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Busting Political Myths
I thought that it might be helpful, given the rampant myths and outright lies related to topics political to have a thread devoted to debunking them.
This idea struck me after another poster on the 'Heaven and Hell' thread said "I thought our President was a Muslim" without giving any reason why they might think that (and given the track record no such explanation will be forthcoming). Since, over the course of the next 24 months we can expect President Obama to be blamed for everything from people's partners leaving them to the extinction of the dinosaurs, I don't think we need to derail every single thread these myths will come up on. So...President Obama is not a Muslim. He attended a UCC church in Chicago and is attending a Methodist church in DC. Since President Obama says he's a Christian, I can see no reason to say that he's not. I presume that he knows himself better than, say, any random commentator or watcher of Fox News.
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I don't get why it would be a problem if he WERE Muslim, United Church of Christ AND Methodist, except for the part where he would not have much free time to govern.
On another note, I have been thinking about the phrase "All men are created equal". I think we are born, not created. Created sounds like someone made us and if we are to have division of church and state (which I realize we do not) how does this fit in?
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AJ - I think I just peed a little seeing this thread!
Ok - So can we PLEASE stop insisting that President Obama's birth certificate is forged? Because if you TRULY believe that the ENTIRE document recording system of the state of Hawaii is part of a vast conspiracy to help cover up a false birth certificate, you seriously need to be examined by a mental facility.
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and Hawaii is a STATE!
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What kind of name is Hawaii for a state, eh? How do we KNOW Hawaii is a state? Has anyone here seen Hawaii's birth certificate? Which Founding Father came from Hawaii? I think that Hawaii would LIKE us to believe that they are a state. If memory serves Hawaii had a King. Which is kind of like a Pasha, Shah or Caliph. So maybe...okay, it works like this. Barack Obama, traveled back in TIME, detonated a WMD at the bottom of the Pacific to make a set of islands, installed a king and then traveled FORWARD in time so that Hawaii would then become a state. Then it was just a matter of time. "Statehood" came (has anyone seen this hood that Hawaii has?) and then there was a 'documents record' system and he was born in a 'hospital' (has anyone here seen this hospital?). Then he was 'born' (funny how his mother 'died', how do we know Obama was born at all? Maybe he was grown in a vat) and had a "mom" and "grandparents".
Has anyone here met this alleged 'mom' or "grandparents". I thought not! So... Barack Obama--->Creates Hawaii using WMD--->Hawaii gets a Caliph (King)--->Hawaii becomes a 'state'--->Barack Obama is "born"--->Barack Obama becomes "President". In fact, now that I think about it--how do we know that Barack Obama didn't travel back in time and create the United States so that he could then destroy it? Hmmm...I'm just asking questions! "I'm Glen Beck and I approved this message". Cheers Aj
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The RNC had their annual conference in Hawaii, so it must be a state.
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lmao That always cracks me up!! He's a Nazi Communist Socialist Muslim. Did I miss an ism or an ist?
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y'all all got it wrong about Hawaii and Obama...........yes he was born in Hawaii.........HOWEVER...........Hawaii was not a state when he was born and the birth certificate Hawaii issued for him was forged to a date AFTER he was really born so it would look like he was born in Hawaii when it was a state and was born in the good ole U S Of A..........that is if you can find Hawaii on the map
geeezzzzzzzzzzz people..........where is your logic and practical reasoning..........
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Whereas the Constitution of the United States requires that, to be eligible for the Office of the President, a person must be a "natural born Citizen" of the United States; Whereas the term "natural born Citizen", as that term appears in Article II, Section 1, is not defined in the Constitution of the United States; Whereas there is no evidence of the intention of the Framers or any Congress to limit the constitutional rights of children born to Americans serving in the military nor to prevent those children from serving as their country's President; Whereas such limitations would be inconsistent with the purpose and intent of the "natural born Citizen" clause of the Constitution of the United States, as evidenced by the First Congress's own statute defining the term "natural born Citizen"; Whereas the well-being of all citizens of the United States is preserved and enhanced by the men and women who are assigned to serve our country outside of our national borders; Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President; and Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That John Sidney McCain, III, is a "natural born Citizen" under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States. "...the bill was written and submitted by Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), and co sponsored by both Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)." McCain is a US Citizen because Obama says that he is.... linkyloo
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I recently had an entire day calling out a bunch of ignorant asshats on a news group on Facebook. I posted something like "why dont you just go ahead and admit that you dont like President Obama simply because he is Black and stop trying to pretend that its because you are "concerned" for the country? Just admit you are racist and be done with it." One person responded with "YOU are the racist here! All you can see is his skin color!!!! I just dont like him and I dont need a reason you racist!!" And these were grown folks.
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Here he is in his own words: Many people would label a person as a racist for using the n-word, yet I have known many that use it, that have many black friends and hire black people and [treat] them well. Conversely, I know many, mostly liberal whites, who would ostracize people that would ever use the n-word, but who never hire blacks and have no close black friends. I'm not sure how loosely he is using the term 'friend' here. I would hope that none of my friends would use the n-word. I know that any friend of mine who did and I heard them say it, would not be a friend of mine for much longer. But that is the meme. You can use the n-word. You can, it would appear, make any manner of racist statements you wish and not be a racist. That's the meme, though. So conservatives have absolutely convinced themselves that, for instance, showing the White House with a bunch of watermelons in front isn't racist. A picture of AF 1 with the tail-number changed to N1663R isn't racist. Even the white supremacists have convinced themselves that they aren't racists--they just love white people. You can say anything you want about black people. You can make whatever racist jokes you wish. But if you work with a black person you are de facto not racist. The one thing I expect to see is that at some point over the course of the next Presidential election, someone at a Palin rally is going to say something. Either the warm-up speaker or, if it's a town hall, someone in the audience. It's going to be blatantly racist and it'll just slip out. The audience will largely applaud depending upon the venue and how fired-up they are. And then that politician is going to have to make a choice. Do they repudiate the statement then and there and thus piss off the base or do they just move on, letting the statement sit there without comment. I don't know what the statement will be, I don't know who it will be about but I suspect it will be about Latinos--although something blatantly racist about Obama has lots of precedent--but it's going to happen. It'll happen because conservatives have convinced themselves that nothing they say is racist and since they have spent the last decade talking mostly to themselves and the last 2 years talking *only* to themselves, they all think that everyone else in the country thinks about these issues just as they do. They're wrong. They're going to find out just how wrong they are over the next few years.
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