An email I received.

BAMAVOO

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I am not an Obama supporter, but man this stuff is crazy.

> Read this, learn it, know it!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> An Obama classmate speaks out
>
> Yes, Wayne Allyn Root’s statement below has been “Correctly Attributed.”
> The link to Snopes.com is at the end of his statement.
> If Obama is re-elected in 2012, the US is finished.
> The following is in simple language that everyone can understand.
> Not the gibberish that our government keeps telling people.
> Please read this carefully and make sure you keep this message going.
> This needs to be emailed to everyone in the USA ...
> OBAMA’S COLLEGE CLASSMATE SPEAKS OUT
>
> By Wayne Allyn Root
> Barack Hussein Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent.
> To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
> He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. Economy to create systemic
> failure, economic crisis and social chaos – thereby destroying
> capitalism and our country from within.
> Barack Hussein Obama was my college classmate.
>
> (Columbia University, class of '83).
> He is a devout Muslim; do not be fooled. Look at his Czars....
> Anti-business…anti-American.
> As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Barack Hussien Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University ... They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands.
> Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival... And can be counted on to always vote for even bigger government.
> Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
> Universal health care!
> The health care bill had very little to do with health care.
> It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and
> health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents
> (who will join government employee unions).
> Obama doesn’t care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt.
> What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government.
> Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?
> Cap and trade!
> Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care,
> cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything
> to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy
> and a criminal payoff to Obama’s biggest contributors.
> Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power.
> The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama “spread the wealth around.”
> Make Puerto Rico a state. Why?
> Who’s asking for a 51st state? Who’s asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression?
> Certainly not American taxpayers! But this has been Barack Hussien Obama’s plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressmen and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.
> (This will tip the balance of those living off the government to more
> than those who must pay for it; and we’re done for) Legalize 12
> million illegal Mexican immigrants.
> Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care
> alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America.
> But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted
> on to support big government.
> Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent
> children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security...
> (see note above re: Puerto Rico)
> Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go?
> It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country.
> It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues.
> It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions).
> A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues).
> All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America ...
> The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but
> Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful.
> The ends justify the means.
> Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job
> creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of
> taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama).
> Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government.
> Barack Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.
> With the acts outlined above, Barack Hussein Obama and his regime have
> created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent
> on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
> Add it up and you’ve got the perfect Marxist scheme – all devised by
> my Columbia University college classmate Barack Hussein Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan...
> http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp
>
> Last point: think about what this designed “rule of the rabble” will
> do to anyone successful…and everyone receiving this is. What will your
> lives be like under communism? The time to fight this abomination is
> now…
>
> I hope each of you will forward this to at least a dozen people!
 

fskimospy

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lol. My favorite part is that it's Obama's 'classmate' by virtue of going to Columbia at the same time. By that same logic I was classmates with Chelsea Clinton and James Franco! Who knew that I ran in such fancy circles!?

I remember reading an interview with the Snopes people awhile back and they mentioned that the sheer volume of crazy right wing email astounded them. No matter who has been the president, Republican or Democrat, the quantity of insane chain emails has always heavily favored the right. I wonder why that is?
 

kage69

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lol. My favorite part is that it's Obama's 'classmate' by virtue of going to Columbia at the same time. By that same logic I was classmates with Chelsea Clinton and James Franco! Who knew that I ran in such fancy circles!?

I remember reading an interview with the Snopes people awhile back and they mentioned that the sheer volume of crazy right wing email astounded them. No matter who has been the president, Republican or Democrat, the quantity of insane chain emails has always heavily favored the right. I wonder why that is?


I've contemplated this very question for sometime. My answer: a heady mix of fear and ego.
 

pauldun170

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In other words, a political commentator who never met Obama, went to the same school as Obama (and never heard of Obama while he was there) penned an opinion piece hit job to float about the interwebz and newsletters.

It is neither Crazy nor worth anyone's time.
All it proves is that old people will believe anything they get in their inbox and float bullshit to their kids and grandchildren who then have to seriously set up email rules to block anything with FW: in the subject line that comes from said grandparents.

yes grammar nazis...thats a long ass sentence.
 

