Obama Doesn't Explicitly Mention God; Thanksgiving Ruined Forever

[3stan]

Critics of President Obama felt little holiday cheer after the president did not thank God in his Thanksgiving-themed weekly Internet address. They immediately took to Twitter and the Internet to voice anger and disbelief.

"Holy cow! Is that one screwed up or what?" columnist Sherman Frederick of the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote in a Thanksgiving-morning blog post.

"Somebody ought to remind Obama (and his speechwriter) that when Americans sit down around a meal today and give thanks, they give thanks to God."

The USA is going to hell because Obama didn't thank God, apparently. (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-omits-god-thanksgiving-address-riles-critics/story?id=15028644#.TtCtZISvreF)

(I didn't put this in News because it's so incredibly stupid, why would you report this crap.)

[Professor Smarmiarty]

What if he got his food from Satan?

[Kim]

I give thanks to the people who made the food and to Abraham Lincoln for making Thanksgiving a holiday. Who else would I thank?

[Amake]

The president has no power to dictate what everyone in the country should be thankful for. Who does Sherman Frederick think Obama is, the queen?

[Archbio]

"Somebody ought to remind Obama (and his speechwriter) that when Americans sit down around a meal today and give thanks, they give thanks to God."

So that he doesn't forget to remind Americans that they do?

[Pip Boy]

He can fail to thank god and be a godless heathen, or he can thank god and be shoving religion down all our throats. Everybody's a critic and there's no winning move except not to play.

[3stan]

He can fail to thank god and be a godless heathen, or he can thank god and be shoving religion down all our throats. Everybody's a critic and there's no winning move except not to play.

The best part is that he did both. He referred to God in his written Thanksgiving proclamation.

The obvious and factually indisputable interpretation is that Christian Republicans can't read.

[Azisien]

The writer of the article must be new to Twitter. People take to Twitter and other social networks and get angry over the most mundane shit. I think that's the primary function of a social network, actually.

[Loyal]

I give thanks to the people who made the food and to Abraham Lincoln for making Thanksgiving a holiday. Who else would I thank?

I believe FDR set Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November, so there's that perhaps.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

But he was a communist.

[Kerensky287]

I love how republicans love to act as if Christianity is the US's state religion.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Well, it isn't as bad as the fake outrage (http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/11/pamela-geller-beware-stealth-halal-thanksgiving-turkeys) over the stealth Muslim turkeys.

Anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller, one of the driving forces behind the Ground Zero mosque controversy, has set her sights on a new manifestation of the stealth jihad: Your Thanksgiving turkey. Geller is calling for a boycott of Butterball, accusing the company of selling "stealh halal" turkeys prepared in accordance with Muslim dietary laws:

Personally, I'm not clear how having a halal turkey would make it any different. Nor, how would it be subversive to our taste buds. But then, I'm not one who thinks fluoridated water turns us into Communists.

[Amake]

Yeah if eating halal-proof food makes you a subversively brainwashed crypto-Jihadist I don't see how mankind could have lasted this long without switching to an all-pork diet. It's kinda comforting to know one of the leading forces in the holy war on Islam is not only a blogger, but a raving lunatic.

[Azisien]

You know, there's a brand of halal chicken sold at my local grocery store next to the other brands, and it generally tastes the best. I'm pro-stealth halal.

[akaSM]

Maybe Obama just didn't know which god should he thank :confused:

[Aerozord]

"God we would like to thank you for this bountiful feast, we would like to, but we paid for it ourselves. So thanks for nothing"

[Kerensky287]

Maybe Obama just didn't know which god should he thank :confused:

"Oh mighty Slaanesh, we thank you for this delightfully decadent feast before us, we thank you for whipped cream, cherries and flavored lubricant, and we thank you for making damn sure that Nurgle did not get involved with this turkey before we did. Amen."

[Krylo]

I thought Thanksgiving was ruined forever when they decided turkey should be the seasonal dish of choice.

[3stan]

"Oh mighty Slaanesh, we thank you for this delightfully decadent feast before us, we thank you for whipped cream, cherries and flavored lubricant, and we thank you for making damn sure that Nurgle did not get involved with this turkey before we did. Amen."

... Wait, what do you do with the turkey?

[Kerensky287]

... Wait, what do you do with the turkey?

What DON'T we do with the turkey? (http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Slaanesh)

[Betty Elms]

well at least he still pardoned the turkey, because i don't know what i'd do if i didn't get my annual dose of our leader lightheartedly jesting about a legal system that says some people don't deserve to be alive.

(i'm with krylo on this holiday. oh boy giant shitty chicken.)

[Seil]

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/315503392_DX2HA-L-2.jpg

[3stan]

What DON'T we do with the turkey? (http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Slaanesh)

OH! It's a Warhams thing. For a second there I thought I had drastically misunderstood all those American cartoons I'd watched as a kid.

[Aerozord]

I thought Thanksgiving was ruined forever when they decided turkey should be the seasonal dish of choice.

maybe its more because of an abundance of dead birds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84pDXfIqcvA)

[shiney]

ITT: Seil links to webcomic

Difficulty: relevant and amusing

[Seil]

There's a first time for everything.