Stephanie
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When you learn that something you've been told, read, gotten a chain letter about - like the idiotic "President Obama giving away Alaskan Islands" lie ... When you find out that you have been lied to, that the chain letter is a lie, what do you do?
Do you send links back to the people who sent you the lie?
Do you make any move at all to correct that lie?
-- OR --
Because you know it will reflect badly on the president, do you let the lie go on, even spreading it further yourself, even though it makes you look like an idiot?
IOW, do you make any effort to really search out the truth?
Or, like the post about the Alaskan Islands, do you just keep spreading the lies?
Final question:
Are you answering THIS thread honestly?
All rhetorical questions, one trusts.
The conservative motto is to repeat a lie often enough until its perceived as true.
In the case of Obama, given the 2008 presidential election results and the fact the new president was retaining many Bush-Era policies, republicans found little, if any, actual issues to use as weapons against Obama.
Things consequently became purely partisan, having noting to do with facts, sound governance, or good public policy. As Senate Minority Leader McConnell stated, the GOPs primary goal was to 'get rid of Obama, whats good for the Nation be damned.
To realize that goal, the right contrived lies, half-truths, and misinformation designed to make Obama look bad, to create a false impression of a president somehow responsible for everything wrong with America, including a recession that began 13 months before he took office.
Part of the goal has been to turn citizens against each other. When times are hard, its important to have someone to blame. The r's have demonized brown, black and anyone who is pro-middle class, pro-poor. They throw a lot of ideological spaghetti against the wall and go with what ever sticks.
Anything is better than staying with the issues that they themselves refuse to address.
And we fall for it.
well lets see which party has been spewing there is a war on women..which President keeps saying the wealthy SHOULD pay more, which party keeps spewing people want to take away Social Security, Medicare, etc etc..
that is your answer which party is trying to turn citizens against each other..
you must be so proud to belong to it and freely helping in spreading their lies