Procter & Gamble scares me because they’re the kind of company that would make this hatebag a VP.
Yes, this is piling on the exposure of the utter stupidity of Pritchett’s babbling but for Crissakes, it’s no secret that his wife had a high paying job and Obama was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago. From the UofC:
It takes less than a minute of Goooooogling to verify this.
How stupid can some people (Pritchett) be and how further stupid can people be to listen to such idiots?
It’s called “Google”. Check it out sometime, it’s great.
Obama’s interest in alternative energy, I guess, with “wind mills” in scare quotes to, I gather, invoke a Don Quixote image of madness and futility.
If it weren’t utterly stupid, it would be very slightly clever.
What else would you expect from a company dedicated to serving the dark lord Satan?
Well, it WOULD explain the pointy headgear.
I didn’t see the need to let facts get in the way of a rant. I took my cue from the glurge in the OP 
Something people tend, with some justice, simply to assume of any pol coming out of Chicago. 
Six of one . . .
Mods, please, please move this thread to the Pit so I can respond appropriately.
Those are formative years, but the wording suggests Obama spent all of his formative years out of the country. Unless “the formative years of youth” are six to 10, and not, say, zero to 12 or something, this is not true. People grow up between the ages of six and 10, but they certainly don’t start growing up at six and they aren’t finished growing up at 10.
And that’s separate from whatever the author thinks “culturally American” means.
Lou Pritchett sounds like a massive idiot. Someone get him a life-preserver so he doesn’t drown in his soup!
So you have something against survival of the fittest?
Even the mentally disabled such as Lou Pritchett deserves mercy. I don’t want him to drown, I want him to fall down some stairs and be in a coma and let his family decide whether or not to use public health care to keep him alive.
You’d have to ask Pritchett.
Sure.
He attended a Muslim school for several years. Cite. He also spent some of his formative years outside the US (already cited).
And his half-brother lived in Kenya (cite). So both of his father figures, both his birth father and his step-father, lived with him outside the US, just as Pritchett mentioned.
None of this is disputed, any more than Pritchett’s assertions.
This is frankly a little petty, not to say stupid. It is roughly equivalent to saying that Obama has a funny-sounding foreign name, which is equally true and equally useless.
I think he means pretty much what he said, with the addition of what I mentioned about his Muslim school experience.
That is pretty much the same as with Diogenes - you have an opinion, based on facts you think are important, and Pritchett has another, also based on facts. You think his facts are unimportant; presumably he would think your facts are unimportant (as do I, in the cases I mentioned).
So what? Opinion is not unanimous about Obama. Boo hoo. As of recently, his approval rating has dropped by thirty points or so from its peak. Apparently people can change their opinion (except on the SDMB).
Imagine that.
Sure, in and of itself. Of course, you didn’t mention that Obama lived three blocks away from Ayers (cite) and admitted knowing him personally and, as I mentioned, it ws in his living room (cite) that his political career started.
You’re probably right - this is mostly faith-based argumentation, both for you and for Pritchett. Just as it was back when some Dopers were claiming that Bush was going to cancel the elections.
Gee, like we’ve never had any discussion about Wright in the Pit before.
For crying out loud, any criticism of St. Obama and you can’t debate rationally. :rolleyes: I mean, look at this shit -
All criticism of Obama has to be based on racism and xenophobia.
Regards,
Shodan
No - you are making the erroneous assumption that his opinion was based on facts. Just because you have found facts that support your opinion doesn’t mean he knows about those facts - it is certainly possible that his fears are unfounded and completely pulled out thin air.
In fact, he says they are. “I know nothing about you.” doesn’t mean informed opinon. Quite the opposite.
And “he likes hamburgers and american beer” are an excellent rebuttal to “culturally you are not an American.” At least, to those of us who have some idea of what American culture is. (Though admittedly, he’d need “He likes reality TV” to go for the trifecta.)
False. He went to a public school with a majority Muslim population. It was not a Muslim school.
So?
He never lived outside the US with his birth father. It’s irrelevant that he lived outside the US with his stepfather. He was a small child at the time. He has lived 44 of his 48 years (including most of his formative years) in the US. He is culturally as American as it gets.
He never went to a Muslim school. That is false.
So what?
Barely. So what?
This is false too. Don’t believe everything you see on Sean hannity.
And how exactly does his experience in “Sales and Customer Development” make his crazy paranoid rant anymore relevant than that of any other random man in the street (or mid-western militia compound) ?
Whether or not it’s true how Obama got started in politics, I’m very disappointed that a dangerous radical like Bill Ayers has something as mundane as a living room to launch the careers of his Manchurian Candidates in. Shouldn’t it be a lair under a volcano, or something?
Enough said or do you need an explanation?