I received this email from someone I do not know but who I think is a member of a yahoo message board I belong to. It is not a political message board - in fact, the message board relates to a health issue. In any event, this woman apparently believes she can send email out to me about political matters. And boy, did she send me an egregiously disgusting email about Obama today.
Her email reads as follows:
Tiffany and Jeff Porter are our friends who live in Virginia.
(Below is from Tiffany)
I don't know each of your personal political convictions, and apologize if anyone finds this offensive. I thought it was important enough to share. This is Jeff's first hand view of Senator Obama.
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Hello everyone,
As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to 'The War Zone'. I wanted to share with you what happened.
He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram.
As the Soldiers were lined up to shake his hand he blew them off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service.
So really he was just here to make a showing for the American's back home that he is their candidate for President. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are providing for you.
I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheer leaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States. I just don't understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country.
If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake.
In service,
CPT Jeffrey S. Porter
Battle Captain
TF Wasatch
American Soldier
Notwithstanding the fact that a total stranger is sending me anti-Obama emails, the email itself is just wrong. OK, maybe it is from the perspective of a soldier. But Obama blew off the soldiers? It was almost as if Obama was scared to be around those who provide freedom? Please. I have not seen anything even remotely supporting this person's "observations", and I am sure that if others shared this view, it would most certainly have been covered.
This is infuriating. When will the smear campaigns against Obama stop? If nothing else, this email shows me that Republicans are, in a word, scared.
UPDATED TO ADD: Apparently this email has been making the rounds, has been debunked, etc. Here is a link that debunks the email: http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/...
UPDATE X 2: Here is a link on how to respond to this email: http://my.barackobama.com/...
Also, I just wanted to say I had NO idea that this was previously posted or written about. If you think I should delete this diary I will : )
UPDATE X 3: This was previously diaried at http://www.dailykos.com/...
UPDATE X 4: Another link debunking the email: http://www.nydailynews.com/...