# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/61 "2008-06-23T02:24:43Z")
Inspired by the OP, I’m writing in Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F’tang-F’tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel of the Official Monster Raving Looney Party. ---
**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 23, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/62 "2008-06-23T02:25:53Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] Great! [/QUOTE] :eek: Back to Obama! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/63 "2008-06-23T02:30:01Z")
Ya’ll make fun of Rael all you want, but I notice that you very conveniently overlook something: he has a valid point. Obama is a ubersocialist and Rael hits on this: [QUOTE=Rael] “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! [/QUOTE] After all, we’ve heard little jewels like this come out of the Obama camp: > [@](#): > > “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” Why does every salivate over Obama with crap like this, instead of being scared shitless by it? ---
**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 23, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/64 "2008-06-23T02:34:08Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Why does every salivate over Obama with crap like this, instead of being scared shitless by it? [/QUOTE] :dubious: You’re acting like he’s the first Democrat/politician ever to talk about taxes for social programs. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/65 "2008-06-23T02:35:20Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Why does every salivate over Obama with crap like this, instead of being scared shitless by it? [/QUOTE] Some of us don’t like pie. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/66 "2008-06-23T02:35:23Z")
[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] Actually, as we all know, Kool-Aid is what blacks drink… ---
**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 23, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/67 "2008-06-23T02:40:12Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Why does every salivate over Obama with crap like this, instead of being scared shitless by it? [/QUOTE] I’m more scared by politicians who pretend that you can pay for expensive things (like, you know, wars) by just running up a huge deficit and hoping someone else will pay the bill down the road. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/68 "2008-06-23T02:40:34Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Ya’ll make fun of Rael all you want, but I notice that you very conveniently overlook something: he has a valid point. Obama is a ubersocialist and Rael hits on this: After all, we’ve heard little jewels like this come out of the Obama camp: Why does every salivate over Obama with crap like this, instead of being scared shitless by it? [/QUOTE] “Y’all.” _Y’all_, for Christ’s sake. Short for “you all”. What the fuck did you think the apostrophe is for? Oh, and learn what the hell socialism is, numbnuts. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/69 "2008-06-23T02:42:21Z")
[QUOTE=Rael] 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? [/QUOTE] This is probably an exercise in futility, but – give us some specific examples of statements by Sen. Obama, and explain why they’re wrong. Or else shut the fuck up, because you sound like a scared, whiny bitch and it grates on my mental eardrums. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/70 "2008-06-23T02:56:02Z")
[QUOTE=Rael] Do they not teach economics at Harvard? [/quote] Not at the law school, they don’t. (Obama did his undergrad work at Columbia.) They **do** teach economics at the University of Chicago, which produced [Obama’s economic advisors,](http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/klein) who are of Milton Friedman’s economic-libertarian [Chicago School.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_%28economics%29) To even suggest Obama is a socialist is utterly retarded. **If only!** A more just criticism is Ralph Nader’s, that Obama is [just another corporate candidate.](http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/18/ralph_nader_on_barack_obama_it) Still way preferable to any Republican alternative, though. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/71 "2008-06-23T02:57:14Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] I am voting for Obama because he will kill all the rich people and let us feast upon their flesh. [/QUOTE] That’s why Obama has the zombie vote ! A whole new meaning to voting the cemetery. Obama : “A vote for Obama is a vote for brains !” Zombies : “Braiiiiins ! Voooooote !” ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/72 "2008-06-23T03:04:39Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] This is probably an exercise in futility, but – give us some specific examples of statements by Sen. Obama, and explain why they’re wrong. Or else shut the fuck up, because you sound like a scared, whiny bitch and it grates on my mental eardrums. [/QUOTE] It’s already been quoted in this thread. “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/73 "2008-06-23T03:05:30Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] I am voting for Obama because he will kill all the rich people and let us feast upon their flesh. [/QUOTE] Well, DUH! The poor are tough and stringy! ---
**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:** [June 23, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/74 "2008-06-23T03:08:28Z")
:dubious: Does that mean Obama’s VP will be George Romero? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/75 "2008-06-23T03:08:29Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] It’s already been quoted in this thread. “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” [/QUOTE] That’s step 1. Now you have to “explain why they’re wrong.” **Sam Stone** or **Renob** maybe could make at least the beginnings of an arguable case there, but **you** can’t. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/76 "2008-06-23T03:20:45Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Why does every salivate over Obama with crap like this, instead of being scared shitless by it? [/QUOTE] In case you’re not joking … holy everyloving fuck you’re retarded. Seriously mentally handicapped. I hope you don’t have children or operate heavy machinery. “Oh noes! Someone said government programs have to be paid for, and I’m conditioned to bark at the phrase ‘government programs’! Bark bark bark!” Not that it’ll probably help, but I’ll type this slowly: A statement that large government programs will require somebody to pay for them is what adults call “a statement of fact”. Adults do not fear statements of fact. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/77 "2008-06-23T03:21:38Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] I am voting for Obama because he will kill all the rich people and let us feast upon their flesh. [/QUOTE] nom nom nom. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/78 "2008-06-23T03:23:30Z")
[QUOTE=BlackKnight] In case you’re not joking … holy everyloving fuck you’re retarded. Seriously mentally handicapped. [/QUOTE] [And a shit-and-run intellectual coward, too.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=414639) ---
**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 23, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/79 "2008-06-23T03:32:05Z")
The really nice thing about **Clothahump** is that about every 3 or 4 months, he voluntarily comes in and recertifies his stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845/80 "2008-06-23T03:32:51Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] That’s step 1. Now you have to “explain why they’re wrong.” **Sam Stone** or **Renob** maybe could make at least the beginnings of an arguable case there, but **you** can’t. [/QUOTE] Redistribution is decidely NOT the American way, and it never has been. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-obama-and-his-kool-aid-drinking-puppets/453845.md?page=5)