WOW!

Scary, scary people. You can see why they would support Palin/McCain -- they speak the same language. Not much in the way of cogent sentences and little reliance on fact.

They deserve who they're voting for. But let's give them better than they deserve.

people are not this dumb in metro areas, I swear

Yikes!

Blind idiots.

I can appreciate what this guy is trying to do, but I think he could have made his point better by staying objective rather than being a dick to some of these people.

Speaking from a whitey point of view, I can say that McCain's and Palin's attempts to break this shit down along racial lines is not going to work. The scared whitey mob that they're trying to mobilize will be as tolerated as Palin's gays, thank you very much.

@6 He got these folks outside of a rally. I think the point was to grab the emotion of the people coming out of the rally. I think it was fair enough.

@6

Agreed. If this video is for an exclusively Obama-supporting audience, then it's great, four minutes of head-nodding agreement.

But anyone else is going to dismiss it out of hand because dude makes it easy to do so. Watching people argue with a guy asking them loaded questions is basically campaign porn.

The old stick-a-camera-in-the-idiot's-face trick. When they do this at rallies of people you like, you take offense.

O hai, crazy eyes! I feel like that lady goes home and beats her kids when they say something she doesn't agree with, like "the earth is billions of years old" or "you should really not do all that meth". How the fuck could she hear of Sarah Palin three years ago when Palin was a mayor of a tiny town in Alaska? Was this lady involved in Alaskan politics?

It's too early to deal with her. Hope McCain and Palin are happy with these clowns!

Oh, THAT's who's been buying all the Ann Coulter books!

i've never understood why people lie to themselves like that. it's bizarre.

@3--But Strongsville IS part of a metro area--the Cleveland metro area.

Outside of the stupidity of the people, the one thing I can't stand is their godawful AFLAC-duck accent. Jesus.

That town has a lot of attractive people.

Maybe I'll move...got an address?

JEEBUS Christmas... I almost lost my Wheaties over that one. Why oh why don't we have a test for voter registration? "List the three branches of government", "Name the last four presidents", "Which countries border the U.S.?" "Name one country on each continent", "Name one media source you trust and access regularly", "Who is your city's mayor?" Just basic political literacy...

God, I'm so fucking fed up with these people. The American genepool is pretty watered down these days.

As much as I want to lash out at McCain/Palin for all their bullshit lies and scaremongering, I have to remember that, without idiots like these, there would be no McCain/Palin. Or George W. Bush, for that matter.

I. am. so. scared.

@10: Wahhhhhhhhh.

I don't understand this guy's premise. Is his point: you heard of Obama before you heard of Palin; therefore you know Obama better? That's stupid. Stupid people aruguing stupidly with a stupid premise.

@20:

His point seems to be more along the lines of: "you-all claim Obama is a terrorist. But, you know even LESS about Palin, who's only been on the national scene for a few weeks, yet you trust her infinitely MORE, despite knowing next to nothing about her", which is I believe, a completely legitimate assertion to present to these people.

And given the complete flummox of their responses, I think it's rather telling. "Just look at his blood-line"? I mean, seriously, the only way that lady could have been more blatantly racist would have been if she'd just flat-out called him "a towel-headded Islamo-fascist n****r".

And THESE people comprise nearly one-half the population of this country.

Fascinating

@20

I think he had a good rhetorical point there. The most common "problem" people have with Obama is that they are unfamiliar with him and with his plans even though he's been a part of the national scene for years. Palin on the other hand has not been granting interviews and she has basically no experience or exposure on the national stage.

It isn't called Flyover Country for nothing.

I'll flush twice next time I'm in the area at 35,000 feet.

Why don't these fuckers just all wear brown shirts?

I was actually disappointed in this video, as it was based simply on trying to convince people that Barack Obama is more "well-known" than Sarah Palin.

It was obvious that 80-90% of the people in this video get all their information from Fox News. What was the last time Obama was interviewed on Fox News? That would explain why they feel they haven't heard anything about him.

Admittedly, any interview he had on there would be biased, but at least then they couldn't say that they were unfamiliar with him.

Also, that one lady was too aggressive to keep the camera on. The minute she started getting in his face, he should have walked to another area and interviewed someone else.

You know, I want Obama to win for the sake of your country and the world. I really truly do. But if McCain and Palin get in, the United States will deserve whatever happens as a result.

Cuntry first!

Also folks, like I said on youtube, calling people racist and stupid for their misinformed opinions doesn't solve the problem.

True, it's appalling to listen to some of the stuff coming out of their mouths, but if we don't remain in the position of the "better" man, woman, or non-specific gender noun, we can't consider ourselves any more righteous than we consider them to be.

Choose to inform. With facts. Even if they have to be sifted out and highlighted from Fox News stories (they do post snippets of the truth here and there before they start biasing it). If we instead choose to sit back and call our opponents "stupid," we continue the Bush policy of polarization which only hurts our country.

@21,

No, they're more like a third, i.e. the only people who are still giving Bush approval ratings.

Bush is WAY below a third these days. More like a fifth. Lower than Nixon.

I have never seen so many scared people. If they ever get control of the country I'm leaving.

@28 I don't see what's wrong with idenitifying these people as stupid or ignorant, because they willfully ignore facts and willfully believe lies. That's the definition of stupid and ignorant.

I don't believe for a second that these people are just helplessly mis-informed, as you infer. The lies about Obama being a "terrorist" have been thoroughly and completely debunked in all corners of our society and culture. At this point, the people who cling to that lie are not mis-informed, they are willfully ignorant.

We ARE better than they are, because we seek out and accept the truth, and we have every right to make that assertion. It is an objective standard. I'm not sitting back and calling them stupid, I'm standing up and calling them out for their stupidity.

Wow! Yikes! Polar bear shit! No wonder Rove chose Palin. He knew his audience.

Arrogant ignorance and overt racism.

If Obama is assasinated, are there charges that can be filed against Palin and the McCains?

Like for urging on his murderers?

Sorry - but that's my first thought when I see such ignorant hatred... I was holding my breath all through that 'Town Hall' debate.

Hoping O has the BEST secret service protectors in the world.

Oh god, they're only two hours away from me. I'm terrified.

@32- maybe they aren't willfully ignoring both sides of the story. Perhaps they just don't think that there is another side. My friends/family motivated me a while ago to research all sides of a political situation, but that's only because they were told to by others. In that way, these people's friends/family are ignorant to begin with, so the buck stops here, so to speak. Sad.

Where are the white hoods and capes?

Almost all attendees at rallies--certainly conservative ones--are aware that there are people looking for 'gotcha grabs' to make videos like this one. They know loaded questions are coming. Some of them just ignore them, some answer them sincerely, and some have fun giving baiting answers calculated to scare the socks off liberal/progressive viewers. I've done that once or twice myself.

A shout-out to number 28, though one could think of other names in place of "Bush" quite easily.