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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 06:11 PM

    Debunk this

    I must get two of these a day. My views are know to be consevative. Many times, I just delete them on other occassions I check it out and pass on that it's BS.

    I got this one today. See if you can Debunk it.

    "JACK WHEELER is a brilliant man who was the author of

    Reagan's strategy to break the back of the Soviet

    Union with the star wars race and expose their inner

    weakness. For years he wrote a weekly intelligence

    update that was extremely interesting and well

    structured and informed. He consults(ed) with several

    mega corporations on global trends and the future,

    etc. I think he is in semi-retirement now. He is a

    true patriot with a no-nonsense approach to

    everything. He is also a somewhat well known mountain

    climber and adventurer.

    Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler

    The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently

    tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments,

    no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of

    how the economy works, no understanding of how the

    world works, nothing but abstract empty rhetoric

    devoid of real substance.

    He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he

    rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he

    hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic

    surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way

    to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in

    Kenya . Only a small part of him is African Black from

    his Luo grandmother, which he pretends he is

    exclusively.

    What he isn't, not a genetic drop of, is

    'African-American,' the descendant of enslaved

    Africans brought to America chained in slave ships.

    He hasn't a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead,

    his Arab ancestors were slave owners. Slave-trading

    was the main Arab business in East Africa for

    centuries until the British ended it.

    Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of

    slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he

    makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.

    It's something Hillary doesn't understand - how some

    complete neophyte came out of the blue and stole the

    Dem nomination from her. Obamamania is beyond

    politics and reason. It is a true religious cult,

    whose adherents reject Christianity yet still believe

    in Original Sin, transferring it from the evil of

    being human to the evil of being white.

    Thus Obama has become the white liberals' Christ,

    offering absolution from the Sin of Being White. There

    is no reason or logic behind it, no faults or flaws of

    his can diminish it, no arguments Hillary could make

    of any kind can be effective against it. The

    absurdity of Hypocrisy Clothed In Human Flesh being

    their Savior is all the more cause for liberals to

    worship him: Credo quia absurdum, I believe it because

    it is absurd.

    Thank heavens that the voting majority of Americans

    remain Christian and are in no desperate need of a

    phony savior.

    His candidacy is ridiculous and should not be taken

    seriously by any thinking American."

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