From the front page of the online NY Times:
It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.
A White House spokesman confirmed that Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, checked African-American on the 2010 census questionnaire.
I’m going to start drinking now.
The Sheriff's A Ni-
The Sheriff is near!
Yutsano
What? No mixed? I’m insulted! IMPEACHMENT NOW!!
Mike Kay
This proves me right, Obama = Bush.
demkat620
Really? He’s been president for 14 months now and they needed the census to tell them this.
Good grief.
furioso ateo
What’s your drink of choice?
WereBear
What was he gonna do? Check the Caucasian box and have a (gasp!) mixed marriage?
That might ruin his political career.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
I guess Obama’s jihad against whitey is still on. And WHERE IS that goddamn tape?
MattF
I guess there was no check box for “Love child of Satan and Bill Ayres.”
bago
Colbert’s color-blindness is contagious!
mcd410x
I think I’m going ‘extreme civil libertarian’
John Cole
Lime daquiri.
1/2 container limeade
2 teaspoons sugar
buncha ice
buncha rum
1/2 peeled sliced lime
Toss in blender and enjoy.
Karen in GA
Of course the liberal New York Times would say that. I won’t believe it until I see his original census form.
gbear
I’ll bet Obama was black in the 2000 census too. He’s always ahead of the trends.
They also know I’m old and white and don’t have any kids on my lawn. Thank god they don’t ask for your weight or they’d know I’m fat too.
kdrtoona
Did he not check both? If he failed to check White and Black, African Am or Negro the he lied on a government form which is a crime, also and too! I need to go register Censusgate.com
Zam
Seriously, I was gonna stay sober tonight.
Mal Carne
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit smoking/drinking/ amphetamines/sniffing airplane glue.
Midnight Marauder
Funny. I’ve been wearing my “We Officially Have A Black President” t-shirt that I got with my subscription to Negro Monthly since January 21, 2009.
Mike Kay
@kdrtoona This is grounds for Impeachment.
xochi
Ohhhhhh…. African-American…. Sure…..
MobiusKlein
Moscow Mule.
Vodka,
Juice 1/2 lime
Strongest Ginger Beer you can find.
Ice.
Mix to taste.
Yutsano
When I used to drink, I was partial to chambord kamikazes. Plus José used to be a good friend of mine. Now, sadly, the hardest thing I do is Starbucks. How the mighty drinking school graduate has fallen.
mcd410x
Also, taking votes … a 9 legged pus: nonapus or enneapus?
The Grand Panjandrum
Looks like all us white folks can now use him instead of our “black friend at work” when we need some cred.
furioso ateo
@John Cole
That seems like a lot of effort when you could just slug the rum out of the bottle.
Preferred Rum?
Violet
It’s not the White House any longer. Watch out, whitey. They’re commin’ to get your wimmens next.
LuciaMia
Dang, he filled out a census form? So when are they coming to take him away to a Fema death camp?
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
@John Cole
That’s it. I’m done with this blog. I have no respect for people that drink blended cocktails.
But if you like that sort of thing, here’s a much better legitimate drink (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirinha)
Yutsano
Oh yeah. You’re a soldier. :)
dmsilev
‘Kenyan’ wasn’t an option?
-dms
freelancer
But, but, but, his Mom is white!
Mike Kay
I thought he was an Arab?
Remember at all the McCain and Palin rallies, the rank and file kept saying the President is an Arab.
Zam
Where the fuck is my reply button?
@furioso ateo Yea I’m with you on that, I just tend to pour alcohol in a cup and drink til I forget why I started.
furioso ateo
@Yutsano
*ahem* I’m a Marine.
If polite company dictates however, I do rather enjoy a Cuba Libre or Screw Driver. Gin & Tonics if I don’t feel like being responsible for myself that night.
Mike Kay
If only Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon were alive to do a remake of “The Front Page” only instead of dingbat reporters, they could adapt it to dingbat, pompous, self aggrandizing bloggers.
kdrtoona
Mojitos at dinner but right now Sarnac Black Forest.
