McCain: Obama's Genocide Tautology

In a mailer entitled Obama on Genocide the McCain campaign attempted to take a statement Obama made at a Holocaust museum in Jerusalem and compare it to a comment made previously in an attempt to, I shit you not, portray Obama as soft on Genocide. For your consideration, here is the portion of the mailer designed to convince you that Obama does not think genocide is a bad thing:

Obama on July 20, 2007:
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.

“Well, look, if that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now — where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife — which we haven’t done,” Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press.

I can't fucking believe that I have to explain this. So you know what? I'm not going to. If you can't read what Obama said and understand what those words mean then FUCK YOU!

I've been told that I need to be nicer, that attacking people is not the best way to communicate a message. That some folks, god bless 'em, are just a little bit slow up the uptake so we need to hold their hands and coddle them through the big mean world of simple sentences and If / Then statements.

The problem is that when you look at the situation the problem is bigger than a misunderstanding of a particular quote. The problem is that fuckhead are fuckheads. That to some people McCain's argument is compelling and sensible. There are human beings who would read that and say, "Oh, well, I guess Obama does not think genocide is bad! Better vote for whitey!" And they're not skewing their understanding, they're not intentionally deluding theirselves. They actually think those things, in a very loose understanding of what "think" means!

This is not a situation in which one ought to invoke the "attract flies with honey" mentality. Because you know what? These flies would fucking drown in the honey. Seriously. Anyone who read that mailing and actually thinks that quote indicates that Obama likes genocide is stupid; actually stupid. They are a lost cause. And not in some sort of rhetorical or exaggerated sense. They're just plain too fucking stupid to help. We don't need to be nice to them. We don't need to coddle them. We don't need to explain things to them. We need to buy them a fucking helmet and put them in a padded room before they inadvertedly hurt themselves by voting for McCain.

IF we need to prevent genocides THEN we need to prevent genocides.

IT'S A FUCKING TAUTOLOGY!!