Obama: No More Popeye's Chicken For Breakfast

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/29/08 at 4:34pm

Is KFC or Bojangles or Mrs. Winners ok?

"On the campaign trail, Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama talks about how he would use the bully pulpit if president, and he offered a demonstration Thursday when he drew wild cheers as he told a mostly African-American crowd that parents need to shape up, turn off the TV, help their kids with their homework and stop letting them grow fat eating Popeyes chicken for breakfast."

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[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 2/29/08 at 4:38pm

Updated On: 1/24/09 at 04:38 PM

[Liverpool]

Posted: 2/29/08 at 4:40pm

I LOVE how gotham thinks this is some how a negative for Obama. he just doesn't get it at all

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/29/08 at 4:44pm

I LOVE how liverpool thinks I think this is some how a negative for Obama. he just doesn't get it at all.

Updated On: 2/29/08 at 04:44 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/29/08 at 6:50pm

He never has or will Goth

Does this also apply to the Colonel?

[Liverpool]

Posted: 2/29/08 at 6:58pm

roxy how many times to you have to be told that your political opinions are worthless and will be for as long as you don't vote. Now ruin along and find some clothes for your wife you wont be turned away from resturants anymore

Posted: 2/29/08 at 7:00pm

I, of course, blame Hilary Clinton.

But seriously, would you care to argue any of his points? Do you want to make a case that parents should be dumber fatter and give their kids fried chicken for Breakfast? Please, be my guest.

[george95]

Posted: 2/29/08 at 7:01pm

Normally we only hear this kind of stuff from Bill Cosby. I wish Al Sharpton would take more issues like this.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 2/29/08 at 7:05pm

i can't wait until he saves our souls. i hear he'll also make us all thin and pretty.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 2/29/08 at 7:08pm

Updated On: 1/24/09 at 07:08 PM

Posted: 2/29/08 at 7:13pm

When reached for comment, John McCain said "What the hell is Popeye's Chicken? Popeye eats spinach, for Christ's sake. What the hell is wrong with spinach. I ate spinach, Reagan ate Spinach, Iraq Hussein Osama is too good to eat spinach, is he?"

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/29/08 at 11:01pm

"Do you want to make a case that parents should be dumber fatter and give their kids fried chicken for Breakfast?"

I don't think it's dumber, just naive. It's a learned behavior that's been taught through the generations. I have seen several people in the South (both black and white) serve fried chicken for breakfast. I had a great-great aunt that did it. (She lived to be 93 and slept with a Colt 45 under her pillow until she was carried out in a pine box). I don't agree with it, but it used to be rather customary on farms in the Old South to serve fried chicken at breakfast. Something about making sure the farm people had enough energy to do the harvesting. Plus chicken was cheap back then.

"Normally we only hear this kind of stuff from Bill Cosby."

And Bill Cosby has taken a lot of heat for trying to get blacks to conform to "whitey's" way of living. He's told them to get an education and he's been mocked. He's told them to quit being absentee fathers. He's told them to stop using ghetto slang and have more respect for women. But they just keeping mocking him.

Posted: 3/1/08 at 12:07am

Well then let's hope your candidate complains that not enough people eat fried chicken for brekfast and urge people to sleep with guns under their pillows. Then the American people will have a REAL choice.