So, this changes from time to time. I try something, I fail, I try something else, I fail.
Someday, something will not fail.
Monday, July 14, 2008
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A Newsweek poll released Friday showed that 12 percent of those polled believed Obama was sworn in as a U.S. senator on a Quran, and 26 percent believed that he was raised as a Muslim.
I can't help but wonder if the first part of the poll only had such a high percentage because the poll put the idea into people's heads. I mean, I doubt that your average person who would believe that sort of balderdash (50 cent word, thank you Betty Templeton) would even be able to tell you what the Koran was without a dictionary and a Muslim nearby to verify.
I agree with mh. I'm guessing most people have not heard the Quran rumors, and so this poll would be seemingly implying that this is a legitimate possibility.
That's fair. But 32% of people still approved of the way President Bush performed his job through the month of June. 13% STRONGLY approved.
I no longer give the population, at large, any credit for being reasonable human beings.
As Goebbels put it:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
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I can't help but wonder if the first part of the poll only had such a high percentage because the poll put the idea into people's heads. I mean, I doubt that your average person who would believe that sort of balderdash (50 cent word, thank you Betty Templeton) would even be able to tell you what the Koran was without a dictionary and a Muslim nearby to verify.
I agree with mh. I'm guessing most people have not heard the Quran rumors, and so this poll would be seemingly implying that this is a legitimate possibility.
That's fair. But 32% of people still approved of the way President Bush performed his job through the month of June. 13% STRONGLY approved.
I no longer give the population, at large, any credit for being reasonable human beings.
As Goebbels put it:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
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