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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 03:39 AM

    Wow

    Well, welcome to the fight, Salon.

    I kept waiting for the part about how this spells doom for Barack Obama because he can't win and it's his fault for being too vulnerable in these terms and shouldn't have been chosen as a nominee or we should be concerned that he was the nominee or.... and then I realized that it wasn't there, that this was actually just debubunking the anti-Obama smears.

    Good stuff. A lot of the Obama haters here are going to be annoyed at you now if you keep this up but they really are a tiny fraction of the actual Democratic population. They just seemed larger because so many of them post here.

    In any case, thank you. The entire smear machine is geared up and already well into the battle, it's nice to see another voice being used to start fighting it.

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