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Like others here, I have gotten those stupid right wing chain mails over the years, and I have already gotten some about Obama. I used to cheerfully click them into oblivion as just another frequency of... well, you could call it Red Noise in this case, on the Internet. It was all fun 'n games around the virtual watercooler, but when I saw Bush rising to power I started writing responses and hitting the Reply All button. I'd always muster facts and logical support for my views, then finish with a challenge to anyone reading them to refute anything I said. In the @8 years I've done this I've gotten 3 tepid single sentence responses- 2 of them basically saying that they kinda agreed with me. Yet the shit keeps coming, and it ain't pretty. From this, as well as from the fact these neanderthaloids got their chimp in the White House, I have to reach the same conclusion as others have here: there are a lot of supremely stupid and belligerent people in this country who believe anything they want who are so immune to facts and logic that they cannot see that the people they vote for are the ones that abuse them the most. I'd almost pity them except that they get to vote, so they afflict their stupidity on the rest of us.
It was suggested we use the same tactics against McCain. Sad to say, it wouldn't work even if anyone was willing to do this- and I for one am not. As Bush was rising in 2000 I'd see him and hear him speak and think "no-one'll vote for him- he's obviously retarded." Silly me- they voted for him not in spite of, but because he's a belligerent dummy. Hey- he's one of us! Most of you reading this might view McCain's bellicose talk, self-admitted lack of knowledge about foriegn policy coupled with an eagerness to go to war, and rages as deficits- but this is so much country music to Bubba and his drunk friends down at the bar.
One last obvious thought here: I will be sooooo happy when a person's religion is no longer an issue. It shouldn't matter whether a person is a Christian, a Muslim, or an atheist- as long as they have good policies and have whatever it takes to get the people behind them to get them implemented. That Obama has to "prove" he's a Christian is as good an example as any of the stupidity I just went off about above.
