# Focus on the Family wants Obama Drowned Out. Literally. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 13, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851 "2008-08-13T15:38:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/81 "2008-08-26T12:03:16Z")
> [@](#): > > The sprinkler was located on the club level in a skybox which had recently been renovated to host a news crew. It appears the skybox belongs to Fox. _chokes on breakfast_ God is an iron. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/82 "2008-08-26T13:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=OttoDaFe] [From the _London Times_](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4520147.ece): [/QUOTE] Nitpick: it’s not “The London Times”. The name of the paper is _The Times_. If you’re citing it outside Britain, you call it London’s \*The Times \* or \*The Times \* of London. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/83 "2008-08-26T17:07:35Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] Thursday’s forecast for Denver: Sunny, with a high of 86. God must love Obama. [/QUOTE] That forecast is just to make the sudden downpour of blood, frogs, rain, and two-headed kittens that much more shocking. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/84 "2008-08-26T17:24:56Z")
OK, I want the two-headed kittens. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/85 "2008-08-26T17:31:07Z")
Tropical storm [Julio, now a depression](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep1+shtml/143513.shtml?5day#contents), has been a major downer for FotF. Hurricane Gustav might also be, depending on where it hits [next week.](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/144112.shtml?5day#contents) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/86 "2008-08-26T18:01:05Z")
Every time I look at the hurricane prediction map, I keep thinking about the Cone of Silence! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/87 "2008-08-26T21:31:55Z")
[QUOTE=Oy!] OK, I want the two-headed kittens. [/QUOTE] Sorry, ma’am, but they’ve all been requisitioned for the Smiting of the Democrats. Could I interest you instead in a [four-eared cat?](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046684/Meet-Yoda-cat-FOUR-ears.html) ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/88 "2008-08-26T21:55:53Z")
OK, I’ll take that instead. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/89 "2008-08-27T00:14:23Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Sorry, ma’am, but they’ve all been requisitioned for the Smiting of the Democrats. [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure **Oy!** _is_ a Democrat. Does she get off without a smiting just because she isn’t going to the Convention? ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/90 "2008-08-27T03:52:44Z")
I don’t want a smiting. I just want a strange kitten! (And yes, I am almost always a Democrat) ETA: But if you’re fresh out, I’ll take the cat with four ears. Better yet, the Maine Coon cats with the double toes! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/91 "2008-08-27T15:06:10Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Could I interest you instead in a [four-eared cat?](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046684/Meet-Yoda-cat-FOUR-ears.html) [/QUOTE] I’d have named it Damien. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/92 "2008-08-27T15:08:07Z")
Shhh- it can hear you… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/93 "2008-08-27T15:22:32Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] I’d have named it Damien. [/QUOTE] Hehe…if I ever get a [Sphinx cat](http://balivetman.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/sphinx-cat.jpg), I’m naming it either Stitch or Gollum… ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/94 "2008-08-27T17:11:03Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] That is possibly the only thing that could make me regret that I’m not American - that I couldn’t vote for Prince. ☹ [/QUOTE] Before you can vote for Prince, you have to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/95 "2008-08-27T17:11:32Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Hehe…if I ever get a [Sphinx cat](http://balivetman.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/sphinx-cat.jpg), I’m naming it either Stitch or Gollum… [/QUOTE] [Speaking of which…](http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2058551450000735275yxZzAf) ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/96 "2008-08-27T17:18:56Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] [Speaking of which…](http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2058551450000735275yxZzAf) [/QUOTE] What the hell _is_ that and why did I have to look at it? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/97 "2008-08-27T23:33:41Z")
> [@](#): > > During his radio show today, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh asked former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) how he believed the Republican party would respond if Hurricane Gustav makes landfall in New Orleans during the Republican National Convention. “I think they’ve called in Pat Robertson to pray it off the coast,” [via ThinkProgress](http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/27/huckabee-pray-gustav/) ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/98 "2008-08-28T21:33:04Z")
This just in: [GOP Storm Warning - Gustav poses potential threat to convention](http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/28/gustav-threatens-gop-convention-plans/) > [@](#): > > Mindful of hosting cocktail parties while Gulf Coast residents evacuate, McCain camp could postpone GOP convention ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/99 "2008-08-28T21:47:17Z")
[QUOTE=Patty O’Furniture] This just in: [GOP Storm Warning - Gustav poses potential threat to convention](http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/28/gustav-threatens-gop-convention-plans/) [/QUOTE] Perhaps they’d like to wait until the hurricane season (June 1 to November 30) is over before having their convention. Isn’t this behavior just a little too much scaredy-cats, even for Republicans? I mean, the convention _is_ in Minnesota, isn’t it? Not a lot of danger there, and it isn’t like they’ve ever been concerned for anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851/100 "2008-08-28T21:54:10Z")
[QUOTE=3acresandatruck] Perhaps they’d like to wait until the hurricane season (June 1 to November 30) is over before having their convention. Isn’t this behavior just a little too much scaredy-cats, even for Republicans? I mean, the convention _is_ in Minnesota, isn’t it? Not a lot of danger there, and it isn’t like they’ve ever been concerned for anyone else. [/QUOTE] I think they’re more concerned about the convention getting bigfooted by hurricane coverage, as well as the bad image of appearing to party while the Gulf states drown. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/focus-on-the-family-wants-obama-drowned-out-literally/459851.md?page=6)