i may get flamed for some unintended implications, but do many of BO's supporters actually work for a living?
and i'm not talking about people who are honestly disabled and unable to work, or those tragically between jobs and are actively trying to find one.
how many McCain/Palin supporterss don't show up because they are hard at work?
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Yeah, more than 50 percent of the American electorate is unemployed. Sure thing, twit.
Well, we would be after four years of McSame/Falin.
i'll answer anyway. I'm self-employed, plus I teach TaeKwonDo and I'm a witch and I'm voting on Obama. OK?
I'm an Obama supporter who works for a living.
Oddly enough, however, I am at home today because the Republican energy strategy of continuing our addiction to oil doesn't work: My part of the country is experiencing a gas shortage, and I am at home because my employer graciously is allowing everyone to work 4 10-hour days instead of 5 8-hour days.
I must admit that you're right in my case. What I do is fun for me and I don't really "work" at it. I try to learn more and do what I do better but I enjoy it immensely. Unfortunately, there are people who insist on paying me to have fun.
I guess I'm one of the many Obama supporters who don't actually work for a living.
I’m voting for Obama and I don’t work, unless you count being a stay at home mom work (I do.) I don’t however collect any assistance from the government (which I believe was your assumption) and I never have. My husband (who’s voting for Obama too) works two jobs so I can stay home with our son. Do you have a problem with that?
“is this a legitimate question?”
No, it isn’t. How would you like it if I made wild assumptions about you?
I married a beer heiress, so I don't work.
Obama/Biden '08
is this a legitimate question?
No, icebear, but you ARE legitimately an idiot.
"i may get flamed for some unintended implications, but do many of BO's supporters actually work for a living?"
Yes. Most of my friends are Obama supporters and I don't know of any of them who are not working. Do many McCain supporters actually think?
Good, I'm not talking about them either.
How many McCain/Palin supporterss don't show up because they are too lazy? Too stupid? Too wrapped up in their own little homelife to be bothered?
Not really. Attendence at rallys is only manditory in high school.
i'm not talking about people who are honestly disabled and unable to work, or those tragically between jobs and are actively trying to find one.
Who's left besides full-time homemakers and students? There are very few able-bodied people who need money yet choose to live on panhandling or welfare (even if that were still possible nowadays).
The unemployment rate for blacks is generally about twice that for whites (the disparity widens when the economy gets bad), and the unemployment rate for white college graduates is usually less than half that for whites with high school or less. Blacks and college graduates tend to support Obama. Less educated whites tend to support McCain. My guess is there's probably less unemployment among Obama supporters than McCain supporters, simply because college graduates outnumber blacks.
Comparing unemployment figures among Obama supporters and McCain supporters IS a legitimate question.
Assuming that the turnout at their respective political rallies is due to the percentage who are unemployed is not.
Haven't these people ever heard of a fucking day off? Could it be that - oh, I don't know - these people are actually excited about hearing the man talk and they take a sick day or something to go see him? I know that in a lot of service jobs it's a little more difficult than just phoning in sick in the morning, but even there it's usually possible to rearrange your schedule if you ask soon enough.
Maybe, just maybe, the reason more people show up at Obama rallies is because he's a fairly exciting guy, but John McCain is as boring as dirt.
I like the implication that any Republicans who don't work fall into the categories of "people who are honestly disabled and unable to work, or those tragically between jobs and are actively trying to find one". Now what makes me think that any disabled or between-jobs Democrats would be unlikely to be considered genuine?
Yeah, the majority of Obama supporters are the privileged rich dudes who don't work 9 to 5. Or they're pot-heads who hang out in their friend's basement when they're not out dumpster diving.
'How many of Sen. Obama's supporters have more than one job?'
This.
Strangely enough a friend and I just were saying that anyone who was a member of the 27% who approve of Bush or are voting for McCain/Palin must have been unconscious for the last 8 years or, at least, terminally stupid. It would be difficult to hold a job in either case. Care to tell us how you manage?
I deeply resent the implication that only people on welfare support Obama. I expect most of Obama's supporters are citizens who are fed up with the direction the U.S. has taken in the last 8 years, and who have no faith at all in the McPain/Falin' ticket.
I was laid off last August, and am currently back in college going for another degree to improve my options for future employment. And I support Obama/Biden.
Not fundy at all. Ignorant, mean-spirited, and prejudiced as hell, but not fundy. Yes I know it's Rapture Ready but still. It's not specifically racist, it's more political. Maybe we need another section, 'Political Extremists Say The Darndest Things'.
He's looking at you know-it-all college students.
Hey mods, not every atheist is drinking the Obama Kool-Aid. (and if you are, more power to you - I'm just saying that this isn't a POLITICAL board. We have enough of those, yes?)
Why do you continue to post political posts that don't have anything "fundie" in them.
B...what? My favourite political figure is unpopular??? THIS CANNOT BE!!!!!!!!
Ah, wait, no. The supporters are just...all hard at work! Yes, that's it! They're working, and all the unemployed people are supporting the other guy, Mmm, ah, yes...zzzzzz *falls asleep while waiting for the rapture*
Somebody with the time on their hands to think of this kind of thing can't possibly have a job.
no it really isn't. There are people who don't work and try to leech off of society and such, but those people are not at all political; it's far too complicated for most of those people to understand and requires too much effort. Your lot seems to get on ok with the effort of being involved but fall dismally short on the intellectual side of understanding what you're supposed to be involved in.
I'm a first time voter. I'll be going to college full time in the Spring. My parents work their butts off five days a week and get a pittance for it. My mother can't vote because she's not a citizen, but me and my Dad are...
...and we're voting democrat.
PROTIP: If you have to ask if saying something would be committing a social faux pas? It likely is.
(Also, meh. This isn't fundie. Stupid, but not fundie.)
Other than being on Rapture Ready, I fail to see anything fundie about this. Political, yes - but remember: last I checked, this site was not overtly political in nature.
If you ask the same questions to both groups and accept that your preconceived notions may be wrong, they might be legitimate, but if you have already made up your mind what the answers are going to be, they're not really legitimate. Why ask, if you're not going to listen to the reply?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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