Dang
I've been sifting through numerous articles covering the (apparently widespread) character assassination of Senator Obama. A frighteningly large and uninformed segment of the American populace believes a range of things about the man that vary from unambiguously but unemotionally false to morally reprehensible. Such as, for example, that he is Muslim (he is not), that he associates with terrorists (he once knew a guy named Ayers who terrorized his own country when Obama was ... eight years old?), and that he supports gay marriages (he does not, though he does support same sex civil unions and employment benefits). Some of these notions are just misinformation, and some are at best surrepetitiously-guided smearing.
What tops it for me, though, is this YouTube video. It is a recording of a very cowardly man, and it was recorded by undoubtedly a rather brave person. The man pictured is holding a Curious George monkey doll with an Obama '08 bumper sticker wrapped around its forehead like a fez.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x212515
Once he realizes he's been caught in the act - and is being recorded directly and unwaveringly - he half-heartedly shows his embarrassment by pocketing the bumper sticker. And then passes of the doll to a child as if to wash away his vulgar opinion and unobtrusively make light of it.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I find this small video-recorded anecdote is telling of the ugly sentiments teeming under the surface in this country. Some people are just waiting for an outlet - or a leader - to show how sick they are.
What tops it for me, though, is this YouTube video. It is a recording of a very cowardly man, and it was recorded by undoubtedly a rather brave person. The man pictured is holding a Curious George monkey doll with an Obama '08 bumper sticker wrapped around its forehead like a fez.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x212515
Once he realizes he's been caught in the act - and is being recorded directly and unwaveringly - he half-heartedly shows his embarrassment by pocketing the bumper sticker. And then passes of the doll to a child as if to wash away his vulgar opinion and unobtrusively make light of it.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I find this small video-recorded anecdote is telling of the ugly sentiments teeming under the surface in this country. Some people are just waiting for an outlet - or a leader - to show how sick they are.