You sound like the typical stereotypical left elitist you mentioned. I really don't want to play your game of He said she said..it's r****ded for me to make a statement Republicans are always right and the Democrats are all liberal loving hippies set to out to destroy the country.. Thats basically what you sound like.. But anyways here is a good article I found and it also expresses my view on why I believe people polled believe Obama is a Muslim. It's simply because they are discontent and dont agree his politics. Also you can see there are quite a number of things when polled that Democrats believe are simply ludicrous also. I personally don't believe it's because these people are idiots or love conspiracy theories it’s simply because the person they are polling about is not from the same party/political ideologies. ----------
I'm more interested in the following poll of ALL Americans (not just Republicans): Does President Obama's religion matter to you? Sadly, I don't think the majority answer would be "No."
I'd be interested in seeing how many think Reagan lowered their taxes and how many believe Obama signed TARP aka the bailout bill.
I didn't mention any elitist at all. I mentioned that Republicans act like it's elitist to go to college or read a newspaper. I have done both so if that makes me an elitist in your eyes I plead guilty. Where did you get that I was playing a game of he said, she said? That is a game you are playing and it is a gigantic straw man; please don't attribute your fallacies to me. I made one point and one point only: Given that majorities or pluralities of Republicans, in repeated polls, believe things that ARE NOT TRUE... And given that the same cannot be said of Democrats.... They are not the same when it comes to believing things that are not true. I hear you on the Muslim thing. I disagree strongly that your theory holds any water with R's in Mississippi and Alabama (where they grow their Republicans extra-dumb), but okay, let's leave the latest example of a majority or plurality of R's being dead wrong and simply focus on Iraq and 9/11. How many times have polls shown, over literally years, that Republicans believe Iraq attacked us on 9/11? Again, I am talking about a majority or plurality. Even in polls taken after even Bush and Cheney said that was not true. There is no comparison on the Democratic party side. You cannot present one because it doesn't exist. Instead you present polls where "some" Democrats believe untrue things. Show me the poll where more Democrats believe that Bush perpetrated or even knew about 9/11 before it happened than not. Show me the poll that shows that most Democrats believe the rich don't pay any taxes. Show me literally any poll that shows that a majority or plurality of Democrats believe something to be true when it's been proven not to be true. You can't. That is my one and only point. Quoting Ed Schultz or Fareed Zakaria is not citing a majority Dem poll. And not only that but few of the "disproven facts" in your article were even disproven. Some of them remain a matter of opinion and have not been resolved to be facts. That Bush's tax cuts, during a time of two off-the-books wars, didn't contribute to the economic situation only works if you believe that the deficit and/or debt have nothing to do with our current economic situation. Do you believe that? Most Republicans don't. But let's not get lost. One argument and one only: Republicans have demonstrated on several occasions that, by a majority or plurality, they flatly refuse to believe hard facts (Saddam, 9/11; Obama's citizenry; Obama's religion). And you cannot say the same of Democrats because it has not happened in our lifetimes that something has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be factually untrue and a majority of Democrats still believed it. Do you think you could stop replying to a bunch of stuff I didn't say and try replying to what I actually did say?
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^^^^^^^ My favorite part was the guy who said "Our president should be American, not Muslim" as if Muslim is a nationality or American is a religion. He obviously wrongly believes that Obama is a Muslim but it doesn't dawn on him that American's can be Mulim. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Republicans care. A lot of them are going to have a hard time voting for Romney because he's Mormon. And a lot of conservatives believe Muslims are all the same. Because there are Islamic extremists and that's what they've been exposed to and likely what they were exposed to when they formed their initial impressions, that's what they believe most of Islam to be. So they associate Islam with extremism and terrorism. If you come from that mindset, whether a politician is Muslim or not would be a BIG deal to you. If they believe he's a Muslim, they do associate that with Islamic extremism and that's what scares them. I honestly don't care. I'm a protestant Christian. I wouldn't have a problem voting for a Catholic, Mormon, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Agnostic, or Athiest as long as I believed that they were the best candidate for the job.
p.s. to SunsRocketsFan: My thesis, more simply stated, is that while not every Republican in AL or MS is an idiot more are than aren't, as demonstrated in the poll. I don't deny that some Democrats in whatever part of the country are idiots. I deny that you can show me an example where a majority of them are.
