So, You Think Your Elected Officials are Crazy? December 4, 2009
Posted by Matt in politics.Tags: Arlington, conservatism, Facebook, hatred, Obama, racism, Russell Wiseman
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I’ll bet you they’ve got nothing on Russell Wiseman, the mayor of the Memphis suburb of Arlington.
Earlier this week, Mayor Wiseman made a few comments on his Facebook page in which he clamied that Barack Obama’s Tuesday night speech on the war in Arghanistan was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the Peanuts Christmas special.
Among the quotes is this gem:
“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 on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute dissertation about it when the answer should simply be ‘yes’”
Later on in the thread, he went after Obama’s supporters, saying:
“you Obama people need to move to a muslim country … oh wait, that’s America … pitiful.”
Then later on in the rant, he let this one fly:
“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 …”
Wow…. That’s all I can say, just wow.
I’ll second that “wow” and add a “yikes”
It’s pretty scary to think that people like Wiseman are the ones in charge…
No, sorry. Property ownership was never a constitutional provision for voting. That existed only on a state level in the 19th century.
You would think that a patriot like Mayor Wiseman would have actually read the US Constitution.
It is sad when elected officials say such idiotic things. I like the Peanuts special and all, but…really? This takes conspiracy theory to a whole new level. On the up side, elected officials who make such disgraces out of themselves usually find themselves out of office after the next election cycle. Oh, wait, these are Memphis area politicians we are talking about.