Think about the following:
• Former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has made the claim that President Obama’s health care plan would establish “death panels” to oversee end of life care for the elderly and terminally ill.
• A Swastika was found spray-painted on a sign fronting the office of U.S. Rep. David Scott, D-Georgia, (who is Black) a week after rowdy attendees at a town hall meeting angrily confronted the congressman over health care reform.
• Newly-turned Democratic Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania faced a hostile crowd as well as taunts during a town hall meeting on health care reform.
• Right wing agitator and talk show host Glenn Beck of FOX News states that President Obama has a hatred of White people.
• A political poster of President Obama equating him with the deviant Batman character, the Joker, is posted on a number of right wing Web sites.
• A small but vocal number of Americans (known as birthers) refuse to believe that President Obama is an American-born citizen
