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Neasties Not Sold On This ‘Barack Obama’

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Amazingly, the editors of the Daily News decided to run the greatest story yet written this year in Saturday’s edition (official motto: “Nearly 2 cents per page!”). Dave Davies followed around Joe Biden in Northeast Philly, and the laughs didn’t stop ’til he left the Dining Car.

But first, Davies chatted with Mike McAleer, the Democratic ward leader in the 66th ward, home of one Daniel Hall McQuade for the first 17 or so years of his life. What’s the problem with getting people there to vote for Obama?

“The Dunkin’ Donut crowd tells me that we’ve got everything going for us but Obama,” McAleer said. “They can’t give me a direct answer. Do I have them right now in the 66th ward? No. But I got 60 days to get them.”

Asked what the problem is with Obama, McAleer paused and said: “It’s his color… I tell them he’s half white and half black. He’s got a better perspective for everything in this country.”

Oh, to be a fly on the wall during a conversation between McAleer and one of those 66th-ward Democrats he’s talking about. But perhaps the vice presidential nominee will have a better shot than the ward leader. Let’s go to the Dining Car!

In a corner booth, Biden sat down and, after a moment’s conversation, planted a kiss on the forehead of Carolyn Bauer, age 89. Bauer explained afterward it wasn’t such a friendly encounter.

“I told him I’m not going to vote for him,” Bauer said. “Anybody who runs with a guy with a name like that is not going to get my vote. It’d be disgusting to get a man named Barack Obama as president of the United States. No way. I mean it… I’m going to vote for McCain and the lady.”

“[Obama's] a Muslim,” Bauer added. “He pretends to be a Christian, and he isn’t, he’s a Muslim.”

McCain/the lady ‘08, apparently! Hope you enjoy your 71-year-old president, America.

Biden gets mixed welcome in Northeast [Daily News]

  1. friendlynerd Says: Sep 8 1:11 PM

    72 by the time he would take office. Christ.

  2. ya really Says: Sep 8 1:24 PM

    Neasties were once Kenzos, so this is no surprise.

  3. Mike Says: Sep 8 1:24 PM

    Bwaaahh hahahahahah!

  4. MB Says: Sep 8 1:43 PM

    When did the Northeast get Democrats????

    @friendlynerd: I’m happy to see Kenzos blamed when it’s appropriate but racism wasn’t imported to the NE from Kensington. It’s a native product.

  5. firepixx Says: Sep 8 1:58 PM

    I can’t wait to see the letters in the NE Times!

  6. dmac Says: Sep 8 2:30 PM

    What’s great is how open she is about it. I couldn’t see anyone except those older than John McCain giving a quote as great as, “It’d be disgusting to get a man named Barack Obama as president of the United States.”

  7. friendlynerd Says: Sep 8 2:32 PM

    @MB

    Authors are below comments, not above them. I commented on how crusty and old McCain is, not about Kensington.

  8. Tracer Bullet Says: Sep 8 4:20 PM

    I’m trying to decide what tickles me most about this woman. Her flagrant racism? Her rampaging stupidity? Her stubborn belief that being a Muslim disqualifies one for the presidency in a nation that specifically forbids religious tests for public office? I just can’t decide. It’s like trying to choose between ice cream and a blowjob.

  9. Gabe Says: Sep 8 5:29 PM

    Funny how everyone is so aghast at the woman’s racism, although she never mentioned race, not once, read the article people, but turn right around and stereotype residents from kensington. That my friends is hypocrisy.
    Also, I am pretty sure that a lot of the arts community and every supposed counter culture hipster has moved to kensington in the last year to gloat that they live in this “bad” neighborhood. People in glass houses.

  10. dmac Says: Sep 8 5:41 PM

    I would tell the newspaper I wouldn’t vote for a hipster president.

  11. GLL Says: Sep 24 10:27 AM

    It really scares me how people in the Northeast can be so narrow minded at times. And what really gets me is how they will all vote against their interests because they think some man is pretending to be Christian and then, what, is going to turn the country into a Muslim state? Like I just don’t even understand what these people are thinking…

  12. The Kenzos Says: Oct 14 4:51 AM

    hey, Kenzos aren’t all bad.
    check us out: The Kenzos

    but yeah, when will ignorant jackasses get over this conspiracy theory shit?

    and i’m so sick of hearing that dizzy bitch ask about “who obama really is”
    i’ll tell you who he really is: he’s some guy who is too respectful to staunchly deny being arab or muslim because there’s nothing inherently wrong with being either as our country is made up of ethnically diverse people.

    i do have the correct country right? america? freedom and equality?

    i mean, i’m of german decent. so i’m automatically an evil nazi?

    it’s scary, but some of these people would have sided with the nazis…

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