I am just wondering if all the dirtbags on the right and elsewhere who decried Obama’s vacation in Hawaii to visit his grandmother as “exotic” and “elitist” feel just a little bit stupid and, well, embarrassed, now that it turns out she is in such poor health that he has to cancel his campaign events for two days at the most crucial stage of the campaign to go visit her before she dies.
I am looking at you, Cokie. Anything?
Knowing the moronic McCain campaign, they will probably launch a new salvo on elitism and what not.
Sam
Grammy and Poppop are elitist.
Joel
He calls her his grandmother? ‘Grand’, like a fancy piano or a sweeping staircase?
Definitely elitist.
Stuck in the Funhouse
They are immune from "stupid" in the way a snake is immune to it’s own venom.
Donna
They’ll not only NOT back down from the elitest BS, they’ll claim she’s faking so he can get a bump in the polls. Sympathy votes. I would love for them to prove me wrong but I’m not expecting it.
Jennifer
I am already seeing posts claiming this trip is a ruse for BO to go to Hawaii to resolve the birth certificate issues.
These people have no shame.
MattF
Did Cokie say that? UUUGGGHHHNNN.
I’m so glad I don’t feel I have to watch that stuff– Thank you, John.
DonnaInMichigan
I’ve seen this around the blogs:
"If granny is so grave, why is it that he is waiting until Thursday, to go see her?….if it were my beloved grandmother, I would be on the first plane there"…blah blah blah.
Assholes..
John Cole
@Jennifer: Jennifer- the “about me” on your website is broken.
garyb50
I just wish he hadn’t announced it.
JL
Where have all the trolls gone? I’m surprised they haven’t weighed in on this yet.
Dork
Being a bit wordy, I’d say "NO".
SATSQ.
Any self-awareness of anything stupid, illogical, insulting, or racist has left the modern Republican party years ago.
Nylund
Actually, many wingnuts are calling it a political stunt and some Fox website commenters even suggested that its all fake and that she might already be dead. So, to answer your question. No.
Stuck in the Funhouse
Au contraire, With his campaign tactics, Mccain is cleverly educating the American people on what torture was like as a POW. (or how we learned to the Maverick despite his campaign of Patently Offensive Wankerism.)
Now we are all POW’s
Punchy
Cole, Cole, Cole, Johnny…..PLEASE…..for the LOVE OF EVERYTHING HOLY…..post something about this. This is one of the most simultaneously hilarious and disgusting things I’ve ever heard. Is it Malkin, Hewitt, or Rheil that’s spewing this verbal abortion?
Jen, you gotta give us a link.
ET
That noxious Cokie comment still rankles. She is from New Orleans for pity’s sake! Here mother used to have a rather nice French Quarter place on Bourbon Street I think. And heck, there are still people that think NOLA is the norther-most part of Latin America (me included sometimes – and I am from there).
Stuck in the Funhouse
Gone to political graveyards, every one
dms
If you want to know what the "right" is thinking, check out alicublog .
dewberry
Rumproast had the info in the comments, but you just had to make me wade into the filthy river to find the actual comment
http://blog.pumapac.org/2008/10/20/ours-to-lose/
Comment #45
SamFromUtah
I am looking at you, Cokie. Anything?
I hope somebody YouTubes this. It’d make a nice bit of pwnage when the fRighties start sniffing about civility again.
Svensker
FTW
Comrade Jake
Probably the most damaging rumor is the one that says Obama’s only going to visit his grandmother because she’s black.
Llelldorin
Well, if past performance is any judge, the next stage will be something like, "Well, how can he possibly function as President if you can’t even trust him when he claims to be visiting his dying Grandmother???"
That’s the usual republican trick–blame your opponent for the fact that you’re an asshole.
Comrade Darkness
I hope his Gran is all right. It’s so tough to balance life and making the most of precious few moments with older family members, and balancing life and a campaign is already impossible. Every reprieve that gives you more quality time is a gift. You never know when it will be the last one.
Comrade Jake
That PumaPac website is all kinds of batshit crazy. That’s a couple minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
lorri
I’m not Jennifer, but check out Yahoo Buzz for loads of rightwing crap, including the "trip to Hawaii to stifle investigation" b.s. And please go buzz articles up or down – I know it’s not as fun and social as Digg or blogs, but there are HUGE numbers of readers that come across their news first on Yahoo.
Stinky McGee
Yeah. These jerks are all broken up about it.
