Hilarious! Cardboard cut-out of Obama outside of Colorado Romney rally brings out the best in people

[kpete]

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[Siwsan]

1. they do understand it's a cardboard cut out, right? Oh, wait - they do support Willard

And, from watching him, he kind of ACTS like a cardboard cut out. So, perhaps that accounts for some of the confusion.

[Plucketeer]

13. I was gonna ask the same thing.

Since Mitt has as much depth of character as corrugated cardboard, these folks must assume Obama's Mitts equal.

[freshwest]

2. K & R... But I am disturbed at the stupidity.

[left on green only]

12. Yes! The complete lack of mental acuity that I observed ......

reminds me of the same type pf people that I face everyday here where I live. On the other hand, what can you expect in response to a taunt?

[freshwest]

16. I'm sorry you have to hear on a daily basis. Taunt? It's a cardboard image.

Nothing to lose one's mind over. Someone just posted something on another forum today that fit this mentality to a T.

Announcing 'I'm offended' is basically telling the world you can't control you own emotions, so everyone else should do it for you.

Apparently, they have so much vitriol for a single human being, who is not actually there, that they couldn't control themselves.

And if anyone wants to say that when Democrats act up, and the two parties are the same, I've got video proof against that.

[SamKnause]

3. Cardboard Obama

You have to love those low information family value voters.

I guess they are all loyal Fox News viewers.

People sticking up for the rich and voting against their best interest.

How sad.

[Enrique]

4. the guy with the 47% sign was confused

I wouldn't be surprised if MItt's people made him lose the sign, I don't think they would want to see that number at the rally.

[sabrina 1]

34. Lol, I know, didn't Mitt say he doesn't care about the 47%?

[barbtries]

5. what are they talking about?

the obama phone? is this some meme on fox or something?

that was disheartening. seemed like a rather large crowd.

[SemperEadem]

6. they were probably bussed in to fill up the place

it's not organic like Obama's crowds are.

[PA Democrat]

35. I was curious and had to google it. No surprise that the source is a video Drudge posted

of a poor black woman saying she is voting for Obama because he "gave her a free phone." There is a program that pays for phones for low income people that was started back in 1984 under the Reagan administration. So it's just another attempt to paint Obama as some kind of communist for continuing a program started by Saint Ronnie.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/just-how-racist-obama-phone-video/57353/

[barbtries]

36. thank you!

i figured it had to be something like that. it shows where those people get their "news." sad that so many buy into it.

[monmouth]

7. Low information gathered together...Ugh...n/t

[editor5]

8. Something about republicans.....

why are they all mean looking; fat; sickly; vapid; hickish?

[heaven05]

9. wow

Really misinformed, arrogant and ignorant people. Some of the looks, if looks could kill that poster would be dead. What's an obama phone? i'd google but my firefox google is not working well. Why do white americans hate, yes hate blacks so? What are they so fearful of? Well after Obama I hope we can get a Hispanic, then a woman, then an Asian, then a native american, then a gay as president and not necessarily in this order. Elizabeth Warren would be two birds with one stone. Then we'll get back to feelings of white entitlement and barely subdued racism... some of the comments, very,very insulting. I won't boo, I'll vote. I wish the whole world could see this long white line of hate.

[Buzz505]

10. It's Colorado,

that says it all (next to Utah).

[Samjm]

26. Not quite

CO is not ANYTHING like Utah. We have a Dem Governor, and both our Senators are Dem. Yes we have pockets of conservatism, but Denver and Boulder are both very blue.

[ssaphyre]

11. Not hilarious...

It actually made me sad that people are so disrespectful to our president. I am not a Romney fan but I hope I would behave better in a similar situation with a cardboard Romney. I did notice there did not appear to be a lot of diversity in that crowd....not too surprising, I guess.

[mike dub]

14. The stupid... it BURNS

I could only watch to 2:10 and then could no longer stand the idiocy of that crowd

[Proles]

15. "Lets do target practice" one of them said.

Definitely your average republican.

[Mkap]

17. Blinded,,

Blinded by the whiteness. They forget to bring their token black guy to that rally.

[B Stieg]

18. Fat Crackers on Parade

Sad, sad, sad.

[drynberg]

19. HEY, I KNOW IT WAS A SAD VIDEO, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND...

I couldn't help but smile a little grin when I thought about how their smug, ignorant faces will look in just 5 weeks when the air is totally let out of the RR clown act and The President reassures them that he will serve All Americans fully and that our Nation will re-cover. Yeah, that's the picture I see instead of these low info narrow minded poor excuses for Americans I saw parading by jabbering nonsense.

