I tried to ignore this. Like you do the person who sits down next to you on the bus who is carrying on a conversation with people who aren't there. I was trying to be polite. But now polls show that as many as 28% of Republicans believe the President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
Enough is enough. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.
As much as one can prove anything, President Obama has proven he was born in State of Hawaii, in the good ol' U.S. of A. He is a natural born citizen, get over it. Also for your information:
The Holocaust happened. Hitler did, indeed, murder at least 6 million Jews and millions of other people in concentration camps and death camps.
The Theory of Evolution is a settled issue. Species emerged on the earth through a complex series of adaptations, gradually changing form as some naturally occurring variations gave certain animals advantages over others, a process called Natural Selection. This process has taken billions of years, so...
The earth is several billion years old. Not a few thousand. Pieces of dinosaurs were not put in the stone by a malevolent god in order to trick us. The Earth is a very old rock (and round).
The earth is, as a result of human activity, gradually getting warmer. The changes exceed normal variations. The results have already been significant and will get more pronounced. We need to change our behavior now.
Oil is gradually being depleted. New oil is developing very slowly. These are fossil fuels and like other fossils, they are billions of years old (see above).
So-called socialized medicine in Europe, Canada, Japan and other civilized nations is not a horror show. If you really think it is, I have a challenge for you. Find a politician in a major political party in England, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, etc., who is willing to run for top political office on a platform of tearing down the terrible death trap that is socialized medicine and replacing it with an American style system of for-profit insurance primarily linked to employment. Go ahead, I'll wait here. [crickets]
There is no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy, no Santa Claus.
There was an election in 2008 and you lost. There was no global conspiracy. You lost because, for the last 8 years, your party ran the country into the ground with incompetence and staggering arrogance. Stop grasping at straws and trying to destroy President Obama and this country. Offer honest and thoughtful responses to Democratic proposals. Drop the fear tactics and the extreme rhetoric. Don't tell people health care reform is a plot to murder old people and stop saying the liberals are coming to take people's guns. Have you guys really no self-respect at all?
Try, please try, looking inside yourselves with some honesty, a capacity you have not shown to date, and try to develop policies, programs and ideas that demonstrate leadership. We need that, any democracy needs at least two strong, viable political parties. I fear, I fear greatly, that you are devolving into a violent gang of thugish mentality, incapable of reason, denying facts that don't support your preconceived notions. This will kill your party, and I really don't care about that. But it won't be good for my country, and that is why, right now, I truly and completely hate the Republican Party.
Please, guys, please, turn it around.
Addendum
I had no sooner posted this than I was watching the news (MISTAKE!) and heard Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina (R-OMG) say that health care reform would lead to mandatory euthenasia for the elderly. She forgot, apparently, to say that a key element of the Democratic plan was a special health care sausage, made from kittens and puppies stolen from children. Once again, how do you debate with people who spew such garbage. She's either a congenital idiot or a conscious liar. I really do despair.
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