Rumor based polls don’t change reality

The battle over health care is over, and the war is just beginning. But is this war really about health care? Or is it really over Obama?

The new Harris Poll results show that 38 percent of Republicans, and 20 percent of Americans overall believe that Obama is like Hitler and 24 percent of Republicans, and 14 percent of Americans overall, think that he may be the Antichrist.

Seriously? Now I'm not saying that the health care bill isn't without its faults. I don't believe in making people participate in something that they don't want to participate in, but how does that make Obama the Antichrist or Hitler?

Yes, Hitler forced people into atrocities, but I can't equate forcing people to be gassed to death with forcing people to get health care.

The poll also found that 57 percent of Republicans and 32 percent of Americans overall thought that Obama was Muslim and 45 percent of Republicans and 25 percent of Americans overall thought that he shouldn't be president because they don't believe he was born in the United States.

First of all, didn't we go through all this during the elections? And what does this have to do with health care? It's like high school all over again. You didn't like the grade a teacher gave you for the class, so you spread vicious rumors about her all over school. It's just plain childish.

And how quickly it is that we forget George W. Bush. It goes without saying that he was a disaster, but I don't think anyone questioned where he was born, as if that really would have any bearing on how he ran the country. He did get compared to Hitler, though.

Why do people even resort to these tactics? Who even came up with this poll in the first place? If you don't like Obama, fine. If you don't agree with the health care bill either, that's fine too, but how does bashing him get us anywhere?

If you want to see some change, then do something; don't just say something because it doesn't fix anything.

Spreading this malicious talk only incites more fear and more hate. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the poll also found that those people who aren't college educated are more likely to believe in myths about the president.

Educated or not, this kind of intolerance is stupid and it gets us nowhere. It only serves to incite fear in the masses, and that is more like Hitler than anything Obama has done.