[demwing]

20. KPete, tried to see the humor

but just feel sad and embarrassed. Also, a bit uneasy. The most polite way to express this is that I want these people to go away, permanently--and I'm not comfortable with that emotion.

[RBInMaine]

21. "Communist...Marxist...Kenyan... bla bla blather blather bla bla bla..." = STUPID RACISTS

[RVN VET]

22. Before mocking the lame attempts at being witty . . .

I think it would be interesting to see a video of people exiting an Obama rally and being confronted with a cardboard Romney. (I couldn't resist.)

[left on green only]

28. Sounds like you've spoken to a bull fighter with a very high voice.

I think what you have tuned in to is the reality of the human condition. As much as we are all different, there is a lot more to us that makes us all the same. Most bulls respond in the same way to a red flag, just as most people (irregardless of political party affiliation) will respond in the same way to being taunted. Of course there are some of us who are saints (euphemism for higher level of consciousness), just as there are some of us who have no means of self control, for any number of reasons that have been dictated by our past experiences in life. It didn't used to be, but in modern times there are a lot of people in our country who have been "bent out of shape by societies' pliers" (Bob Dylan 1965).

For me, the most frightening part of the video was when one of the rally attendees made reference to using the cardboard cutout (and the person standing behind it) as target practice. That may have been an inference to promote others into taking violent action, or it might have also have been an inference to the danger of his' losing control of his own intentions. Nobody really knows if he was packing or not, just as no one really knows how many of the other people in that line were packing. But being that it was a right wing function that was being held in a state that prides itself in its' history of being "rugged" (I'm trying very hard to say this nicely), I would guess that the number of people in that line who were packing might have been pretty high; as in can you spell C o l u m b i n e?

So then the only reason to tempt fate in that instance (as in standing behind that cut out) would have been either if you had a death wish, or else you were just not very smart.

I'm glad that in this case, it turned out very lucky. We need all of the votes on our side that we can get.


Upon edit for syntax.

[angka]

23. FOX 31: Cardboard Obama told “Go back to Kenya” at Romney rally

http://kdvr.com/2012/10/02/cardboard-obama-told-go-back-to-kenya-at-romney-rally/

As thousands of Romney supporters lined up outside his Monday night rally site at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, liberal groups and the Obama campaign did whatever they could to get their own message heard.

But even with a small airplane circling overheard trailing a banner about Romney’s 47 percent comments, the voices ProgressNow Action wanted to hear were those of Romney supporters as they passed by the group’s cardboard cut-out of President Obama and rolling video camera on their way inside.

On Tuesday morning, the group posted the four-minute video on YouTube, in which dozens of Republicans pass by cardboard Obama and, in a few cases, can’t help but hurl less-than-politically correct comments its way. You can watch the video below.

“Go back to Kenya!” one person says.

“Strangle him!” says another.

http://kdvr.com/2012/10/02/cardboard-obama-told-go-back-to-kenya-at-romney-rally/

[trailmonkee]

24. gross

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. Here fishie fishie fishie....

[MrMickeysMom]

27. Hail! Caesar ???

Was that an attempt to recall history?

I tried finding a white person....

[HopeHoops]

30. None that I saw. I looked for a non-white too.

[HopeHoops]

29. I didn't spot a single non-white person there. And "king of Saudi Arabia and, uh, China"?

Neither has a king.

[dvhughes]

31. A Parade of Fools

And so ethnically diverse a group, too!
Glad to know that I do not pull the same levers as these buffoons.

[Smickey]

32. Wow.

So many faux sheeple.

[EnviroBat]

33. Did you ever notice that when one of them make some smart-ass comment,

they immediately laugh like they've said the most clever and amusing thing ever...? I'm sorry, but I hate these assholes.

[progressivebydesign]

37. haven't seen that many white faces since the flour mill blew up! what assholes...

"strangle him" "cut his head off" wow... brilliant.

[JaneQPublic]

38. I counted only one person of color in the crowd.

I'm guessing she was a local news reporter covering the event.

[KansDem]

39. "Shouldn't he be in the bowing position?"

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I suppose he's referring to Obama's greeting of the Japanese emperor.

I laugh when GOPers bring this up. Apparently they haven't seen this:



Probably would be too much for them to handle...

[Tx4obama]

40. Kick! n/t