SO WAS HE ATTRACTED BY THE “HOPE,” OR THE “CHANGE?” “South Park” Jihadi Was ’08 Obama Volunteer. “The radicalized knucklehead convicted of threatening the lives of the ‘South Park’ creators signed up as a volunteer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, but by the time Election Day arrived he had concluded it would be a violation of Islamic law to vote in the U.S. election, according to court records.”