Fourth-grader to Obama: Why do people hate you?
posted at 5:53 pm on October 15, 2009 by Allahpundit
This makes twice now in two months that a child’s stood up during a Q&A with The One to ask why people are being so mean to him or his policies. The last time it happened, the questioner’s mother turned out to be a state organizer for his campaign, but it’s foolish to assume that these kids are all plants. Since the beginning of the summer, you’ve had the DNC describing ObamaCare protesters as “angry mobs,” the Senate majority leader calling them “evil-mongers,” and a variety of lesser Democrats referring to them as racists and even terrorists, and of course the media’s happy to help them carry the message forward. Pound away at a narrative that diligently and it’s bound to penetrate the consciousness of a few news-watching young kids. In fact, it’d be fascinating for comparison purposes to know how many times Bush was asked a question like this. There was plenty of hate directed at him too, but that was the “good” kind of hate so kids might not have processed it as something worth fretting about. Any Lexis-Nexis users want to query this one and see?
In The One’s defense, most people don’t hate him. They just hate him more than Hillary. Click the image to watch.
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I thought it was only Fox News and Glenn Beck that hated him.
vcferlita on October 15, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I doubt it benefits you to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Jim Treacher on October 15, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I hate his lies…his scare tactics…his bullying…his manipulations… but it’s not a matter of hating him as much as hating everything he stands for and everything he wants to do to my country.
powerpro on October 15, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Wow, a kid being programmed in our public schools to ask this question at such a young age. I’m impressed.
Del Dolemonte on October 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Maybe people don’t like him because of things like this recent video of the White House Communications Director Anita Dunn talking about one of her heroes, Chairman Mao.
flyfisher on October 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Call me foolish, then, because the first word that popped in my mind was plant.
NebCon on October 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM
This New Orleans speech was on in a common area of my work during lunch and boy did the room demand it be changed within 2 minutes of starting. He was really in “Reverand Ike” mode.
Marcus on October 15, 2009 at 5:58 PM
It’s because this creep is a profligate liar. He’s of the variety that makes Clinton (both of ‘em!) look like a piker.
Because if you were old enough to understand someone who every word he says is a lie, you’d be disgusted too. It’s all out there to see, if you want to.
File under, phoney, fraud and liar extraordinaire.
Gob on October 15, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Coincidentally Beck talked about the Obama administration’s admiration for Chairman Mao. This kid has been taught to love God:Obama.
Half of the US has gone insane. If this is not proof of indoctrination, I don’t know what is.
cubachi on October 15, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Yea, but do people really hate-hate Obama?
farright on October 15, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Obama’s right; not everyone hates him. Just people with common sense.
SouperConservative on October 15, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Hey look at me. I am liberal that can make up quotes to besmirch someone’s good name (or psuedonym in this case).
WashJeff on October 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM
This farce of a man will collapse under his own weight.
elduende on October 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Did anyone ask him why he has pediphiles and communists in his administration?
Anyone ask to see the ObmaCare pull a rabit out of the hat trick (also known as the “See! No Budget Deficit” trick)??
Any of that at all?
Shucks.
HondaV65 on October 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM
I could tell the boy why I hate Obama, but I can’t speak for everybody else.
Star20 on October 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM
mmmmmm mmmmm mmmmmm…..It works.
d1carter on October 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM
I don’t hate Obama – just his lousy, rotten Commie guts.
J.J. Sefton on October 15, 2009 at 6:01 PM
By the way, ask Anita Dunn what Chairman Mao would do when confronted with this anger.
Better yet, ask Mao’s 70 million victims.
J.J. Sefton on October 15, 2009 at 6:02 PM
This child is being taught that disagreeing with The Won is hate. I wonder how his parent’s displeasure was explained during the Bush years?
Cindy Munford on October 15, 2009 at 6:03 PM
The kid is a prop. He’s being used. Sad really.
dogsoldier on October 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Why should a young kid even be introduced to the emotion of hatred? Someone had to teach him or coach him.
fourdeucer on October 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM
That was sooo long ago…back when dissent was patriotic.
publiuspen on October 15, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Answer: “Because I’m an arrogant Marxist racist and because I like gladiator movies. Do you like gladiator movies, son?”
Haunches on October 15, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, ACORN, SEIU, Steve Rattner, Adolfo Carrión, Jr., Bill Ayers, Vivek Kundra, Jeremiah Wright, Rezko
I’d say the country deserves the benefit of our Obama skepticism.
flyfisher on October 15, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Why do we hate him? Let us count the ways.
BTW, the new Fox poll has him at 43% for re-election.
A lot of people hate him, apparently.
