no, you're not excused
- because of the dozens of examples of Obama = Hitler pictures taken at Teabagger rallies. They're all over Flickr.
- because of the dozens of racist pictures created by RepubliCANTS that were emailed to fellow RepubliCANTS. Example: picture saying that Obama is planting watermelons in the White House lawn. Example: picture of Obama as a African witch doctor with a bone through his nose.
- because of the hundreds of nutjobs that believe that Obama was born in Kenya and refuse to accept his Hawaiian certificate of live birth; thus, they believe that he's not a US citizen and thus his presidency is invalid.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
