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Every day it seems I receive one of those nasty forwards in my inbox urging me to beware of Obama's Muslim heritage, his anti-American sentiment, or his generally evil intentions. And every day, the part of me that strives to find the truth but struggles to find a source she can trust in this world dies a little inside. (Hear that, mom? Take your finger off of that mouse and walk away from the computer slowly with your hands where I can see them.)
A post on the Politico yesterday addresses one of the most frustrating trends of this presidential election season:
"Ironically, the smear campaign represents the dark side of the Internet's emerging dominance in American politics - a phenomenon that has driven Obama's unparalleled grass-roots and financial campaigns."
Dark side is right. I think it's fine when opponents take stabs at each other. I prefer that they keep it clean, but I understand sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire. But where do rumors such as these come from? And why are the recipients of these emails so easily swayed? They throw this 'information' out as if it is fact, when the source of the information is completely unknown!
Equally as frustrating is my inability to find a medium that I can believe in. Where do I go for the straight-forward, unbiased facts, sans agenda?
The hard truth is we can never really know a person's soul. I find it ironic that the anti-Obamans try to convince me to be afraid of Obama based on 'missing information' about who he really is. Who are they? Would the ghost-writers who are wreaking havoc on the American conscious please stand up?
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