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What Convinced Me to Vote for Obama

Finally! I have been sooooo bitter. Not anymore. These two touched my heart.

This is like the night I had an epiphany and wrote, “The Choice (But I’ve Been Touched) - A Long Overdue Update.”

I am so on Barack’s corner now. And now I’m no longer a racist. How cool is that?!

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Comment by Joe | 2008-08-10 15:31:16

Two more reasons for birth control and choice.

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-10 15:38:28

roflolololololol ohhhhhhh bloody hell!

we have our own SNL group!

GAWD I LOVE THIS PLACE!

sorry I’m screaaaaaaaaaming! LOL

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-08-10 15:42:30

And two more reasons why children should be seen and not heard.

Comment by A.Citizen | 2008-08-10 16:08:43

Actually there are no reasons for anyone to be seen and not heard.

Jump on a plane to Georgia if you doubt me.

Frankly, this satire, and it is satire as you can tell if you clik on thru to YouTube, should give us all hope for the future.

These young people ‘get it’…..

Which is more than I can say for many here in the ’sphere.

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-08-10 16:42:57

If you notice a few posts down, I did recognize, after a few minutes that it was indeed satire. However, I won’t be going anywhere by plane and certainly not Georgia.

As for getting it, that’s one assumption on your part that I’ll just ignore.

 

Comment by MyTownTalks | 2008-08-11 14:27:27

I hope it was satire, if they where serious then we really need to stop worrying about this campaign and start working to get our kids off drugs because something is defintiely wrong here :-)

 
 
 

Comment by d2d | 2008-08-10 16:39:55

Yikes! toooooo funnnnyyyyy! laughing, laughing, laughing. thanks :-)

 

Comment by ObamaNOT | 2008-08-10 16:56:16

I just KNEW you libs would end up backing BO…SAD..Hillary flips to support him and so do you…I hope you enjoy the welcoming home committee…They played you, and you flip on a dime to support thr DNC and their CRUM, BO…

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-08-10 16:58:38

Another day, another bot. Dry up, Festus.

 

Comment by ObamaNOT | 2008-08-11 14:39:26

I may have posted my last post in haste, I took the title of this article to say you now supported BO…I apologize if I took it wrong…And I hope you will forgive my assumptions…I guess this article is against BO, which I hope it is, I can’t see the video…Go you PUMAs, sincerely ObamaNOT….

 
 
 

Comment by heather | 2008-08-10 17:58:29

No, they are snarking us people! That cannot possibly be real. The clue was when the guy says “Voting for the white woman against the black guy just would have been so racist.” Come on, no one believes that. Great satire!

 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-10 18:11:42

Is this snark? I can’t tell anymore.

 

Comment by Devide & Conquer | 2008-08-10 19:13:19

There parents and teachers must be so proud!

 
 

Comment by jan | 2008-08-10 15:31:43

OMG ha,ha,ha

Comment by Zeke | 2008-08-10 15:45:33

I’m John McCain and I endorse the livin’ shit out of this message!

Comment by BlueTopaz | 2008-08-10 16:01:54

LOL! These children are our future? That’s troubling.

Comment by WildChild | 2008-08-10 16:10:19

there’s a name for these kids….Eloi

 

Comment by d2d | 2008-08-10 16:40:47

Comment by J. J.. (The P.U.M.A.) | 2008-08-10 16:48:12

Don’t you folks remember from the New Yorker Cover, when we were told that if it is not obvious satire, its racist.

 
 
 

Comment by Clinton Fan | 2008-08-10 16:41:10

Bwahahahahaha!! What a retort!

These kids CAN’T be for real, can they? This HAS to be a parody, a joke…mustn’t it?

No one can POSSIBLY be that …. stupid. If it isn’t a parody, NCLB has done more damage in the past eight years than we, as a nation, have realized.

Comment by Steve | 2008-08-10 16:48:10

Clinton Fan You Know I was thinking the same thing. But know what, today’s youth has become so unreal-its scary! Williams Ayer’s and his educational programing.

 
 
 
 

Comment by Matthew Weaver | 2008-08-10 15:33:47

I almost regret listening to the entire video clip. Are these two idiots for real?! I’ve always been dismissive of the Obama Cult but this is getting pathetic. They did succeed at one key Obama Cult talking point that you must be racist if you do not vote for Obama. Unstated was the you must be incredibly stupid to actually vote for him.

