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You've chosen quite a bit of extreme information that you say has been circulating around the Internet. There is more information out there that is likely to be true. The fact is that many people are not going to vote for Barack Obama nor are they going to listen to the debunking. He is not a candidate that a major party should put up as presidential material. If Obama had a record in the Senate of legislation or doing much work during his lifetime, these "evil" email gossips wouldn't matter a bit. Why would anyone want to vote for someone with so empty a record who will only go on witch hunts if elected to find out who is putting bad information out about him. The evil rumor of Thomas Jefferson bedding his slave was probably true and debunking it didn't seem to matter in the long run. If rumors aren't true, they will go away. Tell Salon's and the media's candidate to "get a life."