Was Obama elected off of a make believe conception?

Feeling political today...

Anyway, I have a question for you guys, was Barack Obama really chosen for his views on issues or was he, as this satire you've probably already heard (below), simply chosen by an idea that he was the "magic negro" (for those of you who don't understand this reference they're making, think movies with the black dude who comes and helps the other characters out).  Was it his ideas or the false idea of him having all the solutions and that somehow if he were elected everything would "change" and become perfect?

What say you?

(here's the video)

I do not believe that he was elected on a 'make believe conception'.  He has promised many things, but it has only been a month since he was sworn in as president and there is much more time to see how things can turn out.

I also find that video you posted completely unrelated and pointless. Go back to listening to Rush Limbaugh

Br3adfan said:

"I do not believe that he was elected on a 'make believe conception'.  He has promised many things, but it has only been a month since he was sworn in as president and there is much more time to see how things can turn out.

I also find that video you posted completely unrelated and pointless. Go back to listening to Rush Limbaugh
"

Are you not familiar with that video?
It was a song making satire of the fact that he was essentially elected for being something of a conception rather than a politician of issues.

You saw all that "CHANGE!" things.  What the hell did those mean?  Change for what? Along that idea.

It's not racist at all for the record.  It's referencing the  term of that black guy who will show up and solve all the problems, somehow, in those movies.  It's also poking stuff at Al Sharpton.

You got yer politics in mah peanut butter.

Time will tell....

"I do not believe that he was elected on a 'make believe conception'.  He has promised many things, but it has only been a month since he was sworn in as president and there is much more time to see how things can turn out.

I also find that video you posted completely unrelated and pointless. Go back to listening to Rush Limbaugh
"

Go back to listening to Rush Limbaugh
"

Every leader is elected based on what people believe.  There's no way any voter outside of a very small inner circle could really know anything at all about who they're voting for.  Bush got in because people thought he was a cowboy and actually cared about his electorate.  There's nothing really different in this case.  It would be impossible for any leader to cure all of America's problem within even 2 terms, so some people do have unrealistic expectations.

the people get the government they deserve.

No, he was chosen because he wasn't a Bush Republican. And take down that video, its stupidity offends me, and it has no reason to be in this thread.

I voted for him because I felt he had great appeal elsewhere in the world more than any other reason.  We need close allies in everything we do and we need somebody who is willing to talk to everybody whether they share our views or not.

"No, he was chosen because he wasn't a Bush Republican. And take down that video, its stupidity offends me, and it has no reason to be in this thread.
"

The movies?  Really? 
Well here's a nice popular one for you, Happy Gilmore.  It's not the best example, but the one you'd recognize best.

Here's one from something you may not know but is exactly what i'm talking about:  The Legend of Bagger Vance

I know that's Adam Sandler. But is that the one where he plays an idiot who's good at football, or the one where he plays golf to save someone from something, or the one where he's an idiot who's an idiot who has to get a tutor to pass grade school? I've never seen more than trailers for those, so ya lost me.

^ it's the golf one, not the best example, but decent.  the other video is a better example

posts crossed in the mail. I do recognize will smith tho.

"Snipzor said:

"No, he was chosen because he wasn't a Bush Republican. And take down that video, its stupidity offends me, and it has no reason to be in this thread.
"

Well you can't just say it was McCain vs. Obama.  Obama was elected when McCain was selected.  I think mit romney was the best choice on the republican side.
Not many people really like McCain on either side.

And if you really think the video is just stupidity, you are apparently not listening to it.  It's encasing this whole topic and really the question that anyone with half of a brain might want to ask.
"

Most people I know don't even have a good general idea of politics in general. A lot of undecided voters with know intention of doing research into the candidates that were available just listened to what he said and went along with it. Personally I think almost all of his promises were false and we are headed for a really bad depression.

I've also asked a lot of people that voted for him about his policies and very few could actually tell me anything. So yeah I guess I do think that he was elected on false hope and it pains me to see it. In my opinion people should be mandated to take classes or do research on candidates and their policies before being able to vote.

"Most people I know don't even have a good general idea of politics in general. A lot of undecided voters with know intention of doing research into the candidates that were available just listened to what he said and went along with it. Personally I think almost all of his promises were false and we are headed for a really bad depression.

I've also asked a lot of people that voted for him about his policies and very few could actually tell me anything. So yeah I guess I do think that he was elected on false hope and it pains me to see it. In my opinion people should be mandated to take classes or do research on candidates and their policies before being able to vote."

"No, he was chosen because he wasn't a Bush Republican.
"

"Most people I know don't even have a good general idea of politics in general. A lot of undecided voters with know intention of doing research into the candidates that were available just listened to what he said and went along with it. Personally I think almost all of his promises were false and we are headed for a really bad depression.

I've also asked a lot of people that voted for him about his policies and very few could actually tell me anything. So yeah I guess I do think that he was elected on false hope and it pains me to see it. In my opinion people should be mandated to take classes or do research on candidates and their policies before being able to vote."

