Quote Originally Posted by maladroit
why wouldn't americans vote for barack hussein obama? because he's guilty by association of his middle name to saddam hussein?
i must admit, i thought that bigotry and innuendo would win out over guilt and envy. that was quite early in the campaigning and we had yet to see how neatly packaged the messiah was to become.

i bet a more than a few mccain voters blindly followed the fox network on that association.
i think you'll find that any propaganda from the right was more than outweighed by that from the left by sheer volume alone. conservatism was never even represented by the candidates that were finally given up for the vote. this was a choice between the failures of the bush administration, far from a conservative bunch of fools, and the possibility of anything else. of course the anything else won.