# Pictures of white people mourning Romney **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 8, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321 "2012-11-08T03:21:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/21 "2012-11-08T12:48:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [This one](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md5b3uYpCz1rkd8gso1_500.jpg) almost looks like it could be a Norman Rockwell painting. All that’s missing is the crying Statue of Liberty from the Onion cartoons ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/22 "2012-11-08T12:58:10Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > More evidence of [anti-white racism](http://www.rightwingnews.com/civil-rights/barack-obama-is-an-anti-white-racist/). Can’t you just see the passion, the desire, in the faces of [these patriotic citizens](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/08/28/us/28caucus-shear/28caucus-shear-blog480.jpg) as they cry out for **more** liberty, justice and Americanism? Whenever I read your posts I laugh because I think it’s sarcastic and/or satirical. Then I check the username attached, and…well, I’m still not convinced you’re \*not \*doing some Stephen Colbert schtick. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/23 "2012-11-08T13:28:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [This one](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md5b3uYpCz1rkd8gso1_500.jpg) almost looks like it could be a Norman Rockwell painting. And Norman Rockwell would have done it satirically. [His work](http://www.nrm.org/2010/10/norman-rockwell%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cthe-problem-we-all-live-with%E2%80%9D-continues-to-resonate-as-important-symbol-for-civil-rights/) was not as saccharine & simplistic as some would assume. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/24 "2012-11-08T13:57:47Z")
I feel kind of bad [for this kid](http://whitepeoplemourningromney.tumblr.com/image/35238043978). Not that Romney lost, but that he looks to be about 11-12 years old and has been dragged deeply enough into our mess of American politics that it drives him to tears when “his guy” loses. Go play some Xbox, kid. Or baseball. Or discover that about 50% of your classmates are growing boobs. ---
**Author:** ![dimmy\_derko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@dimmy\_derko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dimmy_derko)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/25 "2012-11-08T14:04:06Z")
I love the smell of dashed hopes and dreams on the morning after an election. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/26 "2012-11-08T14:10:32Z")
> [@Feyrat](#): > > I cannot for the life of me figure out how this woman’s legs work. What the hell? > > [http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c90.0.403.403/p403x403/486278\_10151240002038258\_146859507\_n.jpg](http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c90.0.403.403/p403x403/486278_10151240002038258_146859507_n.jpg) Is…is she sitting next to Dustin Hoffman? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/27 "2012-11-08T14:13:10Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I’m playing “count the minorities.” I think I’m at 1. Well, to be fair, they are labeled “_White_ People Mourning Romney.” It just turned out the the other collection of photographs all featured the same three guys. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/28 "2012-11-08T14:16:36Z")
I must be a bad person. I’ve got the giggles just now. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/29 "2012-11-08T14:21:10Z")
> [@Feyrat](#): > > I cannot for the life of me figure out how this woman’s legs work. What the hell? > > [http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c90.0.403.403/p403x403/486278\_10151240002038258\_146859507\_n.jpg](http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c90.0.403.403/p403x403/486278_10151240002038258_146859507_n.jpg) It sort of reminds me of my niece, who was born with hip dysplasia. She could sit on her butt with her thighs/knees on the floor, and her lower legs at 90 degree angles to the uppers. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/30 "2012-11-08T14:25:01Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Is…is she sitting next to Dustin Hoffman? Heee! Toot-toot-tootsieee, don’t cryyyyy!!! This is the money shot right [here](http://whitepeoplemourningromney.tumblr.com/image/35255657543). Yes. Yes. Making this my screen saver! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/31 "2012-11-08T14:29:21Z")
> [@Feyrat](#): > > But her KNEES are in the completely wrong place/angle for that! I mean, I know how she’s theoretically sitting, but something in that picture is just… not working. 3 women, not two. The one on the right is kneeling and you can’t see her legs at all. The legs you **do** see belong to the woman asleep on the floor behind woman #1. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/32 "2012-11-08T17:17:11Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 3 women, not two. The one on the right is kneeling and you can’t see her legs at all. The legs you **do** see belong to the woman asleep on the floor behind woman #1. It looks to me like there are two different shoes on those legs- so either they belong to two different women or she wore odd shoes that day. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/33 "2012-11-08T17:20:13Z")
They look like slippers to me. The odd color is a sock on her right foot. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/34 "2012-11-08T17:53:39Z")
So I mean, I guess I’m being “that guy” but I actually think it’s wrong to make fun of the people in these pictures. In fact I think compassion is the correct attitude here. Well… anyway… that’s how I feel about it. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/35 "2012-11-08T17:54:44Z")
They lost an election, not one of their children. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/36 "2012-11-08T17:55:48Z")
I realize it’s a joke, but the website would be more accurately called “dysfunctional white people mourning Romney”. Most well-adjusted white people I know… supported the Democrats in this race. Not to mention that Obama won some of the whitest states in the country (Minnesota! Vermont! **Iowa**!) The demographic argument is hugely overblown IMHO. The better candidate won, simple as that. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/37 "2012-11-08T17:58:00Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Hah; I did that last night with the CNN live feed of Romney’s campaign headquarters. I also counted only one possible minority; some guy who looked like he might have had an Asian ancestor somewhere. A huge contrast to the people in Obama’s headquarters live feed. I was watching footage of the Romney HQ crowd on CNN and saw a Sikh guy, and was like, “what the fuck?” Then I realized they’d switched to Obama HQ without changing the graphic. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/38 "2012-11-08T18:34:51Z")
I’m not usually one for mean-spirited humor, but this was deeply satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/39 "2012-11-08T18:52:05Z")
> [@Feyrat](#): > > But her KNEES are in the completely wrong place/angle for that! I mean, I know how she’s theoretically sitting, but something in that picture is just… not working. [Didn’t any of you ever see _Edward Scissorhands_?](http://www.otekisinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Fantasturca001.png) ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321/40 "2012-11-08T19:34:50Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > I realize it’s a joke, but the website would be more accurately called “dysfunctional white people mourning Romney”. Most well-adjusted white people I know… supported the Democrats in this race. Not to mention that Obama won some of the whitest states in the country (Minnesota! Vermont! **Iowa**!) The demographic argument is hugely overblown IMHO. The better candidate won, simple as that. There were plenty of white Obama voters. (I’m one!) But there were very few non-white Romney voters… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-white-people-mourning-romney/640321.md?page=3)