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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:00 AM

Debunking anti-Obama e-mails

Error-filled chain e-mails designed to scare voters away from Barack Obama are circulating widely on the Internet. Salon deconstructs a pair, one smearing the candidate, the other his wife.

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  • Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:37 AM

    @maureen

    Every goddamn ethnic enclave in this country has some kind of a grudge. It's always been that way since Jamestown. The racism thing though, that's the tar that the true American idealists are ever hopeful of taking to the quick, and then getting it to stick. I mean, just look at all the jerkoffs who're striving like their lives depend on it to cast Obama and his wife as the leaders of a black nationalist underground who will first thing off the bat, start out with a punitive policy against "those people."

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