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NASCAR Fans Boo Michelle Obama During Event Honoring Troops

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NASCAR fans booed Michelle Obama and Jill Biden at the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday.

Both the first lady and the vice president’s wife were there to honor military troops and their families and to call attention to companies who have made commitments to hire and train veterans and military spouses.

The Associated Press reports that drivers gave the duo a standing ovation during a pre-race meeting.

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  • EmperorThan
    • +1
      EmperorThan  
    • I thought it said Michelle Bachmann in the headline and was shocked then I was like "oh... right, thoughtless retard rednecks, nevermind."

    • 1 year ago
  • GefilteFish
  • Shannon_Barber
    • +2
      Shannon_Barber  
    • There is simply no excuse for this. This shows just how disrespectful, classless, and racist-yes RACIST- these people are. And we won't even go into Limbaugh's comment about the First Lady. Despicable.

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
    • -6
      Paratus  
    • Heard a broadcast of this yesterday. Got a good laugh out of it. I guess the same people Obummer has treated with contempt decided to play some back. There are consequences to throwing rocks at the ignorant red-necks in flyover country who cling to their guns and religion. I wonder if Michelle is still finally proud of her country.
      I would not have booed Jill Biden. Being married to Joe the Jester is enough of a cross to bear. My condolences to her.

    • 1 year ago
  • infiniteblackbox
  • Paratus
    • -3
      Paratus  
    • infiniteblackbox:

      infiniteblackbox!. I thiught I recognized you! How have you been! I see you still have not received any treatment for the rectal opticalitis.

      Unfortunately Jill probably would have been vicariously booed. It is an unfair world and it would pain me, after all, we cannot hold her responsible for Joe being a complete idiot and court Jester. But, as I am sure you realize from the enlightenment you are receiving from your transverse colon, if you lie down with dogs you will get up with fleas.
      Happy thanksgiving. Give my regards to your cecum.

    • 1 year ago
  • infiniteblackbox
  • Shannon_Barber
  • SchmaltzMaven
  • Paratus
  • Paratus
  • Paratus
  • corderodedios
    • corderodedios  
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  • EdJoyProductions
  • Hardytoo
  • aladdinledlights
  • Varex_Sythe
    • +3
      Varex_Sythe  
    • Don' geet in beteen a NASCAR fan en 'is spart fo any damn reson or you has a bunch'a angy red nex on ya han's.

      DISCLAIMER:
      This is in no way, shape, or form meant to be a generalizing statement against all people who watch and enjoy NASCAR, unless all people who watch and enjoy NASCAR are the kind of people who boo a first and vice first lady for trying to honor our troops. Since I am aware that not all NASCAR fans are of this quality of character, I feel that my statement, though made in jest, should not be taken as a sweeping and factual statement.

    • 1 year ago
  • FoosMaster
    • +2
      FoosMaster  
    • Yes there are Many NASCAR fans that would do that but they are just the Loud minority and Most fans would Not participate in that. They are just the Loud ones who are proud of being “Red Necks” and they give NASCAR a bad name in liberal areas. Even here in Charlotte, NC the Majority of people would consider that kind of action to be as Deplorable as any normal citizen would. Don’t judge a sport by the Loudest Minority.

    • 1 year ago
  • infiniteblackbox
  • infiniteblackbox
    • +5
      infiniteblackbox  
    • Wake up people!
      This has NOTHING to do with political affiliation.
      The boos were based on race and race alone.
      If it had been a white dem. 1st lady there would NOT have been any boo's.
      I guess we are just going to keep ignoring racism in America.
      I live in the DEEP south and there is still rampant racism here it just ignored.
      And not all whites down here are racist either.
      My son in law is black and I have a black grand son.
      And i mean for all intensive purposes he is black.
      And when I take him for the weekend and we go to the park i get racist remarks from whites and even a few blacks.
      Not all Nascar fans are this narrow minded but the ones that are are scary and hateful inbreds on par with that creepy due from Deliverance.

