Yes! It's unfortunate that so many people are willing to exert so much effort to mislead
others into believing almost any malicious lie.....and even more unfortunate that so many are
prone to believing it. It's gotten so everything you read has to be checked on snopes.com
for verasity.
Speaking of which, a quick search of the snopes site reveals a number of the sort of items
you were refering to. There may be some insight gained from the number and focus of those
items. The search revealed a total of 24 'legends' of varying mendacity concerning Obama -
15 of which were false, 2 true, 5 of 'multiple truth values' and 2 undetermined. McCain's
list was significantly shorter; 4 citations - 3 true, 1 undetermined.
A recent poll, I feel, may give some insight into why a substantially larger volume of falsehoods
tend to target the democrat:
One-quarter of all registered voters say Obama lacks patriotism, according to the poll.
That breaks down to 10 percent of Democrats, 29 percent of independents and 40 percent
of Republicans who say Obama lacks patriotism. But it's likely the issue will not have a
significant impact this fall.
"Strategically speaking, the question is not how many people consider Obama unpatriotic,
it's how many people consider Obama unpatriotic who would have voted for him otherwise,
" Holland said "Most of the respondents who think Obama is unpatriotic are Republicans.
That indicates that Obama may not have lost a lot of votes -- so far -- on this matter."
McCain, a former Navy pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam, is viewed as being patriotic
by 90 percent of all registered voters. The poll, conducted June 26-29, surveyed 906
registered voters and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Now, clearly, anyone who seriously questions the patriotism of a presidential candidate has to be
either grossly misinformed or missing a screw or two. Interestingly, the 25% of all registered voters
who question Obama's patriotism is the same percentage who think Bush is doing a good job. More
to the point, republicans appear to be overwhelmingly more suceptible to erroneous hogwash than
either democrats or independents. The 10% who question McCain's patriotism are frighteningly
nieve (probably democrats - although I'd have thought there would be more of them).
The saddest part of this scenario is that.......it works! And that is a sorry reflection on the intellect
of the American Voter.
Coondog

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