JustineCase member for 30 weeks 3 days

There was an email about Obama "removing" the American flag from his plane as he refurbished it for his campaign. I live in the deep South and I must say I am getting a bit frustrated with all the anti-American statements flying around during this election.

Candidates all have, and have all had, airplanes for their campaigns that have had their logos on them - Obama chose a plane from the North American Airlines fleet and it is THEIR logo he had removed from the tail.

Take a look at Snopes...
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/airplane.asp

Mc Cain doesn't have a big giant American Flag on his plane either... so why aren't we talking about that?

To me, the source of these emails and the gossip shrouds a quiet racism that can be swept under the rug of "inexperience" and "muslim" and "anti-American", then they are sent to people without racism in their heart, where they're taken as fact that he doesn't like the American Flag or he won't raise his hand during the pledge of allegiance or is a Muslim terrorist blah blah blah...

Obama is a senator. He's a Christian. He's black. He's a Democrat. Can we all move on now?

John Mc Cain is a senator. He's a Christian. He's white. He's a Republican with a dash of independence.

I don't agree with either of them 100% of the time, but what I am 100% sure of is that both men are patriotic and think they both have the best ideas for the next vital steps our country has to make.

I have never heard so many "anti-American" sentiment during an election in all the years I have been paying attention to politics. And somehow it's all being thrown in one direction.

I wish people would listen to debates and make informed, educated decisions rather than discover "truth" in mass emails that have no specific author... it's like the National Enquirer without the pictures. Just trash.

I would much rather disagree with someone when they can argue that they don't like Obama's plan for health care, or Mc Cain's Foreign Policy.

I am so sick of giving a shit how many houses people own or whether or not someone painted over an old logo of an American Flag.

Who will lead us in the direction you want to see your country move in? That's the only question I wish to hear the answer to.

God Bless America where we can talk about all this freely!!