Watch Out For Bogus Articles

I recently received an email that was forwarded to me by one of my blog recipients. It contained an article purported to be written by Dr. Walter Williams a conservative African- American professor who currently teaches at George Mason University. Williams is very well known in conservative circles and I was very surprised with the article because it claimed that Obama was a shoe-in in 2012 regardless of the state of the economy and all our other problems. When I searched this out I found that this was a bogus article written by some left wing nut and published in several leftist blogs like Move-on.com and others. You can check this on http://www.acnation.com/forum/topics/walter-williams-did-not-write, along with the article. Obviously, this was a ploy by radical liberals to make it appear that a credible conservative was already throwing in the towel on the 2012 election. The following is my response to each of the 10 points in the article before I knew it was a fraud.

1. We all know that the blacks will vote for him by 90%. However, they only make up 12% of the population and less than 50% even go to the polls to vote even when a black is running. That means that as a voting black they are less than 6%, even less when you count eligible voters (excluding prison inmates and under 18’s).

2.His point that college educated women will vote for Obama because of his looks and oratory is somewhat sexist, good looks is a subjective thing and his oratory which is no longer novel, in fact, he is rather boring when he does not have a teleprompter.

3.Liberals will vote for him but most of them are disenchanted with him because he is not liberal enough. They won’t vote Republican, but less will turn out for him than in 2008.

4.I agree that Democrats will vote for him but many party moderates are less enthusiastic about him and therefore less will turn out than in 2008, when they were trying to get back the White House.

5.Traditionally the Hispanic vote is split down the middle, and Hispanic’s are basically Republican in their values i.e. work ethic, anti-socialistic, for personal liberties, pro-life, and many do not favor amnesty for illegals since they got here by following the rules. Most want stronger border enforcement, particularly those who live in Border States. Obama should not take the Hispanic vote for granted.

6.His point about union members is also incorrect. Union leaders will certainly push the membership on to Obama and donate the money, but history shows that union members do not vote the way their leadership dictates, and, anyway, union members represent a very small voting block.

7.Williams’s point that big business will support Obama is also exaggerated. No doubt Obama is a great fund raiser with his base, most Presidents are, but you can be sure that this is not so in the energy industry, defense industry, or the financial industry. In fact, a recent article in the Wall Street Journal showed that hedge-fund managers and employees who supported Obama in 2008 have already greatly reduced donations they made to Democrats. Donations to Republicans were $13M in 2010 compared with $7M in 2008. Donations to Democrats dropped to less than $5M in 2010 versus $12M in 2008.

8.The media does love him but the race card accusation against people who criticize Obama has been defused and is ineffective.

9.Not sure special interest groups will be as strong for Obama in 2012, certainly not Jews; also homosexuals are not a strong voting block. I do know that Asians, who make up almost as much as the black population, will be in the Republican camp.

10.The polls currently show that Obama has lost the Independent vote compared to 2008; now less than 40% will vote for him in 2012. So Williams is wrong on this point.

All I can say is that if the article you get is somewhat fishy, it probably is, so don’t send it on.