CrackRabbit

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Did it have at least three FW: in front of the subject?

Then you know it's real and valid.
 

Orignal Earl

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Join Date: Oct 1999

How can people so internet savvy still be getting concerned with these emails
 

shira

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I received an email offering to sell me a miraculous pill that would allow me to lose 30 pounds in one month, without dieting or exercise.

(I think the cost of the pills was 30 pounds sterling.)
 

HomerJS

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I received an email offering to sell me a miraculous pill that would allow me to lose 30 pounds in one month, without dieting or exercise.

(I think the cost of the pills was 30 pounds sterling.)

I received an email from the Financial Prime Minister of Uganda offering me a cut of $10 mill if I'll help him get the money out of the country. He only needs my bank account #
 

kami333

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I received an email offering to sell me a miraculous pill that would allow me to lose 30 pounds in one month, without dieting or exercise.

(I think the cost of the pills was 30 pounds sterling.)

Probably the tapeworm diet.
 

Mxylplyx

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Republican or Democrat, the quantity of insane chain emails has always heavily favored the right. I wonder why that is?

I live in Alabama, so I'm in the lions den for conservative politics. Have you ever read articles about how political discourse in the middle east is dominated by wild rumors and boogeymen? A general lack of education, combined with a healthy dose of racism and xenophobia leads to this.

Well, peoples politics here follow roughly the same course. Rick Santorum wins their hearts and minds by avoiding real, substantive issues in this country like the economy or foreign policy. He instead constructs a simple narrative about how evil liberals are trying to take your religion, and how Mexicans and Muslims are going to invade your neighborhood. Raising taxes on the insanely wealthy is wealth distribution, even though most people here are poor or lower middle class. He plays on peoples ignorance and irrational fears, which are plentiful here in Alabama. Most people here either dont care to or are intellectually incapable of having a nuanced, educated debate on a serious topic.

As much as social conservatives hate Muslims and feel threatened about them, they mirror their way of life in more ways they would care to admit.
 

Orignal Earl

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I really like how they used the snopes link in there.

*Did Root write an opinion piece saying Obama is purposely overwhelming the US economy?*
*Correct*

I'm guessing to people who fall for this crap, that means the rest must be true too
 

Moonbeam

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I've contemplated this very question for sometime. My answer: a heady mix of fear and ego.

Did you say fear and ego?????? Good grief, those are both the direct results of self hate. There will be another trait that goes along with this, the desire to punish people, the desire to demonize somebody to make themselves feel better. Would I be one of them if I pointed out they are dangerous? Fear is contagious. After 50 million dead the exhausted Germans made their banding together illegal. After our society is destroyed by allowing them free speech to sicken others, we may see the wisdom of doing the same.

We have a real problem when we live in a society that allows the brain damaged to damage the brains of their children. Perhaps that's why the sick fear the healthy. Know instinctively they would best be put away, they fear the sane will come to the same conclusion.
 

JTsyo

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It's funny that the e-mail starts off with the claim that he's a Muslim but then goes onto point out socialist issues. How many socialist Muslims are there? How many Communist countries are there that have a majority Muslim population?
 

DrPizza

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Snopes agrees that the article is correctly attributed to the author. i.e. Snopes says who the author is.

Snopes does not say that the article is factual.

Unfortunately, 70% of the population isn't intelligent enough to recognize this distinction.
 

rudder

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Unfortunately, 70% of the population isn't intelligent enough to recognize this distinction.

More like 95%... and the one who can spew out the most bullshit and make it believable will win the Presidential election... whether it be obama or the likely contender, Romney.
 

jackschmittusa

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pauldun170

What's with the "old people" remark? I'm retired and the only people I know that can't wait to tell me about their BS emails are in their 20s and 30s. And they don't forward them to me anymore under penalty of banishment from my email. Most of the "old people" I've counciled in the past have learned well about the subject. It seems that the younger ones are still skeptical and keep hoping for that secret, insider info to improve their lot or popularity with their special knowledge.