“Should Obama try to emulate the way he thinks gays and Jews talk in his next address to them?”
Well, I think I’m not alone when I say this, but my answer is… YES! Absolutely. He should do that. In fact all politicians should give that a try. It’d be funnn-eee!
It would be really funny if he couldn’t pull it off, but tried anyway.
[Update a few minutes later]
Today’s questions for the president:
What evidence do you have that the preferred footwear of members of the Congressional Black Caucus is bedroom slippers?
At what point during your childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia did you adopt the speaking cadence of Al Sharpton?
Do you agree with Janeane Garafalo that some Republicans support Herman Cain “because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party”? Are Republicans who don’t support Herman Cain simply more honest racists?
Do you agree with Herman Cain that ”African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not considering a conservative point of view”?
What measurable benefits have accrued to black voters as a result of tendering 88 percent of their votes to Hubert Humphrey, 87 percent to George McGovern, 85 percent to Jimmy Carter, 88 percent to Walter Mondale, 86 percent to Michael Dukakis, 83–84 percent to Bill Clinton, 89 percent to Al Gore, 88 percent to John Kerry, and 95 percent to you?
Well, they don’t suffer from the ravages of high employment or low legitimacy rates.
“Well, they don’t suffer from the ravages of high employment or low legitimacy rates.”
Yee-ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark.
“Should Obama try to emulate the way he thinks gays and Jews talk in his next address to them?”
Let’s ask Harvey Fierstein.
Gay issues won’t get me to vote FOR someone (Obama), but they will get me to vote against someone (Bachman, Santorum.)
Reminds me of when my college roommate and I would go into chinatown. He spoke Vietnamese, French and English but was fall off your chair funny when he tried to imitate Chinese. Eh… maybe ya had to be there.
I used to work a graveyard shift on a helpdesk with a Indian guy that sat right behind me. Because we worked all through the night we’d get calls from people in India, no doubt. Well or thing about Indians is they scream “HELLO!” into the phone when they answer and they pretty well expect you do the same or otherwise they just keep saying “HELLO? HELLO? HELLO?” into the phone until you scream hello back at them. Well one time I hit mute on the headset and started talking in an Indian accent and screaming “HELLO! HELLO HELLO HELLO!” And then I suddenly remembered who was behind me. I turned around and saw him red faced laughing his ass off. He was like,” that’s hilarious we’re just like that!”.