Let’s have it both ways. I don’t hate the man, but I loathe his politics.
JammieWearingFool on October 15, 2009 at 6:05 PM
I doubt many people hate him. He’s seemingly quite interesting and probably personally charming.
His policies however, a lot of people do hate.
It is a wonderfully facile trick the left are trying to play by confusing the man and his policies. It allows them to yell ‘hater! racist!”.
Sorry leftists – Fail.
Anders on October 15, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Suffer the little children…
Hawkins1701 on October 15, 2009 at 6:06 PM
I’m not so sure. This just doesn’t sound to me like the kind of question a child comes up with unassisted. Now, it could be that the assist came from news, but 4th-graders don’t watch that much of it. IF a 4th-grader is asking the question, it certainly implies an adult putting him up to it.
tom on October 15, 2009 at 6:06 PM
flyfisher on October 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Thank you Fly! I wonder if this Liberal piece of hypocritical crap likes to ponder about the 70 Chinese Mao killed? He’s such a hero and stand up guy. (These Libs are so hypocritical…I have no idea how they live with themselves..)
Well, that’s why Dear Leader is called “Chairman Maobama!
Mike Church has an awesome T-shirt…check it out…
http://www.mikechurch.com/zenshop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=152&zenid=qjsj6sndk86pigvnlg8jv8v3l1
Gob on October 15, 2009 at 6:06 PM
0bama hates America, is there any wonder why Americans are not very happy with him?
Rebar on October 15, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Why does BHO hate Mississippi?
d1carter on October 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM
How about, “Kid, if you don’t know, then your parents are freaking morons.”
Connie on October 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM
There is not enough time before you graduate, young one.
HornetSting on October 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Here’s the Anita Dunn link. She just admires not only Obomber, but a certain Chinese politician who wrote a Little Red Book. Sickening.
J.J. Sefton on October 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM
FIFY
Aviator on October 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Thank God for Allahpundit, without whom we’d get ourselves all wee wee’d up with crazy assumptions about the left. Because as we all know, what the left needs most is the benefit of the doubt.
Sharke on October 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM
The screen-cap looks like an updated version of this poster. I wonder why?
dmh0667 on October 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM
How is he still at 43% ?
publiuspen on October 15, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Hey kid, narcissistic, egomaniacal a-holes are hard to love. They love themselves plenty enough for everyone else.
OxyCon on October 15, 2009 at 6:09 PM
The boy seem scripted; Rahm no doubt schooled the lad to ask why would someone even consider not worshiping The One?
Indeed why would anyone hate Obama Jesus? Let me count the ways…
IntheNet on October 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM
I hate Obama because he is a self centered man-child who is doing permanent harm to a great country.
Vegi on October 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Nice way of putting that.
Anyways, what’s with this Hate narrative?
It seems like every week the Statists and the SCM come up with a new way of demonizing legitimate opposition.
You would think that if they had a worthwhile ideas, they wouldn’t have to relentlessly demonize those that oppose them.
What does that say about their agenda?
Juno77 on October 15, 2009 at 6:11 PM
wow….someone thinks highly of themselves…
alexraye on October 15, 2009 at 6:11 PM
They took the poll in a mental hospital.
Aviator on October 15, 2009 at 6:11 PM
bho, mmmm mmmm mmmm.
Gotta love the love!
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letget on October 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM
99% of the media in your pocket = 43% approval.
JammieWearingFool on October 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Kid’s wearing turquoise. I doubt that was his choice of color either. Just sayin’.
Sharke on October 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Heard this on the radio and immediately said to my self, PLANT! How long will it take to identify this kid whose parents are big supporters of Obama? (PBUH) Get to work bloggers!
fbcmusicman on October 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Fourth-grader to Obama: Why do people hate you?
What’s to love? He appears to be systematically trying to destroy the country.
GFW on October 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM
I don’t want to watch the clip, just guessing that Obama is so devoid of all emotion he probably couln’t understand the question.
fourdeucer on October 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Once the bills are enacted into law, and the taxes come due, his re-election percentage will be lucky if it’s at 5%.
As for hate? I have no hate. He is mereley a pawn, or drone for the far left, and their radical ideology. He’s simply the carrier of the crap. When it becomes to tough on him, this crap, and blame gets passed on to anyone outside of his comfort zone.
I hate his ideology. I hate his mentality. I hate that he hates so many of us, and believes his way is the only way, and that there must be racial, and social justice. Atone for the past, which I believe has been done, but to continually, year after year, decade after decade, hate for what was done in the past, will only hurt the hater in the end.