Comment by Donkey Kong | 2008-11-20 23:40:56

Barack Obam’a momma was white. This makes him a mulatto. Votiing for him just because he is black is no different than me voting for him just because he is white.

 
 

Comment by steven Mather | 2008-08-10 15:34:16

They posted this video to represent the type of arguments for Obama they are getting from their peers. It is great snark!

Comment by Cinie | 2008-08-10 16:09:01

This video is almost as funny as the Move On “baby chick” one. Only, this one was meant to be.

 
 

Comment by Chiten | 2008-08-10 15:35:06

Funny how they have nothing to say about sexism or mysoginism.

Is this a parody?

Comment by Joe | 2008-08-10 15:38:47

If it isn’t, then it’s a sad commentary on how the educational system has failed to inculcate into students the art of critical thinking, something that the Messiah’s followers are severely deficient in.

Comment by 935 Lies | 2008-08-11 13:30:38

Critical Thinking?!?!?

Isn’t the purpose of the Educational System to make all the little offspring Feel Good About Themselves?

F**k Critical Thinking. We’ll get a computer program that does that.

 
 

Comment by SusanUnPC | 2008-08-10 15:40:45

It is TOTALLY a parody.

What they did is hard to do. It proves they are both excellent comedians and actors.

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-08-10 15:41:56

It would have been better if they had a pitcher of koolaid on a table near them..LOL!

 

Comment by Joe | 2008-08-10 15:43:07

Then they fully deserve accolades for it. Please update your article about it and indicate that this is a tongue-in-cheek video, otherwise more people will think that it is for real.

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-10 18:15:44

If people think it’s real, then it succeeds as the best satire. I was fooled for a minute. They’re awesome sketch actors!

 
 

Comment by Uppity Woman | 2008-08-10 15:47:06

I think both of them almost lost it a few times. I bet that wasn’t the first take.

 

Comment by Clinton Fan | 2008-08-10 16:44:10

Oh, thank GOD.

I really was worried for the fate of our nation, if this was a slice of the Future Workforce of America.

I agree, what they did is difficult–I wanted to slap the ever-loving shit out of them! That’s …. ACTING!!!!

 

Comment by TeakwoodKite | 2008-08-10 18:14:30

I’m so glad you cleared that up! :) LOL

Great thing about this was it’s paradoy in a very real way.

“Has the ‘inteligence’* community infiltrated this far down?” is what I was thinking….

*it was intentional.

 
 

Comment by Cynthia B | 2008-08-10 15:43:45

of course it’s parody. it’s parody of all of it. of Obamania, the critical argument for Obama (you’re a racist if you don’t vote for him), and the x or y or hipster generation or whatever it is called these days that are sort of mindless adherents to whatever line they are given as “progressive” and cool and hip. the scary thing is that it is also dead-on actually happening. at my office, as a known supporter of hillary, all of my colleagues that are black have basically told me i’m a racist. daily. ironic more than any of them i have been an activist for “liberal” causes and willing to hit the streets for my beliefs. why can’t obama and his people understand that some of us have minds of our own and don’t like to be told how to think and vote.

 

Comment by jadwiga | 2008-08-10 15:57:12

I really think it is a parody!

 

Comment by fif | 2008-08-10 16:11:42

They HAVE to be kidding right? Is this for real? Can they really be that stupid? How many times did they say the word “racist?” If they are actual Bots, it’s case closed for the Clinton argument. Meet the new Democratic Party.

 
 

Comment by catherine | 2008-08-10 15:35:58

If this weren’t so sad and representative of Obama’s base, it would be hilarious. Super delegates take note of what you are endorsing by supporting Obama.

 

Comment by Dakinikat | 2008-08-10 15:37:15

Wayne’s World! Party TIME!!!!

Comment by meileen | 2008-08-10 15:39:44

Exactly what I thought of - a great SNL skit.

Comment by SusanUnPC | 2008-08-10 15:41:47

SNL should get them in for an interview — like yesterday!

 
 
 

Comment by Uppity Woman | 2008-08-10 15:38:31

These two kids are briliant satirists. I would love to take them both to lunch.

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-10 15:39:56

You and Me BOTH!!

Comment by Uppity Woman | 2008-08-10 15:44:59

They have it all down pat. The gestures. The tone. The movement. The hopey changey unrealistic attitude you can afford when you have nothing to worry about because somebody else is paying for things. The inflection. The vain and shallow “logic”. The whole thing is hysterical. Just. Brilliant.

