In discussing politics with family and friends, I became painfully aware that the Republican rumor/smear campaign is working.
A family member stated with all seriousness that he has heard and believes Barack Obama is a Muslim and was trained in a Muslim (terrorist) school.
I have already reported that union leaders are sounding the alarm that their union members are having trouble voting for a black man and now we add rumors that he is a closet Muslim terrorist.
It is easy to lose one’s temper upon hearing such nonsense and deride the person believing such nonsense as stupid, dim-witted and brainless but these people have a vote and they will vote what they believe or made to believe so we need to cool our emotions and try to confront the false rumors with actual facts that may or may not convince the people who like the rumors and prefer to believe in them even when shown to be false.
One very helpful website called: snopes.com actually tries to prove rumors, all rumors, especially the ones circulating on-line, either false, true or cannot be verified.
They have a whole page devoted to the Obama rumors especially the ones about him being Muslim and a terrorist.
Many rumors start with a grain of truth and then distort it. Yes, Obama’s father was born in Kenya and was raised a Muslim. By the time he married Obama’s mother, he was a declared atheist (non-practicing Muslim?). Anyway, he left the family when Obama was two (2) so not much influence there at all.
Obama’s mother married a Indonesian engineer and they did go to the Indonesia as a family. Here, young Barack attended first a Catholic school and then a Indonesian public school that because most Indonesians were Muslims can also be called a Muslim school. Still at a young age, Barack was sent back to the States to live with his grandmother and attend an American public school.
Barack Obama has been vetted by the media for a very long time now; if there was something to find, they would have found it by now so all we have left is rumors aimed to derail Obama with people that are eager to believe those types of rumors.
These people are closet racists (cause its not polite to be a racist anymore) and they are people that believe the U.S. is and always will be, Christian and white so Islam is a terrorist religion and that is that.
We can dispel rumors all we want but we need to convince these people (if possible) that McCain and Palin are actually not as good for our country as Obama and Biden are and that McCain’s people are trying to mislead you.
A family member stated with all seriousness that he has heard and believes Barack Obama is a Muslim and was trained in a Muslim (terrorist) school.
I have already reported that union leaders are sounding the alarm that their union members are having trouble voting for a black man and now we add rumors that he is a closet Muslim terrorist.
It is easy to lose one’s temper upon hearing such nonsense and deride the person believing such nonsense as stupid, dim-witted and brainless but these people have a vote and they will vote what they believe or made to believe so we need to cool our emotions and try to confront the false rumors with actual facts that may or may not convince the people who like the rumors and prefer to believe in them even when shown to be false.
One very helpful website called: snopes.com actually tries to prove rumors, all rumors, especially the ones circulating on-line, either false, true or cannot be verified.
They have a whole page devoted to the Obama rumors especially the ones about him being Muslim and a terrorist.
Many rumors start with a grain of truth and then distort it. Yes, Obama’s father was born in Kenya and was raised a Muslim. By the time he married Obama’s mother, he was a declared atheist (non-practicing Muslim?). Anyway, he left the family when Obama was two (2) so not much influence there at all.
Obama’s mother married a Indonesian engineer and they did go to the Indonesia as a family. Here, young Barack attended first a Catholic school and then a Indonesian public school that because most Indonesians were Muslims can also be called a Muslim school. Still at a young age, Barack was sent back to the States to live with his grandmother and attend an American public school.
Barack Obama has been vetted by the media for a very long time now; if there was something to find, they would have found it by now so all we have left is rumors aimed to derail Obama with people that are eager to believe those types of rumors.
These people are closet racists (cause its not polite to be a racist anymore) and they are people that believe the U.S. is and always will be, Christian and white so Islam is a terrorist religion and that is that.
We can dispel rumors all we want but we need to convince these people (if possible) that McCain and Palin are actually not as good for our country as Obama and Biden are and that McCain’s people are trying to mislead you.
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