I hate what he has done, and continues to do to this country. I feel for his girls. For they’ll never know the true potential of America, if this destruction is allowed to continue.
capejasmine on October 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Why does BHO hate Mississippi?
d1carter on October 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Oh shoot! He found out where I live.
kingsjester on October 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM
That video is the most sickening thing I’ve seen. It’s worse than the little kids singing Obama tunes. It’s worse than the ACORN stuff. It’s horrendous. Obama has surrounded himself with no fooling out and out REDS. And it’s obvious to me he did he because he’s not a liberal – HE’S A COMMUNIST RADICAL. Where is Joe McCarthy when you need him?
The Democrats will rue the day they let this clown take over their party and their country. Once he’s exposed, and he will be, it ought to be the end of the their party. He’s ruining them (but hopefully not us) forever. We’re all going to pay for their epic naivete.
flyfisher on October 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM
People used to admire Obama, so they elected him.
But after the election people are realizing that Obama hates America, so now America hates Obama.
That’s an easy one.
petefrt on October 15, 2009 at 6:16 PM
It’s not that I hate — it’s that I love America.
publiuspen on October 15, 2009 at 6:16 PM
That t-shirt is funny because it rings true. Sad.
flyfisher on October 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM
As of 5:14pm in Bloomington, MN, there’s about 50K people who really, really hate Slow Joe Biden. Just got a call from my wife who sat for 30-minutes without moving on I-494 so cops and secret service could clear a safe path for the Veeps fundraiser in Edina. Nice planning, Joe.
Goldy1 on October 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Frankly, I feel worse for MY children.
Aviator on October 15, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Can we start calling the communists in the White House “communists” yet? It’s time to crush political correctness. Thank God for Glenn!
silvernana on October 15, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Maybe people don’t like him because they sense the feeling is mutual.
SteakRules on October 15, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Watch the video, you can easily come away with the impression that it’s a plant – from the way he picks out the kid from the crowd and the way the kid asked the question to how bo uses the question.
Is the fourth grader actually comparing bo to God?
Juno77 on October 15, 2009 at 6:21 PM
I just did it. No more fooling around.
And yes, thank God for Glenn Beck and whomever had the guts to get that tape to him.
flyfisher on October 15, 2009 at 6:21 PM
A good 30% of this country would follow him to hell and back. He is absolutely god-like to them.
cjk on October 15, 2009 at 6:22 PM
You saw Glenn tonight on Anita Dunn? He nailed her pretty well. Bet the WH staff had to strap her down to keep her from going ballistic.
Beck’s red phone hot line was a stroke of genius.
petefrt on October 15, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I don’t hate Osama Obama.
I despise what he believes, what he seems hell-bent on doing to my nation, his total lack of personal accountability for his years before taking a Senate seat, his willingness to suck up to totalitarian thugs and America-haters around the world, his drive to become a cult figure adored by idiotic adults and brainwashed schoolchildren and his associates, friends, mentors and hires in the White House.
Not hating him doesn’t mean I can’t pray that the Traitor-in-Chief is soon removed from office and thrown back into the cesspool that made him what he is today.
MrScribbler on October 15, 2009 at 6:22 PM
flyfisher on October 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Yes, it does ring true. I love that T! When I wear it, it’s great (I’m in a VERY Blue state) because most Libs here are too dumb to understand that it is an anti-Obama T. I never get harrassed. I’m not wearing one of those Shepard Fairey ones…I see those EVERYWHERE!
Mike Church is gonna put out a MahatmaBama one out next. Can’t wait to see it!
Gob on October 15, 2009 at 6:23 PM
When I was in 4th grade I didn’t give a rat’s ass what people thought of the president.
Ronnie on October 15, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Ann Coulter correctly called the people who do this to children PUSSIES.
alliebobbitt on October 15, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Except there’s no coming back from hell. Hope you enjoy pugatory, Libs.
Goldy1 on October 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Can’t watch this – I’ll just have to take your word for it. The One is visiting the campus of Texas A&M tomorrow -We are not happy about this, and my husband and I are traveling to be there with our signs. Couldn’t get in the event – but would have loved to pose a question such as: There are many Aggies that are serving or have served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and some will never see their loved ones again, along with the other brave men and women there. -Mr. President, what in the heck are you doing here, touting community service, instead of working on a plan, day and night, with the general you chose, to do the right thing by them?
texasaggie on October 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM
“See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion.” Isa 41:29 (NIV)
publiuspen on October 15, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Watching it now. He nailed her to the wall. I read everything I could find about Obama before he was elected, so nothing surprises me. But seeing that video has made me sick. I don’t see how we can handle four years of these people. What damage can they do before the mid-terms?
flyfisher on October 15, 2009 at 6:25 PM
That would have been a good time to tell the kid he might be going to school on Saturdays soon.
