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   "During the past few weeks, the play of American politics has been particularly disturbing. Consider the willful ignorance of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, trying to convince his supporters that President Obama is "not one of us." To that end, he suggested that President Obama's worldview was shaped by his childhood in Kenya -- or maybe it was, Indonesia -- and by radical movements like the Kenyan Mau-Mau revolt. Huckabee, a potential Republican candidate for president, went on to say that President Obama's father and grandfather molded his "foreign" ideas about how the world works. It doesn't matter that President Obama hardly knew his father or his paternal grandfather, or that the Mau-Mau rebellion took place far from the Obama homestead in Kenya, a country President Obama first visited when he was 26 years old. Governor Huckabee also failed to mention the "inconvenient truths" that President Obama was raised by his mother and his maternal grandparents who grew up in Kansas or that President Obama's maternal grandfather fought with Patton in Europe during World War II."
Paul Stoller-Professor of Anthropology, West Chester University;
Author, The Power of the BetweenPosted: March 5, 2011 05:40 PM

   The willful and slanderous misinterpretation of facts, whether it be about Obama's heritage or public employees being the cause of our current financial woes, seem to be a hallmark of the Republican party as it currently does business. I do not know if either Democrats or Republicans have a monopoly on truth or sleazeball tactics, but it seems to me that the most blatant of all lies are being perpetrated by the Republican candidates who are jockeying for position in the primaries.