My funny canvassing story or Bushes third term?!?

[mckeown1128]

It was a cold February morning in Augusta, GA. A group of us loaded into a car with bags full of Obama door hangers. We parked in the Obama campaign suggested neighborhood. It was going well for a saturday morning.(ie no one shot us for knocking on their doors on a saturday morning) The few who answered their doors were receptive. The houses were a little rundown. It wasn't a new or rich neighborhood. One house stood out. I don't know if it was because of the bright pain or the bright SUV COVERED with Georgia Bulldog stickers. A lady who seemed a little to old to be a college student answered the door. I gave her the door knocker with the poll times and locations. I told her who I was supporting and asked her if she had heard of Obama. Then she hit me with it...

She said, "I'm not voting for him. I think Bush is...Bush is doing a great job. He needs to stay were he is. I only vote for him. I am going to vote for Bush this november." She was dead serious, I tell you.

I was floored. :wow: I didn't really know what to say at that point. Should I tell her that Bush isn't going to be on the ballot in November. Should I spare her the embarrassment that would surely come the next time politics comes up at the office or family gathering...

Well, I said, "have a good day" and walked away. As if she wasn't already an embarrassment of a human being, she gave me some good advice as I walked away. "Watch out this is a dangerous neighborhood", she said. After spending ALL day in that neighbor hood I couldn't figure out why she said that. There were nice friendly people at most doors our group went to. We never once felt threatened, except for this little shiatsu that was guarding someone's porch. It was a vicious man eating puppy I tell you. One of the members of my group figured it out later. The Bush lady was one of the only Caucasians in the neighborhood. She "thought" the neighborhood was dangerous because the people "different" from her.

She is clearly what explains Bush's 29 percent approval ratings. Your typical Bush supporter. Racist and uneducated.

[BayouBengal07]

1. She's a Bulldog...

You have to take that into consideration.

[gratuitous]

4. I first heard this joke in the early 1980s

I reckon it would work for Clemson, Ohio State or Nebraska (where the "N" stands for knowledge) fans as well:

The world's smartest man comes across an article on the internet, telling about a group that's working on a machine that will raise a person's IQ. Intrigued, he goes to their laboratory to see this wondrous machine.

After showing their distinguished guest around, the proud scientists are ready to conclude the tour, when the world's smartest man surprises them. "Can that machine lower a person's IQ?" A little startled, the scientists allow as how it's possible, but why would someone want to do that? "Well, the social loneliness is just crushing. It's too much of a burden for me anymore, and I've often dreamed of shaving a few points off my IQ. Just so I could fit in better." The scientists discuss it, and finally agree to give it a try; the world's smartest man makes a persuasive argument.

They hook him up to the machine, and the IQ readout stands at 212. Amazing! The scientists begin fiddling with knobs, and the readout starts coming down: 200, 190, 180. They figure they'll stop about 170 or so. But the machine jams. Oh no! The readout keeps dropping. Finally in desperation, one of the scientists grabs a fire extinguisher and bashes the machine to pieces. The readout gives the grim news: 60. They've turned the world's smartest man into a blithering idiot.

They rush into the next room, where he's slumped down in his chair, smoke curling up from the leads attached to his once magnificent brain. They shake him awake, anxious to find out the extent of the damage. With a vacant, but strangely happy look, the world's smartest man says, "How 'bout them Dawgs?"

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republicons have congenital fear of life

And that is how they manipulate others -- by spreading fear. The lowest form of political scumbaggery, from the party that elevated their many, many "Chickenhawks" to the status of Party Heroes. Puke...

[BringBigDogBack]

5. Yep

[NoPasaran]

3. I think you've experienced "You can't fix stupid,"

[SpiralHawk]

6. You can't fix republicon stupid, that's for sure...

...because republiconism involves a willful, pig-headed stance ignoring facts and then voting against America and your own best interests. The republicons are a "lost generation" of deformed souls, following a pack of Chickenhawk war profiteers off the cliff of self-interest and greed, while turning their back on the USA.