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Hillary Supporter: Obama's the anti-christ from the middle east
Mary Bunger, a 44-year-old single mom from Abington, emerged from the town's general store on Wednesday, the only place to purchase a snack in a 10-mile radius.
"I am definitely going to try to go with Hillary," she said. "I almost feel like (Obama's) the anti-Christ from the Middle East."
Bunger reads news online about the election and has been "trying to talk everybody into voting, especially this year because I'm really scared for Obama to get it."
She cites Rev Wright as part of her concern. Just showing the vast majority of those who support Hillary are un-informed, ignorant fools who think someone's former pastor is more important than say, economic or foreign policy positions.
Sheila Hartman, 37, who tends the general store and is the daughter of Linda Paddock, said "of course Hillary" would get her vote.
"She has the most experience and she knows the loopholes and how to get by with things," Hartman said, adding that she rarely tunes in to debates or reads newspapers.
Indiana: Full of backward, bigots who don't pay attention to the news or even the political debate we've been having in this country for the last year and a half. And they're all voting for Hillary!
"Some of it's obviously going to be racial for a small community based upon their guidance from an older generation," she said. "I've only heard one of them speak highly of Obama."
Comments (9)
Talk about bigotry. You take comments from a couple of folks and project their sentiments onto Indianans in general.
The fact that you don't recognize this fact is amazing. How pathetically ignorant of you.
May 5, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
It would be nice if these people actually had good reasons for supporting their candidates. But not supporting obama because you're brain-dead and think he's from the middle-east when he's really from Chicago is pretty stupid. In fact, it requires a willfull ignorance to believe that. Anyone who attended elementary school should know that if Obama was from the middle east, he wouldn't even be allowed to run for president.
Likewise, voting for hillary because "she knows all the loopholes" -whatever the hell that means- isn't any better a reason. And i'd like to ask Mary Bunger just how she thinks Jeremiah Wright will affect Obama's presidency. He won't of course, but why let a silly fact like that get in the way?
If the voters of Indiana wanted to convince me they weren't backward, ignorant, ill-informed bigots, well...they should stop acting like backward, ignorant, ill-informed bigots.
I'm not even saying they have to vote for Obama. But they should at least have GOOD, RATIONAL REASONS, for the way they vote. I don't expect everyone out there to be a political junkie like me, but i don't think its too much to ask that you at least read a newspaper or watch a debate before you make up your mind on who you're going to vote for.
May 5, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
You obviously still don't get it.
May 5, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
go ahead and defend these people if you want.
but i stand by my assertion that it shouldn't be too much to ask that someone reads a newspaper, or watches a debate, or at least pays some attentinon to the events taking place in the world in which they live before making an important decision on where we should go as a country. is it really too much to ask that these people care? because from my perspective, they don't care. if they cared, they might bother paying attention to the political debate the country's been having the last year and a half.
but these indianans must think that being "informed" is over-rated or something. What other explanation could there be that this far into the process, there are people out there who still haven't bothered paying attention?
But I'm not surprised that low information (read as: people too stupid to even bother learning about the candidates) are going for hillary. She's a brand name. And people who are too stupid to bother learning about the candidates will vote for the "brand" they're familiar with over the one they're not.
May 5, 2008 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey are really that dense? I am not at all defending the the two Indianans you quoted.
If you would have called the two folks cited in your post the completely stupid dumb asses that they obviously are, based upon the quotes you posted, I wouldn't have had said a word about it.
However, you attributed their sentiments to all Indianans.
May 5, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Revealing a lot about what I've been thinking lately, the anti-Christ from the Middle East? That's insane...no wonder Obama hasn't closed this deal yet...but he will, soon and justice will be done!
May 5, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that the voters quoted here are uninformed and bigoted. But there are uniformed, bigoted voters everywhere (as well as informed, bigoted voters and uninformed, unbiased voters). Leave Indiana alone.
May 5, 2008 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's just ironic that Obama basically attracts the more educated electorate while Hillary is favored among those considered less educated, 'non readers'.
Oh, the sick, sick irony.
May 5, 2008 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
It would be interesting to find out if Hagee has made any similar (anti-Christ) comments...
OK, my curiosity got the better of me so I googled it. Media Matters has info on a Glenn Beck interview with Hagee (http://mediamatters.org/items/200803050008) in which he asks Hagee about anti-Semitism and if Obama was the anti-Christ. Even though Hagee answered no in the interview, I suspect that Hagee (or some other rightwing pastor's nonsense) is the source for the anti-Christ statement.
May 5, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
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