On 03-27-10, DAVE DRUM said to ALL:



DD>* A pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism
DD>* has infected the Republican Party. HereÆs new data to prove it:


Since when does verbally and strongly disagreeing with a president, become
`pathological hatred'?


DD>* 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall)
DD>believe that Obama is a socialist.


Much of the healthcare bill foisted on America by this president is for the
`have nots' at the expense ofthe `haves'. Thats socialism.


DD>* 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama
DD>is a Muslim


This president's religion has nothing to do with leading the country down to
ruin.


DD>* 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the
DD>Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United
DD>States and so is not eligible to be president"


There has never been a `bonified' birth cedrtificate produced, showing that
this president was born in the place it is claimed he was born. If claiming a
newspaper ad is proof of his birth having actually taken place in the United
States of America, you could try telling the gas company the poster on your
bedroom wall is proof that you paid your gas bill last month! You could `try'
it. But if its unpaid in reality, your gas might be shut off anyhow!



DD>* 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama
DD>is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"


Hitler lead the people along with vast promises of `hope and change' as well.


DD>* Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall)
DD>say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."


I doubt it.


DD>These numbers all come from a brand-new Harris poll, inspired in part by a
DD>new book Wingnuts. It demonstrates the cost of the campaign of fear and
DD>hate that has been pumped up in the service of hyper-partisanship over the
DD>past 15 months. We are playing with dynamite by demonizing our president
DD>and dividing the United States in the process. What might be good for
DD>ratings is bad for the country.


DD>The poll, which surveyed 2,230 people right at the height of the
DD>health-care reform debate, also clearly shows that education is a barrier
DD>to extremism.


Many of those polls are done among people who typically sign up to take polls
in exchange for cash or gifts. How accurate could such a poll be, anyway?


Phrasing of a question will bias the answer as well. Again, influencing the
response.


With the phrasing of the question, the pollster eliminates many alternative
answers, and subtly guides the respondent toward the desired answer, thereby
skewing the result.


By throwing in `religion', the poll hardly qualifies as anything serious. Of
course, it will resonate well with democrats. It serves to demonize those who
object to this president's policies, even further.


DD>Respondents without a college education are vastly more likely to believe
DD>such claims, while Americans with college degrees or better are less
DD>easily duped. ItÆs a reminder of what the 19th-century educator Horace
DD>Mann once too-loftily said: "Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the
DD>vacancies  of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."


One does not, of course, need a `college' education to be qualified to like or
dislike a president and their policies. Those who did not attend colleges as
they are now in America, are far less likely to have a left-leaning bias to
their thinking. They are far less likely to have the `revisionist' slant that
seems to be taught in our colleges and universities, now-a-days.


In an America where violent radicals such as Bill Aires and Bernadine Dohrn,
instead of inhabiting prison cells for the domestic terrorism they engaged in
and encouraged, are esconced in teaching positions in one of our universities,
what is the exact value of a `college' education? Just how complete, and wide
-viewed an education could be expected?






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