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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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  • Hitler's anti-Obama e-mails

    Adolf Hitler is alive and well in the basement of the White House and writing emails for McBush

  • @Hutman

    "The Obama campaign did not accuse the Clintons of "racism" for the Lyndon Johnson stuff, sorry."

    Sorry. I "lied." They said Hillary "denigrated" MLK. Much better?

    We won't even mention the "lower staff memo" outlining all the ways they could cry "racism" against the Clintons. I suppose that's a "lie" too. As I've said before, the greatest threat to Obama losing this election is from his "supporters."

  • so very sad

    It's an anti-Obama campaign drawn straight from a Chick tract.

  • 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."

  • their choice of church is proof.

    This isn't a smear-- there is some truth to Michelle Obama being racist--- their church and her writings and statements-- "first time I have been proud to be american!!"Open your eyes America. We can not elect a president based on affirmative action- he doesn't have the qualifications.

  • What's up?

    You dudes have a lot of free time on your hands.

  • The ideal response to one of these emails:

    "What you've just emailed is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever seen. At no point in your rambling, incoherent email were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in your address book is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

  • Thank you miss Mo for your kind words.

    Censorship in the context of these forums would involve someone in a position of authority screening every post submitted to a thread and deciding which ones fit the Salon "standards" and allowing only those to be published.

    What I proposed was that Salon give me a tool similar to the one I have on my satellite TV receiver that lets me pick and choose which channels are listed and which are not when I scan through the listings for something to watch.

    Instead of having to scan through literally hundreds of channels that seldom if ever offer anything of the slightest interest to me in order to discover what's on the few channels that fairly regularly have something on offer that amuses or informs me, I can set it up so that the one's I'm interested in are the only channels I have to scan through to perhaps find something I'll want to see.

    When I decide I don't want to have to skim through, say, the Military channel and something called "Speed" and a half-dozen cooking channels to go from Animal Planet to BBC America, my removing them from my list doesn't take them off the air. If you like those channels and want to watch them at your house, they're still there.

    That's all I proposed; a tool to help me get to what I think might be worth my time without having to wade through a bunch of posts from people that I've decided don't have anything of value to offer me. Removing those "channels" from my menu doesn't make them unavailable to anybody but me. That would be censorship.

    As the Limbaugh fan base has become more active on the progressive web sites, more and more sites are offering an "ignore this person" option on their discussion forums. This is absolutely no different from the SPAM filter I'll bet you, yourself, have on your email account. It gives you control to choose what mail makes it to your inbox and what doesn't.

    Review: Censorship = one person/body preventing another from having access to information. Choice = one person deciding for themselves what appears on their monitor and what doesn't.

    If you still don't get it and think that choice is censorship, I give up.

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