[p class="textBodyBlack"][span id="byLine"][/span]"I think Obama would be a disaster, and there's a lot of reasons," said Pollard, explaining the rumors he had heard about the candidate from friends he goes camping with. "I understand he's from Africa, and that the first thing he's going to do if he gets into office is bring his family over here, illegally. He's got that racist [pastor] who practically raised him, and then there's the Muslim thing. He's just not presidential material, if you ask me."
[/p][p class="textBodyBlack"][span id="byLine"][/span]But on a recent visit to his son's auto shop, Peterman overheard misinformed customers talking again about a Muslim in the White House. [/p] [p class="textBodyBlack"][span id="byLine"][/span]"I don't know. The whole thing just scares me," Peterman said. "I'm almost starting to feel like the best choice is not voting at all." [/p] [p class="textBodyBlack"][span id="byLine"][/span]The truth squad
So far, those who have pushed the truth in Findlay have been rewarded with little that resembles progress. Gerri Kish, a 66-year-old born in Hawaii, read both of Obama's autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she swears Obama is Christian. Then she hands them the books, and they refuse to read them. "They just want believe what they believe," she said. "Nothing gets through to them." [/p] [p class="textBodyBlack"][span id="byLine"][/span]The new advertisement running in Findlay, in which Obama is pictured with his white mother and white grandparents as talks about developing a "deep and abiding faith in the country I love" while growing up in the Kansas heartland, is dismissed by residents of College Street as the desperate lies of another dishonest Washington politician. And they say that Obama's moves to put distance between himself and the Muslim community, with his campaign declining invitations to visit mosques and Obama volunteers removing two women in head scarves from the camera range at a rally in Detroit last week are just a too-late effort to disguise his true beliefs. [/p] [p class="textBodyBlack"][span id="byLine"][/span]For the past month, two students from the University of Findlay have spent their Tuesdays nights walking from door to door in the city to tell voters about Obama. Erik Cramer and Sarah Everly target Democrats and swing voters exclusively, but they've still experienced mixed results. Sometimes, at a front door, they mention their purpose only to have a dozen rumors thrown back at them and the door slammed "People tell us that we're in the wrong town," Everly said. [/p] [p class="textBodyBlack"]
[span id="byLine"][/span][/p][p class="textBodyBlack"]Good grief not this shit again, looks like I know what my 'job' will entail on the 5th. Midwesterners.
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