# Why are people still so goddamn stupid? Obama sure loves him some lobster, kuh'yuk! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 25, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574 "2009-08-25T00:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/1 "2009-08-25T00:00:30Z")
Another day, another stupid email full of made-up nonsense about Obama forwarded to me by my dad : > **[Bozeman Town Hall Meeting](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/montana-beef/)** > > Account describes President Obama's August 2009 town hall meeting in Montana? This one is a bunch of horse stinkie supposedly written by some observer of the town hall event Obama held in Montana a few weeks ago. Apparently this observer has amazing super powers and can see well into the 4th, 5th, and 6th dimensions to see things that could not possibly have happened here on the temporal plane of non-bullshit. It’s amazing what people can try to turn into a negative when the President does it. It’s even more amazing what people can make up, and then nitpick about _it_. > [@Fictional Windbag](#): > > On about Tuesday Bill found out that they would be holding the “Town Hall” at the airport. (This is only because Bill knows EVERYONE at the airport) Our airport is actually located outside of Belgrade (tiny town) in a very remote location. Nothing is around there. They chose to use a hangar that is the most remotely located hangar. You could not pick a more remote location, and you can not get to it easily. It is totally secluded from the public. > > FYI: We have many areas in Belgrade and Bozeman which could have held a large amount of folks with sufficient parking. (gymnasiums/auditoriums). All of which have chairs and tables, and would not have to be SHIPPED IN!! $$$$$ I’m sure this non-existent person is privy to all of the information regarding where to hold a presidential event, and therefore is able to conclusively malign the decision of an advance team whose entire job is to find the best/safest/most accessible locations for such events after only a few minutes of consideration while waiting for some corndogs to cook in the microwave. I mean, come on, Bill knows EVERYONE. > [@Braindead Philistine](#): > > During the week, cargo by the TONS was being shipped in constantly. Airport employees could not believe how it just kept coming. Though it was our President coming several expressed how excessive it was, especially during a recession. $$$$$ This must be true, because Obama likes to have his antique furniture shipped where ever he goes, so he doesn’t have to learn how to use new chairs. If this is even true, don’t bother considering the fact that a large public event requiring stages, rigging, security checkpoints, backstage areas, media areas, crowd control, and so on might require bringing along some type of equipment. At least the things that _couldn’t_ be made on-site out of balsa wood and elmer’s glue. I mean, there’s a recession on. I can see how, in a recession, giving plenty of extra work to the local shipping and cargo businesses must have been a real strain on everybody’s unfounded sense of self-satisfaction. > [@Albert Einstein](#): > > This same morning someone called into the radio from the local UPS branch and said that THOUSANDS of Dollars of Lobster were shipped in for Obama. Montana has some of the best beef in the nation!!! And it would have been really wonderful to help out the local economy. Anyone heard of the Recession?? Just think… with all of the traveling the White House is doing. $$$$$ One can only imagine what else we are paying for. If anything in this bullshit story is true, it has to be this part, because an anonymous writer claiming they heard something third-hand on the radio is the kind of reliable testimony that District Attorneys have wet dreams about. I mean, how could this NOT have happened? Maybe in some crazy mixed up world where UPS employees are maybe required NOT to announce to the whole world who is shipping what to whom. I’m certain it happened, and it went something like this: (UPS Employee 1) Hey, what’s that big container being shipped in? Being UPS employees, we do not encounter many large boxes, so I am naturally curious. (UPS Employee 2) Well, the shipping label right here says it’s shipped to “United States President Barack Hussein Obama,” then it lists the hotel and room number where he’s staying, plus a schedule of the Secret Service protection rotation. (UPS1) Huh. I wonder what’s in it. (UPS2) Well, since UPS always knows what’s in every box we handle, even ones sent to the president, I’ll just look that up in our records. Ok, it says here that this box contains “THOUSANDS of dollars in lobster.” (UPS1) Huh. That makes sense. Obama is a well known “hoity toity,” so he probably can’t go 45 minutes without sucking down a live lobster’s gooey insides. Him having a ton of lobster sent to him is something that someone like me could understand, because our only measurement for snootiness are based on food. (UPS2) Strange, though, I thought muslims couldn’t eat shellfish. (UPS1) Lobsters aren’t fish, stupid. (UPS2) Oh, right. I just thought of something, though. Montana