Ignorance Leads to Votes for Obama

Last night, I broke the Yom Kippur fast after shul at a friend's house in New Jersey.  Of course, given it's election season, the discussion turned to politics.  While my friend and his wife are definitely right-thinking individuals, one of their houseguests seemed to be living in fantasy land.  Here are some tidbits that I learned from him:

• Mitt Romney converted millions of Jewish holocaust victims to Mormonism posthumously
• Barack Obama only went to Reverend Wright's church 25 years ago
• Reverend Wright was not anti-American
• Obama loves Israel
• Obama never went to a Muslim School in Indonesia nor even ever lived in Indonesia at all
• Jews provide an insignificant percentage of the funding for the Democratic Party, therefore Obama will act no differently after the election than he did before it

By the end of the discussion, after I shed some light, his eye was twitching nervously.  I even held myself back.  He seemed to like to make a big issue of Romney's mormonism yet I kept myself from bringing up the fact that both Obama's father and grandfather were polygamists.