I
don't have the answer.
During
a recent conversation with a former coworker, Joe (not his real name)
the topic of immigration came up. We agreed that the nation's
immigration policy needs to change. Joe then surprised me by stating
that he was most worried about President Obama's encouragement of
illegal Muslim infiltration.
Surprised
at this patently false accusation by this normally rational person, I
asked if he thought the President was a Muslim and he replied that
“everybody knows he is, after all he went to school in a Muslim
country”.
I
received an email from a city council member a month ago that
claimed, among other examples, that the President was so unpatriotic
as to suggest that the National Anthem should be changed.
For
the purposes of this post I carry no brief for Mr. Obama. I find
several areas where reasonable people can disagree as to his
performance as President. Why add outright and easily debunked
falsehoods to our political conversations?
The
following are examples of this phenomenon that can be verified by
several online fact check services:
Not
qualified by birth to be President.
The
ACA (Obama Care) prevents seniors over 76 from receiving cancer
care.
The
health care law has "death
panels."
From
Wikipedia:
Allegations
that Barack Obama is
an atheist,
secretly practices Islam,
or that he is the anti-Christ of
Christian
eschatology,
have been suggested since he campaigned for the U.S. Senate in 2004
and have proliferated since his election as President of the U.S. in
2008. As with conspiracy
theories surrounding his citizenship status,
these false claims are promoted by various fringe theorists and
political opponents.
Ad
infinitum - Ad
nauseam
Paul
Hunter
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