Comrade Jake
Heh. 538 says the PUMAs are a dying breed. Good times. Someone should really tell the good folks over at PumaPac.
gopher2b
I just heard McCain is suspending his campaign to see if he can help. Palin is bring the WitchDoctor.
Comrade Elroy's Lunch
FTW indeed. And now we have a pretty good idea how old you are.
Comrade Face
Please stop ripping Obama for his causal drug usage back in college.
Stuck in the Funhouse
Good music is timeless, I am not. :-)
Tsulagi
I saw that in a RedState diary comment yesterday. Obama now has a “fixed” birth certificate and is going to Hawaii to secretly insert it into the state records. Brilliant.
That comment coming on a diary the obvious, real reason he’s going to Hawaii is because he’s starting to tank in the polls. He’s leaving to divert attention from that, and have the complicit MSM saturate the news cycles he’s seeing his ill grandma to get sympathy votes. Diabolical. Wingnut brilliance lighting the way.
To be fair, it was a side diary and not front page. And Blammer Moe closed it down with an admonition to have a little more respect for ill family members.
John PM
I now think that I have reached the point where I am too cynical, but when I heard about Obama’s grandmother on the news this morning, part of me thought that this was a great plan to take out a couple more news cycles and also build up additional sympathy in the final ten days of the election, especially considering that he is not leaving for Hawaii until Thursday.
That having been said, the current Republican party is the vilest, most filthy piece of crap I have ever seen in my entire life. I saw the video of Michelle Bachman’s interview with Chris Matthews on the Daily Show last night, and I literally spent two minutes flipping off the TV.
ksmiami
More republican values for you… only they would think that a grave family illness could be used as a political stunt… ON the other hand, early voting in Miami is going strong for Obama!
Zifnab
@Comrade Face: I LOL’d at that, and now I feel like a bad person. Thanks.
Rick Taylor
I hadn’t made that connection before. They should feel a bit ashamed.
Then again, I used to wonder if the right wing would be the least bit embarrassed when it came out the weapons of mass destruction, the causus belli for the war, were completely bogus. With a very few honorable exceptions, none did, and that was a lot more worthy of being embarrassed about.
Gus
Ditto for "embarrassed."
Evinfuilt
They expect he’s going there to Euthanize her.
Gus
Amen. It would be so sad for her to die two weeks away from seeing her grandson win the election.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@John Cole:
Stalking, John?
Martin
That’s the special power of Cheetos once you get enough in your bloodstream.
The wingnuts are still working out the conspiracy theory details over this one, though. Obama poisoned his grandma to get a late sympathy boost in the polls. His real grandma of course is in Kenya and this white lady is actually a prisoner of his Hawaii campaign ‘volunteers’. Grandma is fine and Obama is really heading back there to mop up some loose ends on the whole birth certificate thing – probably will rough up some hospital workers that didn’t pay close enough attention to the kerning instructions he sent them.
I think they’ll go all out on this one. Peak wingnut might be the funniest thing ever posted here. I should have put up a ‘peak gravity’ response just to give it proper mockage.
Comrade Rick Massimo
@Llelldorin: Of course, if it were John McCain’s mother who were ill, and he left the campaign trail to be with her for a few days, we would have 24/7 coverage of what a selfless, honorable, decent, transcendent thing it was to do.
And, in some corners, speculation that that nasty POLITICIAN Obama would never do such a principled thing.
Brachiator
@ET:
And of course, Cokie Roberts is a real "woman of the people," up from a hard scrapple past. Uh, wait. Roberts, born Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, is the daughter of the late Democratic congressman Hale Boggs. Her mother, Lindy Boggs, was born on what was once the family Plantation in New Roads, Louisiana, and is a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrim William Webster.
Needless to say, Obama’s background is much more modest.
tavella
Ha, ha, Cole. You have seen the light, yet you remain entertainingly naive. Here, have a link to Free Republic, wherein the inhabitants conclude that the real purpose of his trip is to murder his grandmother lest she speak to some wingnut ‘researcher’ and reveal he was born in Kenya.
Jeff
The birth certificate is even more hilarious because they are claiming Andy "the anti-semite" Martin is getting close to finding the "real" birth certificate. Didn’t their hero Sean Hannity have to reject and denounce him after a recent debate?
