I thought with the elections behind us that the smut campaign would stop. Wrong! I have already had several racial 'jokes' hit my mail box, and yesterday I received a particularly offensive piece, "The Making of a Fuhrer" by Ali Sina that came complete with Russian music in the background (an email with music embedded???) Why would a staunch patriotic Republican forward such an offensive piece? The author is Iranian! Don't anyone ever bother to check who the author is before forwarding such trash? That he is anti-Muslim does not make him pro-Christian or pro-American. It just makes him another disgruntled Iranian.

I have to say this. Because of the volunteer organization to which I belong, I probably have as many as 600 addresses in my Outlook Contacts address book. Less than 100 are 'personal'. (I get a lot of emails!) I got emails every day throughout the campaign bashing Obama, calling him everything from a terrorist to a Socialist, a Muslim sympathizer, oh, you have read it all yourselves. You know of all of the trash and slander thrown his way. What I am getting to is this: while I received very offensive emails maligning Obama, sometimes three and four in a single day, I never received ONE SINGLE email trashing McCain in like manner. What does that tell you? It tells me that right wing Republicans are prone to hate mongering, and I for one am glad that we have the opportunity to undo some of the harm done by these extremists over the past decade.

Another aside, but along the same vain: the purchase of assault rifles and other high power weapons has gone up 15% since the elections. I grew up with NRA and am 'soft' on gun ownership, but someone please tell me why anyone needs an assault weapon?? Is this how the right wing R extremists hope to regain power? Very scary.