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[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I heard he was Muslim and related to Saddam!

I was listening to nose-picker radio a few days ago and they had a story about Latinos registering to vote for this election, many of whom will be voting for the first time. One person they profiled was a farmer from (I think) Arizona, who had 7 adult children and was finally talked into getting his citizenship and voter registration from one of his sons. It turned out this son was a community activist of sorts, helping his local Latino community understand the power of politics.

Apparently everyone in this family is planning to vote Democrat this fall, except for a lone exception: One of the sisters is a Republican.

They recorded a conversation that the activist brother and Republican sister had, and this is what she said, word for word (I kid you not):

Sister: "Oh I don't know, I don't think I will vote for Obama."
Brother: "Why not?"
Sister: "Because he's Muslim."
Brother: "He's not Muslim, he's a Christian and goes to church."
Sister: "Well, I don't know. Obama. Obama. His name sounds like Osama. I don't want to vote for him."

Honest to god, there are people like this.

If you choose not to vote for someone, do so because you like your own candidate a lot, or at least figure out why you don't want the opponent... not because his mother gave him a non-Anglo name.

The sad thing is that I think there are a lot of truly ignorant people like this in our country.