Poll: Many Americans Believe President Obama is No Different Than a Killer Whale

[WonderGrunion]

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/poll-many-americans-believe-president-obama-is-no-different-than-a-killer-whale/

Recently, the Sheridan Heritage Endowed Endeavors Publication polled Americans on a few questions related to President Obama. And as it turns out, about 20% of the respondents polled believe President Obama is no different than an orca—more popularly known as a killer whale.

...snip...

Staggering! Until I found this poll I never realized just how many similarities there are between President Obama and killer whales. It’s no wonder why many Americans fail to see any differences between the two or believe that they’re exactly the same.

But of course, there was never any poll done by the Sheridan Heritage Endowed Endeavors Publication where Americans claimed that they believe there’s absolutely no difference between President Obama and a killer whale—because it doesn’t exist. Nor was there any poll done where 20% of the people that responded believed President Obama and killer whales were exactly the same.

...snip...

But President Bush didn’t:

Improve our economy—8 years of his policies crashed it
Find, and order the killing of, Osama bin Ladin
Save the American auto industry
Reform student loans
Pass landmark health care legislation which gave Americans with pre-existing conditions coverage (some for the very first time)
Reform credit cards
Pass Wall Street reform
Bring our country out of one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression
Repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
Publicly endorse marriage equality for same-sex couples
Expand stem cell research
Pass the Lilly Ledbetter Act
Pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Do more to push this country toward green energy alternatives than any President in history
Preside over the largest reduction in year-to-year deficits since World War II
Create nearly 7 million private sector jobs in his first 5 years in office

Just to list a few of Obama’s bigger accomplishments. There are many more.

[bigdarryl]

1. Stupid ass polls mean nothing

[geckosfeet]

2. And the ones that don't exist mean even less...

[davidpdx]

3. Sounds like a DU poll

[Dustlawyer]

4. You also left out that he sold out to BP after the spill and has acted like it never happened since!

He said he was going to look forward and not investigate Bush/Cheney;
All Wall Streeters left behind;
Rendition, it's not just for breakfast anymore;
Drill baby drill, open the Gulf to more drilling;
He presided over frack the whole USA;
Appoint more Republicons to his cabinet;
Announce no prosecuting in med pot states, then changed his mind after a lot of people spent a lot of money to produce and sell med pot
Done nothing to help overturn Citizen's United;
Has not busted up big banks or corporate media (no trust buster here)

Obama could have become a transformational President, he chose not to. He has not been all bad, don't get me wrong, I was just looking for more out of him than the lessor of 2 evils!

[dotymed]

5. Dustlawyer,

I may as well be crucified with you. I agree 100%....

Lets not put party first.....

[Dustlawyer]

9. Nice to know I will not suffer alone! I broke my rose colored glasses during the Bush years!

I talk to the BP victims everyday, the ones Obama turned his back on! It has an effect!

[AnotherMcIntosh]

6. You left out the good part re the poll. As the author of the article said, "I made it all up."

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Did you not read as far as the 3rd paragraph of the excerpt in the OP?

"But of course, there was never any poll done by the Sheridan Heritage Endowed Endeavors Publication where Americans claimed that they believe there’s absolutely no difference between President Obama and a killer whale—because it doesn’t exist. Nor was there any poll done where 20% of the people that responded believed President Obama and killer whales were exactly the same."

[AnotherMcIntosh]

12. The words are different, as are the implications.

The "I made it all up" is from the author of the article.

The lengthy "... there was never any poll done by the Sheridan Heritage Endowed Endeavors Publication where Americans claimed that they believe ..." is not an admission of the author of the article that he made it all up.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. So, the good bit is that *the author of the article* was the person who made it up?

Really? It matters who the person that made it up was, and the fact the the OP clearly says it was made-up is not so important?

Meh. I'll believe you when you say you read the 3rd paragraph. Thousands wouldn't.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

20. No. Are you being deliberately obtuse?

We're done.

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Obtuse? You're the one who couldn't see that the OP said it was made up

I don't think you were obtuse on purpose, though - you just don't want to admit you missed it.

