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pointblank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 10:22 AM
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Need some help convincing an otherwise intelligent person
that Obama is not a muslim or a terrorist.

Actually, its a co-worker's boyfriend, who is a well educated person (physicist,) but is not very politically astute and has bought into the right's garbage

My co-worker is very upset and asked if I would help her by providing some well-documented facts de-bunking all of the Obama myths that we all know are being perpetrated by the scum in this country.

I know I have seen such documents, but I can't recall where.

I would appreciate the help

Steve
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Randomthought Donating Member (388 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 10:23 AM
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1. Try
try snopes.com
Good luck!
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 10:25 AM
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2. Go to fightthesmears.com. They have all the information you need
about specific idiotic rumors.

You can even send questions to watchdog@barackobama.com (which is linked at fightthesmears.com).

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Thorandmjolnir Donating Member (390 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 10:25 AM
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3. Ask him if he thinks the
Secret Service would protect a terrorist.

Ask him if the thinks a terrorist would be able to serve in the Senate and the Illinois State senate.
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 10:29 AM
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4. If Obama was a terrorist...
Edited on Tue Oct-21-08 10:40 AM by Lost-in-FL
It is only proof of the Bush administration failure in their "war on terrorism" that allowed a terrorist in the US Senate. So is McCain a better choice? He is saying that he knows how to catch Bin Laden so why is it that he won't tell the Dept of Defense??


Seriously, people like this that are saying things like that do so because they cannot get themselves to vote for a democrat. I have several co workers like that and i do not think they are going to vote at all cause they hate both McCain and Palin but would not vote for a Dem. It is safer for them to think of Obama as a terrorist to make themselves feel better even when they know that having a weird name does not make u a terrorist.



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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 10:32 AM
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5. Ask him the Colin question: What if Obama is Muslim (which he demonstrably is not)?
What difference does that make to him or to anybody?

If a physicist buys into that crap, personally, I think he's a lost cause. Probably a lousy scientist as well.
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