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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 07:00 AM

    @tailwind

    Punditocracy puts the mockery in democracy. No argument there, but that's gonna stay around. People don't read between the rhetoric, they swallow it whole and wash it down with a refreshing Pepsi cola.

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