# Online game lets RWs fantasize about hunting down "Obama and the renegade Cong" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 20, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415 "2009-10-20T00:36:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/1 "2009-10-20T00:36:49Z")
[Here.](http://www.usofearth.com/2011-obamas-coup-fails.php) It’s a scenario where Obama announces a “North American Union” and sparks a RW revolution. You get to play the revolutionaries. ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/2 "2009-10-20T00:42:24Z")
So what? It’s a game. Big fucking deal. What would be your reaction if it were about Bush and Cheney instead? ---
**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:** [October 20, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/3 "2009-10-20T00:45:10Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > So what? It’s a game. Big fucking deal. > > What would be your reaction if it were about Bush and Cheney instead? Personally, I would think that was pretty awful as well. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/4 "2009-10-20T00:46:38Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Personally, I would think that was pretty awful as well. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/5 "2009-10-20T00:46:59Z")
It’s easy for everyone to say that NOW. It’s really easy for people to say, “yeah if it had happened under Bush, I would have opposed it too.” And, like any good rhetorical device, it’s impossible to prove or disprove. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/6 "2009-10-20T00:49:33Z")
I don’t find it disturbing. Just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/7 "2009-10-20T00:50:56Z")
Yeah, its weird, but I wouldn’t worry much about it. Evony for Rightards. Besides, I read underground comics with decidedly violent revolutionary themes, didn’t make me any crazier than I already was. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/8 "2009-10-20T00:51:50Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > What would be your reaction if it were about Bush and Cheney instead? Chaney had a real life FPS, just ask his hunting buddy. ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/9 "2009-10-20T00:53:52Z")
Agreed. It’s a stupid game that means precisely dick. Just so nobody can call me a lib/dem whore or whatever, out of the 50 or 60 politicians I’ve been privileged to know, every single one was a fucking crook. Why get bent out of shape over some dumbass internet game? That’s sort of like being outraged that people play WoW instead of spending time outdoors. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/10 "2009-10-20T00:56:06Z")
You have to sign up to play? Fascism at its finest. I just want to play the game without having my e-mail and IP get saved into some sort of Obama hating database. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/11 "2009-10-20T00:56:19Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > It’s easy for everyone to say that NOW. It’s really easy for people to say, “yeah if it had happened under Bush, I would have opposed it too.” And, like any good rhetorical device, it’s impossible to prove or disprove. Which makes the question as ridiculous to ask as it is to answer. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/12 "2009-10-20T01:00:51Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > Which makes the question as ridiculous to ask as it is to answer. Bingo. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/13 "2009-10-20T01:07:54Z")
Argent Towers I don’t think there should be games where the goal is to assassinate a real president of the USA. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/14 "2009-10-20T01:10:40Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Argent Towers I don’t think there should be games where the goal is to assassinate a real president of the USA. [Like this one?](http://www.miniclip.com/games/bush-shoot-out/en/) Haha! Nevermind. I just actually played that game and it’s not quite what I thought it was. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/15 "2009-10-20T01:10:59Z")
And for the record, I think a game where you had to hunt down and defeat Dick Cheney would be friggin’ awesome. He’d be one of the toughest video game bosses of all time. Every shot he fires is a head shot! ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/16 "2009-10-20T01:11:17Z")
I don’t see anything about assassinating anyone. The objective as stated on the website is to capture Obama. > [@](#): > > Join in NOW and help Capture Obama and the renegade Cong. Defeat the Union Troops and other allies of the former President and help safeguard American Freedom. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/17 "2009-10-20T01:14:21Z")
Closest similar thing I can think of is JKF Reloaded (or something like that) where you try to duplicate Oswald’s shots. Difference is, that game is intended to demonstrate that it’s perfectly possible that Oswald acted alone, not to endorse the murder. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/18 "2009-10-20T01:18:04Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I don’t see anything about assassinating anyone. The objective as stated on the website is to capture Obama. I got that from the OP. In that case hunt him down. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/19 "2009-10-20T01:23:20Z")
So long as the hunting down doesn’t involve bloodhounds baying on his trail… ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415/20 "2009-10-20T01:31:14Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Difference is, that game is intended to demonstrate that it’s perfectly possible that Oswald acted alone, not to endorse the murder. That was their official line for the press; really though, I think the game is intended to provide people with the “thrill” of assassinating John F. Kennedy, and it succeeded. It created a huge controversy, and lots of people bought it (myself included.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-game-lets-rws-fantasize-about-hunting-down-obama-and-the-renegade-cong/514415.md?page=2)