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-10 15:58:24

they probably saw themselves going down that road and their friends and luckily caught themselves in time.

 

Comment by Clinton Fan | 2008-08-10 16:47:18

Indeed, and the Greatest of These is that smarmy INFLECTION! Combined with the vapid non-message, it really does cause the arm muscles to twitch in an urgent desire to slap them both silly!

 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-10 18:19:11

When she said Prius, that’s when I wasn’t sure. It stil took a minute. The scary thing is that his followers really do sound like this.

 
 
 

Comment by mary | 2008-08-10 16:42:55

Dear Uppity Woman:

P-l-e-a-s-e enlighten me on this. I viewed this vid of the 2 kids and thought they were sincere and genuine. If it were meant to be ’satire’, to me at least, it didn’t come off as satire but just an immature expression of their sentimentality about an issue they feel strongly about–not to mention their ‘white guilt’ syndrome!

If it were meant to be a ‘parody’, then more exxageration for the sake of pointing it out would have been helpful. Otherwise, any fool could think of it, as i did(!), as just a true moment of civil reponsibility and catharsis for two young conscious people and possibly voters.

I stand to be corrected on this. I expect my satire to look and sound like satire. Not a prayer to the false gods of the Obamaramas!

Comment by Uppity Woman | 2008-08-10 16:46:52

It IS listed under “comedy” Mary. That should be a hint. hee hee.

I recognized it right off because of the exaggerated expressions and movements. The hair flipping, “Prius” remark etc. But then I am a satirist myself so I appreciated this stuff big time.

Comment by mary | 2008-08-10 17:03:49

Thanks!
I appreciated your response. I get it….now!
Thank Zeus, Uppity, I’d be upset if it weren’t…

 
 

Comment by heather | 2008-08-10 18:02:54

All the little hair flips and lyrical voice dynamics was a give away (in addition of course to the ridiculous claim that voting for the white woman against the black guy would be SOooo racist.” It is snark!

Smart kids these days can be VERY subtle, a lot more than we used to be. I’ve observed this with my daughter and her friends.

 
 
 

Comment by meileen | 2008-08-10 15:38:51

Roses are red, violets are blue
Look at what Obama has done to you!

That was hysterical!! If this is what we have in store for our future, we are truly fu**ed.

 

Comment by Chiten | 2008-08-10 15:39:07

Whew!!!!
Ok, I disliked this so much, that I wanted to see if these two were for real. This IS a parody and they have a website that makes fun of certain things, mostly about how stupid people their age are, so I’ll forgive them now.
Here’s the website: http://www.youtube.com/user/TFprds
It’s kind of juvenile, but at least they’re the cynics of tomorrow.

Comment by Chiten | 2008-08-10 15:51:03

I actually teach high school and have seen students who are literally THIS STUPID. That’s why I had to do a double take and make sure it was a parody.
The boy was acting just a little bit toooooooo gay (maybe augmenting instead of acting, which is fine, gay isn’t a problem), but otherwise, they are doing an excellent job at being serious comedians along the line of the late great ones we have lost recently like George Carlin.
It’s refreshing to know there are kids out there who are intelligent humorists. Wish I had kids like THIS in my class (honest intelligence and able to do parody) instead of the ones who actually think the way these two are pretending to think!…well, I do have some that are pretty sharp, I just wish I had more.

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-10 18:20:34

I think the guy was gay, I don’t think he was making fun of gays.

 

Comment by Marissa | 2008-08-11 05:50:51

I could see people taking these two very seriously.

 
 

Comment by Chiten | 2008-08-10 15:54:09

SHIT!!!!! I actually watched some of the other videos instead of just going by face value of the site. These little turds are VERY SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE!!!!
I HOPE they are over age, it felt like I was watching some kinda porn on one of them!!! Gross!!!
OK, I’m done now.

 

Comment by fif | 2008-08-10 16:13:45

oh, thank God. I was worried, because many Bots really are that pathetic.

 

Comment by TeakwoodKite | 2008-08-10 19:10:20

It’s kind of juvenile, but at least they’re the cynics of tomorrow.

Agree and disagree.

Agree,It is juvenile and IS REAL on the BO side of the high school gym.
Disagree that “they’re the cynics of tomorrow.”…

…these young people are the voters of the future, if that is the only thing this generation is even able to pass on to them.

:)

 
 

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-08-10 15:40:38

W h a t e v e r!

