How Obama got elected
Three words: Stupid people voted.
Lots and lots of stupid people.
See what others have said
Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
 |
Nancy Pelosi Explains Why Obama Flip-Flopped on Super PACs
February 9, 2012 10:08 PM by Doug Powers
50 Comments
Report: Solyndra Sold Assets Cheap to Entity with Close Ties to Investors
February 9, 2012 10:08 AM by Doug Powers
49 CommentsFormer Democrat Rep. Regrets Vote for Obamacare Due to Contraceptive Coverage
February 7, 2012 03:40 PM by Doug Powers
75 Comments
Middle Class Payroll Tax Cut Extension Comes Courtesy of Mortgage Fees on Home Buyers
February 6, 2012 01:36 PM by Doug Powers
35 CommentsHiring Spree in NYC
February 1, 2012 02:47 PM by Doug Powers
43 CommentsMr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants
January 27, 2012 10:35 AM by Michelle Malkin
138 CommentsStimulus-Backed ‘Green’ Bankruptcy of the Week: Ener1
January 26, 2012 03:06 PM by Doug Powers
67 Comments
Obama and Jan Brewer Have Words on Airport Tarmac; Update: Brewer Book Sales Skyrocket
January 25, 2012 09:54 PM by Doug Powers
165 Comments
Warren Buffett’s Secretary to Sit with First Lady at State of the Union Speech
January 24, 2012 12:35 PM by Doug Powers
93 Comments
Categories: Barack Obama
Babalu Blog
» Greece is BurningPatterico
» NYT hails the safety net: Poor hardest hitDaily Caller
» Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizationsNice Deb
» Former DEA Chief Tells Fox News: 3 Other Federal Agencies Knew About Operation ‘Fast and Furious’Gateway Pundit
» Notre Dame Tells Obama: HHS Mandate Is a ‘Grave Violation of Religious Freedom and Cannot Stand’AmSpecBlog
» Weekend Political Wrap-UpJustOneMinute
» I Guess I'm Still Stuck On StupidThe Hill
» Rep. Ron Paul not conceding Maine vote
I try to distance myself from conspiracy theories but…. why is all that BS from the 70′s starting to look true…
Don’t forget John McCain.
I’ll be the first to say it:
That’s RAAAAACCISSTTT!!!
Sean Hannity does a “Man on the Street” interview on his radio show once per week.
Afterward he’ll point out that “these are the people who are canceling out your well-informed vote.”
Around here I’m amazed at the people who believe anything the Lame Steam Media tells them. I know several people who voted for Obama and honestly believe that he won’t raise their taxes.
Lenin called them ” the useful idiots “and by God we have plenty of them in this country.
I’d say “unbelievable”..
But this is exactly what I expected from Obama supporters.
Clueless.
They have no idea which party controls congress, no idea who Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank are.. but they know who had reports of $150K in clothes and who has a pregnant teenage daughter.
Nice job Media…. idiots.
This Leno style video is cool, but it’s not a winning argument for Republicans. The better educated demographic groups are heavily Democratic. Republican strongholds are less educated lower income demographics. And there is deliberate misinformation. Just go to youtube.com and search on “obama muslim”.
The cult of Obama.
Drones who are hypnotized by an image that is not there.
Many of these people are empty and are missing something profound in their lives.
Sorry, but my rant continues… they think Sarah Palin.. not Obama said there are 57 states…
These people need a beating.
They have no idea who they voted for.
lgm- I wish I could say that were true however, it is the liberal education that these and several of those just like them are getting that keep them in the dark. When a political party says we are going to buy your vote by stealing from the greedy bastards and giving to the poor then guess who is getting the vote, and from the uneducated poor factions of our country!
Useful idiots?! I don’t find them useful at all! A pox on all of them!
Yet, if I show this short video to those whom I know voted the obamaway, they’ll say the video is slanted. There is nothing you can tell them to make them change their minds!
My gosh! These people know less about government than Sarah Palin!
Remember, the SNL skits took much of their Palin dialogue verbatim from her interviews.
Calling people ignorant is not a winning issue for Republicans.
Very shallow people voted for Obama. These are the people who can tell you who they voted for in all the American Idol seasons and why. They were told by the “cool kids” who was the protagonist and who was the antagonist and they voted in lockstep.
By the color of his skin, not by the content of his character.
Wrong.
The poll clearly shows that the media selective released information that favored it’s choice for president.
And someday… you’ll learn the difference between “Education” and “Intelligence”.
