I hope you get mad

y The title of this blog was also the subject line for the following email I received. Along with the photo was the text:

"Senator Barack Obama, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Hillary Clinton and Ruth Harking stand during the national anthem. Barack Hussein Obama's photo (that's his real name)......the article said he REFUSED TO NOT ONLY PUT HIS HAND ON HIS HEART DURING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, BUT REFUSED TO SAY THE PLEDGE.....

How in the hell can a man like this expect to be our next Commander-in-Chief????

I can't say that I got mad, but perhaps a bit disappointed, not in Obama, but in the stark ethnocentric fascism reflected in this message accompanying the photo. I don't know if the claim about the pledge of allegiance thing is accurate or not, and might concede the queery about the Senator's presidential aspirations (or at least political acumen in this instance), but do the thought police require Mr. Obama to wear a "brown shirt" (if you are not familiar with this reference, know that those who do not understand history may be condemned to repeat it) and change his name to something less ethnic/Islamic for you? A lot of people died for us to be free; must those who express their freedom in a manner different from you but harmful to no one be ostracized? It seems ironic that the writer criticizes Senator Obama for not publicly "pledging his allegiance" when the writer is contradicting the point of the pledge to protect the right to "liberty and justice for all."