Would 50% of America Really Support Obama If He Was Gay?
There is a rumor going around — okay, it’s actually the results of a poll — that some 50 percent of Americans would support an openly gay president. What this poll does not say is whether half of Americans would support an openly gay presidential candidate, during his campaign, because we really freakin’ doubt that. And compare that stat to the same poll concluding 62 percent of Americans saying they’d support an openly gay NFL quarterback, and we begin wondering aloud about whether Americans understand what the term “job qualifications” means.
(NB: Our headline is a trick question, because what we’re actually asking half of Americans to do is support a gay president WHO DOES NOT HAVE A U.S. BIRTH CERTIFICATE, and we all know even Valerie Jarrett would giving you a “Are you kidding me?” look on that one.)
I’m assuming the birth certificate comment is merely poking fun at arch conservatives who’ve made the baseless claim since Obama has produced (and had verified by the State Health Department) his Hawai’i Certificate of Birth.
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Well Obama is black and that’s already to much for the right-wingers to handle. To put gay on top of that would be asking for a revolution, which some of the wackos are already calling for.
America has come a long way but still has some ways to go.
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well now you have to poll again and say ‘homosexual president’ cuz you know some people won’t be able to put the two together.
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No that’s retarded. I don’t think 50% of America would vote for Obama if he were completely black, get alone anything but straight. The reason people like him is because he’s a bridge between different social groups.
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I didn’t know that being straight was a job qualification for football players.
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There were rumors going around Chicago that Obama was cheating on Michelle with another man however America has already supported a gay president with James Buchanan. Obama is lean, well groomed, good looking, articulate, intelligent and funny and that all spells g-a-y. As far as quaterbacks go, we all know if Tim Tebow came out the closet he’d lose 99% of his fan base. I didn’t think twice about Tebow until I read an interview where he said he wasn’t dating girls because of his “morals” and there is not one single scripture which forbids a man to date women.
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50% of white america didn’t vote for Obama, but the way they constantly congratulate themselves for his win, you would think it was 95%.
This is an entertaining poll, from the folks who bring you VANITY FAIR.
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A gay who doesn’t support marriage equality? Please, none of us would be supporting him if he was.
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A gay president is not far off, mark my words! Either We shall have one or we shall have a gay DICTATOR of the so called free world! It’s a given. We shall see to it. Straight White men who pull the strings nows will be saying “Hey, I’ve had gay experiences too” faster than you can say “Gay.”
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It’s questionable how long the America that we know will be around. Certainly the few people who actually run the show (%5) would hardly support a gay President. There isn’t even one in any progressive deocratic country. By most standards America is on a par with China and behind every other industrialised country with respect to any measure of humanism. Who knows what will happen once Capitalism implodes on itself.
Let’s hope wer’e not in jail.
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He always gets my vote. PEACELUVNBWILD!