Over the past couple weeks or so, I've several people - the president included - whom have claimed that the Republican Party have attempted to create an imaginary Barack Obama. This theory really came to fruition when actor Clint Eastwood spoke at the Republican National Convention and pretended to have a conversation with Obama courtesy of an empty chair. To that which the empty chair could attest - the GOP has definitely created an imaginary Barack Obama.
Let's take the chain e-mail fact-checking site, Snopes.com, to further illustrate this. President Obama hasn't even been in office for four years and there have been, at one point or another, 125 e-mails spread about him. Of these 125, only 17 are true (13.6%). As four have been undecided as far as how much validity they contain, that means 104 of the 125 e-mails are, on some level or another, false (83.2%). If the four undecided e-mails are false as well, that would mean that 86.4% of those 125 e-mails are false in some manner or another.
What do these e-mails showcase? Especially the false ones? That someone, somewhere down the line, believed the e-mail to be true (or wanted to believe it) and passed it on to friends and family. What do some of these e-mails claim? That Obama is/was: Not a natural-born citizen of the United States, the anti-Christ, a Muslim, endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan, sworn into office on the Koran, born in Kenya, a Black Panther, using the Social Security Number of a man born in 1890, etc.
How can anyone in their right mind believe this nonsense? Simple - because they want to believe it. I don't know what it is about President Obama that many of these people don't like or are afraid of - whether it's his name, skin color, actual policies, party affiliation, former pastor or what exactly - but they make it appear as if it's their goal in life to hate this man and find every reason (real or not) to do so.
Clint Eastwood's discussion with the empty chair perfectly exemplified what Barack Obama is to the Republican Party. He wasn't there, so they could make him up as they'd like to see him - a man they could hate and who would be easy for them to vote against. To them, this boogie monster, known to most as Barack Obama, is nothing but a: Marxist, socialist, communist, Muslim, Satanist, baby-killing, anti-war, anti-success, taxer, spender, liberal, anti-troop, anti-American, selfish, arrogant, elitist, angry, racist, criminal foreigner. Many people fear what they don't understand. To most Republicans, Barack Obama is this person they don't understand and unfortunately, they've never even tried doing so.
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp
Let's take the chain e-mail fact-checking site, Snopes.com, to further illustrate this. President Obama hasn't even been in office for four years and there have been, at one point or another, 125 e-mails spread about him. Of these 125, only 17 are true (13.6%). As four have been undecided as far as how much validity they contain, that means 104 of the 125 e-mails are, on some level or another, false (83.2%). If the four undecided e-mails are false as well, that would mean that 86.4% of those 125 e-mails are false in some manner or another.
What do these e-mails showcase? Especially the false ones? That someone, somewhere down the line, believed the e-mail to be true (or wanted to believe it) and passed it on to friends and family. What do some of these e-mails claim? That Obama is/was: Not a natural-born citizen of the United States, the anti-Christ, a Muslim, endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan, sworn into office on the Koran, born in Kenya, a Black Panther, using the Social Security Number of a man born in 1890, etc.
How can anyone in their right mind believe this nonsense? Simple - because they want to believe it. I don't know what it is about President Obama that many of these people don't like or are afraid of - whether it's his name, skin color, actual policies, party affiliation, former pastor or what exactly - but they make it appear as if it's their goal in life to hate this man and find every reason (real or not) to do so.
Clint Eastwood's discussion with the empty chair perfectly exemplified what Barack Obama is to the Republican Party. He wasn't there, so they could make him up as they'd like to see him - a man they could hate and who would be easy for them to vote against. To them, this boogie monster, known to most as Barack Obama, is nothing but a: Marxist, socialist, communist, Muslim, Satanist, baby-killing, anti-war, anti-success, taxer, spender, liberal, anti-troop, anti-American, selfish, arrogant, elitist, angry, racist, criminal foreigner. Many people fear what they don't understand. To most Republicans, Barack Obama is this person they don't understand and unfortunately, they've never even tried doing so.
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp
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