Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin

[GatewaySnayke]

I heard he's going to appoint members of Hezbollah to the SuCo.

[G. Keenan]

Things like this just make me scratch my head.

In Flag City USA, where false Obama rumors fly

"I think Obama would be a disaster, and there's a lot of reasons," said Pollard, explaining the rumors he had heard about the candidate from friends he goes camping with. "I understand he's from Africa, and that the first thing he's going to do if he gets into office is bring his family over here, illegally. He's got that racist [pastor] who practically raised him, and then there's the Muslim thing. He's just not presidential material, if you ask me."

Can that even be a real person? That sounds like a Daily Show spoof or something.

Quotes like this are a depressing reminder of how many people lack the most basic critical thinking. Even if you never read or watched news, or had no internet access, wouldn't there be a doubt in your mind that the Democratic nomination process would have selected a racist African Muslim whose first act in office will be to break the law? It doesn't even make sense. The tiniest amount of scrutiny should show that. Some people are just really [expletive] dumb.

[docellis]

i think they are (unfortunately) real.


Anti-Obama Vandalism: City Vehicles Spray Painted With Racial Attacks
The Orlando Police Department found dozens of city owned vehicles vandalized Saturday.

The vandal or vandals appear to have political intentions; most of the vehicles were spray painted with anti Obama sayings, with 'Obama' misspelled several times. Some of their vehicles had their gas caps removed.

Officials said that gas caps were removed from several of the vehicles and they aren't sure if gas was stolen or if something could have been added to the tanks that will damage the engines.

Phrases including "Obmama smokes crack" and others phrases with racial slurs were written in blue spray paint on the white city cars and trucks.

Other vehicles appeared to have had their gas tanks tampered with.

Along with the paint, hundreds of business cards were left on windshields.

The cards contain criticism of Obama on one side, and support for Hillary Clinton and her family on the other side.

The same cards were left on channel nine vehicles in Daytona Beach several weeks ago.

The vandalism happened the same night the Obama campaign kicked off its Florida organization with parties across the state.

[planet planet]

I saw that, doc, and I usually try to be understanding of people's lack of exposure = ignorance, but that kind of thing coupled with the quotes Snake posted really make me want to kick some ass. And I'm not an ass kicker.

[Arthur Dent]

Even if you never read or watched news, or had no internet access...

I suspect news and internet access often actually increase these beliefs.

[Popeye_Card]

Things like this just make me scratch my head.

In Flag City USA, where false Obama rumors fly

"I think Obama would be a disaster, and there's a lot of reasons," said Pollard, explaining the rumors he had heard about the candidate from friends he goes camping with. "I understand he's from Africa, and that the first thing he's going to do if he gets into office is bring his family over here, illegally. He's got that racist [pastor] who practically raised him, and then there's the Muslim thing. He's just not presidential material, if you ask me."

The new advertisement running in Findlay, in which Obama is pictured with his white mother and white grandparents as talks about developing a "deep and abiding faith in the country I love" while growing up in the Kansas heartland, is dismissed by residents of College Street as the desperate lies of another dishonest Washington politician. And they say that Obama's moves to put distance between himself and the Muslim community, with his campaign declining invitations to visit mosques and Obama volunteers removing two women in head scarves from the camera range at a rally in Detroit last week are just a too-late effort to disguise his true beliefs.

Hehe...I used to live in good ol' Flag City USA. This doesn't really surprise me.

The only thing missing from that one guy's rant is that Obama is a Michigan fan. That would seal the deal.

[Popeye_Card]

Even if you never read or watched news, or had no internet access...

I suspect news and internet access often actually increase these beliefs.

This is pretty sad. Snopes Obama vs. McCain. 23 rumors about Obama, only 2 of which are true. 4 rumors about McCain, 3 of them true.

[GatewaySnayke]

Wesley Clark went out of bounds on McCain. McCain's military service shouldn't be brought up.

That said, McCain is a wank for saying that this is the kind of thing Obama and his surrogates like to do. If Obama's surrogates are speaking for him, I guess that means when Norquist said that Obama is "John Kerry with a tan" that makes McCain racist.

[TimeForGuinness]

I can't wait until Obama selects Clark as his running mate.

[ghostrunner]

Wesley Clark scares me. I mean in the way clowns scare some people.