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Not what I want to see when I arrive here in the morning, the latter part of the headline doesn't diminish the assault of the first. And I'm from the "so what if he is" camp, but I've heard enough from the "sound bite fed" camp to understand that these folks aren't going to try to get at the truth because it's work to do so. Obama's efforts to fight the smears, while maybe a necessary response, is nonetheless a sad thing. The people I've talked to aren't interested in countering their misinformation with facts, they're a little uncomfortable and unwilling to bring that into focus. And they are not uneducated people, maybe just complacent?
So fight the smears will be like snopes for those of us who do respond to the rascist emails. Easy information. Shrugs on the other end.
I was stunned by the reply I received to my reply to the sender of one of those mass rascist emails. She said it was sent to her by her church & she was just forwarding as instructed at the bottom! Too much. How do you reach that mindlessness?
I believe I could guess the outcome of the vote were we the people allowed to vote on whether swearing in was conducted with hand on the holy bible or hand on the sacred constitution.
Still, it'd be another exciting exercise.