Sad, but true. “danimal” said it like it is. Racist! All blacks voted for Obama solely because he is black. If a white person voted for someone because they are white we are racist. I have always said the Dimocrats (spelling is correct) can run a piss ant and if there is the word Dimocrat in front of their name they will vote for that person. Juan Williams crying because a black person got elected president. Mr. Williams knows that Obama is not qualified to be president, but that doesn’t matter–He is black that is all that matters.
We have raised a generation of idiots…er, at least the public education system has for us. Want to know more why home schooling and vouchers are catching on like wildfire?
I just feel really bad for the next QUALIFIED black guy or lady running. Obambi is going to ruin it for them.
These people are unaware of the political situation because we had a POTUS who never went on the air and spoke to the people. Imagine if ‘W’ had appeared on TV and gone down the list, point-by-point, and explained things to the nation. Fannie Mae….Barney Frank….Bill Ayers….Obama…..Iraq…..
Granted, a lot of people are smart enough to visit numerous news sources and develop intelligent opinions and answers. But, as this clip clearly demonstrates, there are quite a few people who just don’t bother. Think of the reaction from all of the newsgroups and talking heads had ‘W’ addressed the nation as I’d suggested. It would’ve been the top story for days, and these morons would’ve been exposed to the truth behind the stories/rumors they’d believed.
Michelle, I have it on good authority that Joe Biden thinks that is four words…
stop confusing education with intelligence.
I’ve met way too many people with advanced degrees who were dumber than rocks.
Simple formula … Government schools turn out ignorant citizens. Easy to make idiot voters out of ignorant citizens.
Yeah, there is no connection between intelligence, the ability to reason, and education, the establishment of a fact base that you can reason from. It’s the fact base that is nonexistent in the ignorant citizens.
My highschool cheerleader daughter told me that at last Friday’s football game, at the end of the game both teams and cheerleaders form lines and do the congradulatory line-pass/hand slap. When the girls got to the other girls, my daughters’ bunch (primarily white) did the high-five saying “good game”, while the other teams’ girls (primarily black) chanted “Obama, Obama” and every high-five.
Oh, and we won the game, on to semi-finals for state…Go Lions!
Like I said months ago when the reports of Bristols pregnancy first came out. Who knew that a teenager had that much power from ONE decision they made.
Especially when that f’in redneck told Bristol “shhh, your mom’s at the office, dont worry, no one will ever know… trust me”
And you know that that dumas is working at the local Kum&Go, just waiting for Friday night so he can take a whiz on the campfire with a beer in his hands.
Its too early in the morning to know whether its a good thing or a bad thing that you dont know what the word verbatim means
Yep.
As my father said decades ago, there are plenty of “educated idiots” among us.
Ha! soaps gunna love this thread, he called the “stupid people voting” monthssssssss ago.
Proving what we already knew. The people that voted for Obama are clueless and the news media made sure they stayed that way.
This entire election reminds me of the news reels I’ve seen of 1930′s Germany.
Did the word ignorant come up? I think they are just being called straight up stupid. And I will go so far as to prefix it with a four letter word and use it as a participle.
Staying on topic (speaking of educated idiots)….
If the socialists are giving traditionalists/conservatives “advice”, for instance,
you can bet your bottom dollar, as the saying goes, that that (Calling people ignorant….), or something along those lines, might just be one of the things traditionalists/conservatives should point out day after day after day after day….
Yep. History repeats itself.
Stupid Voters? oh you mean the kind like LGM the Idiot that get all their info about a Candidate from stupid Comedy Shows.
Gov. Palin knows more about Government in her pinky than morons like LGM and his brain dead friends ever will.
Show 44 the Door
A little research shows that you’re talking out of your a$$.
Please show me a quote where Palin said she could see Russia from her house. Cite your source or STFU.
Back to your bridge, troll.
These are the same geniuses that will raise holy hell when confronted with the language of the U.S. Constitution as it relates to Obama’s possible ineligibility to fill the office of POTUS. Can’t wait to see how that one turns out.
On November 18th, 2008 at 9:30 am, lgm said:
WHAT?! I can’t believe someone whose posts persistently delve in class-warfare, by never missing the to chance to belittle the intellect of the conservative working men and women in this country for voting Republican, could be so hypocritical – and on the same thread! Did you not read what you just posted in #8?
If not, allow this Republican peon to refresh your memory:
Tell me how this is not an argument for a bigoted caste system based intellect, and perhaps even race.
On January 20th when Obama ascends to the podium to take the oath, we will be hearing that familiar tune that accompanies Darth Vader.
Agreed.
