I'm so tired of reading that Obama is Ayers best buddy and Obama is a Muslim terrorist sympathizer and Obama doesn't like this country. It's so ludicrous. How do you even counter such foolishness?
When you get to the core of wingnut belief, this is it: Obama, a black man, can't possibly love the nation as much as a white person. I know that sounds crazy but that's why we call them wingnuts. Wingnuts perceive Obama as foreign, without recognizing that they're bigots. They try to rationalize their stupidity with arguments such as Obama and Ayers are best buds.
Is this bigotry a virus in that it's contagious and spreading or did Obama just spark the bigots to life? I worry about the children. They're carrying hateful signs at tea parties and they hear all of their parents' nonsense.
But they are resilient and smarter than we give them credit for. My family has plenty of bigots but every since I was a kid, I intuitively knew they were nuts. No one ever made me carry a sign, though.
After a presidential memorandum leaked earlier Friday to the conservative website Big Government, White House, Pentagon and Illinois officials denied that any decision had been made, and cast the memo as an internal draft document.
The memo, addressed to the Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General, calls on the former to “relocate inmates currently held at the Guantanamo Detention Center” to the Thomson Correction Center in Illinois “as expeditiously as possible.”
The Washington Post reported last Sunday that Thomson “will probably become the new home” for most Gitmo detainees. An administration official stressed that the memo posted is a “draft, pre-decisional document that lawyers at various agencies were drafting in preparation for a potential future announcement about where to house GTMO detainees.”
After a presidential memorandum leaked earlier Friday to the conservative website Big Government, White House, Pentagon and Illinois officials denied that any decision had been made, and cast the memo as an internal draft document.
The memo, addressed to the Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General, calls on the former to “relocate inmates currently held at the Guantanamo Detention Center” to the Thomson Correction Center in Illinois “as expeditiously as possible.” Read more at politico.
