I love seeing interviews with actual regular people. (I doubt that Americans are any more stupid than anyone else though -- this is just how people are) - Paul Buchheit

wow.... - Tobias Boonstoppel

This helps me understand WV much better. I'm sure he had interviews with people who had rational positions though -- too bad he left those out. - Adam Thorsen

COFFEEHOUSE WOMAN: I just don't believe coffee should be black. INTERVIEWER: What about your coffee? WOMAN: My coffee -- this is a latte, it's not black. INTERVIEWER: Well, Obama is half black. He's like your latte. WOMAN: My coffee is not *Muslim.* INTERVIEWER: Those are Arabica beans. You're drinking a Muslim, half-black beverage. WOMAN: I... I'm drinking... [woman vomits explosively] - Karim

Americans, are, like, this? Eww. - Yuvi

Also, the tags on that video are funny. - Yuvi

I had to stop watching it after the second people. I know people are like this but it's too painful to watch. - Brandon Titus

*big sigh* hard to credibly go tell the rest of the world what's right when stuff like this exists on your own turf. - Dan Hsiao

*sigh* indeed. Years ago when I lived in New Jersey, a colleague of mine justified going to war with Iraq with the eventual statement "Because the world owes us." *sigh*. I wonder how many of the voters in West Virginia feel that way. After all, we're only seeing a few people. I'd hate to walk away from this with a misapprehension of West Virginia. - Robert Konigsberg

Karim++ - Robert Konigsberg

According to the tags there should have been sexy whores with boobs. FAIL. - Internet's Tad

No sexy whores, but quite a few boobs. - Neil Kandalgaonkar

@dan why would you want to go tell the rest of the world what's right? why would you think you are qualified or entitled to do so? - ana

ana++ - Ole Begemann

Some Americans ARE stupid. - Mohamed J

Some ? oh ok .will grant that ! I was veering towards most ... - viki saigal

I applaud the American people for seriously considering a black president. Try that in Austria - he wouldn't get even 10% of the votes. Then again, Austria has no long history of black people. If Hillary would drop out of the race which she won't be able to win anyway, she could work in these states _with_ Obama to overcome these prejudgments. This would do this country more favor than anything else she can do right now. - sebmos

@ana: i was being sarcastic. to be explicit—the U.S. has a tendency to go and tell everyone else what is "right", but there are plenty of problems at home that, as you mentioned, really make one wonder why we think we're so qualified to do so. - Dan Hsiao

It is ironic that the Clintons made $105M in recent years, but HRC appeals to poor white people. Would it be more accurate to say that HRC appeals to white racists? - Mike Reynolds

Unbelievable. The white people in that town sounded completely retarded. The black people there sounded smart and socially aware. The thing with me is that I wasn't race-aware before I came to the States. I didn't know the difference between black and white (and I'm white). The US, the supposed "seat of freedom", taught me what racism meant. - Raoul Pop

@Raoul: I agree. I was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the US when I was 10. One of my first experiences with discrimination was when my 4th grade teacher (white, male) told me to go back where I came from. - April Buchheit

@Raoul: judging by your name, I take it you're Romanian, which means you must have observed at least some form of discrimination (and hate) against the Roma people (aka gypsies); or am I wrong? - Tudor Bosman

Yeah, the tags were the first thing that sprung in my eye. It's not just Americans, though. It's most people of most nations who have - shall we say: a limited horizon. I'll leave it at that. - Alex von Halem

I just hope that not all americans are like this...amen - Varun Mahajan

in response to Varun ... no not all Americans are ... trust me .. it's just that the real stupid ones get the most airtime .. unforutnately - John Blanton from twhirl

Varun, not even close to all Americans. Remember, normal is "boring"... the media looks to sensationalize. We have our fair share of idiots, but what country doesn't? - Vince DeGeorge

"Remember, normal is 'boring'... the media looks to sensationalize." I wanted to follow up on this and contacted the creator of the video, Matthew Palevsky of The Real News. He says: "On version of the video that we have posted at www.therealnews.com, I left out only five of the total conducted interviews. Two of these were interviews with black, Obama supporting men who largely repeated what Stanley and Brenda had said, but in garbled sentences and with less authority. One of the other interviews was with a woman who was so overtly racist that my senior editor felt was heavy handed and unnecessary to include. The remaining two interviews were with Clinton supporters who had very little of anything to say and couldn't provide a decent reason why they were voting for Clinton--not even the de facto nod to her wealth of experience." - Philipp Lenssen

Remember, racism is not inherent, it is a learned behavior. Obama as President would most definitely not change a racist no more than Clinton as President would change a sexist. That said, he would be a beacon of hope for black people the world over (although the same might be said for Clinton giving hope to women in the same way). This era -- the past few centuries -- is jut not a particularly good time to be black, but some of us like it anyways. :) - David Adewumi

I think the one important thing that might have been overlooked by the sensationalism of this video (and perhaps I'm being overly glass 1/2 full) is that yes, these very conservative West Virginians are allowing race to color their opinion of who should be president (unsurprising), but we shouldn't forget that these selfsame conservative West Virginians are also willing to accept the possibility of a woman president (very surprising). To me, this actually a hint of progress - Jini

I agree with @Raoul some of those people were unbelievably racist. The President does indeed have to been born in the US and not naturalised (it came up in my citiznsip exam yesterday) yet they couldn't process that Obama was as American as they were. The country was founded by the Pilgrim Fathers who fled to America to gain religious freedom and people have a problem with him being black and muslim? It beggars belief and is very un-American compared to what the Constitution actually stands for - freedom of speecha nd freedom of religion. - Sally Church from Alert Thingy

@Jini Very conservative Democrats? - Shey, Jamaican of FF

This is more then just painful to watch. Its sad and disheartening. - Greg

@Sally, as a first generation American, I'll tell you from my personal experiences, many people would consider me fully American (black, un-accented English, albeit a funny last name) but not my parents, who are naturalized citizens, and speak accented English. The country was also founded by gold-seekers in Virginia who did not mix well with the natives. There are two distinct founding ideologies in the United States, and both are alive and kicking to this day. - David Adewumi