Sorry to repeat myself…I’ve said for years that the fact that (virtually) all citizens can vote, and that each vote counts the same as another vote; is at the same time our country’s greatest strength, and its greatest weakness.
I’m not comparing the personalities, but merely the practices and techniques of propaganda used.
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” ~ Joseph Goebbels
“Of all the arts, for us cinema is the most important.” ~Vladimir Lenin
Gee, I just read an article for the NY Times that Obama represents intellectuallism, which brings intelligence back into the White House. He represents the people who accept Global Warming and Evolution without debate.
Obviously stupid people have joined up with the intellectuals
I wonder … could the present leadership of the GOP learn anything from the video?
I sure hope the new leadership does.
Dam, I used that Obama word.
Im not even going to get into statistical analysis on that one. But just to simplify lets say that the nation as a whole is average. Since the election is roughly 50% for each side – then if the better educated demographic groups is Dem then that would need to mean that the worst educted demographic groups is Dem also.
The Republicans and Indies would have to just be average across the board.
Well, I am a glass half full guy. There is probably about an even chance Obama will simply be the President Jon Cary never got to be. A United Nations dictated foreign and national security policy. (Occasional Islamic terror attacks are just the price of living in this modern world, and any identified survivors of the plots will be indicted by a grand jury, as if that will matter in their caves in Pakistan), private property and enterprise will be allowed to exist, although restricted and more heavily taxed, we’ll keep many of our liberties, although there will be a creeping ‘nanny state’ erosion of some rights like free speech. The national government will control at least half of the GDP, and like other countries in Europe where the government runs over half the economy, there will be permanent 10%+ unemployment rates, and like in Europe, where almost all of the top 100 businesses now were top 100 businesses 50 years ago, new companies will struggle mightily in the face of high taxes and regulation.
IE, Obama just wants to make us into France.
The other option, of course, Obama is indeed The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers, and shares his views about the complete overthrow of the US and the replacement of our current government with a Marxist one party state.
I guess I’ll try to be optimistic and hope we wind up not much worse than France.
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM
GGGGGGGEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We allowed the wrong bunch to move in and take control over it, begining in the 60′s
“Dems better educated”, but no source. My statistics professor from graduate school would give you an F. And Republicans are happier, so what? I’ll take common sense over government education any day.
And common sense would tell me to know the basics about the candidate for whom I am voting.
I thought Republicans were all rich.
WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE DO ALL DAY?
I dunno. Most of the districts around here that vote heavily Democrat are not places I would want to live, work, shop or go for a walk unless I was heavily armed. And I don’t think I’d go there looking for a good bookstore either.
Fam, you can’t type an answer to your question.
Spend 1/4 of your paycheck.
Graduate school?! You must be a Democrat!
/sarc
The fact that these people did not know even the basic facts about their OWN PARTY is incredible. And they get to vote! Racism and white guilt, with a smattering of true socialist believers, put Obama in the White House. Platforms had little to do with it. Pathetic.
However, I don’t blame the public schools. I went to one, my kids are in one. You can get an excellent education in them if you pay attention to what you child is being taught. We de-program our kids every night. (The private schools here are even more liberal than the public schools.) I blame decades of liberalism they sucked the parental instinct out of the people who eventually voted for Obama and socialism. They got the parents to buy into the myth of equality of result, and so they get the children. It is a downward cycle.
I usually ignore you as you rarely have anything worthwhile to comment on, but did you watch that whole video? My 12yo daughter can tell you who controls congress, she knows who Pelosi and Reid are, but then again, she isn’t being indoctrinated at a public school. Your comments are further proof that the MSM have certainly done a great job in guiding public opinion on their candidate of choice. I’ll give you one point, though, calling people ignorant is not a vote winner, the better phrase would be that these people have been deliberately kept ignorant of anything of substance about Obama, thanks to the MSM.
Good people of this blog.
LGM is a teacher. GET IT!
The thing that upsets me??? POLITICO did an “IN DEPTH” study, and determined there was no “MEDIA BIAS” in B. HUSSEIN’S favor in this election… HELL, there was MEDIA BIAS in their study… I think we should all make sure MSM never, ever picks OUR CANDIDATE again…
Fixed it for you.
We all trust that. /sarc
Liberal white guilt, and lots of it.
UNIONS !
Yep – here in ol’ Douglas County Colorado, one of the highest education and income areas of the country, where there are more cowboys than community organizers, where we have have been the fastest growing county in the country for over ten years and vote repub about 3 to 1, WE ARE JUST PLAIN DUMB BUT BUT WE ARE HAPPY.
