<p>Yea, I’m biased against the guy to begin with, but this is pathetic.</p>
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<p>Yeah. Eww. Not nice.</p>
<p>(Teri, you should have heard me when he selected himself vice president.)</p>
<p>oopps! Looks like Obama’s cousin insulted White Hard Working West Virginians.</p>
<p>It was funny. He should not have apologized. West Va. has long been the butt of incest jokes. They have a sense of humor and so should the rest of America.</p>
<p>Says razorsharp who has been nitpicking every questionable thing Obama or anyone related to him has said throughout the primaries. Partisan, much?</p>
<p>Personally though, I actually thought it was kind of funny… distasteful and inappropriate to say in public, but funny nonetheless. I mean come on, I bet many people would be laughing if a similar joke were made in private.</p>
<p>It might have been funny had someone else said it, but I don’t think the vice president should be attempting off-color humor.</p>
<p>Hondu, that was soooo pathetic of you to turn the blame around to Obama. Unbelievable.</p>
<p>zoosermom: I agree that it was inappropriate, as I said, but I don’t think that the fact that it was inappropriate for him to say it makes it not funny.</p>
<p>"Asked during a question-and-answer session at the National Press Club about the fact that a search of his family tree found he is a distant relative of Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential front-runner, Cheney said the two politicians were unlikely to hold a family reunion.</p>
<p>He said that the Cheney line on his father’s side of the family dates to 1630’s, and a Cheney family line on his mother’s side dates to the 1650’s.</p>
<p>“So, I had Cheneys on both sides of the family — and we don’t even live in West Virginia,” Cheney cracked. After pausing for laughter from the crowd, Cheney added, “You can say those things when you’re not running for re-election.”"</p>
<p>I know people from W. Virginia who don’t think those kind of jokes are funny. In fact, I became aware of this when a woman from W. Va. burst into tears while talking about how hurt she has been by those kind of jokes.</p>
<p>If that’s the kind of joke that Cheney makes in public, imagine what he says in private.</p>
<p>If you live in WV and are insulted by incest jokes, get over yourself. It’s a stigma that comes from the actuallities of West Virginia! It’s a joke, it’s funny, and Im sure just about everyone has made one of those jokes atleast once.</p>
<p>Holy Crap, I live in South Alabama and hear crap about “Lower Alabama” all the time but I dont get offended. Toughen up people…</p>
<p>“zoosermom: I agree that it was inappropriate, as I said, but I don’t think that the fact that it was inappropriate for him to say it makes it not funny.”</p>
<p>I will cede you the point!</p>
<p>(Ugh-oh, I just posted on another stereotype thread. Masochist am I?)</p>
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<p>LOL, zoosermom! It’s a wonder you’ve managed to keep your sense of humor intact.
Yeah, best to tread lightly here, lest some people decide to come after you…:rolleyes:</p>
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<p>The difference is between making fun of yourself, and making fun of other people whose experience you cannot relate to.</p>
<p>I grew up in Texas and can make fun of the stereotypes I experienced individually, but I would never make a crude joke about someone else’s background.</p>
<p>I would have had no problem if Cheney made a comment about Wyoming but making a joke about a place he’s not from, nor can relate to comes across as arrogant.</p>
<p>“LOL, zoosermom! It’s a wonder you’ve managed to keep your sense of humor intact. Yeah, best to tread lightly here, lest some people decide to come after you…”</p>
<p>Guess what? I saw a post in the Obama/Education thread that espoused actual discrimination against Asian people. I WANTED to jump on that, but thought better of it. Who says I lack self control?</p>
<p>“I grew up in Texas and can make fun of the stereotypes I experienced individually”</p>
<p>Oh my God, what possesses me? Ok. here goes. what is the Texas stereotype except things being, umm, bigger?</p>
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<p>That’s hardly the issue. How many non-politically motivated people did he offend? I’d bet it was very few. </p>
<p>The news getting caught up on every politicians little errors is getting ridiculas and absurd. Some idiot politician is making a big deal out of nothing, and the news agencies are eating it up. </p>
<p>Again, if that statement offended you (you as in general), you need to grow up. A speaker cannot possibly know the personal “experiences” of everyone in his audience and will eventually offend someone. It was not ment to be offensive, so why take it that way? If you’re from WV and don’t like the joke, is it that hard to “brush it off your shoulders”?</p>
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<p>For starters, at least when I was growing up, for the women, what was important was big hair with lots of hair spray, perfectly made-up faces, long manicured fingernails, and the ‘helpless me’ southern drawl. For men, it was an assumption that if you drove a pick-up truck, you were an avid hunter/fisherman and had a rifle somewhere in that truck, and were narrow-minded about anything that resembled liberal politics. Of course, all Texans care about, other than their women and their guns, is football.</p>
<p>AmericanmadeFord, being from the north, I never heard there was a difference between north and south Alabama. It’s all one big joke to us!</p>
<p>Every time I mention to someone that I grew up in NJ, and I’m of Italian decent, I brace myself for the stereotypical response . I usually follow with an aside on the stereotype of THEIR home state (and then I make a call to my cousins to make sure they wake up the next morning with a horse’s head in their bed 
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<p>“For starters, at least when I was growing up, for the women, what was important was big hair with lots of hair spray, perfectly made-up faces, long manicured fingernails, and the ‘helpless me’ southern drawl. For men, it was an assumption that if you drove a pick-up truck, you were an avid hunter/fisherman and had a rifle somewhere in that truck, and were narrow-minded about anything that resembled liberal politics. Of course, all Texans care about, other than their women and their guns, is football.”</p>
<p>THat’s pretty smilar to the Staten Island stereotype in some respects. The big hair, make-up, nails, etc. Except for the drawl part.</p>