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• Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:02 PM

  Not so much debunking as explaining away.

  I finished the first email, matching quotes to her thesis found on Politico, and I have to say, Mr. Madden, I'm very underwhelmed by your "debunking." I don't recall a single factually inaccurate statement in the entire email, aside from the mystery fellow black classmate. You merely argue that things are taken out of context, etc, when, frankly, they don't appear to be. In fact, you are engaging in some of the same techniques the chain emailer uses. For example, you put the following statement "Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to 'Whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first...' However, it was reported by a fellow black classmate, 'If those 'Whites at Princeton' really saw Michelle as one who always would 'be Black first,' it seems that she gave them that impression'." all in quotes, and then only "debunk" half of it, giving the impression that the first quote was also not in the thesis, when it was, and it is particularly damaging to Mrs. Obama. Really, a piss-poor job at trying to explain away damaging Obama material. Another poster mentioned the anti-White sermons the Obama sat through in church for 20 years. This is just more evidence of that type of attitude. Where there's smoke, there's probably a fire. That being said, Obama is clearly the better choice, but Mr. Madden, you really look like a partisan hack when you write this kind of stuff.

  —wright5579 Read wright5579's other letters
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