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
  • infiniteblackbox
    • +1
      infiniteblackbox  
    • Image
    • Paratus:

      lol

      they were introduced at the same time!

      you are the perfect example of what i am talking about you fool.
      see and hear what ever you want to so it will fit in your little warped bubble.

    • 1 year ago
  • grammabet
    • +2
      grammabet  
    • I used to work for a doctor from Delaware.Some company he owned always had a car racing at Dover Downs.He wanted me to go with him and his family.No thanks Doc,too many rebel flags for granny."you'll be sitting with me and my family"I can't miss anything I've never experienced,my response.Wonderful family.living in Florida now.

    • 1 year ago
  • PepeLepew
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • infiniteblackbox
  • Joeydee44
  • GRC54
    • +1
      GRC54  
    • Shameful and disgusting. This is what happens when guns God and gays are the only topics you learn in school.
      Don't like NASCAR would rather watch a real race like the Grand Prix. That's real racing that NASCAR cannot duplicate.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThirdSection
  • infiniteblackbox
  • Dusty_King
    • +6
      Dusty_King  
    • Filthy, disgusting and disrespectful don't come close to the hateful behavior of these yahoos who barely got out of high school. This country has turned a corner that is the exact opposite of what our founding fathers started and imagined.

      Shameful fools.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThirdSection
  • Cruzankenny
  • Cruzankenny
  • ThirdSection
  • Joeydee44
  • DEM46
    • +3
      DEM46  
    • Boorish behavior from inbred idiots that see nothing wrong with disrespect.

      Sad that we've devolved this much within even this part of our society.

    • 1 year ago
  • Misti
  • Dusty_King
    • +3
      Dusty_King  
    • Misti:

      I'm sure she has personally, but manners and society dictates that the American Public not disrespect the First and Second Lady of the United States.

      This is a stain that will not be removed from our history.

    • 1 year ago
  • Cruzankenny
    • +1
      Cruzankenny  
    • Remember when they booed Kathy Gifford while she sang the National Anthem. That was in Florida as well. Maybe it's something in the water?

    • 1 year ago
  • Arizona_Huey
    • +4
      Arizona_Huey  
    • Who would have though there would be any issues with Michelle Obama and a crowd that has its vast majority in the "beered up rednecks" category. I'm guessing she wasn't all that happy when she got her itinerary and saw she was attending said event.

    • 1 year ago
  • infiniteblackbox
  • grammabet
    • +2
      grammabet  
    • infiniteblackbox:

      George W would have been welcomed with opened arms and a lot of tire spinning,doing wheelies.It's the nature of the beast.Who set that visit up?.The whole NASCAR team rejected Obamas visit to the white house.You can't legislate love.

    • 1 year ago
  • SFirman
  • WagonMaster
  • Johnny_Los_Angeles
  • infiniteblackbox
  • Johnny_Los_Angeles
  • infiniteblackbox
    • +7
      infiniteblackbox  
    • Johnny_Los_Angeles:

      well with all of your GOP bashing you do not seem to be a conservative.
      so you are either a liberal or you just hate the whole world?

      being from los angles i can see how you could become a myopic hater.
      probably a gangbangin crack head also.
      isnt everybody from L.A. crack addict and a gang member?

      see what i did there?

    • 1 year ago
  • Dusty_King
    • +3
      Dusty_King  
    • Johnny_Los_Angeles:

      Not all of it or members of the South, as a native New Orleanian I was brought up to respect people and their titles until they gave me reason not to. The First and Second Ladies should be afforded the respect they deserve no matter if you hate the President.

      The same manners applied when Laura Bush was the First Lady. Despite my hate for
      G. W. Bush, I would never show such disrespect to her, she doesn't deserve my projection of dislike to her.

