So I just posted a few minutes ago, but then I realized that I need to write something else of a completely different nature.
I listen to NPR on my ipod each day. I have been absolutely appalled and embarrassed about one thing I keep hearing again and again.
When they interview Americans about their choice for president, so many of them think that Barack Obama is Muslim, and that's why they wouldn't vote for him.
One woman said, "you know, Obama is Muslim, from one of those countries. And terrorists come from those countries."
First of all, it makes me sick to hear this, because it has been reported again and again that he is Christian and has always been Christian.
BUT, what pisses me off even more is that it is somehow understood that being a Muslim is bad and that there is no way a Muslim could be an American president, and that seems to be an okay opinion to hold in America right now. That is so not okay, and it actually makes me sick.
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That's been making me really upset too.
Ben and I have been talking about a situation from about a week ago where a woman at a McCain rally said (paraphrasing here), "I don't trust Obama. He's an Arab." And McCain responded with: "No, he's not an Arah; he's a decent, family man." Ugh.
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