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Anonymous (not verified) says:
I quote from the "writers" above:
"Geoff, you don't seem that inteligent. Obama's father and step father were muslim. No lie, just the truth. Sorry to get sucked into the notion that he has muslim ties. Oh by the way, his middle name is HUSSIEN!! Dunsky..."
"I cannot believe anyone with any religious convictions whatsoever voting for a person like Obama, whose allegiance - even to his own religion, Islam - is wishywashy at best. ... They say they want ‘change’ - and that is their primary motivation. To them, 'change' means a different skin color. What a shallow reason for choosing someone, who could one day determine the future of us all! If I recall correctly, the citizens of countless other countries once said they wanted the same thing. Those countries are now dictatorships."
Wow- I mean I really wanted to put some ellipses in here because I didnt want to repeat such bigoted ignorant comments. Such ignorance is the thing that Obama and Clinton's campaigns are both fighting to change, and as Obama and his wife have both stated, they do not want people to nominate him or elect him simply because he is black. Frankly, he represents what most of us are in this country, a mix. Not just one thing, but many many things that contribute to who we are. To try to classify him as Muslim simply because some members of his family, with whom he may have had little contact, is ludicrous. Instead of judging him for these things, (for his middle name being Hussein making our judgment just as shallow as voting for him for his skin color), perhaps we should discuss the platform he is running on, and determine whether that makes him a good candidate or not. Such gross misinformation is truly inexcusable.
I quote from the "writers" above:
"Geoff, you don't seem that inteligent. Obama's father and step father were muslim. No lie, just the truth. Sorry to get sucked into the notion that he has muslim ties. Oh by the way, his middle name is HUSSIEN!! Dunsky..."
"I cannot believe anyone with any religious convictions whatsoever voting for a person like Obama, whose allegiance - even to his own religion, Islam - is wishywashy at best. ... They say they want ‘change’ - and that is their primary motivation. To them, 'change' means a different skin color. What a shallow reason for choosing someone, who could one day determine the future of us all! If I recall correctly, the citizens of countless other countries once said they wanted the same thing. Those countries are now dictatorships."
Wow- I mean I really wanted to put some ellipses in here because I didnt want to repeat such bigoted ignorant comments. Such ignorance is the thing that Obama and Clinton's campaigns are both fighting to change, and as Obama and his wife have both stated, they do not want people to nominate him or elect him simply because he is black. Frankly, he represents what most of us are in this country, a mix. Not just one thing, but many many things that contribute to who we are. To try to classify him as Muslim simply because some members of his family, with whom he may have had little contact, is ludicrous. Instead of judging him for these things, (for his middle name being Hussein making our judgment just as shallow as voting for him for his skin color), perhaps we should discuss the platform he is running on, and determine whether that makes him a good candidate or not. Such gross misinformation is truly inexcusable.