Listen to Nelly’s song ‘St. Louie’ from the album ‘Country Grammar’. Parental advisory on the lyrics…
Anyway, you’ll get your answer.
lgm said:
Republican strongholds are less educated lower income demographics.
Like they say, “STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!”. How can people re-elect crooks like William Jefferson (D-Louisiana), or (almost) Ted Stevens (R–Alaska)?
Many in my Gringo / my wife’s extended Hispanic family had never heard of O’Bummer’s real / stated positions on abortion, taxes, (lack of) defense, his radical associates, etc.–but their education will be starting soon. Many had real hatred of George Bush–and when I asked them why they said, “Because he is really stupid!”. When I asked for examples of his “stupidity” I never got any reasonable answer or example. However, “HOPE AND CHANGE” (without any backup experience or details) won the day.
Like Bugs Bunny said, “WHAT A BUNCH OF MACAROONS” voted for the Messiah. The Left Wing Media (not MSM) flew superb air cover for him for the last 2 years. Conservative talk radio, internet sites, and the fair and balanced FOX News Channel could not educate enough people to stop him.
John Bibb
Stupidity denotes an incapability or unwillingness to properly consider the relevant information. – wikipedia
Liberals ignore ANY information contrary to their mindwash. SOOOOO…..stupid is as stupid does!!
The majority of people are stupid… very, very stupid. They believe that we can all get along; they believe what people promise them, they believe in magical beings in the sky…
It is easy to sway these sheep to vote, tithe, and believe in fantasy.
Look at the success of television commercials and advertisements… people are stupid.
I am stupid too, but for some reason that can sometimes be annoying, I lost my moron glasses and can see how dumb we all are… including myself. This is not necessarly a happy thing. I often wish I could belive in magic and gods and ghosts and peace and Nascar and enjoy football and other stupid people’s passtimes.
People want to believe in all answering messiahs, like Obama.
Humans are pitifully stupid creatures.
Johanthan Swift, in Gulliver’s Travels, have people NAILED with his description of “Yahoos;” nasty, excrement tossing animals, in other words, us.
75% of the voters in this country make their votes on the basis of emotion. So this is not the least bit surprising.
There was no logical basis to vote for Obama. If he was applying for the job, when you look at the resumes of ALL of the presidential contenders going back to Iowa and the VP’s nominated, Obama had the most pitiful qualifications.
He would have been the first candidate put in the NFI (no further interest) file. Spiderman has more basis in reality than Obama. He’s a media creation.
SoCal you must be a real hit at a party!
What a dismal outlook on life and people.
Nice gratuitous swipes at religious folks.
Really classy.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage. –Alexander Tytler
I turn down invitations to parties… can’t handle standing around with drinkers talking about unimportant things…
Yep.
We are now on our way to the last stages of that series.
This comment on a thread that RIPS with gratuitous, holyer-than-thou “swipes” at gay people.. really classy.. lol
Baa Baa Baa Baa Baaaaaaaa…Baa Baa.
Yep
I found the video very scary. It is one thing to strongly suspect something and quite another to have your very worst fears confirmed.
OT/ lgm, keep posting. The empirical evidence that mind altering chemicals leaves a person stuck in “liberal mode” is mounting against you. And if you are not stoned, then I just have to believe you are stupid.
On Topic, did anyone find the music played in that video a little creepy and disturbing? Maybe Obama is the messiah.
Reality check. Alexander Tytler never wrote that quote. In fact, it cannot be attributed to anyone.
http://lorencollins.net/tytler.html
Frankly, I think it’s nonsense.
I like Jonathon Swift too:
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces
are in a confederacy against him. – Johnathan Swift
like, for instance, Ronald Reagan.
Some appeared intelligent but then they spoke and the effect was spoiled.
Whoever said it, it sounds about right to me. When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul.
SoCal, please send me an alert if you come to the Desert, you’re flippin nutso.
LOL – I came late to the party!
Yup, while all of my friends were calling a win for McCain, I stood my ground and said he would lose because of the stupid vote.
Alas. I even came late to bash the local Idiot. I see you all have my 6 though!
This yr I have started to believe that 18yrs old isn’t old enough to vote. Additionally, I think one should have to take and pass some sort of test that outlines how our govt works.
We have to many idiots voting who get their news from SNL & other comedy shows. Someone in my family actually stated that he was unsure if Colbert was a real news man or a comedian when he was reporting on news events.
