Why is Barack Obama failing to connect

[CreekDog]

with 15% of voters that think he is Muslim? :shrug:

[Barack_America]

1. Here's one of them. Maybe we should ask him.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Clearly a Clinton supporter.

[CreekDog]

35. the Cardinals have asked for their shirt back

:(

[goldcanyonaz]

2. 15%? No way. I can not believe that so many think that.

BUt, then again, they did vote for Bush twice.

[TahitiNut]

17. At the last polling, that included 10% of Democrats.

So much for speculation. :shrug:



http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=1277

Not surprisingly, 'moderate' Democrats are 2.5 times more likely to be ABYSMALLY IGNORANT

[MidwestTransplant]

19. Maybe Hillary's hedging on that question convinced a few that it is possible.

[writes3000]

3. Because those voters want to believe it... I call them the "As Far As I Know-ers"

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. You can't argue with people that believe Muslims have Reverends

[CakeGrrl]

5. Why is GWB's approval rating still over 20%?

Some people are just 'stuck on stupid'. There is always going to be a demographic who won't vote for a candidate under any circumstances, and they'll use whatever they can to support their position, however much it defies logic.

[tularetom]

7. Like they were gonna vote for a Democrat anyway.

He's probably failing to connect because these people are fucking stoopid and he refuses to lower himself to their level unlike antoher candidate who has a law degree from Yale and pretends to be an ignorant rube in order to pander to this group.

[otohara]

8. AKA Wingnuts

who will perpetuate that lie to scare others who don't read or listen to the facts.

[kwenu]

9. That's easy. Those folks are racist and need pretext to cover their racism.

Let them go. They are trash.

[Klukie]

15. Bingo

you got it, however I disagree with letting them go. I say expose them for what they are and the hatred they harbor and maybe they will have some sense embarrassed into them.

[AspenRose]

38. ding ding ding

:thumbsup:

[BeyondGeography]

10. He's not failing to connect, their synapses are

[DMorgan]

47. Exactly TRUE!

[Catherina]

11. Same reason Martin Luther King failed to connect

with the people who thought he was a dangerous radical upsetting their White privilege.

I like the way you phrased your question.

[CreekDog]

16. thanks

i didn't want to have to use that sarcasm smiley. :hi:

i'm tired of Obama getting blamed for people's own ignorance which should be their own responsibility.

[Submariner]

12. Right-wingnut "Hate" Radio, Fox News, and twerps like this diaper load

[patrice]

13. He needs to tell them that he/we too are very worried about any Muslims who are extremists and that

as a Christian with direct experience of Muslim culture, from the outside looking in, he is in an especially objective well informed position to know more about Muslims and, therefore, to be able to deal with them more effectively than their favorite ignorant pResident who shows what can happen when you take on a whole world-wide culture without any knowledge or understanding of what it is.

[Neshanic]

14. Because:

He comes across as a complete snob.

He is robotic and emotioneless.

He is not percieved as a fighter.

His wife is a real piece of work.

He shows an incredible lack of judgement in all things Wright.

He wrote a bestselling book about the guy he now does not "know".

He is lukewarm in everything he details, and throws out the "you don't get it" thing when he's asked for details.

He likes republicans.

More?

[CreekDog]

18. how do they know all that if they don't even know he's not Muslim?

just askin'

[monmouth]

20. Your statement is a perfect example of "stuck on stupid."...n/t

[CreekDog]

21. or just inability to read

:shrug:

[Hepburn]

46. Why would you elevate a suck wad post like that to the level of

being merely stupid? :hi:

IMO, that one is intentional long-time perfected ignorance!

[JVS]

24. I have never heard anyone use Muslim interchangeably with snob

Nor have I heard of Muslims being stereotyped as robotic or emotionless.

Nor have I heard of Muslims being characterized as not being fighters, quite the contrary.

Nor have I heard of Muslims being stereotyped as allowing their wives be "real pieces of work", in fact Muslims are frequently viewed as being zealous in keeping their wives outside of the public sphere.

I have also never heard of a Muslim being accused of guilt by association with a Christian pastor.

So your points kind of tell me why people should not think Obama is a Muslim.

[Neshanic]

28. Ask the people that think he's a Muslim. That's what I and other think of him.

[JVS]

30. How fucktarded does a person need to be to be angry about Wright and think he's a Muslim at the...

same time? One issue would preclude the other.

[IntravenousDemilo]

32. All right. Why -- especially after the Wright flap -- do you think he's a Muslim?

And in as non-bigoted a way as possible, please explain why being Muslim is bad, and then we'll send Muhammad Ali over to your house to straighten you out. How can it possibly be any worse than being a follower of Jerry Falwell?

[Neshanic]

49. I never thought he was Muslim. I said he's a incredible snob. There is no religion

for that I believe.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

51. Why do you think he's uppity?

What has Barack Obama done that strikes you as uppity?

[sniffa]

31. Are those quotes from Ignored?

What a piece of work Ignored is. :eyes:

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[beezlebum]

22. why do +/-15% still support GWB*?

[PurityOfEssence]

23. Don't expect logic when talking about religion

Obama's made a very Faustian bargain by playing the religious card over and over. Sometimes it works, like in South Carolina. Sometimes it doesn't.

Religion is extremely dangerous stuff, and people who purposefully use it for personal advantage may not just get away with it.

It's not all his fault, but he's been playing with fire.

[CreekDog]

26. so his use of religion makes people think he's Muslim?

you're going to have to explain that one for us.

[peace13]

25. When did you first stop beating your wife. n/t

[Cha]

27. rush Fuckin' limbaughs and the fookin' ilk who

listen to him and change their status to vote for hilary in Guam.

They'll always be that stupid faction roaming around.

[Vinca]

29. You've got to pick the scandals you're going to promote.

It's either the "he's a Muslim" meme or the Jeremiah Wright story. For obvious reasons, it can't be both.

[JVS]

33. Unless Trinity United Church of Christ is some kind of front for the Nation of Islam!

zOMG! This is HUGH!!!!111!!11!!!1!!!!

[cliffordu]

34. Bell curve among white voters....Someone has to be stupid.

Even if it's willfully so.

[Adelante]

36. Shocking

:rofl:

[Skidmore]

37. Those people are among the same group that think * is the greatest president in history.

Neocon supporters and jonesing for the Second Coming.

[PoliticalAmazon]

39. When you think of the #s who supported Bush Jr, clearly some Americans...

...march to a different drummer.

There are a couple of reasons I can think of as to why 7% still think he's Muslim: lack of correct information and lack of correct information.

What is important is that the SDs know the truth and are moving to Obama.

In yesterday's LATimes, there was an article about how Hillary's grasp of California SDs is weakening:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5833618&mesg_id=5837587

[graycem]

40. I'm going with Clifford's

explanation. Being stupid, it's a hard job, but somebody has to do it! B-)

[zulchzulu]

41. Some people have a hopeless case of the Stupids

[dionysus]

43. ummmm, cause 15% of people are dumb as shit?

[stevietheman]

44. Why is Hillary failing to close the deal when she was the overwhelming frontrunner...

before the caucuses/primaries began? :rofl:

[GihrenZabi]

45. Because those voters are morons?

This is why there ought to be SOME sort of qualification for voting...just to weed out the morons.

[Lilith Velkor]

48. Some of that 15% is willing to vote for him anyway

So what's the problem? :shrug:

[eilen]

50. because the brain dead can't think?