is the only state in America that has beef, so it would be strange for someone to visit our state and not eat nothing but steaks. (UPS1) I agree. Eating Maine lobster is unamerican. (UPS2) I will call a local radio station about this, with haste. > [@Crazy Fantasy Lady](#): > > I am very dismayed about what I learned about our current White House. The amount of control and manipulation was unbelievable. I felt I was not living in the United States of America, more like the USSR!! I was physically nauseous. Bill and I have been around when Presidents or Heads of State visit. It has NEVER been like this. I am truly very frightened for our country. America needs your prayers and your voices. If you care about our country please get involved. Know the issues. And let Congress hear your voices again and again!! If they are willing to put forth so much effort to BULLY a small town one can only imagine what is going on in Washington DC. Scary!! Yes, America needs your prayers to evict this wretched force of evil from government. Also, tell congress, because they have the power to replace black presidents with white ones (I’m pretty sure the second amendment can be interpreted to say this). There is nothing amusing at all about artificial righteous outrage! USSR!!! THOSE ARE LETTERS THAT SCARE PEOPLE!!! Like AIDS and WMD and SAT and IQ. The rest of it is too stupid to consider. I really.. I just… It hurts my insides. If you’re going to make up something to make Obama seem out of touch, the _best_ thing you can think of is lobster? It’s not even original: > **[Michelle Obama and Room Service](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/room-for-error/)** > > Michelle Obama gorged herself on an expensive room service dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria? [http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl\_michelle\_obama\_lobster.htm](http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_michelle_obama_lobster.htm) OH REALLY? I love that last one so much. The photoshopped receipt is my favorite thing ever. Michelle Obama loves lobster SOO much that she won’t even eat lobster without a lobster hors d’oeuvres! SO MUCH LOBSTER!! I CAN NOT RELATE TO THESE PEOPLE!! I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK ACHAHHOAEHNSJNJENJNNCJA Of course, no lobster-lobster meal is complete without $150 worth of caviar. Wait, not just any caviar, IRANIAN caviar. FROM IRAN!! THERE ARE A LOT OF FISH IN IRAN!! BOLLINGER IS A BRAND IVE HEARD OF!!! MY KNOWLEDGE OF HOW FANCY PEOPLE EAT AND DRINK IS BASED ON JAMES BOND MOVIES!!! Waiting for the room service to bring up her lobster, lobster, fish egg cuisine must have put her in some kind of zen-like trance, because you’ll notice the “name” and “signature” fields are adorned with the same exact signature. They’re identical down to the molecular level. It takes a steady hand to perform such a feat. I really wish people would get a new schtick. If you really want to malign Obama, they should have said he had THOUSANDS of dollars worth of watermelon and Air Jordan sneakers shipped in. Or, y’know, not lie at all, maybe. What I really, really don’t get is why people still do this email forward shit. Haven’t people caught on that absolutely nothing forwarded in an email is true? And why the fuck are old people incapable of using [snopes.com](http://snopes.com)? Twice a week my mom emails me something she was forwarded, asking “is this true?” and I reply with a link to its snopes page. Do people over 50 not know how websites work? AGHGHGH. I’m too worked up here. I should try to calm myself down with some crab legs. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/2 "2009-08-25T00:11:13Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > OH REALLY? It’s a little known fact that the only reason the spotted owl was listed as endangerous costing thousands of loggers their jobs was that Obama wanted to eat the last of these rare, and delicious creatures. YARLY! ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/3 "2009-08-25T00:12:34Z")
It does make the Martha’s Vineyard trip make more sense. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/4 "2009-08-25T00:12:48Z")
Not to mention Obama was always talking about how much he loved steak and that’s what he ate at the dinners when he met with his constituents. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/5 "2009-08-25T00:14:37Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Yes, America needs your prayers to evict this wretched force of evil from government. Also, tell congress, because they have the power to replace black presidents with white ones (I’m pretty sure the second amendment can be interpreted to say this). There is nothing amusing at all about artificial righteous outrage! USSR!!! THOSE ARE LETTERS THAT SCARE PEOPLE!!! Like AIDS and WMD and SAT and IQ. I bet the average American can no longer tell you what USSR actually stood for, let alone the average Death Eater. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/6 "2009-08-25T00:20:44Z")
