but the little girls understand. ---
**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, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/124 "2009-08-24T21:02:04Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > It’s funny how angry this is making you all. I don’t see the alleged anger. Can you name a specific response where in your opinion the anger is most obvious? ---
**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, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/125 "2009-08-24T21:02:38Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I don’t see the alleged anger. Can you name a specific response where in your opinion the anger is most obvious? The one I was responding to directly. As is usual with your requests of these kinds. I think what bothers people is that I won’t just shut up and be cowed because they didn’t like my joke. ---
**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, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/126 "2009-08-24T21:06:09Z")
Silly me, I thought “you all” meant you were responding to _several_ posters (if not all of them). I actually don’t see much anger in elbows’ post, but some rather valid questions regarding trolling. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/127 "2009-08-24T21:10:06Z")
What bothers people is you’re such a one trick pony. That and the fact that you’re not even intelligent enough to know how stupid you’re being. There was no joke, it wasn’t funny, it wasn’t well written, it was offensive and you admitted you didn’t care about what any of us thought, just enjoying jerking the board around for giggles. Admitted you put 5 secs into composing it. That **is** trolling in my book. On the one hand you say you can’t understand how people are so upset by your post but you also said you did it just to get a rise out of us. This doesn’t jive for me. You can’t have it both ways it seems to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/128 "2009-08-24T21:10:22Z")
Rush Limbaugh has an enormous collection of child pornography, some of it pictures of Sarah Palin’s children, and snuff films, some of which is of naked children fighting to the death. He may or may not be the father of Bristol Palin’s child- hard to know since anybody who contributed more than $3000 to her mother’s campaign was given sexual access to her- but he’s definitely had an affair with Levi Johnston. I can’t back any of this up, but the OP is asking us to say incendiary things about people we disagree with for which we have no argumentation, evidence, or logic, right? ---
**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, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/129 "2009-08-24T21:12:26Z")
Does mswas actually disagree with Obama? ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/130 "2009-08-24T21:18:50Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Does mswas actually disagree with Obama? The fact that you have to ask makes you stupid. Nobody ever misunderstands him on the other messageboard, which is clearly made up of your intellectual superiors. ---
**Author:** ![ajb867](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@ajb867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajb867)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/131 "2009-08-24T21:20:30Z")
For fucks sake if you are going to make a thread like this at least include this image… [http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3958/1250553200967.jpg](http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3958/1250553200967.jpg) ---
**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, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/132 "2009-08-24T21:31:52Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > it’s that I think there are a lot of people around these parts who are profoundly stupid. You useless fucking hypocrite. ---
**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, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/133 "2009-08-24T21:35:15Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Silly me, I thought “you all” meant you were responding to _several_ posters (if not all of them). All the ones who were scandalized by it. You can obviously throw **Twickster** in there. > [@](#): > > I actually don’t see much anger in elbows’ post, but some rather valid questions regarding trolling. Why is it trolling if you don’t think my joke is funny? So let me see if I understand you. Good joke, not trolling. Bad joke, trolling. The intent of the poster is irrelevant, it’s whatever the reader perceives? ---
**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, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/134 "2009-08-24T21:36:16Z")
> [@Gary\_Kumquat](#): > > You useless fucking hypocrite. I do not think that word means what you think it means. **ajb867** Obama is just like Ozzy Osbourne? ---
**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, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/135 "2009-08-24T21:38:57Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > What bothers people is you’re such a one trick pony. That and the fact that you’re not even intelligent enough to know how stupid you’re being. This is an idiotic non-statement. > [@](#): > > There was no joke, it wasn’t funny, it wasn’t well written, it was offensive and you admitted you didn’t care about what any of us thought, just enjoying jerking the board around for giggles. Admitted you put 5 secs into composing it. There was a joke. It wasn’t funny, it wasn’t well written and it wasn’t actually offensive. If you were offended by it you’re a moron. When it got moved to the troll pit well, I admit I just went with, “when in Rome”, and engaged those who were trying to troll me on their level. > [@](#): > > That **is** trolling in my book. A hypocritical definition of the world trolling for sure. > [@](#): > > On the one hand you say you can’t understand how people are so upset by your post but you also said you did it just to get a rise out of us. This doesn’t jive for me. You can’t have it both ways it seems to me. There is no reason to be upset by it if you get the joke. In fact most people weren’t, most people groaned and moved on. Talk to **Twickster** , he shouldn’t have moved it to the Troll pit. ---
**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, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/136 "2009-08-24T21:40:40Z")
> [@Algorithm](#): > > The fact that you have to ask makes you stupid. Nobody ever misunderstands him on the other messageboard, which is clearly made up of your intellectual superiors. A lot of people on this message board have no trouble understanding me either and have come to post about it. It’s funny how often I get these pile-ons where several people will come in and prove that they understand me just fine and the people who don’t understand me will ignore that and continue to act like they represent ‘everyone’. Look up posts by **Miller** containing my name. You’ll see that he understands me just fine a lot of the time some of the same people in this thread are piling on as they do. ---
**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, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/137 "2009-08-24T21:41:58Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Rush Limbaugh has an enormous collection of child pornography, some of it pictures of Sarah Palin’s children, and snuff films, some of which is of naked children fighting to the death. He may or may not be the father of Bristol Palin’s child- hard to know since anybody who contributed more than $3000 to her mother’s campaign was given sexual access to her- but he’s definitely had an affair with Levi Johnston. > > I can’t back any of this up, but the OP is asking us to say incendiary things about people we disagree with for which we have no argumentation, evidence, or logic, right? Are you serious? I was making fun of people who say Obama is like Hitler. I wasn’t making fun of Obama, as has been explicitly stated already multiple times in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/138 "2009-08-24T21:42:31Z")
**Elbows** : Have you reported the posts of his that you believe to be an exampe of trolling. Reporting posts and making your agument in the little box that allows you to do so is probably more effective than just posting your arguments. Mods actually read the little note that accompanies someone reporting a post, this thread, probably not so much. It’s obvious none of them want this worthless thread, so perhaps they’re not even reading past the OP and a few early responses. In short, report the post/s you believe to be trolling in nature. 🙂 ---
**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, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/139 "2009-08-24T21:44:46Z")
I already asked the mods to close this thread. **elbows** is clearly trying to get a rise out of me, so he must be a troll. By **elbows** definition any joke that falls flat and offends someone is trolling. But **Covered In Bees** you are missing the most salient point here. What does this have to do with hot redheaded wiccan chicks? ---
**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, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466/140 "2009-08-24T21:45:45Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > You’ll see that he understands me just fine a lot of the time some of the same people in this thread are piling on as they do. Wow. See, this sentence is a perfect example of your inability to write coherently. It’s parsable, but it’s not easy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-i-met-barack-obama/507466.md?page=8)