We Are NOT unpersons. We are NOT Vermin.

As most of the folks on these lists know, I've not only done no Obama bashing, but I've jumped on people who have. In these groups we are not Democrat or Republican or even Libertarian.

We are a big mix of people all of whom (except for the lurking Antis) have one thing in common: we feel smokers are being treated unfairly and unjustly and we feel that this has been done on the basis of lies created and promulgated by activist Antismokers and by those who live off the hundreds of millions of dollars in antismoking grant money from the MSA funding and from the NicoGummyPatchyPeople pushing their nicotine therapy products. Aside from our disagreement with Obama's SCHIP tax, the rest of his politics is something we should keep out of these groups if we want people to continue working together, and in particular we should make clear that we do not in any way support the not-so-thinly-veiled racism that we see so much of on the internet in the attacks on his policies.

But today Obama went over the edge. He not only broke a campaign promise, but he lied, lied absolutely without question, on national TV. And the lie he told, if we lie back and accept it without screaming long and loud, relegates us officially to the status of unpersons, of vermin not worth even a thought because we officially simply do not exist as citizens of America.

Below are two postings. I made the first one on several boards early this morning. I am now putting up variations of the second one. If you see a board somewhere discussing his Today show appearance and/or his health care plan, feel free to borrow from or outright paste from the below to get our message out.

We are NOT unpersons. We are NOT vermin. We are Americans and we will NOT tolerate being erased.

- Michael J. McFadden

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This morning's post:

Depending on Bloggers???
If President Obama is depending on bloggers for support I think he may have a problem. We're not nearly as forgiving as Meredith Vieira on the Today show. Think about this:
which is worse? #1 below or #2 below?
1) President Obama said, "The only tax change I've made in the 6 months I've been here is to cut people's taxes."
He said that - despite the clear and recorded fact that he raised cigarette pack taxes by 150% and raised the tax on one of the poorest well-defined minority groups in the country, smokers so poor they roll their own from shreds of tobacco and scraps of paper by OVER TWO THOUSAND PERCENT (from $1/lb to $24/lb). Note: this minority group averages well under $25,000 a year in income... not over $250,000 per year.
or
2) That Meredith Vieira simply let him get away with such a blatantly false statement without even a hint of a challenge?
Bloggers won't let him get off so easily.
Michael J. McFadden
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"
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This afternoon's post:
I have to admit, I am truly, completely, totally mystified.

Breaking campaign promises is one thing. Even when they are broken blatantly and without apologies.

Lying is something else entirely.

President Obama clearly, without ANY doubt or quibbling whatsoever, blatantly lied to the cameras this morning on the Today show and NO ONE seems to be raising the issue.

Obama said, and I quote exactly as you can see in the original clip:

"The only tax change I've made in the 6 months I've been here is to cut people's taxes."

He said that - despite the clear and recorded fact that he raised cigarette pack taxes by 150% and raised the tax on one of the poorest well-defined minority groups in the country, smokers so poor they roll their own from shreds of tobacco and scraps of paper by OVER TWO THOUSAND PERCENT (from $1/lb to $24/lb). Note: this minority group averages well under $25,000 a year in income... not over $250,000 per year.

He said that, and Meredith didn't even wince, much less even TRY to pretend to be a journalist and ask him about it.

And in all the previous postings on this board today, no one else seems to give it any importance either.

He **LIED** - no waffling, no minor prevarication, no slight mis-slip-of-the-tongue, he LIED just as blatantly as if Bush had said "We've set up no holding facilities for terrorists offshore." and no one seems to be calling him on it.

Can anyone offer an explanation for this???

Michael J. McFaddenAuthor of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"

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Michael J. McFaddenAuthor of Dissecting Antismokers' BrainsMid-Atlantic Director, Citizens Freedom Alliance, Inc.Director, Pennsylvania Smokers' Action Network (PASAN)
http://www.antibrains.com