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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 12:32 PM

    Well, I have to agree that "debunked" is a ridiculous word, suggesting that somehint was "bunked" beforehand.

    I much prefer the word "debagged" which involved removing a man's trousers as a joke. Back in the l920s a loose type of trousers were/was called "Oxford bags" and during the inter-war years there was a lot of fun and frolic at British universities. This too was the world of American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald but now universities in the United States seem to produce nothing but pedants, poppinjays and PC types - incredibly boring. Forget about "debunking anti-Obama e-mails" but find the authors and debag them or you could debug them if you have some stocks of DDT.

    According to (British) Channel 4 News this evening, McCain is debagging Barack and also Mr. Tingle,with the quivering leg, because now the man supposed to have Alzheimer's Disease (while learning off all the answers while outside "the cone of silence" at Saddleback) is now ahead in the polls. Wait a minute. It's probably those PUMAS who weren't too madly keen on the tactics used during the Primary and the vicious assaults on womanhood by the "highly-educated" (laugh) Obama supporters. Then there are those blue-collar "heavily Catholic" types, as mentioned by Mike Madden in War Room. I bet there's nothing those primitives would like better than to debag Barack. America's answer to Rasputin, the holy savant, should be sent up there to convert them but alas! he's on another continent now, having been thrown under the bus but nipping away slick as a whistle.

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