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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 01:17 AM

    The old Obama fan standby...

    Only very ignorant,stupid,racist voters believe this stuff, and they will not vote for Obama anyway. Most of this is racism.

    To call into question the premise of Michelle's thesis, which still stands, no matter what Madden or Snopes says, is perfectly legitimate...the fact of the matter is her premise, followed by her attending a church whose ideas very much jibe with the ideas espoused in that thesis, belie any denials on her part that she doesn't believe in a separationist viewpoint of the races. Her behavior at Princeton, well documented by numerous corrobative evidence among interviews with dozens of former classmates, indicates that Ms. Obama tended not to intermingle with white fellow students, certainly something many black students on our nation's campuses do not do, and which certainly was not my experience with African American students on my college's campus, who interacted and engaged with white students and vice versa easily. There is a pattern here of behavior that says more than anything she may claim and anything Obama's supporters may try to claim. As is always the case, Obama's fans toss out the charge of racism when faced with real and firm evidence of problematic behavior on his or Michelle's part. This nonsense must end now. Obama's supporters use the "racism" charge as a cudgel to silence critics...this will not continue.

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