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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 06:21 AM

    Thinking persons

    Does Obama really think these e-mails have enough effect to set up a site debunking them. Anyone who wants to believe them probably will not enter the site to read the debunking. He should be more worried about what people see and hear from the targeted individuals themselves. My opinion of both Obamas comes from nothing I read (the biased MSM and other persons opinions) but from the words and actions of the Obamas themselves. I know him to be arrogant and incompetent by his words and actions. I know Michele to be racist because of her words and actions. So if someone has a differing opinion, that is their own opinion but I cannot be swayed when I have heard and seen for myself. The same goes for the opinion I have formed of the democratic party. I went to DC and saw for myself the selecting of Obama as the party nominee and anyone who believes he was not selected by the selfserving elites in the democratic party was not there to see/hear or have formed opinions from blogs and the MSM. People who form opinions from internet info are important because their votes count but if the world were perfect these blogs would not matter if the MSM would remain neutral so that persons could evaluate the news and not have to rely on opinions on the internet. Newspapers and network news has lost its credibility and that is why people have turned to other sources enabling the blogs and e-information to play such a huge part in the elections adding to the misinformation people obtain.

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