I have to agree. What reason does anyone have to blame anyone other than the restaurant owner? Although I do disagree in that I find it somewhat offensive. It’s pretty low-class to push your own simplistic political beliefs on people who didn’t ask for your opinion. But I’ve always said that Texas isn’t like our planet at all. I would find it equally offensive if a Democrat restaurant owner featured a hot dog and potatoes as the “Bush Dick-tater” special.
If it was a Bush breakfast, you’d have to hunt briefly for the syrup, then invade another restaurant.
blowero: Although I do disagree in that I find it somewhat offensive.
Well, kinda dumbly obnoxious maybe, but nowhere near as cringeworthy as that jingoistic renaming of french fries as “freedom fries”. That was a low in political windbaggery that I hope will not soon be reached again, especially since it was taxpayer-supported elected officials who were wasting their time on it and not just some butt-headed restaurateur.
If you did go to that restaurant and order the “Wake Up America” special, I wonder what the staff would do to it out in the kitchen before bringing it to you. There are some good reasons to avoid politicizing food choices.
It’s waffles with ketchup! How much worse can they mess it up?
Hey, any restaurant menu selection that is leading to these sort of jokes can’t be all bad in my book! As Arlo Guthrie says, “You can’t have a light without the dark to put it in.”
If George Bush supporters didn’t give us so much silliness, where would we be?
I actually watched a video on the web last week showing Dick Cheney at a “town hall meeting” where someone got up and actually said…I am not making this up…something like, “I am so proud that you and President Bush have restored honor and dignity to the White House. When I see the two of you on the news, I point to the T.V. and tell my kids ‘There are two true American heroes!’”
I mean, it doesn’t get funnier than that!!
He was just passing through, and I don’t think we want to encourage them anyway. I thought the blueberrys would have gone over well with them.
He said he didn’t see anyone ordering it, but everyone that opened the menu when they sat down either laughed heartily or sat and fumed (it was prominent in the ‘specials’ insert). One couple walked out. FWIW.
When I heard it and posted the OP I was under the impression it was GOP-sponsored, but several comments make it clear it was more likely just an individual restaurant’s joke. Knee jerk soda anyone?
IGOP?
Idiotic Group Ostensibly Praying?
It’s a loooong reach, but gave me quite a giggle!