I was sitting down talking with some of my friends this weekend and our conversation ranged in topic from what we did the night before to our thoughts on the Civil War and inevitably current politics came up.  I was shocked to hear that one of the fellows that I was talking to did not like Barack Obama because he “was probably Muslim” due to his middle name being Hussein and that he did not attend a Christian church until he had political ambitions.  I was floored at this.  Here was a good friend of mine that had been led astray by the complete bullshit that media members are allowed to spew out during election coverage.  This problem does not affect only my friend but nearly 12% of Americans will not vote for Obama because he is a Muslim.  This kind of ignorance does not come from being uninformed, it comes from being misinformed by the news outlets that are responsible for educating the masses on public matters.  If 12% of our population thinks that a half white American, half Black Kenyan is Muslim due to the fact that his name is Hussein because Bill O’Reilly said so then we have a problem with how the media is allowed to portray certain individuals that may have an opposing view on some topics.

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