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In reply to the discussion: The events that made you realize America is f'ing stupid? [View all]Niagara
(7,812 posts)However, I wasn't exactly what I would call "political aware" during my earlier voting years. My first Presidential election was for Bill Clinton's second term.
This all changed for me sometime after a man named Barack Obama announced his run for presidency.
I was literally minding my own business and I had previous Democratic voter/supporter (it one of my uncles) sending me email about what a bad man this Barack Obama was, and I'm actually like, "Who?". I had no idea who Barack Obama was.
Once the smear campaign started in my email inbox, I would go and look up the information and debunk the smears. I'd send an email back to everyone that was listed on that original email and I would hit back telling them that this is wrong and here is a link to this and here is a link to that to show what a lie this was or that was.
It didn't plan out the way my uncle thought it was going to and the more I learned about Barack Obama, the more I supported him in the 2008 presidential run.
My uncle wouldn't stop sending these lies and I ended up using his name, his email address and MY debit card and I donated money in Barack Obama's campaign fund. So now he's on the "thank you for donating to Barack Obama's campaign" email address permanently with all the other Democratic donation organization. I'm not usually this quick on the uptake and I had enough and the emails stopped.
Oops. This didn't work out very well for him.
This was my eye opening discovery where I realized that Americans can be effing stupid. And blatant liars.