They're all around you!

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

1 in 5 fellow Americans has the reasoning power of a turnip

This is why I ignore poll results about 9/11 mosques and such - it makes it easier to pretend that I'm not surrounded by people with a lack of critical thinking skills.
[Poll #1607766]
Bonus question: Weren't many of these people freaking out before the election because of statements made by Reverend Wright? Not Imam, Reverend.

Comments

[hey-its-michael.livejournal.com]

IS HE NOT HINDU? I AM SO CONFUSED!

[http://users.livejournal.com/aviation_/]

no he is a solitary eclectic pagan and he practices skyclad rituals on the White House lawn every full moon

[thies.livejournal.com]

[x] I don't care

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Came here to say this or "who gives a fuck" or "why should anyone give a fuck?"

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

where's the don't give a shit option.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I shouldn't think the power of Doublethink should be that hard to decipher.......

[tridus.livejournal.com]

Reverand? I dunno, sounds foreign to me. Hussein like, even!

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

See, I think the other 80% or so of us do that - we understand that the President has to at least appear to be some sort of non-threatening Protestant Christian.

It's how to reach that 20% of Crazies that interests me.

[http://users.livejournal.com/aviation_/]

Your last sentence is what I was going to say. Same going for a lot of politicians and actually a lot of people in general.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

But if he did that while rubbing his hands together and chuckling evilly, that would be win.

[mlledesade]

I don't care if he follows that religion of the flying pink spaghetti unicorn. It shouldn't even make a difference, but apparently one in five Americans are stupid and can't think for themselves.

[kko.livejournal.com]

i've always thought that the people most concerned with obama being muslim would actually prefer muslim policies because they are very in-line with how a christian theocracy would be upheld. that being said, 'secret muslim' should be an answer.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

I thought the last answer covered that category for Palin-Americans.

[devil-ad-vocate.livejournal.com]

ASSOCIATED PRESS POLL, 2003:
Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, 53% of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 - something the CIA and most of the world intelligence gathering organizations had consistently discounted.

There is no end to ignorance/stupidity.

[hey-its-michael.livejournal.com]

Very true, though Dick Cheney was giving contrary assertions / ambiguities in television interviews, so it is not like the U.S. Government was presenting a unified opinion on the matter.

[ironhawke.livejournal.com]

In before Gunslnger adds a barely coherent connect-the-dots about his Kenyan-Muslim-Commie-Arab background.

[mybodymycoffin.livejournal.com]

You mean Sir Reverend Comrade Imam Seyyed Jeremiah Wright zǐ... esquire.

Stirring the pot

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

1) It's not like we've ever had a head of state convert to another religion upon leaving office, right?

B) Muslims are taught it's okay to lie to non-Muslims

iii) Halibur...uh, sorry, wrong conspiracy thread.

20% of Canadians are loony too

[whoasksfinds.livejournal.com]

don't forget about your liberal friends in canada! (http://news.oneindia.in/2006/09/11/one-in-5-canadians-sees-911-as-us-plot---poll-1157990764.html?)

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

You left off the "None" option.

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

Actually I was wondering why "Rastafarian" wasn't included.

(Then again, Bill Clinton already beat him to that one.)

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

My impression is that he's atheist, but he pretends to be religious to be eligible for president.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Bt I think an open atheist would be elected president in the US long after a female gay Jew is elected president.

[gillen.livejournal.com]

Where's the option for "He's the President of the United States. He follows whatever religion will get him the most votes."?

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

I wish to hell I could live to see the day when that would be Odinism.

[rainynights.livejournal.com]

He claims to be a Christian but his actions do not lean that way. He can say what he wants but from what I have seen he is just talking out his behind...

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Rev Wright was actually a secret muslim pretending to be a reverend to his followers. Only a select few members who were also secret muslims knew of his nefarious plot to overthrow the One True Religion.

Not really, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear this from Fox news.

[policraticus.livejournal.com]

You need an option that says he is a humanist.

[reflaxion.livejournal.com]

"1 in 5 fellow Americans has the reasoning power of a turnip"

Sounds low to me.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Consider it a baseline - on topics like the 9/11 non-mosque, it becomes significantly higher.

[blorky.livejournal.com]

The more compelling question is who's pushing the myth and why. Theere will be a long string of "No true Scottsman" arguments, but it bloody well isn't the left that's pushing this (and the birther spew).

[telemann.livejournal.com]

In 2008, it was the same folks who pushed the John Kerry Swiftboat ads.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

where's the "I don't give a flying fuck" option?

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

I think it's more of an issue about what's wrong with the cognitive processes in the 20% who do believe the President is Muslim.