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My lack of sleep lately is starting to cause mood swings, not helped any by the seeming increased presence of Conservative family members and colleagues who feel compelled to send me their latest batch of anti-Obama e-mails. (I'd like to add that I have never initiated a political e-mail to anyone, only responded to unsolicited ones).
I've so far been letting it not get to me too much, trying instead to intelligently point out the blatant inaccuracies in their email forwards, or if the statements actually have some truth to them, offer up a legitimate counter argument.
However, after being subjected to another round early this morning (2:30) when my insomnia found me browsing through my emails, and again this afternoon during my lunch break internet check (feeling over-hyped on caffeine and looking at another 6 hours of patient appointments ahead of me), I finally lost it.
I returned an e-mail to a relative and told them point blank to "Stop sending this crap!"
I'm sick of it. Why is it that all the people who disagree with my pick of Obama seem to try to dissuade me from my (researched, reasoned, and rationally made) choice by throwing out frantic charges against him that all seem to contain either the words "Muslim", "Terrorist", "Liberal", or "Elite"? I'm not so much mad at the mud-slinging, but that the people who disagree with me cannot offer up reasons to support their candidate, and instead can only scream out paranoid inaccurate diatribes against Obama.
If anyone cares, I plan on listing the major reasons I support Obama soon, in this blog. You will find these reasons are based on my faith and values, and my candidate's precedent, his platform, and his plans surrounding a wide variety of issues. You will not find me basing my support for Obama on lies and innuendo directed toward his opponent.
So in the mean time: If you are a McCain supporter, and you want to send me an e-mail, and the e-mail is full of emotional buzzwords, fear mongering, or name calling, I respectfully ask that you shut up!
(Oh, BTW, I climbed another tree over the weekend)
1 comment:
Definately Understand that one. I recieved an e-mail just this morning of a small clip of "Obama slipping up and saying he's Muslim". I promptly went to Youtube.com, found a bigger section of that same interview, and e-mailed it back to them telling them that short clips can be very decieving, and perhaps they should listen to more than just the 10 seconds they had sent me.
I've had quite a few E-mail Forwarding Rants on my blog, its one of my biggest pet peeves.
My sister's family (except my sister.. she's all alone over there.. /comfort), and old Co-worker of Deon's father sends me the dumbest politically charged, most outragious things,and it really makes me angry at times.
Mostly because they are in such a hurry to fuel the fire, that they don't look up what they been sent, and or are re-sending. And many are from people that I consider to be "smarter" than that.
I've found that there are a quite lot of people have a really hard time to just agree to disagree.
It is quite frustrating, Hope the rest of your day gets better, that you get some sleep, and congrats on your most recent tree! :)
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