Okay, this woman at work didn't know who Dick Cheney,

[Shell Beau]

Condaleeza Rice, or Donald Rumsfield were. And she didn't know Bush's first name. This woman is in her 50's. It is people like that that scare me! :scared: She is one person that I hope doesn't vote.

[Shell Beau]

1. This is what is wrong with our country!

No telling how many people like her got out there and voted for who the hell ever. Without knowing jack about them.

[WilliamPitt]

2. Betcha she has all the TV plots and characters down cold, tho.

Thus fell Lord Perth, and the earth did shake with that thunder. - Browning

[Shell Beau]

3. She knows all the characters on The Young and the Restless!

x(

[WilliamPitt]

5. How?

How can she work and follow the soaps?

Kee-rist.

[Shell Beau]

7. They tape them at watch them when they get home.

They tape all of them, so she has no clue as to what is going on outside of "Genowa City" (or whatever it is called)

[WilliamPitt]

9. Egads

[madinmaryland]

40. My wife does the same thing

watching her three favorite soaps at night.

On the other hand she knows who all of those characters are that you mentioned in your opening posts, and despises them as much as i do.

[Mutley]

57. My mother used to do that with "Days of Our Lives"

Oh, the horror!!! The shame!!!! *I turn my back on you dramatically* :cry: Poor me!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

50. I work on that show!

Well, I sometimes type the closed captions for it. It's a dumbass show, but some of my co-workers love it and also follow politics closely. Takes all kinds, I guess.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

55. Well, you know, that is just fine

as long as she doesn't vote. Ever. For anybody.

[kwassa]

4. I once worked with a woman who had no idea who was President

and she was a college graduate, believe it or not. She was a pretty self-centered individual with no interest in politics of any kind. I doubt that she ever voted.

[Shell Beau]

6. I got this woman to register a while back in hopes that

she would vote. I tried to explain how we should take advantage of being able to do that b/c her grandmother wasn't allowed. Now I wonder if I made a mistake!!

[peekaloo]

8. My older sister thinks C-Span is "another of those Spanish networks".

and yes she's a Bu$hbot.

[Shell Beau]

11. Well, there you go!

Figures!

[MooPie]

10. Did she seem at all embarrassed?

I find this beyond pathetic, and even frightening if she does in fact vote. Or perhaps she's modeling her behavior after chimpy, one of the most uninformed disengaged people on the face of the earth.

[Shell Beau]

13. She didn't seem at all embarrassed. And the thing is

she had this pic of the Wizard of Oz characters with their heads attached. It was clearly putting them down and making fun. So she thought it was funny, but didn't know what their names were. She sort of knew Condaleeza's name, but she had no idea Dick Cheney was VP, or that Bush's first name is George. :o And I am thinking, why do you think it is funny if you have no clue what it even means!!!!

[MooPie]

18. Scary.

Does she have some sort of mental disability? Or am I naive in thinking this type of ignorance falls outside the norm?

[Shell Beau]

20. No, I guess she just doesn't think it serves

a purpose to be knowledgeable. She'll bitch about stuff that happens in town, but she has no clue about anything outside of this city.

[LSK]

12. who are these people you speak of???

}( :P :evilgrin: :silly: :crazy:

[Shell Beau]

14. These people I speak of are "The Others"

The others I work with that is!! :P Some of them anyway. I will say the majority of the people I work with know politics. But they are also probably repubs.

[LSK]

19. you work with Dick Cheney and Donald Dumsfeld?

Yes I am being difficult :bounce:

[Shell Beau]

21. After having to deal with some dum dums, you want to

test me? Is that it? :spank:


:P :bounce:

[LSK]

29. no, i want to find out whats happening on General Hospital

:P :hide:

[Shell Beau]

43. Oh well

Julie is dating her ex-husband's sister's husband's son who was at one time dating her mom! And then she killed him only for him to come back from the dead! Turns out he is really her son she gave up for adoption years ago....... :silly:

[GOPBasher]

15. Great.

Was is Pericles in ancient Greece who said something like, "A man without any interest in his country's affairs is useless"?

[XemaSab]

52. Right before he

married his mom and killed his dad because he was adopted and didn't know it?

[Deep13]

16. During the Oct. before the 2004 election...

... I had a drug store clerk asked what a "W" with a street-sign no symbol meant. (I had one on my shirt.) She did not know that people call Bush Dubya or that his middle initial was W. The clerk was younger than me, but still an adult.

When I was in college, a middle aged woman at a drug store where I worked could not figure out when the Civil War was. (I was discussing it with another employee) She could not even figure out that it was in the 19th century.

[Shell Beau]

17. I guess some people really do not think beyond their lives.

If they only knew how much this stuff effects (or affects?? :shrug:)their lives!!!

[Deep13]

36. The effect is affected.

"e" is the noun. "a" is the verb. FYI.

And yes, what happens in Washinton, the state capital and city hall matters a lot.

[Shell Beau]

48. I used to know it and then when I was trying to explain

it to someone else it messed me all up. Now I always question it!!!x(

[WilliamPitt]

22. A friend of mine

did a survey in his high school, which was a pretty posh private school. He asked three questions:

1. When was the Civil War?

2. When was the Vietnam War?

3. What was the Holocaust?

The most memorable answers he got were from one classmate who said:

1. 1880

2. 1980

3. When we bombed China.

Swear to God.

[Shell Beau]

24. That is scary!

I loved history. I don't think enough emphasis is put on it in school.

