My father is a dyed in the wool, Red State wingnut. Even he was shocked when he received the following email. Warning: it's racist, xenophobic, factually inaccurate and disgusting. It can't even get the candidate's name correct in the subject line.
It's the naked face of the extremist Republican Party in it's rabid warmup to 2008.
Subject: Fw: Obama Barack
Probable US presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black Muslim from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white atheist from Wichita, Kansas. Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii.
When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a radical Muslim from Indonesia. When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia. Obama attended a Muslim school in Jakarta. He also spent two years in a Catholic school.
Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, he was once a Muslim, but that he also attended a Catholic school.
Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Osama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the radical teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.
Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when seeking major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background.
Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy.
The use of the word "probable" indicates it was written before he declared, which points to a long planned strategy of smear and slander (or, like many of these emails where sections are cut and replaced as time goes on, an ongoing strategy of ever shifting smear and slander that simply keeps working its way through emails across the land). Notice also the keywords: "black", "atheist", "radical Muslim", "divorced", etc. This is putrified meat for the Evangezombie base.
In the last week I also received a revived version of the old "Clinton murders" email. The name Bill had simply been replaced by Hillary. The Moon-Scaife scumbags are out in full force and it's only going to get worse as the months go on. How do we respond? By this I mean as individuals. Obama has done a great job of confronting Fox for their bullsh*t but that's only part of it. We have to come up with a strategy for taking this and hanging it right around their necks, one rancid forwarded email at a time until the powers that order and fund this puke put an end to it.
I'd love to see your ideas in the comments.