# Obama "scares" former P&G VP Lou Pritchett in mass email -- What say you?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 29, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-scares-former-p-g-vp-lou-pritchett-in-mass-email-what-say-you/508142 "2009-08-29T07:25:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-scares-former-p-g-vp-lou-pritchett-in-mass-email-what-say-you/508142/121 "2009-09-02T01:42:43Z")

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Why do I feel like I want to buy a vowel?

@ Shodan

Obama did NOT attend a Muslim school. Please acknowledge that fact.

You see, it’s important because the implication is that he received an education in the Muslim faith. (Although why that would be a bad or unAmerican thing is entirely unclear.) Nevertheless, there are people who mistakenly believe that his attendence at that school translated into his conversion to Islam. He was, in fact, religiously agnostic (as was his mother) until he became a Christian.

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**Author:** ![recessiveMeme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@recessiveMeme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/recessiveMeme)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-scares-former-p-g-vp-lou-pritchett-in-mass-email-what-say-you/508142/122 "2009-09-02T16:58:06Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Its OK If A Conservative Does It. (duh)

Not sure you get to “duh” if the _only_ results of a [search](http://www.google.com/search?q=IOKIACDI) reference this thread. When using an acronym that even google doesn’t know, one ought to provide an explanation. UOAE.

(Unnecessary obfuscation annoys everyone.)

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-scares-former-p-g-vp-lou-pritchett-in-mass-email-what-say-you/508142/123 "2009-09-02T17:01:43Z")

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> [@](#):
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> (Unnecessary obfuscation annoys everyone.)

It’s OK if elucidator does it. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-scares-former-p-g-vp-lou-pritchett-in-mass-email-what-say-you/508142/124 "2009-09-02T17:01:58Z")

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It’s more commonly spelled IOKIARDI (“It’s ok if a Republican does it”) or IOIYAR (“It’s ok if you’re a Republican”).

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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-scares-former-p-g-vp-lou-pritchett-in-mass-email-what-say-you/508142/125 "2009-09-02T17:30:47Z")

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> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> It’s more commonly spelled IOKIARDI (“It’s ok if a Republican does it”) or IOIYAR (“It’s ok if you’re a Republican”).

That makes it much better then, to know that if it had been completely different than it was it might have been more comprehensible to some people.

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