I honestly do not believe that anyone under 30yrs old even knows what a Socialist society is anymore. Listen to a few of those people in the vid – spreading the wealth around sounds good to them. Unless it was actually put into practice with their money….which it will be under the O crap administration.
We have to stop re-writing history.
The result of government schools.
Wow! SoCal is more of an elitist than LGM! I didn’t think it was possible.
Finally. Something to agree on.
Whatever he is, he’s not a comedian.
He is so lame and unfunny…almost a noncomedian.
This last is among what must be relentlessly pounded home to the public.
Yeah.. it is good you agree that we are all supid!
)
Such a test exists, it’s called the final exam for the American Government classes all High Schoolers take. However, since the education system here is so bad, the students don’t learn anything! Or, if they do, it’s all of a Left-leaning slant because of the teachers and texts used.
If I agree that I am stupid, how is that elitist? I think YOU are proving the point…
How Obama got elected
ABC, NBC, CBS,CNN, (Exception, Lou Dobbs) MSNBC, PBS and John McCain
My sarcasm was to point out to lgm, the sillinesss of it all. Lgm says Repubs have a losing argument calling people stupid then turns around and calls Repubs stupid. Since I dont like name calling, lets just say that speaks for itself.
Socal – The beauty of the human condition is the capacity for change. So maybe people become stupid but they can be educated and maybe people become spiritually empty but they can grow. I’m sad you have has such a pessimistic view about people and God. There is potential for good in everyone, including God, for he invented it. He also gave humans free will to accept his goodness. Not all do, but someday I hope you will.
You forgot ACORN, Soros, untraceable money, Hollywood, George Bush, spineless Congressional Republicans,…
Dexter, I must say – you’re hiAlarius.
Denny Fitch who was the fourth pilot, who came forward and ran the throttles on UA 232 that crash landed in Sioux City in 1898 said, “Your attitude determines your altitude.”
95% of the people on this site claim to love Ronald Reagan. I do not understand how most people out here can claim that, because I have seen more positive comments at a meeting of the Pessimists Club.
Reagan was the eternal optimist, because he had absolute confidence (note I did not say faith) in his conservative principles. He also believed in the American people.
What this site shows me this morning is you can count to those with confidence in our message and our ability to convince people of it on one hand.
We got clobbered this election, because our message never got out, period. We got outplayed by the other side. Well we got the game film and we have the means to see what we need to do to win the next time. Next game is scheduled for November 2010.
I suggest we knock off the “we’re so screwed,” “people are so stupid,” “liberals suck,” and “let’s form a third party” mantra. We need to get to work on refining what our message is and how to get it out to the peope given the media.
It’s a tough job given the uneven playing field. I sure do not know the best way, but I have the confidence we have enough brain power out here to figure it out.
So…..to quote an American hero, “Let’s Roll.”
Just one question left out .Which news source is the most biased ? …Uh…Fox ?
I notice that you make such assertions without much proof except for youtube. I love how you continue to assert that Republicans are “less educated” based on your own condescending attitude. I’ll be sure to pass that on to my Republican friends when I see them in NYC during Thanksgiving.
I also love the condescension that drips off your tongue when you base intelligence on how much money one earns. Some of the most educated people (like my father) that I’ve met over time never went to college but had more real world experience than you can possibly appreciate, lgm. However, I’ve met many college-educated folks (such as my liberal brothers and sisters-in law) and while they’re good specialists I notice they know nothing of anything else.
Lgm, if you don’t even know how the government functions or even who controls it that what does that say about the electorate of this country. We are getting stupider and stupider as a nation and you stand by and simper about how one demographic, without evidence, is more intelligent than the other. If anything, our your people are arrogant, foolish, and think they’re special because they’ve been told how unique they are by our self-esteem movement.
We no longer have an educated electorate and it doesn’t matter whether voters are college educated or not. If you don’t know what your vote means or what you’re actually voting for, what does that say about the future of our country, lgm? If you’re not concerned, then you’re just as ignorant as those you claim are part of the “ill-educated” class.
Stupid people vote for Barack Hussein Obama, stupid and less than honorable Republican Party Bigs pushed for John McCain and stupid people voted for the damn fool in the primaries.
In the meantime we had a Republican President and John McCain pushing through a Barack Hussein Obama friendly bail out that will make the Auto Industry bailout all but a certainty. I can see the ads now
Ok, so the Drive By Media was in the tank for Obama; just what did John McCain, the Cainenites and RNC do to counter it? Very little.
Yes indeed-a whole lot of stupid handled well by people who do not have our best interest at heart. What is left to love? William Ayeres America?
–
That Every Man Be Armed–You Too ladies