A neighbor of mine forwarded a typical Republican slur email against Obama, with the subject line "forward this to everyone you know." I wrote back and asked her why on earth would I want to forward that nonsense, then a few hours later, I pasted the fact check information (it was an email with "quotes" from Obama books and some fabricated pro-Muslim stuff), I was very cordial, and I hit "reply to all." I knew I could dodge most of the s**t in return because my email is blocked, but some guy on that list had a post in my suspect mail this morning.

He said "this is why there's one best candidate" and had attached cartoons. I opened one randomly before I deleted the message, but it couldn't be clearer why Critical Thinking is a skill lost in America today. It portrayed various swarthy dictators alongside a tidy Fox News anchor at his desk, and said something like "name the one party Obama won't meet with." It's amazing how one statement that adds up to the idea that 'if you don't speak to your enemies you'll never be able to negotiate or understand them' can spin into this cartoon, and that more people will think the cartoon is correct than will ever hear the clear statement from Obama. And that Fox is a rational player in the national debate. Geez.

SRS