      Just an FYI I've lived in LA for 15 years and San Francisco for 10 years before that, so I am a Southerner, but lived my adult life in California.(disclaimer)

    • 1 year ago
  • Dusty_King
  • jimstoner
    • +1
      jimstoner  
    • Johnny_Los_Angeles:

      They are right Johnny. We should not think that everybody in the south would approve of such conduct, any more than someone should paint the entire O.W.S. movement with one brush. But I would just bet you a shiny new dime, if she was a Republican First Lady, being booed at a ball game in Minnesota, we would never hear the end of it from the right.

    • 1 year ago
  • infiniteblackbox
  • jimstoner
  • Joeydee44
    • +5
      Joeydee44  
    • There are bad apples everywhere. I watched the race and didn't hear any booing. It's not right to write off a whole faction of people just become of a few assholes. It's just too convenient to stereotype a faction of people and dismiss them as a whole. I am a NASCAR fan, I support Obama, and I'm certainly not a "redneck".

    • 1 year ago
  • crabbyoldguy
    • +1
      crabbyoldguy  
    • Let's see, we have the NFL, MLB, NBA, USL, NHL, NASCAR, and other diversions and I'm damn tired of all the riots and destruction that those toothless rednecks incite.
      It's seems that everytime one of them rednecks wins a race the fans go out and raise hell causing a drain on our social services(police, medical,property damage).

      Those damn NASCAR people need to act more like the OWS people, sitting quietly holding their signs.

      Them NASCAR folks are just a big bunch of hip no criters trying to tarnish a fine photo op for Mrs. Obama and Biden, they need to be instructed to look and act dignified, simular to the instruction the military people recieve when Mr. Obama uses them for the backdrop for one of his speeches. Damn rednecks.

    • 1 year ago
  • mybologna
  • Incredulous
  • infiniteblackbox
  • Cruzankenny
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
  • Cruzankenny
  • Incredulous
  • Earl_Dixon
  • Agent_Alpha
  • Earl_Dixon
  • JangoFetish
  • Earl_Dixon
    • +7
      Earl_Dixon  
    • Not sure who planned this event but everyone at this point should know those NASCAR folks are not tolerant of change. The NASCAR crowds are entertained by cars driving in circles so is anyone really surprised?

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
    • +6
      JanforGore  
    • Personally, I don't care and actually couldn't really hear it. And please, respect for the "office?" Where is the "office's" respect for us? Our people are being pepper sprayed and beaten in the streets and neither Obama nor his wife say anything. She goes to a NASCAR race to get a campaign photo op. Our people protest outside the White House to entreat him to not continue his bowing down to the oil lobby, and he goes golfing. Respect?. Guess what: BOOOO.

      I have no respect for what has been done to the "office" by any of them. We wouldn't need to send our young people to die in THEIR wars in the first place if it weren't for the rich in this country who think we all serve them. And if it were Bush you can bet your a** I would have booed him and his wife. And please don't tell me you wouldn't have.

      But of course, this is the most important thing happening in the world and certainly the most important thing posted on Current. Some drunken yahoos at a Nascar race boo Michelle Obama. I am absolutely shocked ... why, this is much more horrendous than Indian farmers committing suicide in the hundreds of thousands in desperation due to the evil inhumane practices of Monsanto, which Michelle Obama's husband supports poisoning our food while they eat from an organic garden off their lawn. Respect? This is way more heartrendering than an activist being beaten and hacked to death because she dared to stand up to coal companies. Or the activists in the Amazon just recently shot to death for standing up for the Amazon rainforest. And much more tragic than the thousands who have already died in climate related disasters as the major scientifc organizations of the world predict that it will only get worse, because we are too distracted with non news like this.

      But oh yes, by far a few yahoos booing Michelle Obama is a truly heinous act. Or, maybe they weren't yahoos.... maybe they were Americans exercising their frustration? Oh, and please pardon my honesty. I just think a little perspective is in order in this world because it is going off the rails.

    • 1 year ago
  • infiniteblackbox
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
  • Dusty_King
  • jimstoner
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • Dusty_King:

      I'm not attacking anyone. I'm stating facts. And my stating those facts does nothing to diminish the disdain I feel for others in this government based on principle and not just party.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • warman1138
    • +3
      warman1138  
    • Mass amounts of nicotine and alcohol and dental ignorance, putting stickers on cars while watching other cars traveling at 200mph in a circle waiting for an accident on a hot day.....weird.....sort of like the movie Idiocracy.

