Overheard at work today:

[tyedyeto]

Biden will be the President cuz 'someone' is going to (finger-point like a gun) Obama.

So, I asked these 'customers' : Are you going to be the ones who do this?

No way, they answered, but someone will and then we'll be stuck with Biden.

So, I asked innocently: Before or after election day or before or after inauguration?

Only answer: McShame is going to win anyway so it really doesn't matter.

Response: Since it doesn't matter, then why are you talking about an assasination attempt on the Democratic nominee?



I got the feeling they will cheer the death of our candidate.

Damn, what has this country become?

[Schema Thing]

1. We elected Bush twice. That's what our country has become.

[Schema Thing]

2. requisite "we didn't *elect* Bush" reply

[MichiganVote]

4. That Rat Bastard was never elected. He stole it as sure as I'm breathing.

AND...he knows it.

[Jakes Progress]

15. Yes he did, but

it shouldn't have been close enough for him to be able to. What mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, inbred sheep would vote for that ass? If even 30% of our country did so, we are in sorry shape.

[KT2000]

3. There used to be a thing

called shame in this country - but no more.
What galls me is that people like that think everyone else thinks like they do.

[villager]

5. so.... how shall I phrase this? Where the fuck do you work!?

n/t

[tyedyeto]

7. In McShame country AZ

Retirement area of southern AZ

Although, I have seen more Obama bumperstickers than McShame, but that's because the people don't show their support, they just always vote for the Repukes.

Love the area, strong dislike of this area's political composition.

[snowbear]

9. File a complaint through your Human Resources Dept if you have one..

.
.

Either that or tell them to take their job and shove it.

So..

What do they want to win? McCrypt?

[tyedyeto]

10. I work in a restaurant/bar situation

No human resources and for the most part, it's the alcohol talking. But when you hear that type of drivel, one wonders about the rest of the area's population which is very conservative.

[HughMoran]

14. I've found the most conservative jackasses at bars

The alcohol loosens their tongues and they talk shit. I've stopped hanging places where people can't stop talking their shit. Sorry you have to put up with that crap.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

6. Ask what our country has remained.

Lots of folks cheered JFK's assassination. They just didn't make the news in the pre-cable era. And God knows what was said in some households when MLK was hit.

(In full disclosure, I have to admit that my reaction when Reagan was shot wasn't the model of class.)

[progressiveforever]

8. I hope there is a hell for them to roast in

Damn 'em!

[Mz Pip]

11. It happened when Kennedy was killed

We lived in a very Republican part of IL. I remember my Dad coming home. He was appalled by the comments made by people he worked with. He said that he didn't particularly like Kennedy but found people cheering at his assassination horrifying.

I was 14 at the time and I remember that so clearly. Looks like these people passed on their hate to the next generation.

[Tutonic]

12. Where do you work? That "customers" would feel comfortable to

do the finger-point? 7-11 or Joes Smokey Bar-B-Que?

[HughMoran]

13. Bah - it's just right-wing redneck style bravado

People that talk like that are just that - talkers.

If a person is to be offed, a group will recruit a mentally unstable hitman as they did in the past. It won't be one of those cowardly bone-heads you were talking to though.

[Common Sense Party]

16. It's not just rednecks and repugs who talk about the possibility

of an assassination.

Many blacks worry about it. Some are certain that it will be attempted:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18576275

Mentioned a couple of times in this broadcast, like just before the 44:00 mark.

[Qutzupalotl]

17. That prospect didn't deter Martin and it won't deter Obama.

Or his millions of mobilized, motivated voters.