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Tuesday, November 18. 2008

How Obama got elected

Interviews with Obama voters, via a piece at Gateway on the media's failures to inform voters about Obama. (By no means do I think all Obama voters are this poorly-informed, nor that Conservative voters are all well-informed.)

Still, I find this disturbing, but maybe it's the way it always is:

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 08:48 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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Does this truly surprise anyone?

It makes me long for the days when Jimma Carter would discuss nuclear proliferation with eight year old Amy.
#1 Habu on 2008-11-18 09:17 (Reply)
Habu, when your old and gray, myself included, and we can no longer take care of ourselves. Their off spring will be caring for us. Like I've said on this site before. God and Baby Jesus help us all.
#1.1 jappy on 2008-11-18 18:07 (Reply)
I got five minutes into this and had to stop before I broke a breakfast dish. I was trying to be conciliatory for the sake of Boy, but I refuse to acknowledge this election as legitimate.
#2 Pajak on 2008-11-18 09:55 (Reply)
You could find some people who supported McCain would answer in similar fashion. However, I suspect the numbers would be lower for one reason.
Obama attracted huge numbers of uninformed students and minorities who voted for him due to his race. In an election that wasn't about race, race WAS the overriding factor in these people's decision to vote.
What the issues were, or where Obama stood on them was not as important as "how cool" it would be to have a black president, or how a black president would relate to an individual if they were black.

The classic moment of the campaign came from the woman who said Obama would alleviate her worries when it came time to pay her mortgage and fill her car with gas.

I truly HOPE that Obama can do a good job. Given how he was elected, the press has alot to answer for when they start ripping him to shreds. However, I suspect they won't....they will protect him. He's their baby, so they have to.
#3 Rick on 2008-11-18 10:18 (Reply)
The people answering "Uh, I dunno, sounds like Palin" were parroting the media... the blatantly excessive media assault on anything resembling opposition to Obama or preservation of traditional values. I plan on showing equal and opposite respect to Obama and his progressive values in the coming years.
#4 Pajak on 2008-11-18 10:27 (Reply)
Blue or Red, the average American is ignorant and uninformed. Just take a look at any government employee.

As Winston Churchill said, the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
#5 john cocktosin on 2008-11-18 12:55 (Reply)
Welcome to the American Electorate! If you really want to be depressed then go to any college campus and ask the same questions, you won't like what you hear. Truth is most voting Americans have no idea how their government is run, who makes laws or who implements them including the teachers who teach American History (well maybe a few of those do). It is sad and it is the major reason socialism and communism can grow into a reality. Ignorance is the plague of our society and the MSM is the carrier.
#6 opie109 on 2008-11-18 13:51 (Reply)
Higher education is no longer for the creation of an active citizen but an obedient subject: one who follows directions, not one who leads.
#6.1 njartist49 on 2008-11-18 16:53 (Reply)
The American "education" system, along with the MSM, must take the blame for the sorry state of ignorance that most voters are in.
#7 terrence on 2008-11-18 14:21 (Reply)
Thanks to the National Education Association's control of the public school system for the past 45+ years.

NEA teacher at work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bvqmY1eM-s
#8 ron on 2008-11-18 22:48 (Reply)
It's kind of depressing that the illuminati couldn't intelligently convince people to vote for them, so they just used a smiling man with a good speaking voice. Who cares what he was talking about? Obviously not a lot who voted for him.
#9 EW on 2008-11-24 18:30 (Reply)

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