kane

I'm not too shocked. I spoke on the phone this weekend to my uncle who I only see a few times a year. We started talking about the election and he tells me he is voting for McCain. I ask him why and he says Obama is a terrorist. I tell him he isn't and he tells me that Obama isn't an American. When I explain that he is he tells me Obama is a Muslim. Try as I might I cannot convince him that Obama is not a Muslim.

I have another friend that won't vote for Obama because he is a "liberal". When I ask what is wrong with that he explains how his taxes will go up under Obama. When I explain that Obama's purposed tax cuts will actually do him more good than would McCain's he still says, "He just a liberal."

People vote for strange reasons and a lot of people hear something and accept it as the truth. That is how a lot of people get elected. They lie, the stick to it and they know if they repeat it enough people will start believe it as the truth and they won't find out on their own what the truth really is. My uncle works in construction and about 4 nights a week hangs out at the same bar he has gone to for 15 years so I'm sure either someone he works with or drinks with told him about Obama and he doesn't care to find out if it is true or not.