On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:52:26PM -0500, Gadi Evron wrote:
> My mother told me authoritatively about Obama from what she saw in the
> news...
> and read in a spam message.
I have been working on voter registration etc. for most of this year,
and have done a sizable amount of door-to-door canvassing.
I have been solemnly assured that:
- he's a terrorist (I think we can retire that word now)
- he was a co-conspirator with Ayers (he was 8 years old, see also
letter from William Ibershof, the guy who *prosecuted* the
Weathermen case, in the NYT, pointing out how stupid this is)
- he's an Arab (as if this was a bad thing)
- he's a Muslim (as if this was a bad thing)
- he's black (as if this was a bad thing)
- he's half-black (as if this was a bad thing)
- he's half-white (as if this was a bad thing)
- he will fully legalize all forms of abortion (I wish, but unlikely)
- he will take away all the guns (I wish, but unlikely)
- he will hand over the country to Iraq, Iran, or France
- he's behind voting fraud (he's not, and ACORN's problems appear
to be with voter REGISTRATION fraud, not voting fraud --
these are quite different issues)
- he has some unspecified hidden medical problem (maybe it's an
alien that's gonna hatch from his stomach)
- he's a Manchurian candidate who will sell us out to North Korea
(movie plots, woo-hoo!)
- he's a traitor (I do not think that word means what you think
it means, says Inigo Montoya)
- he's not the father of his children (right, see alien theory above)
- he's been communicating in secret hand signal code (ah, yes,
the "terrorist fist bump")
- he's not a patriot (as if a flag pin counted for more than
upholding and defending The Constitution)
- his law school papers were ghostwritten (right, because the
man is clearly unable to speak or write in cogent prose)
- he will destroy the economy (too late, already done)
- he will cripple the military (too late, already done)
- he will damage our reputation worldwide (too late, already done)
- he will spend money foolishly (too late, already done)
I have expended far too much time attempting to refute this nonsense, and
have finally learned to accept the proverb "Some ignorance is invincible".
---Rsk
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