This person has a vote, too.

You may remember this person as the one who once asked me where Central America was. I’m not sure how politics came up in this situation, but I overheard her conversation with someone else today:

“If we don’t pick the right President, we’re dead…..you know Obama, when he swore to run for President, he swore on the muslim book, not the Bible…”

(I assume she doesn’t know the name for the ‘Muslim book’, the Koran.)

I interjected that that was an urban legend, and that he actually was sworn into the Senate on a Bible (I didn’t add that I think the fact that a lot of Americans would let a candidate’s religious affiliation affect their vote anyway is lunacy). She continued on, however:

“You know, he says that terrorists are the same as Americans…”

I gave up.

So, to repeat a point I’ve made so many times here: people are fucking terrifying. I can accept not voting for a candidate on ideological or philosophical grounds because, hey, not everyone is going to agree on the best way to do things. But I really shudder to think how many people have this kind of misinformation about Obama and other candidates and are going to vote (just like you or I) based on that.

We’ve got a long way to go.