Nascar Fans should be better than this!

[scooterbug44]

This kind of disrespectful behavior is not just limited to NASCAR fans. We see it happening all over.

 

[Bob]

Nascar will one day go the way of bullfighting. Racial prejudice in the South will die a far slower death.

 

[Will B]

Doubtful...

You're talking about a multi-billion dollar enterprise that attracts more Fortune 500 money than any other sport or entertainment property in America.

Look up the demographics of NASCAR. I think you will be really surprised.

 

[LuciferSam]

I sure don't get why they're booing the wives of the President and VP. I could understand if it were the president. I don't think the liberal crowd had it in for Laura Bush, so I don't see what's up with booing Michele. I don't think she's that divisive. She tells people to eat right. Is that such a big deal? Maybe so amongst the Pabst drinking pigs feet eaters. I dunno...

 

[Will B]

LOL!

She tells people to eat right and, then, goes out and gets photographed eating total crap. Has happened several times.

I think it's silly that they got booed, but they were being viewed as extensions of the husbands which isn't necessarily fair. It was a good cause that they are working for.

 

[LuciferSam]

We all eat total crap once in a while. I don't think she's trying to make healthy eating into a religion and I see no hypocrisy whatsoever. Some people read too much into it, as if someone is trying to control their lives by making reasonable suggestions, which of course they are free to ignore at their discretion. Let's face it, some of those on the right, want to turn everything into one absurd conspiracy theory after another. They didn't get their way in the last election, so they scream, kick, and throw out childish barbs at every opportunity. In the meantime, the right has absolutely NOTHING to offer in the way of a viable candidate. That's what I would be upset about.

 

[Em]

Even President Obama was getting heckled the same day in N.H. by a bunch of "Occupiers" so it isn't just NASCAR fans.

 

[LuciferSam]

Even President Obama was getting heckled the same day in N.H. by a bunch of "Occupiers" so it isn't just NASCAR fans.

Actually, some of the Occupy Charlotte people are big into NASCAR, so Will is certainly right about the unpredictable demographics. Anyhow, like I said, razzing the President, any President, is understandable. The first lady, not so much, unless you sense that maybe she has political aspirations like when Hillary was first lady. Then I think she's fair game. I can't put Michelle in that category, and I know nothing about Jill Biden.

 

[Em]

They may as well have been at a Tea Party sponsored by Budweiser. They knew they were not on home soil at a NASCAR race. They are essentially politickin' for their spouses. You don't honestly think a man isn't heavily influenced by his spouse, do you? They may not look like they are politickin', but why else would they be there to give the Start Your Engines cue? If they weren't First Lady and Mrs. Vice President, they would not have been at the race.

 

[sunspotbaby]

I just went to a NASCAR race and i can tell ya the faces in the grandstands are many different colors. The Obamas have now met the 'bitter clingers' they labeled.