What does your mom say when you send her the Snopes links? Does she read them or acknowledge them at all? ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/7 "2009-08-25T00:22:05Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > What does your mom say when you send her the Snopes links? Does she read them or acknowledge them at all? Usually, yeah, she just never seems to catch on that I’m not the only person with exclusive access to the internet and its myriad websites. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/8 "2009-08-25T00:29:10Z")
Aren’t we in something of a lobster glut right now anyway? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/9 "2009-08-25T00:42:58Z")
Lobster is simply an excuse to eat butter and salt. Very slightly fishy popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/10 "2009-08-25T00:45:51Z")
What does Obama and his lobster dinners have in common? The lobsters are actually lobster-flavored Soylent Green Made from aborted white babies So: neither have US birth certificates! ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/11 "2009-08-25T00:50:06Z")
Good rant, except for the Iranian caviar bit. Iran is actually famous for its caviar. [Pic.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iranian_caviar.jpg) Even the word “caviar” ultimately originates from the Persian language. Anyways, keep up the good work. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/12 "2009-08-25T01:07:06Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Usually, yeah, she just never seems to catch on that I’m not the only person with exclusive access to the internet and its myriad websites. I’m so please to meet a fellow admirer of the President. He is, in my opinion, our best president since Herbert Hoover. I just wish people would give him a chance. Let him try his plans. What harm can it do? I mean, it’s not like we could fuck it up much worse. There’s already homeless beggers addicted to crack, living in the streets and under bridges. Some are teens. Children are slipping through the cracks of government bureaucracies intended to care for them — in Florida, in Tennessee, in New York, in Los Angeles. There’s a whole underground culture of Americans who have nothing. Worse than nothing. They have things with no value. It’s like extra weight. Just more shit to keep up with. But nothing of any worth. And somewhere, there’s a little girl who doesn’t know where her mother is, and she’s all alone in a stairwell of a big apartment dwelling. And drunk thugs are only a few flights of stairs away. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/13 "2009-08-25T01:11:38Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > Good rant, except for the Iranian caviar bit. Iran is actually famous for its caviar. [Pic.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iranian_caviar.jpg) Even the word “caviar” ultimately originates from the Persian language. Anyways, keep up the good work. Well, yeah, if there weren’t such a thing as Iranian caviar, that thing would be completely ridiculous. It’s obvious, though, that they specified that the imaginary caviar was Iranian, because in America Iran = where the antichrist lives. During the time that thing came about (the election), Iran was de rigeur for bashing. “Sit down with Iranian leaders without preconditions,” etcetcetc. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/14 "2009-08-25T01:32:12Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > It’s a little known fact that the only reason the spotted owl was listed as endangerous costing thousands of loggers their jobs was that Obama wanted to eat the last of these rare, and delicious creatures. > > YARLY! He was really disappointed. It tasted just like baby seal. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/15 "2009-08-25T01:37:29Z")
I am going to copy the OP and email it to everyone I know. ---
**Author:** ![Alienhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/16 "2009-08-25T01:45:46Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](#): > > I bet the average American can no longer tell you what USSR actually stood for, let alone the average Death Eater. United Sustained Silent Reading? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/17 "2009-08-25T01:53:21Z")
Good OP! But it made me very hungry. Good goddamn, I wish Red Lobster was still open. I hate the Republican party and the Obama-bashing people more and more every day and it’s because of stuff like this. I guess making up stories about lobster and caviar is what passes for political discourse. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/18 "2009-08-25T02:12:34Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > …in America Iran = where the antichrist lives. Wait, I thought that was the White House. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/19 "2009-08-25T02:21:28Z")
SMUG! ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574/20 "2009-08-25T02:26:11Z")
Oh, cut them some slack. They had a lot riding on their original theme, and when Michael Richards leaked it and it tanked they had to come up with something. I’m sure a coherent message will come along soon. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-still-so-goddamn-stupid-obama-sure-loves-him-some-lobster-kuhyuk/507574.md?page=2)