Barack Obama and Jon Stewart had a rather weird exchange on The Daily Show last night.
"The Polls have you up," said Stewart, "but then they keep talking about the Bradley affect, this idea that white voters when they go to the polls they will tell pollsters they will vote for an African American but they won't actually do it?"
"Yeah, they’ve been saying that for awhile but we’re still here," Obama said. "So I don’t know. I don’t think white voters have gotten this memo about the Bradley Effect."
"Are you concerned in some respects," Stewart joked, "I don’t know how to bring this up, your mother is from Kansas, father African, are you concerned that you may go into the voting booth and --"
"I wont know what to do," Obama joked, finishing the comedian's thought.
" -- your white half will all of a sudden decide, 'I can't do this!'" Stewart said.
"Yeah," Obama said. "It’s a problem ... I’ve been going though therapy to make sure that I vote properly on the 4th."
Really funny.
That's right. Obama's been in therapy to deal with his white half, his typical white half, the racist white half.
He might get in that voting booth and be unable to vote for himself. Absolutely hysterical! Right.
I'm going to cut Obama some slack and assume that he was just playing along with the exceedingly annoying Stewart.
That said, Obama needs to think before he speaks. Some people could be offended by his remarks.
He didn't really diss his white mother, grandmother, and grandfather. He wouldn't really charge whites in general with having a problem voting for a black man.
He just plays that on TV.
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