BTW as a lifetime Pitt fan I can’t believe I’m saying this but JC I’m rooting for your ‘eers tomorrow night.
There will be couches in flames in Morgantown saturday night.
..that felt dirty..
Toona +3
DarrenG
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
I’m with you, Mr. Uncontroversial Left Hand. Real drinks come ready to drink straight from the barrel: Beer. Wine. Whisky.
No blenders, no shakers, and for the love of all that’s holy, no ice.
(OK, I’ll cop to the occasional Margarita by the pool in Summer, but that’s it. Where’s a DougJ beer post when you need it?)
MikeJ
And if he got pulled over by the cops in New Jersey, what race do you think they would treat him like?
Yutsano
Don’t tell my Dawg I got the two cornfuzzled. He won’t let me forget that for quite some time. Course he’s not where you are (at least not right now, as far as I know, yeah he’s one of those) so odds are I’m safe.
Actually I’m pissed at myself right now. Thinking back at the several comments you’ve left it was fucking obvious. I can haz duncecap now plz?
Linda Featheringill
Mike Kay:
“He’s not, he’s not, he’s not . . . He’s an Arab.”
Violet
I do love a good margarita with some Mexican food or a mojito on a hot day. And just keep serving me rum drinks – any will do – while I’m on a beach in the Caribbean. But other than that I prefer wine or beer.
Mike Kay
@furioso ateo: Is this Joker?
Elisabeth
Good luck! It’ll be locked up with that original birth certificate.
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
@DarrenG
Close, but no cigar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main-gauche
morzer
I am deeply disappointed by this racist gesture towards white folks by President Obama.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
You know, this is a big fucking deal.
sputnikgayle
We just found a bitter ale called Real Ale Phoenix Double ESB.
Lovely.
scav
Good thing he finally mentioned it. I don’t think anyone had noticed.
John Cole
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason I worked all day, am hot as hell and I’m too cheap to turn the AC on in April, so I thought a frozen drink would be fun.
And it was. Is! Also, for the first time as long as I can remember, I am living in a place that lets me turn up my stereo to a decent volume.
danimal
@Karen in GA. I, too, demand the original, certified census form. Without it, there is no choice but impeachment.
(beauty is…individual census forms are blocked for 70+ years…he has no way of getting the form…bwahahaha)
/wingnut talking point
DarrenG
@Main Gauche
Subtlety fail on the Internet. Film at 11.
I’m a fencer, so the common use of the term wasn’t lost on me. I also had a left-handed instructor with a perverse sense of humor who never ceased reminding me of the literal meaning of the term.
demo woman
Why didn’t he check other. That way every one could be pissed.
sputnikgayle
Brewed in Blanco, Texas.
Whackjob Militia Leader soonergrunt
But, but, but what does this mean for the Birfers?!?
He’s admitted he’s Black!
He’s legally BLACK!
That means he can’t be Commander in Chief because…oh, shit, did I say the ‘black’ part out loud? I meant he’s not natural born!
Yutsano
You know, come to think of it, other would have been the ultimate bipartisan response.
furioso ateo
@Mike Kay
Maybe… is that you, John Wayne?
jron
where’s my reply button? violet:
I think it was TNC, right after the election, who said he never understood all these old segregationist white guys who said that if blacks had equal rights then they’d be ‘marrying our wimmen,’ and then would ‘take everything over.’
and then it happened
LuciaMia
Cappuccino!
Comrade Jake
If his Dad’s from Kenya… how can he be an African American? Isn’t he an African African? /Erick Erickson
K. Grant
Tonight – Fat Bastard Shiraz (2006)
Karen in GA
@danimal: But how can we impeach someone who isn’t legitimately President in the first place? No, clearly our only options are billboards, signs full of misspelled words, and public temper tantrums. And a strict regimen of information avoidance.
That should do it.
Mike Kay
@furioso ateo WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT!
Who said that? Who’s the slimy little commie shit winkle-toed cocksucker down here, who just signed his own death warrant?
