Stupid rhetorical questions regarding unversal healthcare and stuff like that.

Suck it 'luci… two legs BAD!
Every thread must be told that. Relevancy be damned. Screw context. Two legs BAD!

There are a few other slogans to chant, too, slogans that simply must be chanted lest there be silence. But all that doesn’t matter, because TWO LEGS BAD!!!

It is nice to see that posterbot technology has moved along reasonably well. Slightly better than Eliza. But, you guys who programmed the Jimmy bot - could you try some artificial intelligence the next time, not artificial stupidity?

Voyager, can you elaborate on that?

I don’t have to, I’m not a US citizen.

Maybe this is what you’re missing, Jimmy. I’m assuming that you got this whole “worshipping Obama” meme on your own and didn’t download it from the Axis of Anal. And assuming you’re not just being a dick for the sheer hell of it, and sincerely believe you’re making a point.

A lot of us really, really like Obama. That’s a fact, I do too, I’ve even forgiven him for being smarter than me and having a wife who scorches footprints in the sidewalk when she barefoots. But he wasn’t my pick, I didn’t think he could do it, too many strikes against him before he even got to the plate. I underestimated my fellow citizens, I was alread gritting my teeth getting ready to vote for Hillary, who I cannot stand!

But something has happened here, something pretty darn amazing, especially to a pessimist like myself. He won. Handily. We are, it appears, a much more open and intelligent people than I had thought! I’lll stop short of “Hallelujah!” but its definitely worth a “Yeeee-haw!”

Its not even that he is so wonderful, but now I’m not waking up every morning like I have for loathe, these many years, worrying what the fuck that half-wit goober in the White House was gonna fuck up today!

That’s huge! It feels real good when they stop hitting you in the head with a hammer every damn morning! Real good!

He’s just a man, and far too centrist for my taste. But he’s a smart man, and a decent man, and, Lord God, but that’s an improvement! Are you old enough to remember when Nixon bit the dust? Remember how Gerald Ford was widely appreciated and admired, just because of who he wasn’t?

Its kinda like that. So maybe cut a little slack, OK, podnuh? And if you got something to actually bitch about, bitch away! But its pretty small to be bellyaching about how much people like him, don’t you think? Or don’t you?

That’s ARTIFICIAL?

Man, talk about realistic.

Yeah, who does he think he is, running for president when he’d only been working in government for 11 years?

No matter what, he’s still going to fail the Turing Test.

Yes, the what now?, no, and I do. And likewise I’ll assume you’re not being a dick for the sheer hell of it either.

Yes, that is apparent.

Yeah, I hear you. I didn’t vote for George W. Bush either. I voted Republican. I wish they had run someone else.

I’m there now!

Yes, I do. And how did that turn for us? When did “he’s not as bad as the last guy” become a reason to elect someone president? Oh, right… 2008.

OK, podnuh.

I think you’re missing my point. I’m not bellyaching about how much people like him. I’m bellyaching because “he’s not as bad as the last guy” has morphed into “he’s the greatest thing since hot buttered toast! Fuck that, *cinnamon *toast!!!” If people around here were more along the lines of…

… or the semi-sarcastic

… or qualified their support with

… or even

(note to **elucidator **– that’s heresy in some circles)
… or

… or even realistic praise that doesn’t rise to the level of fellating, like

then I’d have scarse few opportunities to point and call “worshiper”. It’s the fools and tools who get all bent out of shape at the slightest opposition whom I find mock-worthy. To be fair, when I see a Bush supporter getting bent up because someone called him “shrub” or “half-wit goober” I think they, too, have a little of the Captain… I mean the stupid in them. But the ratio of Obama-worshipers to Bush-worshipers on this board is approximately 823:1, so it’s a target-rich environment.

You’re *almost *funny.

And lastly… if anyone, anyone, gets upset about anything, anything, I have said here, then I have only one question for you:

How have *you *pledged to serve Obama today?

Nobody has except some celebrities. Which kind of renders your rant moot.

I don’t think anybody’s getting upset. At least, I’m not. I just don’t think you’re funny. Or particularly bright.

Not upset either. Your perceptions are a bit off kilter though… Almost like you’re trying to manufacture some outrage where none actually exists. Now where have I seen that before… hmmmm.

For example, the OP. Superfluous Parentheses has no dog in this fight, yet still is able to get worked into a froth over our political environment and topic du jour.

You’re right, you don’t have to, but you did. You are a worshiper.

It’s pretty clear who pledged to troll the message boards today. :rolleyes:

So Bosstone, woodstockbirdybird, Rhythmdvl, and Euphonious Polemic, are you going on record as saying you have not pledged to serve Obama? Because they’re taking names you know. You won’t be let in when The One opens the gates to Utopia.

It works at Fox. It is stupid any where else.
Take a poll and you would find practically nobody who thinks Obama is great. Some of us are waiting to see what he accomplishes. He has barely started for crying out loud.
Many of us think he is too middle of the road. I suspected he was fairly conservative and am sorry to see I may have been right.

It really makes no sense to ask rhetorical questions of people who get their opinions and slogans from Beck et al. Let’s face it, it’s the law of averages that someone out there will make Sarah Palin seem erudite. Not by much, but there it is. It’s kind of like diarrhea leaking down some homeless person’s leg… she makes a few insinuations, it runs down to the echo chamber where it gets picked up, and then the emulation starts, people following their heroes by (and serving their ends) by trolling message boards or showing up at protest rallies to shout down The Enemy rather than engage in democracy. It’s a fantasy that some bullies grow out of it or gain perspective–whether today’s troll is fifteen and clueless or fifty and clueless, it’s still a troll.

It’s unfortunate that there are a lot of legitimate concerns over health care legislation, but they are getting largely drowned by people who either truly don’t understand them or wallow in their ignorance. But sloganeering is fun, and I assume there’s some sort of masturbatory glee in thinking “hoo-boy did I sure give it to those libs nyuck nyuck nyuck.” You know… two legs bad and all that. It’s not like Orwell was describing a particular State at the time; he was describing a human proclivity.

I’m taking names of people that I feel sorry for. <ticks Jimmy Joe’s name>

I have here in my hand a list of 205 . . . 75. . . 57. . .4! a list of 4 names that were made known to Jimmy Joe as being members of the Obama Love Party and who nevertheless are still posting as members with full posting privileges.

Hey, you fucking troll, you wanna take your act over to a message board where the so-called worship is actually happening? 'Cause, I, for one, am getting a little tired of your schtick.

And, in case you are actually interested in sticking around and being a Doper, I was serious in my earlier post. In what respect do you believe Barack Obama is unqualified to be President?