What's funny, is that people actually fall for this kind of joke. The rumor goes that Obama is going to require all soldiers to take an oath of loyalty directly to the president, not to the constitution as they are actually required to. When reading the original piece, found at http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/search/label/Barack%20Obama (if you scroll about one third of the way down), states, at the beginning, that the entry is a satire piece, meaning it is NOT real. And many have responded to this entry saying that they knew all along that Obama was going to say such a thing and that they now have insider information about the veracity of this argument. The moral of this tale is this: the Internet is not reliable and that some people are not paying attention to necessary details, like the fact that the piece was fake. To believe such a document, given that the author out rightly said it was satirical, would prove disastrous in a real life application. For people to believe the first thing that they hear without finding out if it is true or not is just absolutely ridiculous. We need to be able to separate fact from fiction and this was an example where people couldn't even do that when the truth was staring out rightly in their face.
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