    • 1 year ago
  • chew_chew
    • +2
      chew_chew  
    • If they want to boo, it is their right.

      Having said that, I find it more than a little ironic they boo the Commander-in-chief's spouse who is there to support the troops, while the place is full of military personnel.

      :::sarcasm on::: What a great way (the boos) to "support" the troops. :::sarcasm off:::

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
    • +4
      Leen61  
    • Always show their classiness, don’t they? They never fail to show the boorishness that is a part of NASCAR world. NASCAR=Redneck Olympics.

    • 1 year ago
  • savroD
  • GENERALNATTY
  • Paratus
    • -17
      Paratus  
    • GENERALNATTY:

      Respect for the office huh. Didn't see much of this with the previous administration. A new low was set by the opposition at that time.
      "Respect" went out the window when her hubby referred to a Navy Corpsman with the pronunciation of "corpseman". Actually it really isn't the office but the occupant. He has done ti to himself.

    • 1 year ago
  • TaGgInUrBlOcKuP
  • GENERALNATTY
  • EdJoyProductions
  • tverdell
  • cmc101
  • ThirdSection
  • notsure
    • +9
      notsure  
    • Image
    • A BROOM? The "Support Our Troops" Banner is Zip-Tied to a Broom. Classy Bunch Of Sleeveless Fried Food Eating Mouth Breathers.

    • 1 year ago
  • EdJoyProductions
    • +12
      EdJoyProductions  
    • And for some reason a civil and respectful response was expected from NASCAR fans? Really? Go to the parking lot of a NASCAR event and talk to some of these yahoos. They are not all bad, but some of them are over the top stupid. Racism is a prevalent trait of the very stupid. Also being a republican.

    • 1 year ago
  • budsnews
  • Anonmaly
    • +3
      Anonmaly  
    • Well with the military industrial complex being the top 0.01%....

      While congress is debating the "vegetable" content of a fruit paste in our school lunches in an effort to save money.... (such insanity not seen since Reagan.....) Probably because they want to increase military spending no less....

      Yeah the majority of these folks just don't like Obama. Which really sucks because they take from those who have LEGITIMATE complaints.

      Still waiting for Obama to put the screws to the mountain-top coal removal companies (which was a campaign promise)...

      Still waiting for GITMO to be closed as per campaign promise...

      Waiting for him to at the very least decriminalize marijuana and hemp, an issue that's been all but thrown at (and in some regards has) him several times...

      On second thought, maybe they're just weed fans...

    • 1 year ago
  • cmc101
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
    • +1
      TanzaniteDiamonds  
    • Boooed? Isn't this a bit over-hyped by the media?

      Anyone who knows my comments knows I'm always very supportive of First Lady Michelle Obama, but I did not hear any MAJOR booing of the First Lady.

      I admit I didn't hear any loud cheering, but to make it sound like she was really BOOED is an exaggeration.

      And, before you tell me I'm deaf, please don't. I'm hyper-acoustic, so I hear very well.

    • 1 year ago
  • BlobbyProtozoa
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
  • RobertJordan
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
    • +1
      TanzaniteDiamonds  
    • RobertJordan:

      Point well taken. I also understand how people could be offended by it. (I could have never booed if I was in the crowd, myself.)

      I'm just emphasizing that until I actually listened to the videos, what I heard wasn't nearly as bad as it was portrayed in the stories reported on this incident along with the posters' reactions to this story.

    • 1 year ago
  • snoskier
    • +3
      snoskier  
    • TanzaniteDiamonds:

      I agree. This lack of respect troubles me, and these same hypocrites would scream loudly if it was their political party. Disagree with the leader's policies, but respect the office, and the first lady.

    • 1 year ago
  • TanzaniteDiamonds
  • cmc101
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