4um: Poll: One out of Five Americans Do Not Believe Obama Exists

Title: Poll: One out of Five Americans Do Not Believe Obama Exists
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Published: Aug 23, 2010
Author: Andy Borowitz
Post Date: 2010-08-23 11:24:49 by wudidiz
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‘Existers’ Movement Gathers Steam

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In what might be the most serious challenge to Barack Obama’s legitimacy as President, a new poll shows that one out of five Americans are not convinced that Mr. Obama exists.

The poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, reveals that 23 percent of those surveyed “strongly agreed” with the statement, “I believe that Barack Obama’s birth was faked, just like the moon landing.”

The poll results coincide with the recent rise of the so-called “Exister” movement, a group who believes that Mr. Obama is an optical illusion created by the Democratic Party to raise taxes and bail out banks.

“The Birthers say that Obama’s lack of a birth certificate means he was born in Kenya,” says Jerrilene Rance, a leading Exister. “We believe it’s proof that he was never born.”

Ms. Rance says that while President George W. Bush was criticized for disappearing every August, “Obama is never there to begin with.”

Appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) made comments about Mr. Obama’s existence that only stoked the controversy.

“I’ve spoken to him face-to-face, and I take him at his word that he exists,” he said. “Unless of course I was talking to a hologram.”

At the White House, spokesman Robert Gibbs brushed aside a question about the President’s existence, saying that Mr. Obama had “no comment.”

Exister leader Jerrilene Rance offered this response: “The reason he has no comment is that he has no mouth.”

The new poll on is-he-a-Muslim showed that before his GZMosque comments, only 18% thought he was Muslim. After he speechified on Muslim property rights, now 24% think he's a Muslim.

Yeah, I can see they are very confident in their abilities to keep the sheep in the fold.

But the manned moon landings were indeed fake, so fake that they forgot to turn all the external microphones off on the set which let the world hear a paper bag being ruffled on the "moon." And you just don't lose high quality video footage of the Apollo missions without making any copies of it just because you wanted to save money and tape over it, that explanation is absurd and an insult to every American's intelligence level. Americans might be dumbed down, but I doubt they are quite that dumb yet.