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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 04:09 AM

    @Patrick Vashon

    Patrick Vashon: "Like a true fanatic you can not see any flaws in your chosen leader."

    This statement is immediately irrelevant, since the topic of the article is not Obama's flaws or lack of flaws, it's the truth or untruth of emails that claim Obama is a Muslim, or that Michelle Obama is some sort of black-liberation extremist. Both emails are demonstrably false.

    Also false is your assertion that I do not see flaws in Obama. I see some flaws, just not the exaggerated or outright false ones that people are attempting to circulate so that McCain will win the election.

    Patrick Vashon: "Your devotion would do well in Jonesville."

    JONESVILLE? Wait, don't you mean Jonestown? What, you can't even get your hackneyed insults right? Idiot.

    Patrick Vashon: "You still fail to answer the question of why he spent 20 years listening to that hate."

    Please provide evidence that every sermon for 20 years was hateful. You don't have any. In fact, I don't think you know much about the church other than the few clips you've heard. I've listened to full, 45-minutes sermons by Jeremiah Wright, and they actually are full of positive messages. Why don't you listen to one instead of parroting what far-right political extremists tell you to believe?

    Patrick Vashon: "Take the blinders off for just a minute and look at him objectively."

    For you to tell anybody to take blinders off, or to be objective, is the height of irony.

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