So why is Hillary capturing the uneducated vote? Because her campaign convinced them that Obama is a radical Muslim.
I know you’re all heard about the infamous email produced by the HRC campaign – but I don’t think the implications have REALLY sunk in. And the longer these vicious lies are allowed to perpetuate, the more long-lasting, possibly irreparable damage the cycle creates.
The phenomenon works like this (for instance):I tell my friends “Jack” is a homicidal maniac terrorist. I forward an email to my friends that “Jack” is a homicidal maniac terrorist. I relate this to everyone I know – so that they're WARNED that “Jack” is a homicidal maniac terrorist. I do this with the best of intentions, because Jack is a public menace and people should know about him.
So to break this cycle, I must admit to everyone I know that I’m gullible, ignorant, and/or a liar. After all, I’ve been spreading these emails and rumors for weeks now.What are the chances that I’m going to do that? I’d say… pretty much zip, zero, nada, ain’t gonna happen.So who needs to be vetted by the “Republican Hate Machine” when HRC supporters constantly refer to Obama as Barrack HUSSEIN Obama in message boards across the internet, reinforcing the libelous intent of the initial email?Barring some major scandal, or incredible reversal in voting patterns, Clinton can not secure more pledged delegates than Obama. Currently, the statistics show that she would be required to pull 58% of the remaining delegates, which would require a substantially higher percentage of the popular vote. If we stick to our guns, there's zero chance of that happening.The Texas/Ohio firewall is as fictional as the Muslim email. There is no firewall. The media is making tons of money off of this race – so they’ll play it whichever way sells more papers. But just as with McCain and Huckabee, this race is pretty much over.So what to do about this Muslim thing?While we’d all like to think of America as being “high minded”, you might think back to those grade school days where the majority of the "educated" scored in the top 0.00001 percentile on those idiotic tests. And not to go off on a tangent, but being "smarter" doesn't make you better - it just makes you less susceptible to mudslinging.
At any rate, having respect for McCain and high hopes for Obama, I’d hoped we’d FINALLY have an election about the issues, to be decided on the issues. But will the Clinton effect linger on, even after she's out of the race?
Even if McCain, in a debate, standing next to Obama, tells the country “THIS MAN IS NOT A MUSLIM!”, I’m still not sure whether it would work. I would hope he'd be honorable enough to do that.
But given this is all Hillary’s fault anyway, I’m very upset that she’s not already taken that step.My apologies for this being long-winded – but I was really shocked when I ran into this again today – with a large group of people in agreement that the country would be in horrible danger should we elect "that radical Muslim who lies and says he’s not" - but they know he is.
And the more people who accept that position, then pass it on to their friends – the greater the damage – because again, it’s nearly impossible to reverse that process.
Obama can't defend himself - so what's to be done about this?
Living in the South, I expect the media hubs in the northeast and west will have a field day with the "racist voting trends" of the "red states" come November.
But race isn't really an issue when you have the same class of uneducated folks duped into thinking Obama is a radical Muslim. Race has nothing to do with it.
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