I would like to focus on three here--two which are piping hot and in the news right now, and another another one that's nearly a decade old now but keeps growing. The fact that any rational person could actually believe any contain even a morsel of truth is, well....really weird.
- "Birthers"--Discussed in an earlier blog post on this page, these largely innately racist white Americans just can't accept the fact that a black man is their Commander in Chief--it's too much of a shock to them. To fight this bitter reality they have signed on to the birther movement which espouses the completely, 100% debunked theory that President Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia or something and therefore was illegitimately elected, and is not really the president. Well ok then...
- "Deathers"--Perhaps an even more bizarre lot are the new "Deathers". In a desperate effort to halt American health care reform, right wing lunatic groups are spreading the rumor that under Obama's plan, old people will be forcibly euthanized by the government. Makes complete sense to me!
- "Truthers"--These are the folks who believe September 11 was a government engineered plot--either by the American government or the Israeli government or both. They point to how the buildings collapsed, the types of people who were present in the buildings at the time of the events, etc. as proof positive that it was all pre-planned by 'those in the know'. Sign me up!
The cold truth is that dumb, uneducated people are most likely to fall for these absurd notions hook, line, and sinker.
Unfortunately, we can these days never underestimate the power of the American people to, well, be really dumb....Around 62 million people voted for George W. Bush's reelection in 2004.
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Yes it is a really weird time to be alive. Who would have thought we could ever sit here and post things in SECONDS (not to mention everything else possible) via this incredible invention that those pot smoking young men who were victims of free enterprise came up with... plus all kinds of computer everything else?!!? Wow. Just boggles the mind does it not? (did you catch all of that?...you know how dumb uneducated people are....since you seem to have first hand experience).
A quote by Angela Lash : "Political myopia is dangerous. Everyone should read the 5,000 Year Leap; the Constitution Rules."
Angela is a member of the following:
Oath Keepers, National Rifle Association of America (NRA) -- Official Group, Better Government Association, Better Government Association, Thomas Sowell, Fair Tax March on Washington 12 Sept 2009, Tea Party Patriots , Morticians for National Health Care , 912Candidates.org, Sons & Daughters of Liberty, I Support Sarah Palin, TOTUS, " LAST OF THE SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL " CONNECT, The Conservative Monster, Republican Party Animals - The Drinking, Smoking, Cussing Wing of the GOP, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama, & Harry Reid MUST GO!, Friends of JoJo Von Trapp!, Political News and Views- The Lame Stream, State Run Media Won't Show you!, Supporters of the Second Amendment, Thank you President Bush!, Americans for Sarah Palin, Alarm & Muster, Conservative for Change, Political Pink Slip, The Atheneum Society, Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam, CONSERVATIVE!!!!!, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Fan Club, Conservative Solutions /Let's Get This Right, SILENT NO LONGER
Oh...me too.
Please don't think your childish jr. high postings intimidate us.
I have some homework for you (and expect you to be honest of course). How many people did NOT vote for Obama?
From your lunatic, radical, uneducated, dumb, right wing, Clinton-Bush hating, Rush-Beck loving Libertarian friend,
Alice
Alice, do you have a little anger management problem?
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