My wife received one of these hate emails spreading false garbage about B Obama and though she does not tend to engage these people to call it what it is, I felt compelled to reply to this one myself.
This is a typical GOP email that a couple friends of ours always send us, I suppose hoping to persuade us to vote Republican.
Follow me below for the first email and the follow ups.
So here is the first exchange which was forwarded to my wife.
>> Subject: Fwd: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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>> According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ is:
>> The anti-christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will
>> deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE
>> Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him
>> and
>> he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power,
>> will
>> destroy everything. Is it OBAMA??
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>> Does our Nation take a chance on this unknown candidate who came out of
>> nowhere that fits the description??
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Here is my response to that mailing which I send to all the hundreds that was on the forward list.
This garbage is only food for thought for those who would consider believing the false information and attempts to discredit the best candidate America has had as a presidential choice in decades.
So sad that for reasons of racism and or the desire to further the slash and burn policies of the GOP toward our citizens as well as our country, people will forward this kind of false crap around the Internet.
I am very much looking forward to eight years of an Obama Presidency.
Peace
:)
Lo and behold I did actually reply two replies back to my reply to them.
First one:
Bless your poor heart......
I answered this one with the same message that I sent in response to the one below.
BILL, I HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO RESEARCH THIS MAN. I THINK THAT YOU WILL FIND OUT THINGS YOU THAT WILL POSSIBLY CHANGE YOUR MIND. PLEASE LOOK CLOSELY. THE GOVERNMENT, US, CAN NOT PAY FOR EVERYTHING BY TAXES. THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT TO LIVE ON.
Well I could not let such a blatant lie go unchallenged. So here was my reply to the nice little lady.
Well, Name removed by me,
I believe that I can safely say that there are very few people who are not politicians but, in fact, actual voters who research politics and the background of politicians as fully as I do. The time which I have to do research has greatly increased since I have retired.
All my life I have studied politics and those representing us from both parties. I am well versed on using not only the Internet but also traditional media to dig for information regarding any political person I choose.
I stand by the statement that I made and will even expand on it to say that those who continue to casually or otherwise spread lies and false information against any politician of either party are not only doing themselves a great disservice but are in fact helping to destroy the true democratic process in our country. It is precisely the smear and slander politics that gets the wrong person elected to office because so many are completely uninformed yet think that they know who will best serve our nation as a whole, based upon one or two pet issues that they believe are more important than the whole.
To further explain why I say what I do and why I support Obama in this Presidential election, I simply give you this thought in regards to the following from your reply.
( THE GOVERNMENT, US, CAN NOT PAY FOR EVERYTHING BY TAXES. THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT TO LIVE ON.)
The Republican party has always spread this false claim that the Democrats will tax you to death to give to others. It is totally false and used simply as a method of getting a lot of people to vote the GOP ticket even when it is against their own best interest.
The final factor for me is that we are nothing as a nation or as people if we care nothing about those less fortunate than us. The richest nation in the world can not be proud of its government if that government continues to ignore the needs of those who have so little while we build our bank accounts fatter.
The party of John McCain claims to hold the moral high ground yet he has stated that 100 years of fighting in Iraq, is not too long. The party of John McCain has tried their level best to kill off the Children's Health Program. They did manage to reduce the funding. What did the little children ever do to all us that we don't care if they see a Dr. when they are ill? Just how many dollars does the Children's Health Program cost you personally? What ever your income, it still would be a very minute amount of cost. Is denying even one child real health care for perhaps a very serious illness worth the pennies that we can put in our net worth? On my scales the health care for the child is far more important.
The Children's health care is only one face of the assault on the poor that the Republican party practices.
God said "what you do to the least of these, you do unto me."
When the party of John McCain starts to truly live by their self claimed moral high ground, then and only then, I might start looking more favorable upon one of their candidates.
Thank you for your reply and Peace be with you.
For a long time when I would receive these mailings of this type I would just delete it and chaulk it up as either greedy, racist, evil people, or perhaps all of those, behind it and go on with my life. However I have grown very tired of these people sending this garbage and not calling them on it.
So I started replying to them and not just to the person who forwarded it to me but to all those on the forward list.
One word of caution I would share with you though. You may lose a few people whom you had considered somewhat of a friend when you do this. I was getting this kind of crap from some former ship mates that I served in the USN with, and when i decided to call them on their garbage and give them a bit of the truth, they suddenly stopped contacting me at all.
Oh well I consider it their loss and not mine.
Would love it if others share their replies to this kiund of garbage or if they even reply to any of them.
Peace
:)