OY! Bush’s Leave No Child Behind- works like He ‘thought’ it would.

 

Comment by SusanUnPC | 2008-08-10 15:42:32

Test . ignore.

Comment by jan | 2008-08-10 15:45:49

McCain should use the video in one of his ads.

 
 

Comment by Christy | 2008-08-10 15:44:47

OMG! I honestly am not sure if it was a parody or not. But it does an excellent job of summing up BO voters.

 

Comment by J. Smith | 2008-08-10 15:45:28

This level of parody is true talent!

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-08-10 15:46:21

On second thought, this has to be satire. No one is THAT stupid.

Comment by Joe | 2008-08-10 15:51:29

Yes there is. We encounter them when the Messiah’s trolls pop into this forum to demonstrate how stupid they are.

Comment by Clinton Fan | 2008-08-10 16:49:59

We need to keep the link handy, and direct those trolls to it!

 
 
 

Comment by Christy | 2008-08-10 15:47:19

Wow, so it was a parody. But that IS how BO voters think.

 

Comment by Katmoon | 2008-08-10 15:47:30

Rofl, funny

 

Comment by Uppity Woman | 2008-08-10 15:48:38

Obama had an ipod so he had the edge. ROFL. If Hillary had one that would have been soooooooooo racist.

Comment by Chiten | 2008-08-10 16:04:09

ok Uppity, this is absolutely the last time I’m going to propose to you because you aren’t answering and you are breaking my heart!!!!! ::sobbing uncontrollably::
Please please please marry me!!!

Comment by Chiten | 2008-08-10 16:38:14

ok, I don’t think she’s gonna marry me…..::sigh::

Oh well, my wife woulda got all upset anyway LOL

Comment by Uppity Woman | 2008-08-10 16:49:21

So you were just Chiten me, right?

Comment by Chiten | 2008-08-10 18:01:28

LOL!!
yup, just “chiten” ya!
You made me laugh on that, it’s supposed to be a misspelled “chicken” and I just realized that it looks like…well, something else. That’s cool!
Long story short, I have a little purple stuffed duck that insists that is it a chicken, not a duck (of course it speaks as all tiny stuffed animals do), so that’s where “Purplechiten” came from.

 
 
 

Comment by Uppity Woman | 2008-08-10 16:43:33

No can do Chiten. Already taken.

Comment by Chiten | 2008-08-10 18:02:28

me too, but it’s customary to propose to those who are the wittiest. dunno why, I just have to do it LOL

 
 
 

Comment by Iphie | 2008-08-10 16:34:15

That’s what got me — “I think he was photographed with an iPod.” Okay, sign me up!

 
 

Comment by N. Lee | 2008-08-10 15:51:55

OMG…thank you for letting me know this is a parody. I kept thinking….is this, like, for real? whew. I was a scared for a moment.

 

Comment by meileen | 2008-08-10 15:55:44

Glad to hear that this was parody. Those kids are good.

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-10 16:01:00

Very good. Like they had actually maybe BEEN there (for a bit) and saved themselves - a total parody but you could see they had BEEN there to some degree before

jmo

 
 

Comment by Susan | 2008-08-10 15:59:29

ROFL! That’s great! Those kids are brilliant. I especially loved the guy signing off with plea for everyone to keep “blogging against racism.” HAAAAAA! Who are these kids? Get them in touch with John Stewart… they have a future in comedy.

Comment by BlueTopaz | 2008-08-10 16:10:56

Jon Stewart is in the tank for BO.

Comment by John | 2008-08-10 16:32:15

He sure is- the other day he took a Bill Clinton quote that “maybe nobody is really ‘ready’ to be President” and tried to turn it into Clinton’s “passive-agressive” attack on OBAMA. Seriously.

I am so fucking sick of these smarmy so-much-smarter-than-thou “comedians.” Get bent, Mr. Stewart, and take Bill Maher with you. PLEASE.

Comment by DAB | 2008-08-10 16:47:20

It’s really sad to see talented satirists like Stewart and Colbert be so one sided since the election started. They only began to ever so tenderly skewer Obama recently but they are downright over-the-edge mean to McCain and didn’t do Hillary any favors either.

As a former avid fan, I find it increasingly difficult to watch them.

Comment by csuzeq | 2008-08-10 17:01:25

I had to quit watching Stewart and Colbert after the 57 states comment by Obie got no attention from them. I am watching again sometiems and sometimes still get mad at the Obama love they show,but it is not as bad as it was before. Still, you know they are in the tank. They should stop because I heard their ratings are down. AWWWWWWWWWW. Bots can’t stay up that late!