Thankfully we live in a Republic, where idiots vote for people who greatly impact your life. The issues are abstracted, no one needs to understand them.

"Feeling political today...

Anyway, I have a question for you guys, was Barack Obama really chosen for his views on issues or was he, as this satire you've probably already heard (below), simply chosen by an idea that he was the "magic negro" (for those of you who don't understand this reference they're making, think movies with the black dude who comes and helps the other characters out).  Was it his ideas or the false idea of him having all the solutions and that somehow if he were elected everything would "change" and become perfect?

What say you?

(here's the video)

  

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I don't think that. I think that within the next year he will get something done. I'm really crossing my fingers on that though since the government is that last thing I trust on this planet. But if he really is what he says he is then there might actually be hope.

"

Br3adfan said:

"I do not believe that he was elected on a 'make believe conception'.  He has promised many things, but it has only been a month since he was sworn in as president and there is much more time to see how things can turn out.

I also find that video you posted completely unrelated and pointless. Go back to listening to Rush Limbaugh
"

Are you not familiar with that video?
It was a song making satire of the fact that he was essentially elected for being something of a conception rather than a politician of issues.

You saw all that "CHANGE!" things.  What the hell did those mean?  Change for what? Along that idea.

It's not racist at all for the record.  It's referencing the  term of that black guy who will show up and solve all the problems, somehow, in those movies.  It's also poking stuff at Al Sharpton.

"

no smug, you just are a little bit racist

without reading the real post, im gonna just say... OF COURSE

...I think this one could just beat the record....

"And if you really think the video is just stupidity, you are apparently not listening to it.  It's encasing this whole topic and really the question that anyone with half of a brain might want to ask. "

Hopefully he got voted in because more people registered to be able to vote.

If everyone knew that Obama supports infanticide, I'm sure he would have gotten a lot less votes.

"If everyone knew that Obama supports infanticide, I'm sure he would have gotten a lot less votes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpA7gC3nWyc&feature=channel_page

Now that's change we can believe in. Yes we can.

"

Obama got elected for teh lulz.

"Smug, your a nice guy, but this is hands down the dumbest topic you've yet posted."

Snipzor gives factcheck.org, and you respond with a pro-life blogger?

"Snipzor gives factcheck.org, and you respond with a pro-life blogger?

There is so much wrong with what you just did, Raw.

Whatever. I'm the fool here for thinking there wouldn't be some conspiracy theories sorrounding this president. Bush had the 2000 election and 9/11, Obama is going to have infantcide, being born in another country, and who knows what else.

"

Nothing like your standard issue controversy to make things interesting.

"In my opinion people should be mandated to take classes or do research on candidates and their policies before being able to vote."

"...Not that I think it matters which asshole people think is running the country."

"I not only responded with a pro-life blogger. I also responded by saying that googling "Obama Supports Infanticide" gives lots of context/articles on him supporting infanticide. "

He was chosen because people thought it would be cool to witness the first black president. Honestly, I'm not even joking. I wish I was.

If affirmative action still exists at the end of Obama's presidency, he will be a hypocrite.

That video is the opposite of funny, and typical of the radical right wing racist propaganda.  This is such an old and obvious troll topic, I find it surprising that even Smug has dug this corpse out of the grave, well done smug, your trolling has paid off yet again

Was bush elected because of his views or because 98% of republicans vote republican and 98% of democrats vote democrat and the "undecided" are a bunch of fence straddling attention whores who do bullshit like become
single issue voters?

The GOP scared the country into voting for Bush W twice because of "Terror, alert levels, freedoms, mexicans, n00cueLER proliferations"  What is so disgusting about this type of trolling is that this topic only comes up because
Obama is black.  If John Kerry had won in 04 the same thing would not have been said.  Most people that vote are idiots, most people in this country are idiots, the majority of the world's population are uneducated religious
right wing idiots.

But the Rush LImbaugh ditto heads see this as an attack opportunity, everyone voted for Obama because he is black!  OH NOES! 

Any politician who's only real "stimulation" seems to be in making the government an even bigger cluster fuck of a multi-headed Hydra monster than it already is can't be all bad, can he/she? They've always been able to straighten out all our problems in the past haven't they? Welfare, Social Security, Medicare, the CIA, now they want a part of the banking pie too?

If he can eliminate all the evil rich people, open markets, personal responsibility and freedom, then we can all live the dream of being equally miserable. I can't wait!

Obama was elected on his charisma and playing off the ludicrous guilty notion that America is now hated around the world, when America has been hated by someone around the world for as long as it's been in existence. We need to be building an enviroment where personal freedom can grow and all men are created equal. Not rich men and poor men, ALL men. Let them be free and make them live with their decisions in life. Teach a man to fish, don't take the fish away from the fisherman and then give it to a slug.

Man, Cool Cos didn't need no media son.

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And right there is why REAL political discussions have no place on an internet message board, let alone a gaming message board.