(bolding mine)I’m not one for “Wink, wink, you know what I’m talking about” answers. Why don’t you go ahead and spit it out, and we will either agree or disagree with you.
A poll from July 2006, sponsored by Scripps Howard and conducted by Ohio University, surveyed 1,010 randomly selected citizens of the United States, with a margin of error of 4 percent. The survey found that 36 percent thought it somewhat or very likely that U.S. officials either participated in the attacks or took no action to stop them because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East.
There are references to numerous other polls on that page.
The results of the 2007 August poll indicate that 51 percent of Americans want the United States Congress to probe President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the 9/11 attacks and over 30 percent of those polled seek immediate impeachment … 32 percent seek immediate impeachment of Bush and/or Cheney based on their personal knowledge
Pssst… I’m guessing the answer is “You can’t.”
Try to read your own link for comprehension: Bush wasn’t even mentioned in that survey question.
Yeah, after reading the title, and without even opening the thread, I thought “Minstrel shows, obviously”.
The mask itself was okay, and has been done before with other Presidents. What took it over the top for me was the other clown playing with the Obama clown’s lips. Obama isn’t Angelina Jolie, his lips are not his distinguishing feature for a caricature. I can’t think of another way to read that but stereotypical racist in nature.
The bottom line is: The routine went too far for a state sponsored event. Crackpot comments on personal websites are not comparable to this venue.
Try the 2007 Rasmussen poll on the subject.
“That poll found that only 39 percent of Democrats believed W. Bush did not have advance knowledge of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, while 26 percent said they were unsure and slightly more than one third of Democrats believed W. Bush knew his country was going to be attacked.”
And while Republicans have more fruitcakes on the subject, it’s disturbing that 6% of Democrats think Obama is the Antichrist.
Hell, everyone knows it’s actually Eric Holder. 
Also, how does “22.6% very likely believe the government was involved in some way” plus “28.2% somewhat likely believe the government was involved in some way” equal “More than half of Democrats believe George knew”?
Then be duly ashamed of RWs in general.
Not exactly. The minstrel show embodies racism, but not racial hatred. For a long time white America viewed black America with a strange mixture of fear, contempt, and affection. In the minstrel show we see only contempt and affection; the stage-negro characters are ridiculous and stupid, but they’re funny and joyful and musical and in no sense dangerous or threatening. Minstrelsy is the nice side of racism. The other side did the lynchings.
Are we actually trying to compare accusing someone of having foreknowledge of an attack with accusing someone of being The Anti-Christ-an inhuman demon out to destroy the world? Did some of you accidently misplace your sense of perspective at the state fair?
That always made me ashamed of my side.
But, if you know anything at all about Dick Cheney, Trutherism at least somewhat understandable. Would you put it past him?! (I’d never believe it of W himself, he lacks the imagination.)
It said Bush was mentioned in the earlier poll whatever that means, but yeah, I’ll check my links better next time.
We also took a look at the Anti-Christ question nationally and found that a pretty similar number of voters are willing to go so far as to hang that label on either Obama or Bush. 10% of voters say they think Obama is the Anti-Christ with 11% unsure and 8% say the same of Bush with an equal 11% unsure.
10% vs 8%. Biiiiiig difference. Must be due to racism.
That the president allowed 9/11 to happen? Yes, that’s different than believing The president is the Anti-Christ, but its more comparable than “how many Democrats believe Obama is the anti Christ?”
The sad thing is that the majority of Americans do believe there will be an inhuman demon that will set out to destroy the world. If not that, they believe in virgin births, resurrections after death, and an all powerful deity.
And it’s Cheney and his allies that throw off statistics about what people believe the government knew and trying to equate that with what people believe Bush[ knew, because there were those that believed that Bush was just a puppet run by Cheney, kept in the dark a lot of the time and told what he already believed at briefings.
I recall the CIA’s codename for Cheney was “Edgar,” at least according to Ron Suskind. As in Edgar Bergen.
What that proves is that there is a percentage of people who think any given US President is the Anti-Christ. Probably the same group of people for both polls (now there’s more of them - they breed). I remember radio call in shows spouting the same thing about Jimmy Carter back in the 70’s (before the internet, we had to get all our crackpot news from talk radio).
You want to compare something, find some cites of people who didn’t think George Bush was really American or questioned his birth certificate.
No, that comparison would be made to George W. Bush’s alleged AWOL status.
See BrainGlutton’s assertion that the number of people who think that Obama is Antichrist is something exceptional. As in:
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Do you seriously think W ever measured that high on the Antichrist-meter?
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