Yeah, this seems embarrassing for the right:
A significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office.The wording of the question, asked of 274 Louisiana Republicans:
The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, provided exclusively to TPM, showed an eye-popping divide among Republicans in the Bayou State when it comes to accountability for the government's post-Katrina blunders.
Twenty-eight percent said they think former President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time, was more responsible for the poor federal response while 29 percent said Obama, who was still a freshman U.S. Senator when the storm battered the Gulf Coast in 2005, was more responsible. Nearly half of Louisiana Republicans — 44 percent — said they aren't sure who to blame....
Who do you think was more responsible for the poor response to Hurricane Katrina: George W. Bush or Barack Obama?So it's not really ambiguous or misleading.
But I predict that right-wingers will defend these Republican poll respondents. They'll tell us that Obama really is more responsible than Bush for the response to Katrina.
Why? Because the people who've suffered the most post-Katrina are African-Americans -- and Obama, being a Democrat, has cruelly helped keep African-Americans on the Democrat plantation, where they're stuck on public assistance because the Democrat Party just wants to have the maximum number of people possible dependent on government. It's all part of the Democrat Party's sinister plan for gaining permanent control of American politics by sapping the entire nation's will to succeed.
Saul Alinsky!
George Soros!
Do you get it now?
Oh come on, everybody knows those darkies regularly break laws, so why not the laws of space-time? Why, President Obama got into his law-breaking time machine and personally mis-directed the response to Hurricane Katrina by, like, going back four years in time and taking charge of the response! C'mon, get with the (racist) program!
ReplyDelete- Badtux the Snarky Louisiana Penguin
GOP POV:
ReplyDeleteOh, Steve, C'MON, PAHLEELEEEEZE!
Everyone who's anyone in our party knows that when he was first sworn in to the chamber, Senator Obama was immediately put on the super-secret Democratic committee to screw-up emergency responses.
Who better to teach people how to riot and steal during bad times, than a community DISorganized - because that's what white people think of black community organizers!
It was his committee that made the screwed-up the response to Katrina, happen.
It was the one that threw that birthday party for McCain, where the great W was seen, holding a cake for him - making it look like he was ignoring the dark... uhm... "Blah" folks drowning.
And that airmailed that guitar that W held at a concert, so he got delayed on his visit.
So, it's not like the great state of LA is full of peckerwoods!
Ok, even we have to admit it - some...
But even LA's ignorant peckerwoods know that Obama's responsible from everything losing the Vietnam War, to Iran-Contra, to 9/11, to the response to Katrina, to the near economic crash!!!
And despite that, you Libtards had ACORN get him elected, AND used ACORN to get him reelected - with the help of The New Black Panthers!!!
They really do inhabit a Bizarro World, don't they?
ReplyDeleteWell, now that I've seen the actual question, it makes a little more sense.
ReplyDeleteMost people will almost always choose the 2nd option, when given a choice.
That's why when answering the phone for an absent person, say 'would you like me to take a message or would you like to be transferred to the persons voicemail'. They'll almost always say, oh, give me the voicemail.
Plus, how many knowingly snarked and picked Obama? Just to tweak our noses?
I would like to know why they would even ask this question in the first place. I can't think of any good reason this would be part of a poll.
ReplyDeletePPP's reason for the question was as bait for stupidity and a large number of respondents took it, either willfully or because they are genuinely stupid.
DeleteHow is it possible to be so ignorant in a modern society and survive?
ReplyDeletePeople, please. There's no mystery here.
ReplyDeleteLies and nonsense are merely noise. Noise is obfuscation. Obfuscation is the goal.
It's a (rather humiliating but nevertheless effective) way for the GOP to lead the conversation.
Every second of airtime Democrats waste countering GOP nonsense is time not spent on moving forward with a common sense agenda.
People, please. There's no mystery here.
ReplyDeleteLies and nonsense are merely noise. Noise is obfuscation. Obfuscation is the goal.
It's a (rather humiliating but nevertheless effective) way for the GOP to lead the conversation.
Every second of airtime Democrats waste countering GOP nonsense is time not spent on moving forward with a common sense agenda.