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Today Pam had another mammoth session at the dentist. As she was having her teeth ultrasounded, the technician mentioned something about Obama being a Muslim. Bollox, said Pam, or as best she could render that sound with her mouth pried open.
The technician followed up with this bit of reasoning: "Once a Muslim, always a Muslim."
So the asshole lies the Palins of this life produced aetat 2008 are current still in 2010, despite having been comprehensively debunked by every nonpartisan news source on the planet and even disavowed by the likes of FAUX News. The Muslim/non-Muslim nature of Obama's education isn't a point up for debate: the indisputable fact of the matter is he was brought up as a Christian. Anyone who says otherwise is either a liar or someone so stupid they believe the kind of liars who in earlier ages sold snake oil.
It makes me weep to think of the long-term damage the media people and politicians who spread these lies are doing to my adopted country, all the time dressing themselves up in this hypocritical cape of "patriotism". They should be ashamed of themselves.
Please excuse the rant.
LATER: PZ Myers discusses a very similar issue here.
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Date: 2010-08-21 03:16 am (UTC)Sometimes I get so frustrated I just want to hit something.
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Date: 2010-08-21 02:06 pm (UTC)It sounds as if the technician may have been regurgitating the item discussed by PZ Myers here: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/christian_genetics_is_a_strang.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogs%2Fpharyngula+%28Pharyngula%29
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Date: 2010-08-21 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-21 02:09 pm (UTC)The ancillary matter is: Why should it be thought of as some kind of character defect if Obama were Muslim?
(Well, aside from the fact that any form of irrational belief in magical omnipotent sky creatures is a character defect . . .)
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Date: 2010-08-21 03:46 pm (UTC)Indeed. Clearly this man was a prime example of a wassock.
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Date: 2010-08-21 05:07 pm (UTC)Woman, in fact.
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Date: 2010-08-21 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-21 05:25 pm (UTC)Talks a load of complete wassocks, you mean?
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Date: 2010-08-21 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-21 09:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-21 02:05 pm (UTC)In fact from the dental technician.
As for the dentist himself, he has the telly going in his surgery. When Pam went in and climbed into the chair it was showing the start of the Andy Murray v Mardy Fish game, so she settled in expecting a fun watch. Then the dentist himself arrived and promptly switched channels to fuckin' FOX News.
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Date: 2010-08-21 03:34 pm (UTC)As for Obama having attended a Muslim school as a child - in my old neighborhood there was one school with less than a mile to walk to it, so kids of all faiths went there. It happened to be a Catholic school, run by Sisters of Charity and entirely tuition free to all, especially the many poor who lived in the area. Few of the students of other faiths became or remained Catholic upon adulthood, and some of us "cradle Catholics" turned away as early as age 13. My point is that a so-called "religious" education does not necessarily make a religious person. As for the ugly smear that the Vatican would run the USA if Kennedy was elected, well, that goes without saying - did not happen. Actually, Dr. Martin Luther King was a bigger and more visible religious figure in those years, and he was a fundamental Baptist! However, King's public message was not the preaching of religion, but rather the practice of principles.
What I cannot understand is WHY Obama is so HATED by so many of the general public. But then I could not understand why the general public put up with G.W. Bush for "four more years".
I guess that my country is suffering from an all consuming mental illness.
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Date: 2010-08-21 05:14 pm (UTC)What I cannot understand is WHY Obama is so HATED by so many of the general public.
Presumably because (a) he's black and (b) he's being misrepresented to them at every conceivable turn by people to whom truth is just something they once heard about but decided they didn't like the sound of. The Obama that's described by the Faux News wackaloons is unrecognizably different from the man himself: not just a caricature but a caricature of someone else.
For people who don't have the brains or the gumption to get their information from an (as near as possible) unbiased source, or even to consider that their sources might have biases, Obama must seem like a very strange creature indeed: his politics are both extreme left and extreme right, he's a Muslim but must be attacked because of the words of his Christian pastor, etc., etc.
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Date: 2010-08-21 06:04 pm (UTC)Oh, I meant to say:
As for Obama having attended a Muslim school as a child
In fact he didn't. The CNN debunking covered this aspect as well.
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Date: 2010-08-21 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-21 05:19 pm (UTC)Churches that preach partisan political propaganda should lose their tax-exempt status. You should report them to the IRS.