I attended a McCain/Palin meetup tonight.
Daily Kos- by Florida4Obama
Fri Oct 10, 2008 at 07:05:16 PM PDT
It was a complete accident. I went down to my local Tampa Starbucks where of course I expected to find the Obama Elite. I knew something was wrong as soon as I pulled into the parking lot. Typically in Tampa, you see far more Obama bumperstickers than McCain, but not tonight. In the Starbucks parking lot I saw 9 McCain bumper stickers. I thought to myself, what the heck is going on. I fear at first that Tampa had suddenly swung back to the dark side.
Follow me below the fold to find out what I discovered.
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Upon entering Starbucks, I immediately realized that the McCain/Palin folks were having a little meeting. I saw several women in dresses wearing pink buttons proclaiming “Women for McCain/Palin”. A few of them brought their husbands who were sporting buttons saying things such as “Sportsman for McCain/Palin” and “NOBama”. I sat down at the table next to the group just as they were starting their meeting.
As soon as the last member of their group came in, they prayed. In their prayer they begged that God “deliver the country from the evil socialists” and even prayed that “Obama find God”. Well, damn, how offensive I thought to myself.
After their prayer they began to discuss their Get Out The Vote efforts. One of the women proclaimed that her whole Bible study group was going to vote early. One of the men piped up and said he was going to ask people to vote early after church one Sunday. The next person lamented that their whole office was voting for Obama. The McCain/Palin supporters called that person’s co-workers “sinners” and said that they “needed Jesus”. Damn, I’m offended again.
Next they started talking about policy positions. This was quite amusing. They were all upset that Obama had voted for the bailout. Then, one of them said, “McCain supported it too.” Then they talked about how upset they were about McCain’s proposal to buy mortgages directly from homeowners. One of the gentlemen proclaimed, “McCain sounds like a socialist. You’d think he were a Democrat”. At that point the other gentleman stated that he had thought of voting for Bob Barr. He opened his lap top and pulled up Barr’s website for the others to see. They liked what they saw. One woman said that Barr was the “conservative that McCain used to be.”
They talked a little more about how Obama would destroy our country with “free health care” and “gay marriages”. The [they] feared his daughters would probably play loud rap music in the White House while world leaders were staying. They feared that Muslim would become our official religion. One of them even feared that “the Muslim language would be taught in schools.” Priceless.
They went back to the fact that they all believed McCain would lose this election, but they were excited that Palin would probably run in 2012. They talked about the fact that their local “Victory Office” was so disorganized and the morale was low. Apparently one of the lead volunteer organizers walked out of the office yesterday and hasn’t come back. They all feared they were wasting good time phonebanking and canvassing. They just couldn’t believe this great country would elect “that man”. They couldn’t believe God would allow it. One woman even thought that God may be punishing the country by giving us Obama.
At that time, I decided to pull out my laptop. You see, I have an Obama sticker on it. Well, one of them noticed and gave the rest of them a look and said SHHHH! One of the men didn’t notice and kept talking. He said that “Obama is part of a sleeper cell and he will use our own nuclear weapons against us.” One of the women nodded her head in agreement. Finally, the woman who noticed me said in a soft voice, “there’s an Obama supporter behind us…BE QUIET”. The group suddenly got quiet.
They changed the subject for a while, but on the way out the door one of the men told me “you are a disgrace to white people if you vote for that man.” I told him he was a disgrace to people who think by voting for McCain.
Well, that was a long story, and I’m sure nobody will read it. It’s good to be an Obama supporter, especially when you see how scared and dejected the other side is.
UPDATE: Yes, unfortunately this story is 100% true.
Wow, the rec list? I think this is my first visit! Thank you!
UPDATE #2 Since many have asked, this was at the Gandy Blvd location. Also, you betcha Starbucks is a Republican hangout now. Didn’t you hear Sarah Palin read something on a cup there and then misquoted it!
And, we wonder why this country is so messed up?
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry after reading this…
actually I laughed. You can’t really expect people with an average I.Q. of 65 to appreciate someone who thinks and reasons. A man like Obama who actually has ethics, ideas, the ability to think rationally.
This is why our Founding Fathers were so adamant about separation of church and state…The Founders feared the Fundies, with good reason.
At least they KNOW they’re going to lose – then we have 8 years to put up with their sniping and assassination attempts…since they won’t want a black President. By the way, for those who haven’t noticed, Obama IS BLACK….and yes we know it.
Sorry – WELCOME to the blog! Great story.
Yeah, you betcha! (Will.i.am will be their guest every Friday night… and they will play rap so loud that you will hear it as far south as Tampa!! LOL)
They’ll drag all of you screaming all the way down to the river to baptize & convert you to being a Muslim! (OMG! I can’t type… just picturing that in my head!)
Yeah, and you will have to learn how to read all of those new road signs in Muslim (Arabic) language! (See examples below…LMAO)
Oh, Obama, could I please be your U.S. Transportation Secretary for just one day??
ROTFLMAO
U-N-B-E-L-I-E-A-B-L-E!! I am truly lost for words. Sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity are indeed the most dangerous things in the world. The humor of this report was the twisted attempts of rationalizing why they should not vote for Obama/Biden when it is all too obvious that the underlining factor is racism. Prejudice is ignorance and ignorance is the root of all evil. My prayer is that “THEY find God”!!
Basheert:
I have a question for you… and please take your time to answer. Who were you welcoming to the blog; me or your new invisible friend?
😆
ROTFLMAO
Great Starbucks story. 🙂
O.M.G….OK,its proof now! after reading the Starbucks story… i now have something to back up what i believe to be true! republicans are all evangelists, born again Christians… [ by the way the term, christian, is someone who follows the bible and lives their life like Jesus did… well Jesus would never condone behavior such as that at the Starbucks.. [so therefore i believe the republicans are sinners of the worst kind,, [casting the first stone] as they have done to Barack Obama] i work for Senator Obamas campaign here in Oregon,,, [yes we are a blue state] i have ran into several republican Christians out here on the campaign trail.. and they are down right mean,, and let me tell ya im glad im not a member of that cult.. so as you all know Senator Obama is our next president and i will gladly thank god for that.. so as you know Obamas campaign is all about Hope, Change, Believe, and we can all be proud of him.. we made a great choice for leadership in this country ..thank you p.s i hope that Barack and Michelle allow their daughters to play some blues and and yes rap… and have a great life, maybe Barack and his wife will get down and jiggy!!!!whats wrong with that
Hi Debbie Southern Roots,
Welcome to the Suzie-Q blog and thank you for your comments. 😉
Yes, we can be proud, as Americans, that we have Senator Obama in this time that we need a great leader to be our next President! 🙂
P.S.
Thank you for your hard work in Oregon!
Hey Debbie Southern Roots:
Maybe not all of them… there is hope!