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Verrrrrry interesting telephone call...

Dargo

Like a bad penny...
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I simply don't answer the phone when caller ID says "Blocked". However, my 8 year old son answered the phone a few minutes ago when it rang and the caller ID said "Blocked". Sure enough he brings me the phone and says "Dad, I think it's for you."

When I said "Hello" the caller immediately stated that he's calling from "bla bla bla committee to elect Barack Obama and we just wanted to make sure we have your support in this upcoming very important election". I wasn't offended (it's obviously that time of the year), but simply told the caller that, no, Barack Obama will not have my support at the polls.

What the caller said next is what makes this a very interesting call. After I said that I wouldn't be supporting Obama, the caller then said "Why are you against having an African-American president?" WTF??!!! This caught me off guard. I said, "Excuse me, I don't think I heard what you said." The caller then said, "Oh, I'm sure you heard very well what I said. Why do you need to be racist?" WTF?? :angry:

Rather than try to engage the caller into any conversation I just disconnected the line. The more I thought about it the more the call pissed me off. I tried *69, but that didn't work. Obviously caller ID is of no use. Anyway, I guess I'm just shocked that Obama supporters, I don't know if they are local or regional or even national, are bluntly calling you a racist if you don't vote for Obama!

Do you think this tactic will work for Obama or end up backfiring? I wonder if some people may actually vote for them so they don't think of themselves as racists. I have two questions about this call; first, do you think it is inappropriate and, second, do you think it will work or will it backfire?
 

ddrane2115

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He will do anything to win this election and as we all know when he looses his cronies will be calling McCain or the winner a theif...............I would have said yep you do, if he is running in KENYA with his illegal aunt.

he lied then, he lied now, and he will lie all 4 years if he is in the seat
 

pirate_girl

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Totally inappropriate, and shocking as well..:huh:
I've been getting calls from both parties, and can usually tell that's who/what it is by caller ID.
Mostly, I think they are recorded messages, but I haven't bothered to actually answer those calls either.
 

Doc

Bottoms Up
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Totally inappropriate, and shocking as well..:huh:
I've been getting calls from both parties, and can usually tell that's who/what it is by caller ID.
Mostly, I think they are recorded messages, but I haven't bothered to actually answer those calls either.

I agree that it was totally inappropriate!!!! Shocking, not to me, and perhaps that is sad in it's own right.
I changed my phone to Voice over IP and had to change my home phone number. Thank goodness. I have not been on the call lists for the most part. I've got a few but like you Brent, if they block their number we do not answer. This tactic saves us all time. :D :beer:
 

ddrane2115

Charter Member
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We dont have a home phone, have not in years.........we have cells and if they start calling them, I will answer.................with a very rude send him back to the rock he came from
 

Spiffy1

Huh?
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I'd still like to know how 90% of black people can claim to support Obama, yet a white person doesn't and is racist? Talk about the double standard of the centary! :furious:

I wonder if Obama recieved any UNCF for college; I know I sure didn't see any white scholarships.
 

fogtender

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I'd still like to know how 90% of black people can claim to support Obama, yet a white person doesn't and is racist? Talk about the double standard of the century! :furious:

I wonder if Obama received any UNCF for college; I know I sure didn't see any white scholarships.

Appears I am only half racist... I am NOT voting for the 50% half black part of Obama, and then I am NOT voting for the other 50% of the White half of Obama either...

I am voting though, for 100% against Socialism that Obama Represents and his buddies, both in Washington DC and his personal life.

When he loses the race for President, I will go out and find whom stole all my guns...:shifty:

By the way, did he ever produce a Birth Certificate to prove he was born in the US? That was brought up a couple of times, but I never heard one way or the other.
 

Spiffy1

Huh?
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In my newspaper this morning, the State of Hawaii confirmed they had his original birth certificate on file.

So it only took them two months to create and properly antique it to the standards Obama personally checked last week? OK, I'm cynical, but that guy has my sleeze-o-meter reading off the charts.
 

fogtender

Now a Published Author
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In my newspaper this morning, the State of Hawaii confirmed they had his original birth certificate on file.


So I can assume it was "From" the State of Hawaii then?

Other question, was Hawaii a "State" when he was born? I didn't know the date it was brought into the Union.

There was a requirement that if the child was born in a American "Possession" or "Military Base" overseas, before it's Statehood, both parents had to be American Citizens... In his case, only one of his was.
 

k-dog

Member
I been getting calls like that all day. I just been ignoring them. We have our phone set up that if they block their number on the caller ID, they get a recording stating this number does not accept calls from private/blocked numbers. My daughter answered the phone when a local number came up and had the ladies name and everything. I was out in the garage working and she brings the phone out. I say "Hello" and she goes into her thing about can they count on my vote for Obama and all this crap. I am pissed from being interrupted from my project and blurt out: "No ma'am, I don't vote for communists" and hung up the phone and gave it back to my daughter. Not sure why I said communist, but I think she got the point.:thumb:
 

Melensdad

Jerk in a Hawaiian Shirt & SNOWCAT Moderator
Staff member
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I feel left out, we have not gotten any of these calls lately.
 

pixie

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My ex husband got the same call and told them that if they were voting for that person because he is black, then they were the racist. :thumb:
 

Melensdad

Jerk in a Hawaiian Shirt & SNOWCAT Moderator
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Pixie, you ex-hubby used logic. That will never work.

He should have asked them why they were SEXIST and not voting to put a woman in the VP's office.
 
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