[JayhawkSD]

14. Well that part is not very clear

Did the OP read that there was no such poll the same place he read the poll because the poll was written as a joke? Or did he read the poll, believe it and then later discover elsewhere that it was fake? It's not clear from the language he uses in his post. The OP doesn't say "the poll was a spoof," and he even goes to a new paragraph before saying that there was no such poll.

He writes it the same way he would describe a despicable piece of evil propaganda which had been debunked by others, when it was actually a spoof which was disclosed as a spoof in the original presentation. That's a pretty slick bias in writing.

And, it's been almost six years since Bush was in office. Sooner or later we need to let go of that and start living in the present. We need to start dealing with the actions of the president and legislature we have and thinking about lies ahead. Bashing Bush may feel good, but it isn't going to win any more elections.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Wow, you are going to start accusing the thread starter of not knowing it was a spoof?

That's fucking ridiculous. He used that paragraph that said it was. He used a paragraph from later on.

You call that a slick bias in writing? Fuck, have you actually read articles that contain spoofs before? For that matter, did you really read the OP and the article? It's difficult to believe, from your comments.

[JayhawkSD]

17. Show me the wording in the op where he said he knew it was a spoof.

He said "Of course there was no poll..."

That is exactly what I would say if I read a conservative hit piece and bookmarked it for research, did the research and found out the hit was false, and then wrote a piece dcrying the false hit. I would use the exact same words, "Of course there was no crime..."

If he knew the piece was a spoof, and intended the readers to know that the poll was a spoof, then he should have said "Of course the poll was not real, it a spoof." It looks like he was trying to make it appear that someone had made a false attack on Obama. Maybe that was his purpose, maybe not, but that certainly was a not unreasonable interpretation of his wording.

You clearly did not read my response, because I certainly did not say that I thought he did not lknow it was a spoof. And reading the article has nothing to do with the way I interpreted his phrasing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. The OP is excerpted paragraphs from the article

This is what makes me think you haven't read the OP and the article. You don't realise that everything in the OP is a straight copy of a paragraph from the article. The OP includes one of the paragraphs that says the poll never existed. Is it that you needed it repeating, because you are unable to pick that up from one paragraph - and you were unable to read the original article?

[JayhawkSD]

19. The writer is responsible for what he writes.

Actually, I had not realized that the post consisted of nothing original, was exclusively portions of someone else's thinking posted without context. Lazy at best, and decptive at worst. I would have responded differently had I realized it. It would have been considerably less complimentary.

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. You're now going to criticise DUers for excerpting paragraphs from articles?

You've been here 2 years. Don't you realise that a huge number of DU threads do just that? What did you think those words 'snip' mean?

"Actually, I had not realized that the post consisted of nothing original"

So you didn't bother going to the linked article. Who's lazy, again?

"Deceptive"? What a complete load of bullshit. Maybe you mean that you didn't bother reading the paragraph that said the poll was made up, you didn't bother following the link, and you instead made up a story about the DUer not having read what he/she copied to DU, although the paragraphs have obviously been selected, since they are not contiguous.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

21. Exactly.

[Roy Rolling]

7. C'mon people...

Read the article. It's satire, not a true poll.

[Dash87]

8. I thought he was a cactus? Has The Onion lied to me?

[lame54]

10. Wall Street's reformed?...

who knew?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

13. Rec

[question everything]

24. Same number of people who believe that the world is 5,000 yrs old? That humans walked

with dinosaurs? who believe in angels? who believe every word in the bible?

Why even bother?

[Jamaal510]

25. Hmm...a whopping 20%

of less than 1% of the U.S. population believes that our President is a marine animal.

[Rozlee]

26. Sometimes, a parody can expose a depressing underlying truth.

20 percent of Americans, re: teabaggers, believe Obama is the Anti-Christ. At least, we know killer whales exist and can be used as a basis for comparison with Obama.

[Harry Monroe]

27. Well, they are both mammals...

[awoke_in_2003]

28. Sheridan Heritage Endowed Endeavors Publication...

[Arkana]

29. Took me a second. Son of a bitch...