# I Pit Obama and his Kool Aid Drinking Puppets **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845 "2008-06-22T22:56:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rael)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/1 "2008-06-22T22:56:06Z")
The level of groupthink present among the Obamamessiah’s disciples is astrounding. Is Obama truly stupid enough to believe the asinine things spewing out of his mouth on a daily basis? Do they not teach economics at Harvard? I don’t think he is that stupid. I think he simply knows the right things to say to attract the type of Kool Aid drinking drones That support him. “OMG! Someone has more of something than me! WAH!!! WAH!!!” \ “This is not fair!!!” Obama knows the true extend of the utter numbskullery present in his puppets. He knows his followers aren’t even smart enough to set their own thermostats! Well Mr Obama, unlike the mental midgets you have managed to assimilate with your “world owes me something” socialist rhetoric, I know how to adjust my own dial, and I don’t give a shit what the rest of the world, or YOU, think about it! ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/2 "2008-06-22T22:58:31Z")
[QUOTE=Rael] …and I don’t give a shit what the rest of the world, or YOU, think about it! [/QUOTE] Clearly, that’s not true. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/3 "2008-06-22T22:58:54Z")
Well I’m convinced. I’m voting for Barr now. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/4 "2008-06-22T23:02:16Z")
[QUOTE=Rael] Do they not teach economics at Harvard? [/QUOTE] Nope. Yale neither. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/5 "2008-06-22T23:06:32Z")
Wow, an OP with no cites, no real quotes, no hard fiscal statistics or analysis, and lots and lots of invective and repetitive talking points. And he’s _against_ Kool Aid drinking puppets! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/6 "2008-06-22T23:09:35Z")
It’s [Flavor Aid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown), dammit - unless the Kool-Aid of the title is a reference to immaturity/youthfulness. ---
**Author:** ![Rael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rael)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/7 "2008-06-22T23:18:18Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] Wow, an OP with no cites, no real quotes, no hard fiscal statistics or analysis, and lots and lots of invective and repetitive talking points. And he’s _against_ Kool Aid drinking puppets! [/QUOTE] It’s a Pit, not a research paper. If you have any cites or statistics to prove me wrong, feel free to add them to the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/8 "2008-06-22T23:18:19Z")
Can you a candidate who ran for President that did not just spit out bullshit rhetoric? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/9 "2008-06-22T23:19:13Z")
I wondered what the Raelians had been up to lately… ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/10 "2008-06-22T23:19:14Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] Wow, an OP with no cites, no real quotes, no hard fiscal statistics or analysis, and lots and lots of invective and repetitive talking points. And he’s _against_ Kool Aid drinking puppets! [/QUOTE] How is this different than most political threads around here these days? What, the OP was supposed to link to some news article and misinterpret it? Isn’t that pretty much how it works around here? ---
**Author:** ![Rael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rael)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/11 "2008-06-22T23:19:34Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder] It’s [Flavor Aid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown), dammit - unless the Kool-Aid of the title is a reference to immaturity/youthfulness. [/QUOTE] Yep I know. But most people don’t get the reference. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/12 "2008-06-22T23:19:38Z")
Dude. What the fuck are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Rael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rael)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/13 "2008-06-22T23:20:43Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Can you a candidate who ran for President that did not just spit out bullshit rhetoric? [/QUOTE] Perot maybe? Except when he withdrew and said Bush was out to get him and whatnot. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/14 "2008-06-22T23:23:17Z")
[QUOTE=Rael] It’s a Pit, not a research paper. If you have any cites or statistics to prove me wrong, feel free to add them to the thread. [/QUOTE] I think you have to make a claim first. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/15 "2008-06-22T23:28:50Z")
I like Obama. I think I’m going to vote for him. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/16 "2008-06-22T23:29:54Z")
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong] I think you have to make a claim first. [/QUOTE] He did make a claim: Libruls are stoopid pinko crybabies. I’m not saying there’s an actual coherent idea in the vacuum of his blather, but there is (to be a bit generous) an assertion. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/17 "2008-06-22T23:37:46Z")
[QUOTE=Rael] Perot maybe? Except when he withdrew and said Bush was out to get him and whatnot. [/QUOTE] Perot? You have to be kidding me. His whole campaign was Washington insiders this and foreigners stealing our jobs that. And then there was the insanely stupid idea of the electronic town halls. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/18 "2008-06-22T23:41:06Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] I like Obama. I think I’m going to vote for him. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I want my share of that swanky rich-dude stuff too. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/19 "2008-06-22T23:42:42Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] Dude. What the fuck are you talking about? [/QUOTE] Let me translate in to Middle Right-Wing Talking Pointese: Obama liberal! Liberal bad! We’re scared of Obama! He’s popular! Our candidate is 145 years old and can’t tell a Sunni from a Loonie! We’re gonna LOOOOOOSE!!! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/20 "2008-06-22T23:50:10Z")
Let translate into Middle Loony Moonbat: aaaa-HA HA HA HA HA! Yippie skippy, whoop de whoopity doo! Giggle, snerk, guffaw, har de har de har har har! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845.md?page=2)