Posted on 11/02/2010 10:56:11 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
"Am I the last person in America who still adores President Obama?"
Just before Halloween 2008, while out for a walk, I noticed that on the front porch of a nearby house sat a row of five pumpkins, each carved with one letter of Barack Obama's last name. The election was, at that point, a week away, and I was charmed by this seasonal display of Democratic support. Then I rounded the corner and spotted the exact same arrangement: a row of five pumpkins, each carved with one letter of Obama's last name. OK, so maybe not quite as original as I'd thought but still encouraging, at least for a liberal like me living in a swing state—my neighborhood, after all, is not in Brooklyn or Berkeley but in suburban St. Louis, Mo., a state that ultimately, by a margin of 0.1 percent, didn't go for Obama in '08.
This Halloween, it was clear that if I wanted to see a row of jack-o'-bamas, I'd need to carve them myself. Where once it was impossible not to trip over Obama enthusiasm, much of it shown by people not usually all that invested in politics and in ways that went well beyond bumper stickers or pins (remember the trend of young voters unofficially changing their middle names to Hussein?), these days, not only are Tea Partiers boiling over with fury at Obama, but even Obama campaign stalwarts Shepard Fairey of the Hope poster and YouTube sensation Obama Girl are feeling lukewarm about our president: Obama Girl, aka Amber Lee Ettinger, told the New York Post in January she'd give Obama a B- grade: "In my opinion, I feel like he should be focusing a lot more on jobs and the economy."
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Yes.
These people are stupid child sheep.
And that's part of the problem...ignorant people voting.
I LOATH OBUMMER Who in their right mind can love this moronic imbecile. i forget thos who are lefties. even though they a right brained they are in their leftie mind - OUT TO LUNCH. Maybe literally and figuratively
Never fall in love with a politician. They will break your heart every time.
jack-o’-bamas ?
How fruit. No really, they make up all kinds of child words to express themselves and things. Kind of like they never fully matured.
And I still love the Dallas Cowboys. But that doesn’t mean they’re not doing well and that upper management and coaching shouldn’t be fired. Same with Congress and Obama ... they should be fired.
Get a room.
And don’t send me any pictures.
That makes more sense.
Remember the Saints ? Never say never because sometimes never happens. :)
jackass-o’-bamas
For this article a barf alert is not sufficient. This warrants a projectile vomit alert!
Would he be a bumpkin pumpkin?
Curtis is a woman.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2619717/posts
Am I the last person in America who still adores President Obama
Slate ^ | 11/01/2010 | Curtis Sittenfeld
Why is the “duplicate” thread closed when it was the one that had Slate’s headline?
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