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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.
By Mike Madden

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  • Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:14 AM

    Didn't Get This One

    But this seems to be the only one my aunt HAS NOT forwarded. Probably because after the last one I clicked Reply to All and (politely) told her she was wrong and corrected each slander point-by-point.

    I have a feeling that she too finally learned the lesson "know your audience."

    —sybann Read sybann's other letters

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