Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Delegitimizing The President of the United States


Have you seen this email chain?

Subject: Fwd: Remember the couple who sneaked into the White House with no credentials?

Sent: 8/30/2010 7:44:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: Remember the couple who sneaked into the White House with no credentials?


Remember the couple who sneaked into the White House with no credentials?

Isn’t hilarious! Normally I just let this kind of bullshit go, but for how long do we have to put up with the persistent attempts to paint this president as unworthy. Agree or disagree with his policies or his politics but I’m sick and tired of people trying to delegitmize the election. Oh and don’t give me they did the same for Bush, nonsense. In 2000 Bush one 47.9% of the vote, while Gore one 48.4% this is clearly in the statistically questionable range and that doesn’t even include the Florida debacle. In 2008 Obama carried 52.9% of the votes as opposed to McCain only carrying 45.7%. Obama had a clear majority in both the popular vote and the Electoral College. There was no fucking sneaking, there was no stealing or tricks used to make him our president. He’s not a Manchurian candidate, he doesn’t have Kenyan anti-colonial tendencies, and he’s not in any way alien to the American way of life. My Co-worker told me about this, and I know he’s not racist. This email itself isn’t racist, the thing is all of these jokes and innuendos and blatant falsehoods carry the one of the goals racism, delegitimization. Rant off.

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