Saturday, July 28, 2012

If the truth will stop a lie


Then this column by David Maraniss should put an end to all the mysterious conspiracies that the haters build around Barack Obama in their efforts to delegitimize the black man. He doesn't mince words as he begins and delivers a load of truth.
There are Obama doubters and haters out there who claim with righteous anger that they are “vetting” the president, something they say the mainstream media never did. Some of them have said that my new biography — unwittingly, they argue, for I am too dumb to understand what my research has unearthed — proves that Barack Obama’s defining memoir is phony and that his entire life is a fraud. My intent is not to defend Obama or his book; he can take care of himself, and I have my own questions about “Dreams From My Father,” which I make clear in my book. But when comparing the liberties Obama took with composite characters and compressed chronology — which he acknowledged in the introduction to his memoir — to the stretches his most virulent detractors have taken in building their various conspiracies, I believe that they are the frauds and fabricators.
Unfortunately there is not yet any cure for stupid, so this will probably change few minds. And it is the stupids that enable the lie to live and grow.

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