My name is Markus Langenfeld and I’m not a Nazi.

I have a very German name, if you were to go on Google and search “Markus Langenfeld” you would get 2 entire pages about me and all of the places I hang out at online. After that it’s a mess of other websites that are definitely not in English. If you simply search Langenfeld you will get hotel listings for a town by the same name in Germany and a couple medical articles written by German doctors.

So I have a German name, blue eyes and blonde hair - I’m Hitler’s perfect youth. I must be some sort of Aryan or Neo-Nazi right?! I mean, I’d have to be. Well, I’m not. In all honesty the white costumes look like they would get dirty very easily and I never understood the whole cross burning thing. I might have the cool name but I don’t think I’d make a very good Nazi at all.

Let’s take that same logic and apply it to Barack Obama. Barack Hussein Obama, surely he’s some sort of Muslim terrorist trying to infiltrate our rock solid conservative government! I mean just look at his name right?! God help us if he becomes president, he might strap bombs to a bus and blow up a hospital!

You would think that these emails I’m now receiving every other day would get annoying but they are actually pretty amusing. It’s amusing that people buy this crap and how they can take a picture or statement and twist it so much that the stupidity just blows your mind. My email blows my mind, every day. I’ve come to the conclusion that half of the republicans I meet must have a biscuit for a brain, because when you mention Obama the only thing they can come back with is something related to his name, as if they are reading me the forwarded email they received that same morning.

So I just wanted to say that if I bother getting into a political discussion with you I’m hoping you will have more to back up your opinion than something as completely arbitrary as a name, otherwise you will just make yourself look stupid. Get over it people.