[MooPie]

30. This is high school?

Where?

[WilliamPitt]

32. Massachusetts

[redqueen]

23. Frightening.

Just MHO, but I think adults should eventually GROW THE FUCK UP.

:grr:

[Shell Beau]

25. No shit!!

It is disturbing!!!

[redqueen]

28. How can we add more sex and drama to politics?

Maybe then these dumbasses would pay attention! :)

[Shell Beau]

31. Sex and the names I mentioned above in the same sentence make me

want :puke:


:)

[redqueen]

33. Ick, you're right.

Tha't would only scare currently tuned-in people away. Nevermind!

[CottonBear]

26. Unfortunately, there are many people like this woman.

I'm sure that my own sister would be hard pressed to name any one (other than Bush and maybe Cheney) in the Bush Administration. She has never voted. :( Apparently, she has no interest in politics.


Many people, young and old, don't keep up with current events in the US or abroad. They don't read the paper or listen un-biased news.
You would be surprised at how little American history they know.

It is a very bad state of affairs. :(

[Tyrone Slothrop]

27. I work for a law firm

In the wake of this Paris violence, I was talking to one of the lawyers I work for, and he said "What do you expect? The country's 90% Muslim."

He refused to believe that France was a primarily Catholic country, until I had to actually pull up statistics off the Web showing him that like 92% of the country is Catholic, not Muslim. And he's a lawyer! (Luckily, he's a non-voting Republican. I don't mind them that much when they tack the non-voting part on...)

[Celeborn Skywalker]

34. ...

:wtf:

How can someone be so damn ignorant?

[hippywife]

47. Why else do you think

Bill O'Reilly was boycotting them?? :silly: :wtf: :dunce:

[LSK]

35. i had a co-worker not know who we fought in the cold war

She was a drama queen airhead who paid more attention to shopping than anything else. She spent her formative years partying and drunk.

[anarch]

37. maybe this is a good thing...we'll need people like this for jury duty

when we put these fuckers on trial for their war crimes.

On the other hand, I suppose the mentally incompetent would be excluded from a jury. Meh...she sounds pretty amazingly ignorant.

[SoCalDem]

38. There are TONS of people like her.. and every 4 years lots of them DO vote

They vote for the "cute one"..or the one with the "dreamy eyes"..or the one with the "darling children"...or the one who "loves his wife so much"

I know a woman who is totally apolitical for other reasons..


Her day starts at 4AM..She has 2 jobs..one from 5AM to 11 AM. Then she races home to prepare dinner for her family (a single Mom), and put it into the fridge for her teenaged kids to warm up for dinner.

She may watch a little tv while she cooks, but she's also on the phone then, setting up dentist appointments, calling friends, whatever.

Then she tries to catch a nap before she has to go to her OTHER job, which starts at 3, and ends at 9PM.

These jobs do NOT have specified days off, so sometimes she can end up working weeks on end without a day off for both jobs simmutaneously. They are both "part-time" jobs, so the benefits are very limited. I think they do have a skimpy medical plan, and one son has a part time job which does have benefits.

The radio in her 20 year old car has not worked in ages. They stopped the paper because no one ever read it, and they have only 1 tv in the kitchen/dining room/living room.

The kids do have a computer , but they have to share it. She has little time to do more than check email, so her use is limited too.

Her kids do clean the house somewhat and do laundry, but there are still "Mom things" to be done when she gets home at around 9:30 PM, and of course eventually, she has to get some sleep.

Her choice of entertainment is "fluff", because she's just too tired for much else.

There are MILLIONS of people whose lives are so FULL, they barely have time to breathe. These lives are not really their own. Bosses make demands on their time, kids need their time.

They just plain run out of time, and politics takes time...time to read up on candidates & issues, time to discuss and research , time that these people do NOT have..

[El Fuego]

44. But these people won't vote in 2006

Because they won't even know there's an election going on!

And from my observations, the ignorant population skews republican.

He he, I think we will win big in 2006! :bounce:

[DemReadingDU]

46. they will vote

because their friends listen to Rush, Hannity, and watch Fox news. Their friends will tell them who to vote for. They believe their friends, why would they lie to them?

I know so many ill-informed people. I can have the facts in my hand, but still, they won't listen to the truth, because I am a Democrat.

[Trigger Hippie]

39. OK, I can kinda understand an ignorant person

not knowing about Rumsfeld or Rice, but how can ANYONE ALIVE not know Bush's first name, especially since it's the second president named George Bush that we've had. :scared:

[Shell Beau]

41. Scary, huh?

[Trigger Hippie]

42. Scary and just plain crazy!!!

:)

[Loonman]

45. I make it a point to know all the players names and jobs

What they did before, areas of expertise....

Also good to knoew names of people in foreign governemnts and what they do. Most casual Bush fans don't know or care.

Remember when candidate Bush didn't know who the president of Pakistan was?

[XemaSab]

53. Well duh

Everyone knows that the president of Pakistan is General Schwarzkopf....

[La Lioness Priyanka]

49. how is that possible?

[Shell Beau]

51. I haven't a clue, but obviously, it is!!

[Taverner]

54. I knew a woman who was 28 and had no idea who Condolezza was

And when she first saw a pic (this is 2005 mind you) she was like "I thought shed be MEXICAN!"

I work with her, and she is rich, beautiful and stupid. Wotta combination. Her husband is a CEO of a medium sized company.

[Greyhound]

56. I'd bet money that not only does she vote, she votes just the way

her church tells her to.