But if you think about it, they have to want Obama because it means for sure 4 more years of great material for them to stay on the air. It’s not about Obama, it’s about job security :-)

 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-10 18:28:18

They’re not even that sharp, really. Either of them. Stewart made his career telling BJ jokes at Clintons’ expense. A few views earlier in the primaries, and I saw where it was going. Conan O’Brien is edgier than Stewart and Colbert put together. These two should go Seth Rogan and do their own projects.

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-10 18:29:59

Sorry, meant the two that made the video. Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert should take a flying leap or do USO shows like Bob Hope.

 
 
 

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-10 17:05:30

Mahr CROSSED THE LINE INTO NEVER NEVER LAND

the land of NEVER FORGIVE

NEVER FORGET

PENCIL DICKS

his drippage (my word) of the C word not too long ago was a (as Manning put it) rock that dropped in the koolaid for me

he is no longer even slightly humorous and good as dead to me

especially the LOOK he gave when some audience boo’d him! THAT was an EVIL look of WOMAN HATE!

Comment by mary | 2008-08-10 17:17:01

Dawnelle:

Please let me know where I can view or read about the moron Mahr’s sexist remark! I can’t find it. Thanks!

Comment by TeakwoodKite | 2008-08-10 19:16:51

Watch his previous shows on the net.

 

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-10 19:28:15

I wish I had it. It was a clip from his HBO? show? I don’t even get HBO but one of the women’s groups had the clip.

I had heard about it before seeing it. Seeing it was what it took.

Kind of like that Richardson guy the way he chewed out those guys in his audience (all rabid like) and then the ZINGER slander N word replace that with C word

same damage imo

I’m sorry I don’t have it. Is there a place you can search at HBO for it? I’ll look into it myself as well as soon as I get back.

He’s a pig

 
 
 
 
 
 

Comment by Seattle Moss | 2008-08-10 16:01:24

Help!
If I don’t vote Obama, I will be branded a racist.

 

Comment by StrawberrybitesBarky | 2008-08-10 16:04:46

Okay, I was wrong, not all kids today are self absorbed, selfish wankers. If you’re reading this you two, you need to get yourselves educated and run for office. America needs kids like you.

 

Comment by WildChild | 2008-08-10 16:08:37

I’m not turning my country over to these people.

Comment by StrawberrybitesBarky | 2008-08-10 21:21:18

WC it was a joke, these kids have the Obamabits down pat. Bots are the adults, bits are the teeny boppers.

 
 

Comment by Obama is a bum | 2008-08-10 16:12:32

These two have the Obasketcase routine down. Although they look more like Arabs or Mexicans than white.

 

Comment by fred | 2008-08-10 16:12:47

Isaac Hayes dies at US home
RIP Issac

Comment by MEchelle Hates America! | 2008-08-10 16:33:08

How many homes did he have?

 

Comment by heather | 2008-08-10 18:06:18

I’ll miss Isaac.

 
 

Comment by HARP | 2008-08-10 16:14:55

ROFL…Send those kids to Denver and give them a spot on stage…prime time. Great stuff.

 

Comment by Carolyn Mann | 2008-08-10 16:15:53

Like, roses are red
and violets are blue,
because of morons like you
McCain we will chose.

Comment by cowgirls get the blues | 2008-08-10 16:35:45

Carolyn

McCain (McCave) is just as bad on women’s issues as Obamarama’s freaky agenda. Don’t fool yourself.

We are pumas and we don’t want to elect Obamaramadingdong. But it doesn’t mean we have to buy the McCave ‘pro-woman’ crap at sale prices.

I agree. Let’s vote strategically.

If live in a state where McCave is running head to head with Oblowmamumba, then vote McCave!
But if Oblowmamumba is gonna get in for sure in your state, please vote Nader or the Green Candidate…any THIRD PARTY!

Best strategy to send a message. Let’s not give the Geriatric Sexist any more awards than the young-and-should-know-better SKINNY RESUME islamist…What’s the dif? No. 1 Prize for Misogyny goes to:

1. Oblowmumamba
2. McCave

NO DIFFERENCE THEY ARE BOTH SEXISTS…But voting for the old fart gets our message across, I agree!
Just for this year!!!!

Hillary 08
Vote Strategically!