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3stan 11-26-2011 04:59 AM

Obama Doesn't Explicitly Mention God; Thanksgiving Ruined Forever
 
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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.

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

Professor Smarmiarty 11-26-2011 05:24 AM

What if he got his food from Satan?

Kim 11-26-2011 05:32 AM

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 11-26-2011 05:44 AM

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 11-26-2011 06:17 AM

He should say something about God once every sentence, it's just common sense.
 
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"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 11-26-2011 06:50 AM

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 11-26-2011 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Pip Boy (Post 1170119)
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 11-26-2011 11:47 AM

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 11-26-2011 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Liz (Post 1170109)
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 11-26-2011 12:26 PM

But he was a communist.

Kerensky287 11-26-2011 12:43 PM

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

Sky Warrior Bob 11-26-2011 12:48 PM

Well, it isn't as bad as the fake outrage over the stealth Muslim turkeys.

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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 11-26-2011 01:46 PM

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 11-26-2011 02:44 PM

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 11-26-2011 03:37 PM

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

Aerozord 11-26-2011 03:56 PM

"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 11-26-2011 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by akaSM (Post 1170190)
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 11-26-2011 06:18 PM

Turkey is the least of all poultries, and poultry the least of all meats.
 
I thought Thanksgiving was ruined forever when they decided turkey should be the seasonal dish of choice.

3stan 11-26-2011 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Kerensky287 (Post 1170200)
"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 11-26-2011 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by 3stan (Post 1170210)
... Wait, what do you do with the turkey?

What DON'T we do with the turkey?

Betty Elms 11-26-2011 07:16 PM

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 11-26-2011 07:38 PM

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/3..._DX2HA-L-2.jpg

3stan 11-26-2011 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Kerensky287 (Post 1170211)

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 11-26-2011 10:18 PM

we are doing them a favor really
 
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Originally Posted by Krylo (Post 1170204)
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

shiney 11-27-2011 12:05 AM

ITT: Seil links to webcomic

Difficulty: relevant and amusing

Seil 11-27-2011 12:55 AM

There's a first time for everything.


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