Ronnie on October 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I prefer the term ‘Statists’ because it means the same thing but without all the useless definitional subtleties.
But communists is okay and it would be nice if we can dispense with the PC crappola and call them what they really are.
Juno77 on October 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I’ll update his wiki page if you want to contact MediaMatters.
BadgerHawk on October 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I don’t hate Obama.
I strongly disagree with his policies, his lack of leadership on foreign policy, his complete inconsistency, and his attempts to force the youth into community organizing through subterfuge.
I hate the fact nobody in the MSM seems to think its their job to question him on these failures.
Nethicus on October 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Dear President Uhhhhbama, why are Democrats the Party of Hate?
JammieWearingFool on October 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
publiuspen on October 15, 2009 at 6:27 PM
The best way to explain to the boy why people hate Obama is to take half of his toys away and give them to someone else who needs them more.
Conservalicious on October 15, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Because he’s black … right? Isn’t that the other part of that programming?
I agree with AP. There is no need to assume that this child is a plant. Being very un-pc and considering the venue, I’ll leap to the assumption that this programming comes from the home.
Texas Gal on October 15, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Why doesn’t anyone ever ask the more important question…..why does Obama hate us?
Cheesestick on October 15, 2009 at 6:29 PM
I hate him for being on the tv every waking moment. Maybe I could forgive his systematic and calculated destruction of my country if I didn’t have to see his face and hear his annoying cadence CONSTANTLY!
Nah, I’d still hate him.
NTWR on October 15, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Most of our younger posters here have no idea who you’re talking about, so:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Ike
Del Dolemonte on October 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Well said!
MrScribbler on October 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Why does Obama use that half assed ebonics speak? Does he think it endears him to folks?
At any rate, we actually need to see brainwashed kids like this. He is a perfect example of the mindless Obama worship that permeates the Obama supporters home.
csdeven on October 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Later in the video a puppy asks him why Republicans hate rainbows.
RightOFLeft on October 15, 2009 at 6:31 PM
You know what I hate more than the kid’s scripted question (which I propose was fed to him by an overweight Marxist schoolteacher by the way)?
The way Obama struts and swaggers around in that phony, folksy way like he’s so desperate to connect with the ordinary people he has absolutely nothing in common with. “Tha’s wh’am talking ’bout” etc. It’s horrible, like a drunken parent trying to rap.
He’s obviously trying to let his black half dominate the white half he’s ashamed of, sort of like a mixed-race Dr. Strangelove.
Sharke on October 15, 2009 at 6:31 PM
How Sweet!
Now how about getting something done!
BigMike252 on October 15, 2009 at 6:31 PM
YES!
tim c on October 15, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Here come the emotion police, ready to condemn us for our feelings and opinions. Real or imagined.
infidel4life on October 15, 2009 at 6:33 PM
The first question on EVERYONE’S mind who sees this will be: How come no little kid ever asked George Bush this question?
And the only answer that’ll come to mind is: Because the Bush White House never asked them to.
I don’t know who is giving this White House its PR advice, but I hope they keep him on. Exploiting children has always been a real winner with the peeps.
Rational Thought on October 15, 2009 at 6:34 PM
there is absolutely no way in hell that kid came up with that question himself. i can guantee you his peers, family sit around with “my president is black” t-shirts on a daily basis! no way it has ever entered his brain that people don’t love the first black president!
Ghoul aid on October 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM
I just hate the white half.
Firebird on October 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM
You have to remember this is the first time a lot of people are being exposed to politics. A lot of people actually trusted Obama with their full heart.
Osis on October 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Why do people hate you mein fuhrer?
Jerricho68 on October 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Just watched the video and anyone who can’t see that that was set up is a complete fool! I can’t see how obama(pbuh) can get any more despicable, the man-child is disgusting. It actually pains men to look at his lying face.
cjk on October 15, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Why do people hate kids who like Obama? That’s more interesting question.
The vitriol aimed at a little kid who dressed in his nice sweater and got to meet a man he admires and asked a perfectly kid-like question.
Or did nother your kids never notice what was going on around them and asked questions that were not exactly nuanced ?
Repress the hate — or save it for the grown-ups.
Bleeds Blue on October 15, 2009 at 6:36 PM
The kid was a plant.
No kid that age would even be aware Obama was “hated” unless he scoured the internet everyday and watched MSNBC at the same time.
Communists use kids for their evil purposes.
darwin on October 15, 2009 at 6:36 PM
I don’t know what he’s complaining about. Hate is Love, isn’t it?
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
… and Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, Winston…
DaveCal on October 15, 2009 at 6:36 PM
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