Dang commOnist muslims, they should all go to muslimville
So I guess Tennessee schools must not be very good – not if the mayor of Arlington is anything to go by. He’s on Facebook, so he shared some thoughts there.
Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it….w…hen the answer should simply be ‘yes’….”
See that’s why I’m not a big fan of religion and the claims it makes – I don’t like being told (even in a newspaper story about a small town mayor’s Facebook rant) that the answer to that question should simply be yes. I also don’t like elected officials claiming that other elected officials should answer yes. We’re not supposed to have a religious test for public office.
…you obama people need to move to a muslim country…oh wait, that’s America….pitiful…you know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be different……..
What a pinhead. What an ugly dirty squalid little mind. How sad for Tennessee.
He sounds like one of the nutters who post on CIF.
How did a right wing keyboard warrior become the mayor of Arlington? Did he smear his opponent as a newb?
Some of those comments in support of the idiot are just amazing:
“Wow, a conservative takes a stand and it’s wrong? What about the liberals that were bashing Bush during his Presidency?”
Right, because starting two wars, trashing our international reputation, destroying the economy, and eroding our Constitutional rights is exactly equivalent to pre-empting a 45-year old cartoon in order to give a speech.
As a long-time resident of the American Midwest, I assure you that the attitude of this nitwit mayor is very common, but by no means universal. My wife’s last surviving uncle, a good ‘ol boy who lives east of Memphis, thinks that Sarah Palin is the most brilliant American woman now alive.
Arlington, Tennessee, is a suburb of Memphis, with a population of about 3,500. That explains a lot. I am sure that there are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Tennesseeans who are dismayed and embarrassed by what the mayor wrote . . . There are probably even some literate atheists in Arlington who are cringing right now.
Does this mean I shouldn’t be posting crazy racist stuff on Facebook? Well then, what the hell is Facebook good for??
He threw a tantrum because he didn’t get to watch a cartoon he was expecting? Why wasn’t this picked up and dealt with at primary school age?
Is ‘property owners’ some kind of code I don’t get?
I’m surprised how many commenters ask this question. It’s as if you don’t understand that this mentality is commonly and widely considered a virtue in a candidate for office in America. Especially in the South. It’s not the aberration. It’s not a remarkable, noteworthy thing. It is the norm. Yes, proud anti-intellectualism is actively applauded by a majority of voters in many parts of the US.
Facebook is good for defriending people out of spite! Any fule kno that.
Don – I think the code is familiar isn’t it? It was the same code in the UK – ‘property owners’ means ‘no riffraff.’ I suspect he had in mind some dark innuendo about Letting the Nigras Vote, but being stupid and mindless, didn’t know how to say it so that it made sense.
Coincidentally, Lily Allen’s “Fuck You” was playing on the stereo when I read this post.
Unfortunately, the ‘property-owners’ phrase is neither obscure nor badly put. He means exactly what one might suspect – no scum, and especially no nigger scum, allowed…
Of course, the real tragedy here is that Charlie Brown had to get drawn into this squalid dispute…
He means what one might suspect but of course the way he put it is a stupid way to put it because it’s not as if Obama is a pauper and it’s not as if only paupers voted for Obama and it’s not as if no paupers voted for McCain. So it’s innuendo but a tad sloppy. But dog whistles don’t need to be precise, so that’s ok.
I love that this guy also tries to downplay the remarks he made on FB, as if FB is a forum where any asshole is free to make comments about any old asshole thing he wants to comment about. Oh wait….it is.
He still has to know that other people read what he writes, though, and that it doesn’t look good for the mayor of anywhere to come off sounding like a hateful, uneducated jackass.
I used to live in Germantown….just down the road from Arlington. When I was a kid we would drive through Arlington on the way to my Grandfather’s place up in Humboldt, TN. Let’s just say that the best thing about Arlington is that you didn’t even notice you were there half the time. That, and my Mom claimed to see a kangaroo on the side of the highway in Arlington.
Patrick
P.S.- It was a German Shepard but she swears to this day that it was a kangaroo.
Well…maybe somebody in Arlington had a pet kangaroo that escaped! You never know…
Patrick, in the spirit of ‘all disagreements must find truth in the middle ground’ maybe you and your mother can compromise and agree it was an Australian Shepard? ;^)