Emma
As a Cuban I should be ashamed to say it, but mostly I hate rum. But I did find a good recipe a few years back and it’s my only blended drink:
Sex with the Captain
1 1/2 oz. Captain Morgan spiced rum
1/2 oz peach schnapps
orange juice and cranberry juice to fill a tall glass
lots of ice
It tastes sweet and will knock you on your keister. My cousin and I used to make a pitcher right before sitting down to watch Torchwood. Yeah. Geeky fangirl. Sue me.
gbear
Beverage of choice used to be Leininkugel’s out of Chippewa Falls, WI, but I quit alchohol in the mid 80’s. I do like a Starbuck’s mocha now and then or an NA beer if I’m at a bar, but I don’t have a favorite NA.
DBrown
The sherrif is a … “Bong” ! The sherrif is a … “Bong” ! (Blazzing Sandles)
Or should I just say … The black gentleman …(Ice Pirates) to continue with movie lines.
Bad Horse's Filly
My absolute favorite in college. Yummy. And btw, where the hell are my reply tags?
furioso ateo
@Mike Kay
Great, here’s the part where I get punched in the balls.
Silver Owl
*gasp* the old white conservatives f*cks will swoon and their offspring will spew green slimy chit. I checked I had boobies and a uterus.
There will be white conservative exploded messy body parts every where now. lol
kommrade reproductive vigor
Other things that are official: The NYT is the suck.
demo woman
This is a BFD
kommrade reproductive vigor
Sweet Jesus, it took TWO people to write that.
NO HE FUCKING COULD WELL NOT HAVE CHECKED WHITE. Christ. Did someone spill rubber cement in the NYT’s HVAC system?
morzer
Well, logically, if a man’s dad is an Erick, he must be an Erickan, not an American. I demand a full Congressional inquiry into this illegal alien, who dares to masquerade as a right-wing agitator.
Mike Kay
@furioso ateo:
HWOOOO-RAH
NobodySpecial
Jack Daniels. And why dilute good alcohol with foofaraw?
slag
That’s just because the 2010 census form didn’t offer a Christo-Marxo-Atheist-Liberal-Fascist-Black Nationalist-Appeaser box. If they did, I think we all know which box would get the most action at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And pretty much everywhere else in the country.
Yutsano
@ NobodySpecial:
My bud in Wyoming lives on that stuff. I think he’s slowing down some now that he’s a new dad, but never can tell with him. Crack a Jack!
RedKitten
Why wouldn’t he put African-American? It’s true in the most literal sense. Daddy was African, Mommy was American.
Makes sense to me, anyway.
jron
wow. just…wow.
Mike Schilling
Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, checked African-American on the 2010 census questionnaire.
What proves that we’ve made real progress in this country is that the word in the above that makes people go crazy is “census”.
twiffer
man, it must be slow news day.
drink of choice: lagavulin, laphroig or redbreast.
Anne Laurie
I was hoping he’d check “Negro”, just so’s that all the tinfoil-garnished heads would explode.
But, alas, “African-American, Black, or Negro” does not get multiple boxes, despite the earlier agitation about the ‘appropriateness’ of the term…
HumboldtBlue
Drink of choice? Beer. Good, solid, crappy Murkan beer, PBR bitchez, ice cold PBR. Stuff that in your fuckin’ census box and smoke it!
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Are you telling me that I donated to and voted for a black dude to run the country? Why didn’t anyone tell us about this before the election? I thought I was paying attention to every detail and now they tell us this?
/sob
John, you just love to keep raining down the disappointments on us, don’tcha?
PaulW
I’m extremely upset he didn’t check off “Other” and write in “Jedi”. He just lost all geek cred with me.
fucen tarmal
{tommy chong voice}
now wait a minute man, when you ask questions about where the president is born, and what nationality that makes him, isn’t THAT identity politics?
{end tommy chong voice}
sbjules
Emma, I got dizzy just reading the recipe. I’m too old for that captain morgan stuff.
DaBomb
He’s a darkie… oh mah! Jesus Christ on a pogo stick. I feel a faint. How can he engage in such tomfoolery? What a bunch of malarkey!
