# The 800 pound gorilla in the room: Barack Obama

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 12, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948 "2011-12-12T19:48:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948/41 "2011-12-14T00:06:22Z")

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Finally, **jsgoddess** got her translator.  
**Euphonious Polemic** - everyone is talking about the economy because the President wants to talk about it:

> [@Kozmik](#):
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> What will the 2012 election be about? Whatever the 800 pound gorilla wants. 😃

And, no, I am not the walrus. I am Ferris Bueller.

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**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948/42 "2011-12-14T00:20:16Z")

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In that case, I suggest you take a day off. Several of them maybe.

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**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948/43 "2011-12-14T00:43:09Z")

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> [@Kozmik](#):
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> **Euphonious Polemic** - everyone is talking about the economy because the President wants to talk about it:

So an 800 pound gorilla can lead a horse to water AND make him drink?

I thought only Chuck Norris could make a horse do that.

Come to think of it, who is the Chuck Norris in the room in this election?

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948/44 "2011-12-14T00:44:11Z")

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> [@Ravenman](#):
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> Come to think of it, who is the Chuck Norris in the room in this election?

Only Perry is stupid enough now that Palin isn’t around.

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**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948/45 "2011-12-14T00:55:25Z")

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> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> In that case, I suggest you take a day off. Several of them maybe.

That’s the suggestion I’d give Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney.

I’m scheduled to work the next five days. I won’t have several days off until before Christmas. Even Ferris Bueller has to work.

> [@Ravenman](#):
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> So an 800 pound gorilla can lead a horse to water AND make him drink?

Because the 800 pound gorilla wants the 2012 election to be about the elephant in the room!😛

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948/46 "2011-12-14T01:10:39Z")

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Kozmik, you’ve posted over a dozen times in this thread and I still have absolutely no idea why you started it or what you’re saying.

Congratulations on achieving political perfection.

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948/47 "2011-12-14T01:20:48Z")

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> [@CitizenPained](#):
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> Did you seriously just call a black man an 800 lb **gorilla**?

Seriously. You’d think he’d know better than to make a fat joke on the SDMB.

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**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948/48 "2011-12-14T01:27:05Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> Seriously. You’d think he’d know better than to make a fat joke on the SDMB.

It’s a metaphor.

> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> [Also, gorillas don’t get anywhere near 800 pounds](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla#Physical_characteristics).

What **Skald** said.

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-800-pound-gorilla-in-the-room-barack-obama/605948/49 "2011-12-14T01:28:58Z")

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> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> OK then let’s sum up:

Please stay in the thread, Inigo. I might need you again.

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