# Obama campaign harvests emails and symbolically screws a blue elephant with a red wand **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 26, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122 "2011-08-26T01:42:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122/61 "2011-08-28T01:21:17Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Sit down, dad, you’re drunk. **Bosstrain** , is that you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![code\_grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@code\_grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/code_grey)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122/62 "2011-08-28T01:31:41Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Sit down, dad, you’re drunk. I am not going to make any more claims about your Mom’s proclivities, sonny, I promise 😉 IMHO it’s good to have a funny, snarky discussion full of ripostes, but wannabe fascists like **Oakminster** spoil the fun. An oak that has put on some blackface does not a minstrel make. Listening to such people is boring. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122/63 "2011-08-28T01:43:19Z")
> [@code\_grey](#): > > when the obamist rat fails to get his libtard intolerance implemented by the legitimate government/mods it next tries to assemble a [del]lynch[/del] flash mob to get his way extralegally. Amiright, history’s smallest **Oakmonster**? > > Coming back to OP, perhaps accusing Obama of screwing the “elephant” is not particularly accurate. Given that he screws up everything that still moves on this continent, perhaps it would be more appropriate to depict him screwing the American bald eagle instead. Did your mother not breastfeed you or something? Or maybe your dementia stems from those times when your “uncle” would visit your bedroom unannounced. But you probably enjoyed that, didn’t you. Just keep jerking off to the voices in your head. It amuses us all to read the rantings of a sociopath. ---
**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 28, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122/64 "2011-08-28T02:19:36Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Did your mother not breastfeed you or something? Or maybe your dementia stems from those times when your “uncle” would visit your bedroom unannounced. But you probably enjoyed that, didn’t you. Just keep jerking off to the voices in your head. It amuses us all to read the rantings of a sociopath. Hey! You don’t know, maybe his uncle was a good kisser. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122/65 "2011-08-28T02:33:03Z")
> [@code\_grey](#): > > IMHO it’s good to have a funny, snarky discussion full of ripostes, Me too! Let me know if one starts somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122/66 "2011-08-28T02:41:01Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > Wow, those must be _really_ good drugs. [I bet.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDoIM1dRzGo&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122/67 "2011-08-28T02:58:01Z")
> [@code\_grey](#): > > a librat is a mix of “liberal”, “democrat” and “rat”. You gotta open your mind, man, and see the big picture. > > RE African Americans and “others were offended”, yeah, so? This is the BBQ Pit. It’s the place where people offend and are offended. Besides, how did you figure out I consider Obama a representative of “African Americans”? Maybe deep inside he is actually the first Chimp-American president instead, subsaharan facial features notwithstanding. For all we know (in the absence of the relevant birth certificates), his grandmother may have been sufficiently tolerantly non-speciest as to get a mate from the wrong sort of Hominidae - just asking questions here, that’s all 🆒 > > As for the shoes, markup is as inevitable as death, taxes and Democratic party. But 800% markup on, again, small and non-perishable goods is obscenely excessive. > > ETA: additional research shows that there are few chimps in Kenya itself, but lots of them in nearby Tanzania. [http://www.outtoafrica.nl/animals/engchimpanzee.html?zenden=2&subsoort\_id=1&bestemming\_id=1](http://www.outtoafrica.nl/animals/engchimpanzee.html?zenden=2&subsoort_id=1&bestemming_id=1) . There is some suggestion of existence of (famously promiscuous) bonobos in Kenya though. Hate speech is forbidden in the Pit. This was pointed out to you by other posters, and you continued anyway, which means it’s not only hate speech, but trolling, too. This is your 3rd warning this year. I have suspended you for 30 days pending staff review. It may turn into a ban. Since the OP is suspended and no longer able to defend himself, I am closing this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122.md?page=3)