**lands on fainting couch, while clutching pearls***
OriGuy
My housemate is making chili, and needed some medium ale. So I just finished the rest of the bottle of Fat Tire. I still have the rest of the six pack to go. Don’t want to let it go to waste!
I should add that she made the chili powder from scratch, and there will be beef, pork, and goat in the chili.
Kerry Reid
We all know that Rahm is the guy who really filled it out for him.
Yutsano
@ OriGuy:
I smell a fan of Alton Brown. Sounds like his work up to and including the homemade chili powder. Though I do like the twist of adding in the goat. Have some distant relatives who farm them for milk & meat, it’s not like lamb at all, at least to me.
AnotherBruce
Cadeelack margereetees.
Rose’s lime shot and a half
Hornitos (Horny Toes) tequila a healthy shot
triple sec half a shot.
lotsa ice
Shakey shake
pour in the glass and
Grand Maurnier or Cointreau swirl it one circle around the top.
Add a lime slice.
Please don’t add the salt. You don’t need salt, unless you want it.
It’s actually about an 8 oz to 12 oz glass, depending on how hot the summer day is.
I can barely wait.
Martin
I won’t believe it until the Census Bureau provides me with his long-form census submission.
Mutt Like Me
I have nothing to add except that I am crying laughing tears over these comments.
Wile E. Quixote
@HumboldtBlue
PBR, fuck yeah. But crappy? No way, PBR compares favorably with a lot of German beer I drank while I was living there.
Wile E. Quixote
@John Cole
Turning on the AC in April? Shit, it was 39 degrees in Seattle when I went to work this morning. 39 fucking degrees, and right now it’s raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock and is going to keep doing so for at least another week.
carlos the dwarf
drink of choice: usually beer, but I’ve been on a gin and tonic kick lately. I don’t like to keep much alcohol in the house though–it encourages me to drink more than I should.
asiangrrlMN
Drink of choice: Diet Pepsi! Oh, wait. That’s not what that means, is it?
The comments here are priceless. I had to check other Asian and write in Taiwanese. I can’t wait for the person receiving my census form to cross it out and check Chinese. That person just better not tell me.
mclaren
Wh-what? He’s black? Obama is black?????
Why…this changes everything!
Can I go back and change my vote from 2008? We need to hold another presidential election! The country must BE TOLD ABOUT THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT!!!
artem1s
when I did some genealogy work on my family, I found one member who expressly had the 1870 census taker write in East Virginia to distinguish from the newly formed state of West Virginia (which was part of Virginia until 1863 or so). They had always, previously, used just Virginia before. This side of the family fought for the North in the Civil War (so I don’t think it was a copperhead thing) and I often wondered what kind of ante-bellum wingnuttery prompted them to do this. I’m pretty sure they were actually born in the part of VA that got split off. Obviously they weren’t too happy about it. Goes to show you that the census has pretty much always pissed people off in one way or another.
AxelFoley
The President’s black? Why didn’t none of ya’ll tell me this before?
rikyrah
found this at another blog and it made me smile:
FROM ZIZI2 about the President’s Census Form:
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And now let the yelping begin. Beck will find a way to declare Pres. Obama’s choice as “racist”. For the teabaggers it will confirm for them that he is “truly” not one of them.
As you said the brotha has made a choice where his identity belongs, let others deal with it. ‘Nuff said.
Hope Michael Eric Dyson will STFU now about PBO not hugging his kinsfolk enough.
Meanwhile, that 1600 Pennsylvania Ave census form will read for the very FIRST time in history as such:
– African American male – 48 yrs old (Person 1) (ha ha!!)
– African American female – 46 yrs old (Person 2)
– African American Female – 72 yrs old (Person 3)
– African American female – 11 yrs old (Person 4)
– African American female – 8 yrs old (Person 5)
That’s five AAs for that particular address and that have never been there in that particular capacity in this country’s 234 yrs.
I wonder what happens to the Chicago address census form. Does it go unfilled?
…………….
Oh I forgot
Person 1’s occupation = President
Hah!!
just made me smile