Can't We All Just Get A Clue?

Have you gotten an email "accusing" Barack Obama of being Muslim?

(For the record, I wouldn't really care if he was Muslim, because it's not the typical Muslims, especially not the typical American Muslims, who become crazy terrorists AND it was men who called themselves Christians who caused the Oklahoma City bombing. Just saying.)

What I find especially laughable is that the people passing on these emails are the same people who freaked out over Obama's affiliation with the Reverend Wright - you know, his former pastor at a CHRISTIAN church.

So let's all repeat this together - Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim.

But wait, Fox News reports he attended a Muslim school.

Yeah, when he lived in Indonesia. Where most schools are Muslim. I know a number of people who were sent to Catholic schools because they were better than the nearby public schools. . . . .but it didn't turn any of them Catholic.

So can we please forget this whole guilty by middle name association and skin color thing? It's beneath us as a nation.

Fine, says Fox News, but what about his terrorist hand gesture?

You mean the dapping? With his wife? Common African-American practice? The hand gesture Ironflower learned after high-fiving? The gesture that none of the Iraq vets I know ever saw done between any Middle-Easterners in their entire tours? That gesture?

Well, stutters Fox, his baby mama hates white people.

Er, Obama doesn't have a baby mama. Unless he had kids before he married Michelle. Which I'm SURE would have come out long before now. Oh, you meant Michelle? She can't be his baby mama, she's his wife. And I'm pretty sure the campaign staff would be a lot darker if Michelle truly hated all white people. Perhaps she just hates ignorant white people like you?

I'm sorry if I sound bitter or if I'm preaching to the choir. But I just can't stand that all this ignorance is actually being used to attack Obama. And that former Hillary supporters might vote for McCain because of it.

(Though the ones I saw on some news program - who have some dreadful group called Hillary fans for McCain or something - said that they were voting for McCain because of the sexism against Hillary. I'm not sure how voting for the anti-choice, anti-stem cell research, anti-gay marriage, anti-affordable health care  McCain strikes a blow for feminism, but hopefully there aren't too many of those idiots out there)

I know there are people out there who legitimately support McCain and that's fine. If his politics match yours, great. If you support him because you heard Obama's really a Muslim whose baby mama hates white people, please go back to middle school where you belong. And remember, middle schoolers aren't allowed to vote.