Perfect examples of what Democrats, specifically President Obama, are up against

[ProSense]

via two Daily Kos diaries: Teabaggers and a complicit media.

"My Mom Said He Isn't Our President"

I thought my first diary would be very different. I've been looking forward to digging into some research, creating a colorful graphic, and maybe even embedding a video clip.

Instead, opportunity presented itself in the form of a precious six year old child.

This year marked the first time in 20 plus years of teaching that ugliness has crept into my classroom. When President Obama was to give a highly anticipated televised speech on education, the right wing became outraged. Parents in my school district and across the country began threatening to keep their children out of school on the day of the speech. An opt-out letter was sent to parents at my school, and a few of my students left the classroom when we watched the speech.

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We started looking at George Washington's face on a quarter. A quick review ensued. I asked, "So, whose face is on a _?" Responses were called out. Nancy asked "Will President Obama's face be on a coin?" I responded "It might be." Then Barry commented "My Mom said he isn't our President." "Well," I said, "We had a Presidential election and most of the people in America voted for President Obama. Do you remember when our class voted for favorite ice cream flavors?" Students nodded their heads. I added "You had to choose vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry. Most of the class voted for chocolate, and we made a picture graph to show that." We went back to desks and started practicing counting coins.

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Congrats CNN: you now own this idiot & his new outrage

Erick Erickson yesterday threatened violence against census workers. The American Community Survey (ACS) are the folks who do the detailed interviews. Erikson had this to say to his radio audience:

ERICKSON: This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I’m not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They’re not going on my property. They can’t do that. They don’t have the legal right, and yet they’re trying.

The audio is available at Think Progress TP notes that according to the Census Bureau, response to the ACS "is required by law (Title 13 , United States Code, Sections 141, 193, and 221).

So yes, they do have the legal right.

Erickson reiterated his comments on RedState this morning, with the added whine that

naturally the left is out today saying I was on the air advocating killing census workers.

Congratulations, CNN, this turd is now all yours. I hope you'll be very happy together.

[Bitwit1234]

1. Where are the people getting these census forms

all my asked for was name, verify address, age, sex, and race and a page with the same thing, one for each person who lived there. This is stupid.

[glowing]

2. That's what mine asked for.. maybe they do a select few that are more intensive?

Mine didn't ask about toilets.. AND does anyone remember an uproar in 2000 when Bush was in charge? I don't.

[Demoiselle]

4. Census filler-outer-here. 3rd person to note that they didn't ask me about flushing.

[Twinguard]

6. Not trying to stir shit here,

but Bush wasn't in charge until January of 2001.

[GoCubsGo]

7. I remember somewhat of an uproar.

Not quite as bad as now, though. However, Bill Clinton was still President in 2000, not Bush.

[jberryhill]

3. You got the one they send to liberals

Mine was the same.

Only RW nutjobs get the "third degree" form.

It even asks for their "long form birth certificate".

Heh.

[ArnoldLayne]

5. You sure you don't mean "Gift Certificate" a la Tom "twinkle toes" Delay

:evilgrin:

[awoke_in_2003]

8. they are just repeating

memes spouted by right wing radio. They can see the real form themselves and still believe the shit they spout is correct (good ole doublethink and ducktalk)

[high density]

9. American Community Survey

It is different than the census. I got the ACS late last year and it is rather probing. Asked what I do, how much money I earn, how I get to work. It's only filled out by a small subset of the population, unlike the normal census which is happening currently.

Here is the ACS form: http://tinyurl.com/acscensus

[Raine1967]

10. I would be more than happy to fill that out.

They are conflating things again.

And F*cking SHAME on CNN for allowing this turd to say this crap on air. I expect this from Fox, not CNN. They decided to race to the bottom by hiring this hatemonger.