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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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  • Debunked? Must be true then?

    oooh--the "debunk" word. Yeah, the NYT has been "debunking" the lone gunman in Dallas for nigh on 45 years, bunking away at extraordinary evidence, scholarship, and the total contempt of most of the public.

    If the powers that be don't want something to be believed they move in with their "debunkers" and heap ridicule, ignoring any legitimate criticism. One thing that makes me absolutely sure the Brzezinski machine and legions of Obama bloggers are out and about, is the way Google and Yahoo have been "scrubbed" of any information about Larry Sinclair coming from Larry Sinclair or his proponents. All you can find is his record (which he admits to anyway). I've listened to this man, and while I don't know about his motives, his information and delivery is pretty damn cogent and he's got witnesses.

    I wouldn't be at all surprised, from what I actually do know, that Obama is just a suit full of slime. Most who run -- or rather "are run" for this office are slimey, but at least they pay lip-service to being a servant of the people and upholder of the Constitution.

    Mrs. O is a contemptable sucker-up of tax payer largess (Princeton my butt; no wonder she hates them; she didn't belong there but wanted the prestige and now makes oodles of money.) And this sickening creature claims she is "oppressed?" Ich. You would not believe how she is despised by quite a few, not all white by any means.

    Keep trying Salon, but be careful. Because the word "debunk" just makes me know there's something the media doesn't want me to know. Whatever it is they are "debunking" is probably more true than anything the "debunkers" have to say.

  • @ gavini: You've made yourself perfectly clear.

    You hate Michelle Obama because she went to Princeton.

  • Fighting a non-battle

    We liberals like to make fun of George Bush, and that makes us happy, but we've completely failed to stop him and we loosed that man on us and the world.

    Similarly, we'll focus on some nonsense stuff about Obama, believing that that will keep him from the presidency: not.

    What will keep Obama out is his penchant for bloodless debate, a love of sonorous tones over fact, a rotten health care program, a timid energy program and his "refining" his plans to sort of include where the polls seem to push that day: so now we have drilling, and we surely have a whole lot of Jesus.

    It's Barack "me too!" Obama.

    Yeah, I'll vote for him. But if he can't do better than that, if he can't actually lead the Democrats... but then again, doing nothing is much much better than what Bush has done.

    The problems with race won't really emerge unless and until he makes it into office: then the bad guys will unload on him without reserve.

    Remember what they did to Clinton? They'll do that to Obama in spades.

  • And cursing, a lot of cursing

    We still have that going for us here.

  • stories matter

    The things people say to each other at the gym, at the dinner table, wherever people congregate--these things do matter, especially now that they can be spread exponentially by email.

    No matter how stupid or wrongheaded the story is, or the people spreading it, it does matter that this information is out there. And the loudest mouths, the Rush Limbaughs and Michael Savages are making it the gospel.

    Informal networks can have a lot of power--and email amplifies that power. Many people do not follow politics, and will go along with the opinions of others. One loud mouth can influence the votes of many.

    From a military family member, I was forwarded an email smear about Obama dissing the troops while he was in the Middle EAst. (You know how Dems "hate America," "hate the troops," and are "elitist"--especially a certain uppity black ones.) Completely false and debunked already--but there were hundreds on the forwards before it got to me. Fortunately, one military wife replied to all with "Why This Military Family Is Voting for Obama."

    I think it's important for all Democrats to address this, at the national and kitchen table scale--John Kerry waited much too long. In 2000, Al Gore failed to answer an NRA smear campaign (total lies about how Al was keen on gun control) and people believed it. And they voted against him in counties he'd won in for decades. And if Al had carried his home state, he'd be president now by electoral and popular vote.

    McCain trolls--shame on you! What hypocrisy! Your candidate was seriously harmed by the infamous "black baby" whispering campaign in SC. I won't be voting for McCain in November, but he probably would have been a better president than Dumbya. You and your candidate should be very ashamed to be elected on the basis of stupid fear-based lies, when such serious issues face us. We deserve a better national discussion than "black baby," "secret Muslim," and who's having sex somewhere. Please prove to America you don't have to be the biggest lying slimeball to win the Presidency.

    PS: Still not sure about the Muslim thing? Well, Islam is not a "faith alone" kind of religion--that is a Protestant concept. You can't just believe it in your head, you have to walk the walk--the prayers, the alms, the fasting, etc.

  • If Americans were smart...

    This race wouldn't even be close.

  • I DON'T THINK ANYONE NEEDS THE INTERNET

    to shy away from Barack Your-Lips-Are-Moving-But-You-Ain't-Saying-Nothing Obama.

    So far now, the reason why Obama is doing so lousy is:

    a) Hillary Clinton and the Convention

    b) racism

    c) now internet junk emails that only Salon and the Obama campaign have even seen!

    It's everyone and everything else's fault...

    except Obama's!!!!

  • It makes me ill ...

    there, that's better. Now I can think about these filthy lies without ... oops!

    Okay, now that's better. I guess I couldn't be president of the United States, because I believe in the Divine Feminine, hmm? Well, I haven't been struck down by lightning yet.

    I hate chain emails, even if I essentially agree with the content, and I REFUSE to send them on. I haven't been struck down by lightning yet.

    I love all human beings, all beings of the Earth and the Earth Herself. I haven't been struck down my lightning yet.

    I believe Barack Obama will be a much better president than any we have seen in a generation (and that includes Clinton, although he was the best of the bad bunch). See, I still haven't been struck down by lightning.

    You so-called Christian framers of these idiotic, nauseating emails, perhaps you will be struck down. And, although it might be amusing to watch it happen, I would still forgive you and mourn your passing (briefly) with relief and a howl at the moon.

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