David Hunt
Bogus? Hah! The WMDs were secreted out of Iraq by Hussein Obama just before the invasion as a favor to his half-brother, Saddam Hussein. He has them hidden under his grandmother’s house in Hawaii. The real reason he’s going there is to cover up for the fact that the nerve gas has sprung a leak and made his grandmother sick. He inserted a fake birth certificate into state records on his last trip to Hawaii.
*moves back into reality from Wingnuttia*
Okay, that’s the most wingnutty thing I can make up on short notice. If I were willing to put more time in on it, I expect I could work something about a gay, incestuous relationship with Saddam Hussein as part of their coke-fueled three-way with Osama bin Laden, but my brain is tired from thinking like that.
cain
@John PM:
Yeah, I think a time-out is in order :D
cain
Comrade Ed Drone
Two minutes? Dude, my TVs all flip off in less than a second. Push the remote button and voila! You really need a repairman, man.
Ed
D-Chance.
Sully with an observation:
One unintended consequence of the Hawaii visit will, of course, be greater exposure to the fact that Obama’s mom and grandparents, the people who raised him, are all white. I bet a lot of those made afraid of Obama still do not know this. More now will.
Ah, Sully…
Surabaya Stew
Yes, I recall Cookie Roberts suggesting that he should have gone to Daytona Beach for vacation instead of Hawai’i so that he could seem more "American". What an obnoxious woman! Any chance of her making a public apology?
jake 4 that 1
I’m not suprised that the piss garglers are screaming this is all a plot. But, neither will I be surprised when The Blood Countess tries to make this an issue. I’m thinking an oh-so-clever "Where’s Obama? Looks like he cut-n-run," joke. Then she’ll claim she forgot and offer some pious pablum. Tee hee, wink, wink.
jvill
Triple ditto for "irony".
kindness
No, this isn’t what the reichtwingnutz would say:
"Barack "Hussein" Obama’s grandmother may already be dead and this is just a campaign ploy".
They’d say:
"Barry "Hussein" Obama’s grandmother may already be dead and Barry is helping to secretly bring her body back from Indonesia (or some other Islamofascist place)."
Comrade Nikolita
@Gus:
Agreed.
Jennifer
First, thanks John – About Page got screwed up with the new Typepad apps. Fixed now.
Second, ya’ll seem to have found the Hawaii trip-birth certificate cover up scum posts on your own, but here’s a few more.
oh really
On the contrary, I fully expect McCain to criticize Obama for pulling another one of his "campaign stunts." Isn’t it obvious that Obama is just trying to distract everyone’s attention from the campaign because McCain has him right where he wants him?
I imagine The John McCain Last Honorable Man Election Stealing Apparatus is in place and purring along. In fact, since McCain wants to be known as the "greatest Comeback Kid in history," the further behind he appears to be the better. The biggest risk is that McCain won’t be satisfied with a wildly improbable comeback and will insist on winning California by 25 points.
bluespapa
After all, Obama’s not like us. He wouldn’t really have feelings for his grandmother, so this must be a ruse.
Xanthippas
Not Gateway Pundit, who is wondering why she’s out from under the bus now:
But at the very bottom he adds "Please remember her in your thoughts and prayers." Yeah okay, whatever jackass. The only thing those cockroaches who visit GP are going to be praying for is for her to die so Obama will be too heartbroken to continue campaigning (ignoring that at this point, he’d almost certainly get elected anyway of course.)
Colonel Doctor Michael "Heck of a Job" Brown
You could always write to one of those dirtbags, Cokie Roberts ([email protected]), and ask for an apology. You could also ask her why it is — beyond being of subnormal intelligence and having lots of family connections — she still has a job at ABC and NPR.
three dots
Dear Ms. Roberts:
You were right once, and I’ll bet you’ll be right again. In early August, Barack Obama had the nerve to take his family on vacation in his home state of Hawaii. As you pointed out on ABC’s "This Week," this proved to the American people what an out-of-touch elitist snob he is. Hawaii!
Well, it looks like some people never learn. The news reports say that Obama is taking two days off from his campaign to visit his ailing grandmother, who lives in – you guessed it – Hawaii!
What an arrogant move. I’ve never been so insulted. Why couldn’t he have his grandmother flown to a senior care center in Myrtle Beach? I hope and trust that you will take him to task. If Obama thinks the American people will stand for such frolicking, then he will find that his tropical paradise is in fact a fool’s paradise.
Elle
I am absolutely sure Cokie would hate Myrtle Beach if she ever visited. Especially during Biker Week. Though I’d love to see a photo of her in a rebel flag bikini.