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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 05:24 AM

    Did you ever talk to a wingnut?

    They're not interested in hearing the truth. They really do believe that "opinion equals truth." Debunking rumors and lies is fruitless and only serves to spread them further.

    I mentioned to a Republican friend recently that it was interesting how gas had dropped 35 cents a gallon even though no new off shore drilling was taking place as Republicans insist must happen to bring down prices. His reply? It's because we are talking about drilling that prices have dropped.

    Want to see what we're up against? Go to AOL news, click on a story and scroll down to the comment section at the end of the article. I'm not claiming it's a scientific sample, but I do believe it represents the average American voter: opinionated, yet uninformed; gleefully proud of their ignorance, having essentially a fourth or fifth grade education; arrogant; and profoundly dedicated to empowering a political ideology that impoverishes them and their children but satisfies their petty hatreds and fears.

    —hyonahil Read hyonahil's other letters

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