I know, this may be a little controversial in the flyover counties, or whatever we’re calling them these days. I’m sure there are lots of people in those places who don’t think otherwise.
But credible sources claim Barack Hussein Obama’s birth certificate has been verified by the appropriate authorities. I don’t really want to go further into the details in order to keep this on an MPSIMS level.
We could play checkers. We could play chess. Tic-Tac-Toe or global thermonuclear war. Or debate this one. Nah. This one looks even quicker (see below):
Considering that in many places, “Resolved” means “This has been discussed and decided/agreed upon”, my first reaction to this thread was “And in other news, the Pope is still Catholic and General Franco is still dead”.
The implication is that there’s nothing important at all between New York/Washington/Chicago and Los Angeles/San Francisco/Las Vegas, hence it’s just effectively a bunch of empty space you have to fly over to get to anywhere interesting. Sort of like the Outback between Sydney/Melbourne and Perth, despite the fact you’ve got Adelaide and Alice Springs there…
People who live on the coasts of the US use it to deride people who live in the middle as backward hicks. It’s usually “flyover states”, though.
I lived in the Midwest for six years and often heard this shit from my family in California. You’d think they were shocked to learn we had electricity and running water in the rural village of Chicago.
I prefer red staters, because it is possible to be a red stater living in a blue state and a blue stater living in a red state. Flyover is geographic, while red stater is a frame of mind. Also the term red stater really pisses of some people, so its got that going for it, too.
In fact, since Obama has not been naturalised, he can only be a citizen if he is a natural-born citizen. If he had been born outside the U.S., he would not be a natural-born citizen: his father was not a citizen, and his mother was too young.
(This, of course, is purely hypothetical, since there is conclusive evidence that he was born in Hawaii, which at the time was a state of the United States, but it’s the reason why the Birthers have gone on with their nonsense so long.)
Whoa. Funny how the simplest things are so difficult.
What I thought would be funny is the image of an Oxford-style debate on the subject. Hence the word ‘resolved’. You know, a bunch of guys get dressed up, head to the auditorium and formally hash out the subject for an audience, maybe broadcast on radio or TV.
I thought the whole notion of people wasting their time taking this so seriously was funny. Yah I meant to be a little disdainful of hickdom too, but I expected everyone to know that these generalizations don’t mean anything. Except that the uh, more rural areas seem to be where notions like ‘BHO isn’t a citizen!’ comes from.
I hope I don’t get my ass kicked for saying the guy is an American :eek: I mean, born here :eek: I mean, not a …, o never mind.
Every four years the U.S.A. holds a national test of intelligence and sanity. The results from 2008 follow the typical pattern; here states where 50% or more of the participating adult population failed the test are shown in Red. With only a few exceptions, you can see that states with a majority of sane, intelligent people adjoin large bodies of water. When traveling between the saner regions, many Americans like to fly over the intervening regions quickly, in case stupidity is contagious.
