Monday, February 11, 2008

Don't ask the person on the street, because that person is crazy

In anticipation of the upcoming "Potomac Primary", as it has come to be called, the BBC did a photo essay of voters in Baltimore and their opinions of the candidates. Apparently Obama is a Muslim, and Hillary can't be the president of "no country" because that's too much power to give to a woman. Nothing says informed and conscientious electorate like crazy people.

3 comments:

Scarlet Panda said...

I was sitting at Panera a couple of weeks ago, and a group of middle-aged women at the next table were discussing politics. Their thoughts:

Woman #1: I just don't think we're ready for a woman president.

Woman #2: I agree with you--it's not like I think men are more intelligent than women. But men are motivated more by facts, and women go more by their emotions. If a woman were in that situation where she had to push the button, I'm just not sure she could do it.

I kid you not.

Unfortunately, given the remainder of their conversation (about how no one in the race was conservative enough, how Bush is always getting a bad rap he doesn't deserve, and how it is simply factually impossible that abortion could ever be necessary to save a woman's life), I'm guessing these are not potential Obama voters.

Ah, Texas.

Fishfrog said...

Baltimore? Do you mean Balmer? All I speak is the Wire dialect of english.

Nell said...

That's how we do