OMG Mom-just STOP with the Obama conspiracy theories! *Vent*

i think you just need to leave the room each time she starts up
stop giving her an audience

Oh, I kind of remember that one, except I thought it was outrage over a teenage Malia wearing shorts on Air Force One while on vacation. Some of the things said were incredibly unkind; I feel for those girls being targets for people who hate their parents.    Remember the PR blogger who ripped apart their Thanksgiving outfits, and said it was because their parents didn't love and respect America?

I was gratified that one of their immediate defenders was Jenna Bush.

Well, considering we Illinoisans make such a to-do about being the "Land of Lincoln," I think many people would incorrectly say Mr. Lincoln was born in Illinois, not Kentucky. 

'Course, there's always the chance. Mr. Lincoln was born in...erm...Mexico? Plus, there was that whole kerfuffle when he refused to release his law school grades. Such an elaborate cover-up - deflecting by claiming he was self-taught. By candlelight, no less. Pffft! 

I think I'd skip the convo with momma, and just talk to your daughter. 

I can kind of understand how kids take on board things that parents or grandparents say. My dad (who is NOT a crazy right-wing nutjob by any stretch of the imagination) was talking to my DD about the detention centres that had been set up for illegal immigrants. He made a comment about how the (then) Prime Minister "threw little kids in jail" (because of course there were families in the detention centre, not just adults). So then of course my DD, who was about 8yo at the time, went around telling everyone that John Howard is a bad man because he throws little kids in jail. 

I guess I'm different. I would say "Some people like grandma believe that he was born outside of the US, he was born in Hawaii"

In general It's ok to believe different things that is what makes our country so great. It is important to research and then make your own opinion.

Just because Grandma believes something different doesn't make her a nutter.

But it's not true. It's been proven over and over its not true. When one believes something that is categorically wrong they move into a different territory. There is no question about where the president was born.

Both of you are right. He's an American. My point is Grandma believes he isn't. I think the lesson should be don't always believe
what you are told even if it comes from a trusted adult.

This thread reminds me of something I read yesterday in one of our newspapers that it's been reported in the Russian Press that the Duchess of Cambridge must have used a surrogate
 Some will believe everything they read/hear

you should see the crap my family come up with on Obama. I can count how many time i showed link to where they are wrong. It take me less then 3 minutes to pull up 4 different place to show them the facts. It drives me nuts and I am the one who has the lowest education.

Sadly, I wish my sister would be able to not discuss things, but she cannot help herself.

After I told her many, many times to not forward me her email rants and ravings, she didn't comply. I finally blocked her email.

This past fall, our father was in the hospital basically all the time for 4 months: he got very ill one night and had to be intubated and was transferred to the ICU. While he was sleeping in the ICU, she came to the hospital to stay for a couple of hours. Since only 1-2 people can be back at a time, my stepmom left to go home for a couple of hours, leaving my sister and I. Since my dad is sleeping and we really can't talk too much so as not to disturb him, I went out to the waiting area to make a few phone calls and use the internet. I had been there since 4 am. I came back to the room after 45 minutes to find my sister yammering away at the ICU nurse about politics and Obama and she had her "Bring back teaching handwriting in the schools" letter-writing campaign materials scattered on the window sill, on the food tray table for the patient, etc. Once I entered the room, the nurse is like "Oh, I have to go check on another patient" so she could leave...quickly. 

My sister starts in with her yammering as I am washing dad's face and wetting his lips.  I finally look at her and I said "Can't you just stop it?" and I am sure my "stink eye" was in full laser-glare mode. So she mumbles something about how "the liberals" can't stand to hear "other's opinions" (standard TP or AFP line). After an hour, she gets her crap picked up and she leaves to go to her "AFP" meeting which apparently was more important to her than staying with Dad.