Ask President Barack Obama about his religious affiliation, and he’s a Christian. Ask Mississippi or Alabama voters, and you might find a different answer. In the midst of tight GOP primaries in both states, Public Policy Polling (PPP) has released information showing that a majority of likely GOP primary voters in the Deep South do not see Obama as a Christian
There’s uninformed. There’s ignorant. There’s aggressively stupid. Then there’s whatever it is that’s going on in Mississippi and Alabama these days. Perhaps there’s something in the water. Perhaps it really isn’t the heat, but the stupidity. Whatever the explanation, a majority of GOP primary voters in Mississippi and Alabama don’t believe that President Obama is a Christian.
Part of me can’t help but wonder how much of the lunacy and aggressive, wanton ignorance has to do with racism. If Obama was White (actually, he’s halfway there), I don’t believe most of the current silliness would exist. Not that the good, God-fearing White Christians wouldn’t be demonizing the President for being a Liberal (which he’s definitely NOT) and a Democrat (at least they’ve nailed that one). Slice it however you will, there are a large number of arch-Conservative White southerners who just can’t stomach the idea of a Black man in the White House.
Evidently, Jim Crow is alive and well and residing in the minds of GOP primary voters in the Deep South.
I’m sorry (actually, I’m really not), but if you honestly believe that the President isn’t a Christian despite his numerous statements to the contrary, you should really do the country a service and forfeit your voter’s registration. If your hatred and prejudice have left you so thoroughly blinded that you’d believe the President is a closet Muslim despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, you’re clearly too addled and stupid to be trusted with the responsibility of voting. I don’t mean that to sound arrogant and self-righteous, though I realize it probably does. Seriously, though; if you can’t be bothered to live in the realm of reality, if your racism and arrogance have left you thoroughly incapable of accepting the abject truth, you have no business participating in the democratic process. I can handle the fact that you will never agree with me on anything. I can accept that you will never vote as I do…and I’m OK with that. But is it too much to expect that you’d make an informed decision based on facts and truth? Why must this country be run by those elected by extras from the set of “Idiocracy”?
It would seem the answer to both those questions is a resounding “yes.” And you wonder why I fear for the future of this country….